Contains correspondence, and letters of the top leadership of the Hashomer Hatzair in Palestine with the offices in various countries such as France, Belgium, Israel, England, Austria, Chile, and Morocco. Includes action reports, newspapers, and other documents concerning activities of Jewish communities, organization of the pioneer conferences, colonies, kibbutzim, trainings, immigration, refugees ...

EXT, main entrance to Labor headquarters in Tel Aviv. Filing paperwork. Laborers present passbooks, CUs, pass. Reading notices in hall. Entering labor restaurant, eating, CUs, typical dish in labor restaurant. 01:48:59 INT, Tel Aviv city hall, meeting of Executive Committee of Labor Federation in Tel Aviv following the attack on Hanuta. David Remez, one of labor leaders in Palestine, presides at the ...

A woman gathers water from a tap in the side of a building. A minaret and the surrounding buildings. Police officers stand under an umbrella in the middle of a street. A group of men wearing fezzes looks out at a view from a doorway in a high wall. 01:02:43 Adjacent signs posted on the wall read "Church of Annunciation and Saint Mary's Veil" and "Puits de la Sainte-Vierge". Two people herd sheep through ...

Men work near a river to install metal pipe in Palestine. Water flows from the installed pipe and the men celebrate. A tall wooden pole with electric cables running from it. Panning shot of a park on a windy day. A busy city street, in which people mill about, men lead camels loaded with gear, a public bus is parked on the side of the street, the roof of a large estate is visible behind a high wall. ...

Low quality view of waterfront houses shot from a boat. Other ships in the water. On the shore, men and a young boy stare at the camera. 01:00:28 A man in a striped shirt jogs along the beach. Tel Aviv? Beach chairs and a beach shack that says the words “JUDAN AMITEL BEER”. A man wears a traditional Middle Eastern headdress on the beach and looks at the camera. 01:00:42 The man in the stripes walks ...

Collection of prewar tax certificates paid by Sarah Zepkovicz to the Jewish Community as a member of the Zionist organization Poale Zion. Includes an membership card for "Poalai Zion" (Poale Zion) for Sarah Zepkovicz, and several promissory notes and other related documents from Yehuda Arye Zilberstajn to Mr. Zybershatz in Palestine stating that upon his arrival to Palestine he would work for him for ...

Collection of documents and photographs related to Julius Sussman who was born in Eiself, Germany on September 20, 1910. The family resided in Frankfurt am Main. In 1933 Julius immigrated to Palestine; he was able to bring his parents to Palestine in 1936. On July 8, 1940, Julius enlisted in the British Army, Royal Military Pioneer Corps, 605th Palestinian regiment, Pvt #11621. He fought in the African ...

Contains a memoir about Hans Weiner's escape from the Nazis and his tenure in the 608th Company of the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps, a corps made up of male volunteers who had enlisted in the British Army in Mandatory Palestine.

This fonds contains a number of files relevant to this guide, generally containing correspondence, notes, reports and various other documents. We firstly note files concerning: the association of immigrants from Belgium in Tel Aviv (file S6/1417; years 1943-1946), Hehalutz in Belgium (S6/2390, S6/2150 and S6/2151, resp. for the years 1931-1932, 1937-1938 and 1938-1947), Hehalutz in Antwerp (S6/2148 ...

<p>Blau-Weiss was the first and one of the most influential Jewish youth movements in Germany, founded in 1912. It initiated a Zionist program, basing its organisational format on the German nationalist youth movement Wander-vogel (whose increasing antisemitism greatly contributed to the expansion of Blau-Weiss). </p><p>Before and immediately after World War I Blau-Weiss groups engaged almost exclusively ...

The papers consist of a photograph of three boys, a photograph of a boy in glasses, a scrapbook containing 25 pages of memorabilia and photographs related to the beginnings of Kibbutz Buchenwald, and a certificate of incarceration stating that Fredy Diament was a concentration camp prisoner. Kibbutz Buchenwald was organized in 1945 by survivors of Buchenwald concentration camp and was the first pioneer ...

A catalogue for the Archive as a whole, including this series, is available on the University of Manchester Special Collections website There is also a collection-level description of the Archive available via .

Halutzka or peasant blouse with embroidered flowers made by Shoshana Galicki Feizensztajn, about 16 years old, as a parting gift for her sister Chava when she left their hometown of Siedlce, Poland, for Palestine in 1933. Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland in September 1939. Siedlce was in Soviet controlled territory. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union. German forces occupied ...

Fred Dunston (previously Fritz Deutsch), the depositor, played a key part both in Vienna, where he worked in the Youth Aliyah offices and later the <em>Palästinaamt</em> (after the former was destroyed during <em>Kristallnacht</em>), and also as youth leader or member of the <em>Elternschaft</em> in the Youth Aliyah centres of Great Engeham Farm, Kent, Braunton and Bydown, Devon.<br><br>Youth Aliyah ...

Circular letters, reports, and newsletters, and related materials, collected by Rabbi Dr. Ephraim Elimelech Urbach, during the time when he served as a chaplain with the British Army, ministering in displaced persons camps in Italy, circa 1944-1947. Includes two mimeographed reports issued by the Hechalutz Ha-Echad in Bari, Italy, 1946-1947; letters sent to various institutes in Palestine requesting ...

Copyright Holder: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

This collection consists of correspondence between Renate Inow, in England, her sister, Margalit in Sweden and Palestine and their parents in Wuppertal, Germany. The collection comprises 2 parts: an unbound volume of translations and partial translations of letters addressed to Margalit mostly whilst she was in Sweden entitled 'Voices from the Past'. This collection includes reproductions of photographs ...

Tents and flags in Palestine A girl seated in a tent looks up, speaking to someone. The tents with a white building behind them and more tents. INT boy sits on small stool next to an unmade bed. 01:10:50 A man sitting near a window looks back towards the camera, stands up, and closes a book. CU of a little boy wearing round glasses, another young boy in round glasses standing behind him. A man walks ...

Arthur Ben Israel (1901-1986) was born in Germany, during the WWI joined the Zionist movement "Blau-Weiss." In 1920 emigrated to Palestine as a "halutz" (pioneer), in 1921 first encountered with the Hashomer Hatzair group in Kibutz "A", in 1930 was sent as an emissary to Germany to establish the Hashomer Hatzair movement there. In 1939, 6 month before outbreak of WWII, was sent to Europe in order to ...

Regine Canetti was born on May 16, 1921 in Sofia, Bulgaria to Albert Canetti (b. Kazanlak, Bulgaria) and Rachelle Levi (b. Constantinople or Andnopolus, Turkey, d. 1940). The family had Sephardic roots, and spoke Ladino at home. Rachelle’s grandfather was a Rabbi, and her father was a tailor for the Sultan. Albert worked for Louis Dreyfus, a large French company that dealt in grains and shipping, and ...

Fonds consists of records of the umbrella organization, the Labour Zionist Council of Ottawa, as well as the Histadrut Centre and Histadrut Campaigns. Fonds consists of financial records including campaigns, (1941-1985); souvenir booklets, (1943-1974); minutes,(1947-1987); membership lists, (1949-1974); correspondence,(1949-1985); invitations, notices, (1943-1988); diary of Moses Slack (1952-1957) ...

Fonds consists of letters written by a Lithuanian friend, Isak Markowitz (Isak Ben Chanan) to Miriam (London) Goldstein in Ottawa. The early letters are from Lithuanian and then from Kibbutz Yagour, Palestine and then a town near Jerusalem, Israel and include observations of the economic, political and social climate; photographs donated by Morton Rappaport and family trees for the descendants of Mozes ...

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Hugo Levendel (November 8, 1904 in Satu-Mare, Hungary - August 28, 2000 in Ottawa) immigrated to Ottawa in 1928 shortly after his brother Alex Levendel. He achieved basic English and the skill of retouching photographs before leaving Satu-Mare. Soon after arriving in Ottawa secured a position with Castonguay Photography Studios. He had Barney Weiss to thank for helping him find that position; a local ...