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1. Esther Lurie papers
1995.A.0989.1 Box 3 Folder 13 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.1 | RG Number: RG-24.022
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1995
… drawing and painting at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts. Most of her family emigrated to Palestine in 1934 and Esther joined them there. She worked with…
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 … Royale des Beaux-Arts. Her family immigrated to Palestine in 1934. At the beginning of the war, while visiting her sister, Muta, in Lithuania, Esther was…
2. Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.22.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1911-1983
bulk: 1930-1948
… Jewish Agency for Palestine in connections with the immigration of Jewish refugees stranded in the Far East.” In July 1941, he served as member of the…
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 …, Leon traveled to Shanghai, China to establish the “Far Eastern Committee representing the Jewish Agency for Palestine in connections with the immigration…
3. Cukier and Cohen families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.586.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-circa 1946
… to Palestine before World War II. His son Jakub Cukier served in the Polish Army with his older, unnamed brother. They were both later imprisoned in…
4. AG "Saloniki-Palästina", Saloniki (Fond 1437)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.42 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.42
Date:
inclusive: 1924-1941
Alternate Title:
Salonika-Palestine Corporation
…Salonika-Palestine Corporation…
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 …AG "Saloniki-Palästina", Saloniki (Fond 1437) Salonika-Palestine Corporation RG-11.001M.42 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul…
5. Egon Weiss papers
2011.128.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 2011.128.1
Date:
inclusive: 1890-2009
bulk: 1920-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… move to Pilsen. Emil and Olga feared that Egon was at risk of being taken because of his young age and decided to send him to Palestine so he could leave…
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 … Palestine so he could leave Czechoslovakia as soon as possible. They planned for Egon to join them in America once they received their paperwork. Egon…
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6. Korant and Schwalbe families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.367.1
Date:
inclusive: 1888-2019
bulk: 1888-1988
… Berlin. He lived in Tehran and tried to open a dental practice before moving to Palestine in 1935. No longer having his dental equipment, he worked as a…
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 … Korant), Herbert Schwalbe, and their relatives in Berlin, Teheran, and Palestine as well as their immigration and settlement in the United States…
7. Mandel family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.581.12
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2001
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… Palestine and were placed in Kibbutz Sha’ar HaAmakim. Around 1941, Yehuda was conscripted into a forced labor battalion. He managed to escape from his labor…
8. Herbst family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2022.133.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-circa 2000
bulk: 1940-1955
… and other Jewish refugees boarded a ship to Haifa, Palestine in October 1940. They were denied entry by the British authorities, and deported to…
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 … States in 1940, Adolf’s attempt to get to Palestine, and subsequent deportation to Mauritius in 1940, and Sara’s deportation from Vienna to Izbica transit…
9. Klestadt family papers
2014.481.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2014.481.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2005
bulk: 1919-1942
…. Klestadt in 1935, and they honeymooned in Palestine, then returned to Düsseldorf. Fred was born in Düsseldorf on March 15, 1909 to Moritz and Rahel Aenne…
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 … honeymoon in Palestine in 1935 and letters exchanged between Fred and Thea after they arrive in the United States. There is also one brief letter from the Red…
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10. Edward Herzbaum Hartry papers
2012.471.1 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2012.471.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1955
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… to Nuseirat, Palestine. In February 1944, the unit moved to Quassasin, Egypt. The Polish soldiers were fully trained now and, on February 18, Edward…
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 … of depression. Edward began to document events with sketches and watercolors. The Corps was in Habbaniya, Iraq in March 1943, in Nuseirat, Palestine in…
11. Regina Bochner Schweid papers
Document | Accession Number: 1991.099 | RG Number: RG-10.027
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1940
… family were able to immigrate to Palestine or the Soviet Union, thus escaping the Holocaust; the fate of others left behind are unknown.…
12. Miriam and Ruth Renzer papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.341.1
Date:
creation: approximately 1937-approximately 1948
…Collection of correspondence, postcards, and photographs, including letters between Ruth Renzer in Palestine and her sister Miriam in England. Ruth…
13. Fischl and Gerstmann family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.319.1
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1988
… assistance of the Youth Aliyah organization. That was the last time she saw their parents. Alice took a train to Italy and sailed to Palestine where she lived…
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 … Czechoslovakia and Palestine after Alice was sent to Palestine in 1939 by her parents, as well as Eli Gerstmann and his family in Germany and their immigration to…
14. Menczel, Kahn and Reichnitzer family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.276.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1891-circa 1948
…). Wilhelm left Vienna for Palestine in 1933 and was joined by Fanny in 1934. Fanny briefly returned to Vienna to finish her degree at the University of Vienna…
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 … Frieda Reichnitzer (d. circa 1923). Wilhelm left Vienna for Palestine in 1933 and was joined by Fanny in 1934. Fanny briefly returned to Vienna to finish…
15. Itzhak Nachmani papers
2013.491.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 77
Document | Accession Number: 2013.491.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1967
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…, and Palestine. Pola and Alec made their way to Teheran and then Palestine where Ignacy rejoined them following his military service. He changed his…
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 … German-occupied Poland, his internment in a Soviet labor camp, his release into the Polish Army, and his service in Palestine, Egypt, and Iraq; a misdated…
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16. Jakob Ascher papers
2011.403.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 2011.403.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1919-1960
…. They tried to immigrate to Palestine, but the restrictions of the British Mandate didn’t make it possible. Cousins in the United States sent invitations…
17. Fellner family papers
2015.563.1 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2015.563.1
Date:
inclusive: 1865-circa 2014
bulk: 1901-1957
… Palestine. On October 9, the ship's boiler exploded, and the ship broke in two off of a deserted island under Italian control. The passengers and crew were…
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 … from Vienna in 1938. In 1940, they booked passage on the SS Pentcho, a boat illegally sailing to Palestine. On October 9, the ship's boiler exploded, and…
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18. Dr. Arthur Kessler papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.183.16
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-2007
bulk: 1922-1947
… place to another. The Kessler family went to Palestine in 1944 where Arthur published several articles on lathyrism and became the director of the Allergy…
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 … survived by going to Bucharest and moving from one place to another. The Kessler family went to Palestine in 1944 where Arthur published several articles on…
19. Victor Bienstock papers
2016.499.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2016.499.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1984
bulk: 1938-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… events from various locations (London, Cairo, Rome, and France) during World War II, with a particular focus on stories related to Palestine, refugees, and…
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 … France) during World War II, with a particular focus on stories related to Palestine, refugees, and the fate of Jews in Nazi occupied lands. The Victor…
20. Ruth Rappaport papers
2012.431.1 Box 3 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2012.431.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1929-1969
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… and wanted to go to Palestine, but Helene had family in Seattle, Washington, and wanted to go to America. In 1933 anti-Jewish decrees were passed that…
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 … collection also includes extensive correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to Ruth’s work and travels as a journalist in Palestine and Israel from…
21. Collection of non-official German documents (RG 90)
Document | Accession Number: 2007.211 | RG Number: RG-68.088M
Date:
inclusive: 1932-1939
Subtitle:
Nazi Party in Palestine.
…Nazi Party in Palestine.…
22. Chaim Posner papers
2017.402.6 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2017.402.6
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1975
… Palästina Amt, the emigration office of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, in Geneva and as the representative of the Jewish Agency Finance Department in Europe…
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 …, Istanbul, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv, and correspondents include several offices of the Palästina Amt, the Jewish Agency for Palestine, Chaim Barlas, Richard…
23. Zionist Palestine Office, Thessaloniki, Greece (Fond 1435)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.430.1 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.53
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1940
Alternate Title:
Palestine Bureau, Salonika, Greece
…Zionist Palestine Office, Thessaloniki, Greece (Fond 1435)…
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 …Zionist Palestine Office, Thessaloniki, Greece (Fond 1435) Palestine Bureau, Salonika, Greece RG-11.001M.53 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
24. War Office and successors: registered files (general series), WO 32. Selected records.
Document | Accession Number: 2001.112 | RG Number: RG-59.014M
Date:
1920-1944
…Contains selected records relating to operations in Palestine, disturbances, and the formation of a Jewish Brigade. Materials were copied from…
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 … relating to operations in Palestine, disturbances, and the formation of a Jewish Brigade. Materials were copied from record group WO 32 at the National…
25. John Stanley Grauel papers
1999.A.0218 Box 4 Folder 15 Image 38
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0218
Date:
1917-1986
… joined the Christian Council of Palestine (later the American Christian Palestine Committee) in 1942, and in 1944 he joined the Haganah’s efforts to…
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 … Minister. He joined the Christian Council of Palestine (later the American Christian Palestine Committee) in 1942, and in 1944 he joined the Haganah…
26. "Waves, A Memoir, 1929-1950"
Document | Accession Number: 2008.270.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1950
…. Dr. Menn describes his childhood, his family's immigration to Palestine in 1935, their journey back to Poland in 1938 (as his mother did not adjust…
27. Rita Oppenheimer Gelman papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.525.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-1951
… and farming in preparation for immigration to Palestine to work on a kibbutz. On 16 August 1940 Rita left her parents in Berlin to travel to Romania…
28. British Colonial Office : Palestine, original correspondence
Document | Accession Number: 2001.102 | RG Number: RG-59.003M
Date:
1925-1948
bulk: 1930-1948
…British Colonial Office : Palestine, original correspondence…
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 … 1 British Colonial Office: Palestine, Original Correspondence, 1925-1948 (CO 733) RG-59.003M United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100…
29. War Cabinet and Cabinet: the situation in Palestine
Document | Accession Number: 2002.147 | RG Number: RG-59.019M
Date:
1938-1945
…War Cabinet and Cabinet: the situation in Palestine…
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 … 1 War Cabinet and Cabinet: the Situation in Palestine RG-59.019M United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW…
30. Furman family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.272.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1949
…Yitzhak Furman was born on 5 November 1934 in Petah Tikva, Palestine (Petah Tikva, Israel) to Hanoch Furman and Dina Flaumenbaun (b. 1907). He had…
31. Reconciliation: displaced persons and emigration
Document | Accession Number: 2007.181 | RG Number: RG-59.025M
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1951
…Contains selected files from the War Office, Foreign Office, and Home Office relating to Jewish immigration to Palestine, displaced persons…
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 … selected files from the War Office, Foreign Office, and Home Office relating to Jewish immigration to Palestine, displaced persons, including administration…
32. Dark blue paper covered suitcase used by a Jewish refugee
2004.286.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.286.2
Date:
use: 1933-1947
… arrived in Palestine. He contracted malaria and, while wandering the streets of Tel Aviv, met Ruth Edith Elsoffer. She took Ernest in and cared for him…
33. Hillel Storch papers
2017.526.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2017.526.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1985
… Palestine. Records include Franz Goering’s report about the release of Jewish during the White Buses operation, documents about Felix Kersten’s and Walter…
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 … rescue European Jewish along with the World Jewish Congress and the Jewish Agency for Palestine. Records include Franz Goering’s report about the release…
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34. Nathan Schwalb papers/Hechalutz Office Geneva
Document | Accession Number: 2007.138 | RG Number: RG-68.087M
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1989
bulk: 1939-1945
… organizations, including Makkabi Hazair, Gordonia, and Hechalutz. In 1929 he immigrated to Palestine and became a member of Kibbutz Hulda, becoming a leading…
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 … founded in Eastern Europe to promote settlement in Palestine. 1929 emigration to Palestine. Participated in the reconstruction of the Kibbutz Hulda after…
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 … next page ( 17.6.40 6.8.4'0 12.8.40 8 .11. 40 14.11.40 'Jewish AQency ~or Palestine, Genf Jewish Agency for Palestine, Genf אוסטריההתיק:שם 130117 זינבה…
35. Singer family collection
2017.664.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2017.664.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1971
…Palestine--Emigration and immigration.…
36. Berliner Zionistische Vereinigung (Fond 713)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.46 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.46
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1939
Alternate Title:
Union of Berlin Zionists
…. According to its charter, the BZU aimed to support the creation of a Jewish national home in Palestine. The union sought to assist in the settlement of…
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 … financial contributions to assist individuals' efforts to obtain travel documents to Palestine; directives on Hebrew instruction; financial accounts; various…
37. Sioma and Tonia Bialer Lechtman papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.488.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1927-circa 1940
… Palestine, where he began working in construction, met, and married Tonia Bialer (1918-1998). Tonia’s family—parents Aharon (1890-1961) and Rachel (nee…
38. Regional Palestine Bureau, Lwów branch (Fond 332, Opis1)
Document | Accession Number: 2008.120 | RG Number: RG-31.066M
Date:
inclusive: 1924-1939
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Regional Palestine Bureau, Lwów branch (Fond 332, Opis1)…
39. Foreign Office: General Correspondence, FO 371
Document | Accession Number: 2001.104 | RG Number: RG-59.006M
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1949
…Contains correspondence relating to persecution and atrocities against Jews; refugees from Germany and Austria; disturbances in Palestine; the…
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 … correspondence relating to persecution and atrocities against Jews; refugees from Germany and Austria; disturbances in Palestine; the formation of a Jewish…
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 … atrocities against Jews; refugees from Germany and Austria; disturbances in Palestine; the formation of a Jewish fighting force; immigration issues; German war…
40. The Zionist Organization/The Jewish Agency for Palestine/Israel-Central Office, London (Z4)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.3.1 | RG Number: RG-68.196M
Date:
inclusive: 1917-1955
…The Zionist Organization/The Jewish Agency for Palestine/Israel-Central Office, London (Z4)…
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 …1 THE ZIONIST ORGANIZATION/THE JEWISH AGENCY FOR PALESTINE/ISRAEL CENTRAL OFFICE, LONDON (Z4) 2017.3.1, RG-68.196M United States Holocaust Memorial…
41. Selected records from the State Archives of the Republic of Cyprus related to the Jewish emigration
Document | Accession Number: 2017.40.1 | RG Number: RG-85.001
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1949
… Mediterranean. Over 100,000 people attempted to illegally enter Palestine. There were 142 voyages by 120 ships. Over half were stopped by the British patrols. The…
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 … Jewish legal and illegal emigration to Cyprus, internment camps for Jews who had immigrated or attempted to immigrate to Mandatory Palestine in violation…
42. Ullrich Remak papers
2014.425.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2014.425.1
Date:
inclusive: 1900-1973
bulk: 1939-1944
…, but eventually turning her efforts toward immigrating to Palestine, which she succeeded in doing, settling in Haifa and working there as a nurse from…
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 … Palestine. Languages: German, English Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is stored offsite. Please contact the…
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43. Abraham and Simone Slowes collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.355
Date:
inclusive: circa 1905-1991
… mainly Yiddish and Russian. Abraham graduated from the Jewish Technical High School in Vilna and left Vilna for Palestine at the age of 16 in 1930. He…
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 … Slowes; location: Haifa, Palestine; dated: December 28, 1933 .3 Photograph; image of Shoshana Róza Slowes Breitbord, Abraham’s sister, standing on the bank…
44. Selected records from the National Archives of Malta
Document | Accession Number: 2010.195 | RG Number: RG-87.001
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1947
… permission to travel, immigration to Malta, internment, and travel from Palestine.…
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 … to Malta, internment, and travel from Palestine. Administrative Information Restrictions on access: Users are required to complete a User Declaration…
45. Fred S. Gichner correspondence
1999.A.0078 Box 1 Folder 4 Folder 17
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0078
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1949
bulk: 1938-1941
…Jewish refugees--Palestine.…
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 … (Agency) Jewish refugees – Belgium – Antwerp. Jewish refugees – Palestine. Jewish refugees – Portugal – Lisbon. Jewish refugees – United States. Antwerp…
46. Deutscher family papers
2016.122.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.122.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2002
… selected to move to Palestine. He arrived on October 24, 1938 and went to Mikveh Israel agricultural school, and then Bnai Akiva yeshiva. He then joined the…
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 … Beile Deutscher’s documentation from Italy, and Erwin and Henia Deutscher’s documentation regarding immigration to Palestine and later the United States…
47. Norman Bentwich collection (P174)
Document | Accession Number: 2016.150.1 | RG Number: RG-68.193
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1943
…-general of Mandatory Palestine and a lifelong Zionist. Bentwich was close to the moderate wing of the movement and advocated for Arab-Jewish relations…
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 … of courts in Egypt and lecturer at the Cairo Law School. During World War I he served in the British Army on the Palestine front and was demobilized…
48. Joseph Birnberg and Mania Nussenbaum Birnberg papers
2014.412.2 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2014.412.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1993
…. He married Mania Nussenbaum, a survivor from Zborów, Poland, in 1947. They lived in the New Palestine DP camp and immigrated to the United States in…
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 … and photographs related to Mania, originally of Zborów, Poland (Zboriv, Ukraine), in the New Palestine DP camp in Salzburg. Languages: German, English…
49. Prime Minister's Office: Confidential Correspondence and Papers (PREM 4). Selected records.
Document | Accession Number: 2001.110 | RG Number: RG-59.012M
Date:
1936-1946
… Europe and the refugee situation in Palestine. Files originate from the record group PREM 4 at the National Archives, United Kingdom.…
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 … situation in Palestine. Files originate from the record group PREM 4 at the National Archives, United Kingdom. System of Arrangement This collection is…
50. Private papers of Eva Michaelis-Stern (A440)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.14.1 | RG Number: RG-68.199M
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1989
… Germany under the eyes of the Gestapo, sending thousands of Jewish children to Palestine. As a head of the Youth Aliyah office in London (1938–1945), she…
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 … Palestine; copy of report by Dr. Leo Baeck entitled "The emigration of German Jewish Children and Youth to Palestine"; copies of letters to the Youth Aliyah…