Filderman Wilhelm

Filderman, Wilhelm
Filderman, Wilhelm, 1882-1963
Filderman, W., 1882-1963
Filderman, W. (Wilhelm), 1882-1963
Filderman, Ṿilhelm 1882-1963
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Identifier: 000116
Type of Entity: Person

Dates of Existence

1882

1863

History

Jewish lawyer.

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Contains correspondence, requests, and reports from the Jewish Center in Romania. Correspondence relates to forced labor camps in various places in Bucharest, Romania, and Jewish schools including a list of 42 women at forced labor at Institutul Central de Statistica. Some letters addressed to Radu Lecca by Nandor Gingold concern requests of exemption from forced labor for various Jews. Other requests concern the special taxes for Jews and Centrala's inspection in Transnistria. Correspondence of Filderman relates to Jewish doctors from 1941 to 1943. Collection also includes information conc...
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Documentation regarding relief to the Jews in Romania, including correspondence between Saly Mayer and the Red Cross organization, a Red Cross report regarding its activities, an expression of gratitude by the Chief Rabbi of Romania for the help from the
1. P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
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Documentation regarding relief to the Jews in Romania, including correspondence between Saly Mayer and the Red Cross organization, a Red Cross report regarding its activities, an expression of gratitude by the Chief Rabbi of Romania for the help from the Red Cross organization, and other matters, 1944-1945 - Correspondence between Saly Mayer, the JDC organization's representative in Switzerland, and the Red Cross organization, regarding relief to the persecuted Jews and Jewish refugees in Romania and, in particular, in the Transnistria area; - Documentation regarding relief to the Jews in c...
Documentation regarding the situation of the Jews who were deported to Transnistria, and the relief activities by the JDC and Red Cross organizations on behalf of the Jews, 1942-1943
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Documentation regarding the situation of the Jews who were deported to Transnistria, and the relief activities by the JDC and Red Cross organizations on behalf of the Jews, 1942-1943 - Correspondence between Saly Mayer and Wilhelm Fischer, a Zionist leader in Bucharest and one of the JDC representatives in Romania; - Letters written by Wilhelm Fischer to Nathan Schwalb, the Hechalutz movement's representative in Geneva, regarding relief to the persecuted Jews in Transnistria; - Documentation regarding the sending of medicine and medical goods to Transnistria by the Red Cross organization; -...
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Survey of conditions in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and the Middle East countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press and by witnesses with an emphasis on the situation of the Jews, August 1943 Poland: The fate of the Warsaw Jews and regarding the annihilation of 90% of the Jews of Poland as reported in the Swedish press; Ziegelboim and the Bund; Frank's speeches; annihilation of the Jews of the Baltic States; murder of Jews in Gomel; Germany: Goebbels' speeches regarding war fatigue; Slovakia: Legislation prohibiting Jews from traveling by public transportation; confiscation...
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Survey of the situation of the Jews in the Nazi occupied countries and the political situation in the Eretz Israel region and the Arab countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, speeches by leaders and from letters, June 1943 - Germany: Incitement program against the Jews in the press; Hitler-Jugend activities; lists of confiscated Jewish property as recorded in the press; - Slovakia: Transfer of Jewish land to Slovakian farmers; deportation of most of the Jews "to the East"; the phenomenon of conversion to Christianity among the Jews; - Hungary: Statistics regarding the spread of ...
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