Palestine Office of the Jewish Agency, Trieste (L48)

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.