American response to the Holocaust, Rabbi Josef Yarmish Papers, 1939-1945

Collection Overview

Title: American response to the Holocaust, Rabbi Josef Yarmish Papers, 1939-1945

Predominant Dates:1942 -- 1944

ID: RG-74/RG-74

Creator: Rabbi Yosef Yarmish (1939 -- 1945)

Extent: 1.0 Boxes

Arrangement: Materials are arranged by subject/creator, then by identifier, as assigned by the processor

Languages: English [eng]

Abstract

This record group contains documents and correspondences in relation to the Vaadhahatzala campaig of the humanitarian aid to German-occupied Poland

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Correspondences and documents reflecting on the situation in the German-occupied Poland and on the effort to provide aid to the Polish Jews under the German occupation

Biographical Note

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions: No restrictions

Use Restrictions:

Copyrighted materials, credits to and references to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust are required

Digital copies might be available upon request

Box and Folder Listing

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-74.01, Concurrent resolution submitted by Mr. Klein, to the seventy-eighth Congress, first session, 27 January 1943

Being aware of the Nazi crimes in Europe, the Congress of the United States protests and condemns these crimes and expresses the sympathy of the people of the United States with these inocent victims of the Nazi tranny. It also calls upon the Government of the United States to do all in its power, in consultation with the other United Nations to stay the hand of the Nazi tyrant from carrying out these crimes and provide to the sufferers every and all aid possible.

Subject/Index Terms:: The House of Representative, United States legislature; The Congress of the United States, American legislature; Proposed resolutions to the United States Congress; Proposed resolutions to the United States House of Representatives; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; United States awareness of the Holocaust in Europe, 1943; Anti-Jewish atrocities--Poland (1939-1945); anti-Jewish atrocities, Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Crimes of the Nazi Regime against the Jewish communities in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; The 78th Congress of the United States; Protests against Nazi crimes in Europe, United States; Sympathy of the people of the United States with the victims of Nazi tyranny in Europe; United States (1939 -- 1945); American politics, 1939 -- 1945; Congressional Resolution 11, United States, 1943; The Holocaust in Poland

Creators:: Mr. Klein, he submitted a resolution of support to the sufferers of the Nazi regime to the Congress (January 27, 1943); United States Congress (1943); The House of Representatives, the United States Congress (1943)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-74.02, Cable sent from Bern, Switzerland, exploring the possibility of evacuation of 300,000 Jews, 21 November 1944

This documents, the copy of the cable, discusses a possibility of evacaution of 300,000 Jews from German-occupied territories in exchange of 20,000,000 Swiss Franks, sent on November 21, 1944.

Subject/Index Terms:: Aid and rescue during the war; Rescue effort to save Jews in Europe in 1944; Negotiations of saving Jews in Europe in 1944; Bern (Switzerland); Negotiation with German authorities about evacuation of Jews in to neutral countries in 1944; Sternbuch, Jewish negotiator, 1944; Monetary funds for evacuation the Jews in to neutral countries in 1944; Embassies and consulates; American Embassy, Switzerland; Hungarian Jews; Berlin (Germany); The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; United States awareness of the Holocaust in Europe, 1943; Switzerland (1939 -- 1945); Documents in English language

Creators:: International Jewish Organizations (1944); World Jewish Congress; Sternbuch, Jewish negotiator (1944)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 3: RG-74.03, Proposals for course of action to alleviate the tragic condition of Jews in occupied countries, ca 1942

This Proposal takes up an analysis of the German extermination policy with regard to the Jews in German-occupied and controlled territories with a special emphasis on Poland. German authorities deliberately put Jews on the edge of starvation as one of their means to exterminate the Jewish population in Europe, especially in Poland. This document outlines the measures to be taken by the Allied and United nations to save the Jews in German-occupied and controlled territories. These measures include negotiations through the neutral countries with Nazi Germany, negations with the neutral countries and the engagement the International Red Cross as a liaison in negotiations and the rescue efforts.

Subject/Index Terms:: The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; United States awareness of the Holocaust in Europe, 1943; Monetary aid to the Jews in German-occupied Europe, international Jewish organizations; International Jewish Organizations and Committees, 1939 -- 1945; World Jewish Congress; Aid and rescue during the war; Rescue effort to save Jews in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Plans and proposals to alleviate Jewish conditions in German-occupied territories, 1939 -- 1945; International Committee of the Red Cross; Neutral countries in the Second World War, 1939 -- 1945; Food Distribution for Jews in German-occupied Poland, 1939 --1945; Extermination of Jews; Proposals to alleviate the hardships of Jews in German-occupied Europe; Jews in German-occupied Poland; Jews in German-occupied and controlled territories of Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Jews in the ghettos in Poland, living conditions; Efforts to rescue Jewish children from the German-occupied and controlled territories, 1939 -- 1945; The methods of negotiations with the German authorities, 1939 -- 1945; The method of exchange, rescue of Jews, 1939 -- 1945; Coalition of United and Allied Nations, 1939 -- 1945; Attempts and efforts to rescue the Jews in the Holocaust, 1939 -- 1945; Documents in English language

Creators:: International Jewish Organizations and Committees (1939 -- 1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 4: RG-74.04, From the New York Post, 4,000,000 Jews are still alive in Europe, 26 February 1943

The article in the New York Post appeals to take into safety the 4, 00,000 Jews who are regarded to be still alive in Europe. This number is overestimated. However, in February of 1943, the Hungarian and Romanian Jews were still alive and also not all the Jews from Western Europe had been deported to the death camps. The article suggests that upon the negotiations, the Axis powers could allow the Jews to leave Hungary, Romania and Western Europe in to exile. To implement this plan a special commission of the Allied and United Nations has to be created. It will take up the negotiations with the Axis power in order to evacuate the Jews in to safety. Published in the New York Pose on February 26, 1943.

Subject/Index Terms:: International Jewish Organizations and Committees, 1939 -- 1945; New York Post, American periodicals; Rescue effort to save Jews in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Initiative to save the Jews in Europe, 1943; Aid and rescue during the war; Hungarian Jews; Jews of Romania, 1939 -- 1945; Jews of Western Europe, 1939 -- 1945; periodicals, American; Axis Powers, 1938 --1945; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; United States awareness of the Holocaust in Europe, 1943; Hungary (1939--1945); Romania (1939--1945); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Coalition of United and Allied Nations, 1939 -- 1945; Final Solution to the Jewish Question in Europe, 1942 -- 1945; Documents in English language

Creators:: New York Post, American periodicals (1943); International Jewish Organizations and Committees (1939 -- 1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 5: RG-74.05, Telegram to Pope Pius XII, from Rabbis Israel Rosenberg, Eliezer Silver, and Ber Leventhal on behalf of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis, 23 December 1942

Subject/Index Terms:: The Union of Orthodox Rabbis of America and Canada; Rabbi Israel Rosenberg, a member of Presidium of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis; Rabbi Eliezer Silver, a member of Presidium of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis; Rabbi Ber Leventhal, a member of Presidium of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; United States awareness of the Holocaust in Europe, 1943; Pope Pius XII; Jewish religious associations, North America; Appeal to his Holiness Pope Pius XII to stop mass murder of Jews by Nazis; Aid and rescue during the war; Rescue effort to save Jews in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Final Solution to the Jewish Question in Europe, 1942 -- 1945; Attempts and efforts to rescue the Jews in the Holocaust, 1939 -- 1945; Vatican, the papal state; Correspondence by Postal Telegraph, 1939 -- 1945; Mackay Radio, a telegraph; Vatican (The Holy See), 1939 -- 1945; United States (1939 -- 1945); Documents in English language

Creators:: The Union of Orthodox Rabbis of America and Canada (1939 -- 1945); Rabbi Israel Rosenberg, a member of Presidium of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis (1939 -- 1945); Rabbi Eliezer Silver, a member of Presidium of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis (1939 -- 1945); Rabbi Ber Leventhal, a member of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis (1939 -- 1945); Jewish public and religious organization (1933 -- 1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 6: RG-74.06, Telegram to Rabbi Nathan Taragin, from Griffel Kastner kKlarman about the ships for refugees from Romania

A telegram about difficulties in organization and implementation of the evacuation of Romanian Jews

Subject/Index Terms:: The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; The Holocaust in Romania, 1941 -- 1945; Attempts and efforts to rescue the Jews in the Holocaust, 1939 -- 1945; Emigration of Romanian Jews to Palestine in 1944 -- 1945; The Jews of Romania, 1939 -- 1945; Griffel Kastner Klarman, Jewish negotiator, 1939 -- 1945; Romanian Government and Jewish Question in 1944 -- 1945; Evacuation of Jews from Romania to Palestine in 1944 -- 1945; Romania (1939--1945); Correspondence by Postal Telegraph, 1939 -- 1945; Western Union, telegrams and wires; Rabbi Nathan Taragin, Jewish international religious organizations; Documents in English language

Creators:: International Jewish Organizations and Committees (1939 -- 1945); Jewish public and religious organization (1933 -- 1945); Griffel Kastner Klarman, Jewish negotiator, 1944 (1944)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 7: RG-74.07, Telegram sent to Vaadhahatzalah about difficutlies of evacuation of Romanian Jews to Palestine, 5 August 1944

A telegram sent to Vaadhahtzala about difficutlies in evacuation of the Romania Jews to Palestine, August 1944.

Subject/Index Terms:: The Holocaust in Romania, 1941 -- 1945; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; International Jewish Organizations and Committees, 1939 -- 1945; Attempts and efforts to rescue the Jews in the Holocaust, 1939 -- 1945; Efforts to rescue Jewish children from the German-occupied and controlled territories, 1939 -- 1945; Evacuation of Romanian Jews to Palestine in 1944 -- 1945; Evacuation of Romanian Jews through the neutral countries, 1944 -- 1945; Evacuation of Romanian Jews via Turkey, 1944 -- 1945; Turkish agencies dealing with the evacuation of Romanian Jews, 1944 -- 1945; Difficulties in dealing with the Turkish agencies in evacuation of Romanian Jews to Palestine, 1944; Vaad Hatzalah, the Rescue Committee for the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust; Turkey (1939 -- 1945); Romania (1939--1945); Correspondence by Postal Telegraph, 1939 -- 1945; Western Union, telegrams and wires; Documents in English language

Creators:: Jewish public and religious organization (1933 -- 1945); Vaad Hatzalah (the Rescue Committee) to rescue Jews in Europe during the Holocaust (1939 -- 1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 8: RG-74.08, Telegram sent to Vaad Hahahzala regarding the arrengements of rescue Jews from Nazi concentration camps, ca 1944

This telegram infomrs the headquarters of the Vaad Hatzalah, the Rescue Committee, for the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust about the progress reachead in the negotiations about the rescue of Jews from the Nazi concentration camps, Bergen Belsen, Buchenwald and the others, ca 1944.

Subject/Index Terms:: The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; The Holocaust in Germany; International Jewish Organizations and Committees, 1939 -- 1945; Attempts and efforts to rescue the Jews in the Holocaust, 1939 -- 1945; Rescue effort to save Jews in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Rescue efforts to save Jews from Nazi concentration camps, 1944 -- 1945; Concentration camps, German; Efforts to rescue Jewish children from the German-occupied and controlled territories, 1939 -- 1945; Sternbuch, Jewish negotiator, 1944; Vaad Hatzalah, the Rescue Committee for the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust; Negotiations of saving Jews in Europe in 1944; The role of the Vaad Hatzalah in the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust, 1939 -- 1945; Bergen-Belsen (Germany: Concentration Camp); Buchenwald (Germany: Concentration camp)--Complex of concentration camps; Documents in English language; Germany (1939--1945); RCA Communications, radiograms

Creators:: Vaad Hatzalah (the Rescue Committee) to rescue Jews in Europe during the Holocaust (1939 -- 1945); Jewish public and religious organization (1933 -- 1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 9: RG-74.09, Telegram sent to Vaad Hahahzala headquarters from Rabbi Teitz about the help to the people in Bergen Belsen, 8 December 1945

This telegram communicates the work conducted by the Vaad Hatzalah, the Rescue Committee to rescue Jews in Europe during the Holocaust, with regard to the postwar help to displaced persons in the Bergen Belsen displaced person camp, December 1945.

Subject/Index Terms:: Vaad Hatzalah, the Rescue Committee for the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust; The role of the Vaad Hatzalah in the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust, 1939 -- 1945; Vaad Hatzalah, the postwar help to the former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps and ghettos; Jewish religious associations, North America; Displaced persons camps; Displaced person camps in Germany; Bergen Belsen (Germany: Displaced Person Camp); Correspondence between the Vaad Hatzalah and other agencies, 1939 -- 1945; Germany (1945 -- 1949); Jewish displaced population in Germany, 1945 -- 1956; The Holocaust in Germany; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; The former prisoners of the liberated Nazi concentration camps, 1945 -- 1949; Help to the former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, 1945 --1949; Rabbi Teitz, associate of the Vaad Hatzalah, 1945; Documents in English language; Correspondence by Postal Telegraph, 1939 -- 1945; Western Union, telegrams and wires

Creators:: Vaad Hatzalah (the Rescue Committee) to rescue Jews in Europe during the Holocaust (1939 -- 1945); Jewish public and religious organization (1933 -- 1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 10: RG-74.10, Telegram sent to Vaad Hahahzalah, from the Chief Rabbis Council in Europe, 9 November 1945

A telegram sent by the Chief Rabbis Council to the Vaad Hahatzalah about the situation in postwar Poland and about the communications with the Central Jewish Committee of Poland, November 1945.

Subject/Index Terms:: Vaad Hatzalah, the Rescue Committee for the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust; Vaad Hatzalah, the postwar help to the former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps and ghettos; The role of the Vaad Hatzalah in the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust, 1939 -- 1945; Correspondence between the Vaad Hatzalah and other agencies, 1939 -- 1945; Central Jewish Committee of the Jews in Poland, 1945 -- 1949; Jews in post-liberated Poland, social and economic conditions; Dr. Sommerstein, Central Jewish Committee of the Jews in Poland; Jews in Eastern Europe, postwar time; Humanitarian and economic aid to the Jews of Eastern Europe in postwar time, 1945 -- 1949; Poland (1945 -- 1956); Hungary (1945-1989); Czechoslovakia (1945--1991); Documents in English language; Correspondence by Postal Telegraph, 1939 -- 1945; RCA Communications, radiograms

Creators:: Vaad Hatzalah (the Rescue Committee) to rescue Jews in Europe during the Holocaust (1939 -- 1945); Chief Rabbi Council (1939 --1949)