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Hashomer Hatzair World Headquarters Representation in Palestine (RG 1.2-ה)

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2011.252 | RG Number: RG-68.148

Overview

Description: 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 from Germany, and the Hashomer Hatzair union branches in Galicia. Also contains records pertaining to the youth movements Maccabi and Keren–Hashomer; the National Conference, 1932; the Chief Council in Prešov (1934) and Burin (1933); records pertaining to the Hashomer Hatzair groups from Poland, and immigrants from Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, German, and Denmark; and minutes of the Meeting Center from Prešov, 1935.
Date: inclusive: 1932-1935

Physical Details

Language: Hebrew
Genre/Form: Registers
Extent: 9,139 digital images : JPEG ; 34.6 GB.

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Conditions on Use: Any commercial use of the records require to obtain a written consent from the owner of original materials, and may require the payment of a license fee for such use.
Copyright Holder: Shomer ha-tsaʻir (Organization : Israel). Merkaz tiʻud ṿa-ḥeḳer

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Labor Zionism--Europe. Zionism--Palestine--History--20th century. Zionism and communism--Europe. Jews--Collective settlements--Palestine. Jewish youth--Europe--Societies and clubs.
Geographic Name: Palestine--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century. Palestine
Corporate Name: World Hashomer Hatzair Maccabi World Union Ḳibuts ha-artsi ha-shomer ha-tsaʻir (Israel)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Shomer ha-tsaʻir (Organization : Israel). Merkaz tiʻud ṿa-ḥeḳer
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Source of acquisition is the Hashomer Hatzair Archives Yad Yaari, Record Group 1.2-ה, Israel. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Hashomer Hatzair Archives Yad Yaari, Israel, via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Oct. 2011.

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