Overview
- Description
- Contains records of the Palestine Office of the Jewish Agency, Trieste, and a branch of the Jewish Agency’s Aliyah department. The Palestine Office was involved in distributing Aliyah certificates, financial matters, transferring immigrants’ luggage and property to Israel and documenting information regarding Jewish property from Italy which was stolen by the Nazis during the Second World War. The collection also contains correspondence with other Jewish Agency offices in Italy and various name lists of immigrants, hospitalization records before immigration, correspondence and agreements with shipping companies and travel agencies regarding Jewish immigrants, statistics and telegrams from HICEM, and other records.
- Date
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inclusive:
1939-1965
Physical Details
- Extent
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22,545 digital images : TIFF ; 1.45 GB.
22 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Publication of documents and duplication of microfilm reels/copies of digital images for third parties require the written permission of the Central Zionist Archives, which may require payment of a license fee for commercial use.
- Copyright Holder
- World Zionist Organization. Central Zionist Archives
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue. Refugees, Jewish--Europe--Registers. Jewish property--Italy--Registers. Jewish refugees--Palestine.
- Geographic Name
- Europe--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century. Palestine--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century. Israel--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Corporate Name
- World Zionist Organization Hias-Ica Emigration Association
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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World Zionist Organization. Central Zionist Archives
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Central Zionist Archives, Israel, RG L48, created by the Palestine Office of the Jewish Agency, Trieste.The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Central Zionist Archives via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in July 2011.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 09:39:31
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