David Ben-Gurion

דוד בן-גוריון

Identifier: 000702
Dates: 1886-1973
Type of Entity: Person

History

Chairman of the Jewish Agency, and the First Prime Minister of the State of Israel

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Cataloguing system of the Yad Vashem (Jerusalem/Israel) http://www.yadvashem.org.

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Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Copies of reports and memoranda transmitted by Zionist leaders, such as Chaim Weizmann; Moshe Shertok and David Ben-Gurion to the British Foreign Office regarding the rescue of the Hungarian Jews; also correspondence regarding
1. P.13 - Archive of Benjamin Sagalowitz , head of the press agency of the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland, 1929-1969
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3689749
- English, Hebrew
- Original 51 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Copies of reports and memoranda transmitted by Zionist leaders, such as Chaim Weizmann; Moshe Shertok and David Ben-Gurion to the British Foreign Office regarding the rescue of the Hungarian Jews; also correspondence regarding Joel Brand's mission, bombing the railroad tracks to Auschwitz and other subjects, 1944-1945.
Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Letters from Andreas Biss to various bodies regarding the Kasztner affair and attempts to rescue the Jews of Hungary, 1961-1964
1. P.13 - Archive of Benjamin Sagalowitz , head of the press agency of the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland, 1929-1969
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3689818
- English, Hebrew
- 1961-1964
- Original Typewritten original 80 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Letters from Andreas Biss to various bodies regarding the Kasztner affair and attempts to rescue the Jews of Hungary, 1961-1964 In the file: Pp. 1-22: Lecture by Andreas Biss presented to Jewish students in Berlin regarding the Kasztner affair and attempts to rescue the Jews of Hungary beginning in October 1944; Pp. 23-25: Correspondence between Andreas Biss and Hermann Lewy, editor of the German Jewish weekly, "Algemeine Wochenzeitung der Juden in Deutschland" regarding material related to Joel Brand's mission; Pp. 26-30: Letter from Andreas Biss to Dov Josef, ...
Booklet regarding the history of the Jews of Bulgaria written by Haim Keshales, Volume II, Part 2
1. O.13 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Bulgaria, mainly from the Holocaust period
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 5083976
- English, Hebrew
- Typewritten 305 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Booklet regarding the history of the Jews of Bulgaria written by Haim Keshales, Volume II, Part 2 Volume II, Part 2 is entitled "The Jews of Bulgaria Under the Communist Regime, 1944-1950".
Booklet regarding the history of the Jews of Bulgaria written by Haim Keshales, Volume II, Part 2
1. O.13 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Bulgaria, mainly from the Holocaust period
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 5083782
- English, Hebrew
- Typewritten 324 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Booklet regarding the history of the Jews of Bulgaria written by Haim Keshales, Volume II, Part 2 In the file: Volume II, Part 2 וs an essay entitled, "Notes Regarding Jewish Life in Bulgaria, 1944-1950.
Prime Ministers
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Zionists
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- Zionism
Documentation regarding the negotiations with the SS representatives (the "Goods for Blood" deal), including a telegram sent by David Ben-Gurion regarding the transfer of the German proposal to President F. D. Roosevelt, and regarding Saly Mayer's discuss
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
- 3684637
- English, Hebrew
- 1944
- Microfilm 670 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Documentation regarding the negotiations with the SS representatives (the "Goods for Blood" deal), including a telegram sent by David Ben-Gurion regarding the transfer of the German proposal to President F. D. Roosevelt, and regarding Saly Mayer's discussions with Heinrich Rothmund, his meetings with Kurt Becher, and other matters, July-September 1944 - Documentation regarding the negotiations held by Saly Mayer with the Germans in the context of the "Goods for Blood" deal ("ARBA") [?] with the aim of delaying the murder of the Jews in Hungary and in the remainder of Europe; - Telegram sent...
Documentation regarding various proposals received by Saly Mayer for the rescue of Jews and, in particular, the Jews of Hungary; documentation regarding discussions held by Israel Kasztner and Joel Brand with SS man Dieter Wisliceny, and a meeting between
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
- 3684644
- English, Hebrew
- 1944-1958
- Microfilm 559 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Documentation regarding various proposals received by Saly Mayer for the rescue of Jews and, in particular, the Jews of Hungary; documentation regarding discussions held by Israel Kasztner and Joel Brand with SS man Dieter Wisliceny, and a meeting between Moshe (Shertok) Sharett with Joel Brand and others; documentation dated, 1944-1958 - Documentation regarding various proposals received by Saly Mayer for the rescue of Jews and, in particular, the Jews of Hungary, including the proposal by Isaac Sternbuch (see file 21); - Letter written to Saly Mayer by Israel Kasztner and Joel Brand, memb...
Jewish Agency
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- JAFI
- Jewish Agency for Israel
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- Updated 7 years ago
Founded in 1921

The Jewish Agency is established in Yishuv to promote Jewish self-government as a part of the British Mandate by the League of Nations. The Jewish Agency was reluctant to expends funds on rescue, arguing moneys should be provided by international Jewish communities. However, some funding was spent on modest rescue efforts. This group tried to rescue Jews in Transnistria, urged the Allies to save Jews from concentration camps, advocated the bombing of railway hubs, and brought orphans to Palestine. However, the Jewish Agency refused to fund the Europa Plan or ‘Blood for Trucks’.
Mapai - Mifleget Poalei Eretz Israel
- מפא"י - מפלגת פועלי ארץ ישראל
- מפא"י
- Mapai
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- Corporate Body
- Updated 7 years ago
Socialist zionist political party
Poale Zion
- Zionist Workers
- פועלי ציון
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Poale Zion was a Zionist socialist party. In 1920 as a result of a split, the more radical Poale Zion-Left and the more moderate Poale Zion-Right were formed.
Politicians and Statespersons
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- Updated 6 years ago
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Survey of conditions in Nazi-occupied countries and Near Eastern countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by witnesses with an emphasis on the situation of the Jews, July 1943
1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
- צרור רשימות מס. 8/39
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 4420073
- English, Hebrew
- Original 14 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Survey of conditions in Nazi-occupied countries and Near Eastern countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by witnesses with an emphasis on the situation of the Jews, July 1943 Poland: Information from coded letters regarding the murder of Jews in Krakow and Warsaw; murder in Treblinka and Belzec; Jews in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek and small German company camps; deception of the inmates regarding their imminent murders; situation in Bialystok is still reasonable; demographic situation of the Jews of Lodz; the library of the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva; Germany: Germany'...
Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and Arab countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, October 1943
1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
- צרור רשימות 20/51
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 4432062
- English, Hebrew
- Original
- Updated 6 years ago
Survey of the condition of the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries, Eretz Israel and Arab countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, October 1943 General: Announcement regarding punishing Nazi war criminals and their associates in Moscow with no mention of the Jewish victims; Poland: Mass arrests of Poles in Warsaw; four years of the Generalgouvernement, description of its accomplishments in every area; the Slobodka Ghetto in Lithuania; Germany and the Reich: The political situation in the Reich; newspaper article written Goebbels; exchange of British-German POWs and the soldiers' opin...
World Zionist Organization
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- WZO
- EHRI Corporate Bodies
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- Updated 7 years ago
Founded in 1897

The World Zionist Organization was founded by the architect of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl, in 1897 as an international federation of diverse Zionist groups. Under Chaim Weizmann’s leadership, the organization was pro-British and played a pivotal role influencing the Jewish Agency in distributing Palestine Certificates. These permits meant life and death in late 1930s and early 1940s. The WZO was roundly criticized for favoring young and healthy pioneers, leftist Zionists, and non-Orthodox Jews.