Overview
- Description
- The Agudat Yisrael collection consists of correspondence, telegrams, and names lists related to rescue attempts by the World Agudat Yisrael organization and various Swiss Jewish organizations to save the Jews of Hungary and Czechoslovakia between 1939-1944. Includes letters by Dr. Ya'akov Griffel and Ludwig Kastner, who worked with Turkish transit visas, a request for transit visas to Palestine for a list of rabbis, and a names list (with addresses) titled "from Theresienstadt to Slovakia until the end of June1944."
- Date
-
inclusive:
1939-1944
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence. Telegrams.
- Extent
-
1 folder
- System of Arrangement
- The Agudat Yisrael collection is arranged in a single series.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Hungary. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Czechoslovakia. Jews rescue (1939-1945)
- Geographic Name
- Switzerland. Czechoslovakia. Hungary.
- Personal Name
- Griffel, Ya'akov. Kastner, Ludwig.
- Corporate Name
- Agudat Israel Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired this collection in June 2011.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-04-01 11:41:21
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