Rescue Committee.
Extent and Medium
15,5 l.m.
Creator(s)
- World Zionist Organization; Jewish Agency for Israel
Scope and Content
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).
Finding Aids
The database available online at http://www.zionistarchives.org.il/ serves as a finding aid. The descriptions of this fonds are in Hebrew.
Process Info
The EHRI project, in cooperation with the National Archives of Belgium, selected Holocaust-relevant archival descriptions from the finding aid G. DESMET & P. FALEK-ALHADEFF, P.-A. TALLIER (dir.), Bronnen voor de geschiedenis van de Joden en het Jodendom in België (19de-20ste eeuw) - Sources pour l'histoire des populations juives et du judaïsme en Belgique (19e-20e siècles), Brussel, Algemeen Rijksarchief, 2015. Please note that this guide focuses on Belgium-related archival materials in the respective descriptions.
Pascale Falek
This archival description was created in the framework of the cooperation between EHRI and the Yerusha project.
Subjects
- war victims
- resistance
- Shoah
- concentration camps