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    <eadid>il-002782-il_cza_s26</eadid>
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      <titlestmt>
        <titleproper>Rescue Committee.</titleproper>
      </titlestmt>
      <publicationstmt>
        <publisher>The Central Zionist Archives/ הארכיון הציוני המרכזי</publisher>
        <address>
          <addressline>4 Zalman Shazar Avenue , PO Box 92</addressline>
          <addressline>91920</addressline>
          <addressline>Jerusalem</addressline>
          <addressline>IL</addressline>
          <addressline>972-2- 6204800</addressline>
          <addressline>972-2 620 4837</addressline>
          <addressline>http://www.zionistarchives.org.il/ZA/pMainE.aspx</addressline>
          <addressline>cza@wzo.org.il</addressline>
          <addressline>Israel</addressline>
        </address>
      </publicationstmt>
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        <note>
          <p>This encoded description is derived from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution but may differ in structure and/or content from its source. The collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.</p>
        </note>
      </notestmt>
    </filedesc>
    <profiledesc>
      <creation>This file was exported automatically from the EHRI database administration tool and represents a work-in-progress.
        <date normal="20210102">2021-01-02T20:46:21.843Z</date>
      </creation>
      <langusage>
        <language langcode="eng">English</language>
      </langusage>
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    <did>
      <unitid>IL / CZA / S26</unitid>
      <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Rescue Committee.</unittitle>
      <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">15,5 l.m.</physdesc>
      <repository>
        <corpname>The Central Zionist Archives/ הארכיון הציוני המרכזי</corpname>
      </repository>
    </did>
    <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
      <p><![CDATA[In this fonds we firstly note several files containing correspondence and other documents concerning requests for help to individual Jews and Jewish families in/from Belgium (the names are mentioned in the inventory) see file S26/905 (1945), S26/730 (1944), S26/609 (1947), S26/497 (1945) and S26/49 (1945). Several files covering the years 1941-1945 contain reports, correspondence, testimonies and various other documents concerning the situation of the Jews and their communities in Belgium, rescue efforts, the Jewish resistance, … - see S26/1496, S26/1228 (reports of the American Jewish Committee), S26/1343, S26/1275, S26/1258, S26/1259 and S26/1634 (including a report by Chaim Perelman on the Jewish underground). Newspaper clippings concerning Belgian Jews (dated 1942) can be found in S26/1461. In S26/1696 we note lists and correspondence with the Jewish Agency office in Belgium, concerning exchange of prisoners from Bergen-Belsen (1945). Finally, S26/1697 contains correspondence with Isaac Kubowitzki, concerning his activity for the Keren Hayesod (1945-1946).]]></p>
    </scopecontent>
    <otherfindaid encodinganalog="3.4.5">
      <p><![CDATA[The database available online at http://www.zionistarchives.org.il/ serves as a finding aid. The descriptions of this fonds are in Hebrew.]]></p>
    </otherfindaid>
    <controlaccess>
      <subject>war victims</subject>
      <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="212">resistance</subject>
      <subject>Shoah</subject>
      <subject source="ehri_terms" authfilenumber="496">concentration camps</subject>
    </controlaccess>
  </archdesc>
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