Language:
English
Year of publication:
1990
Titel der Quelle:
Yad Vashem Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
20 (1990) 161-210
Keywords:
Hechalutz (Organization)
;
Jews History 1939-1945
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Rescue
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Foreign public opinion, Eretz Israel
;
Youth movements, Jewish
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Preparations for establishing the Rescue Center began in September 1939 but were slowed down by difficulties in reconciling the different orientations of the Yishuv and other Zionist organizations. Notes efforts made by Nathan Schwalb, of the World Hehalutz Center, to found the liaison office in Geneva, in the face of the tendency of the Yishuv leadership, until 1942, to reduce its operating expenses there. Describes various forms of rescue activities, such as maintaining contact with the Zionist organizations under Nazi rule; collecting information on the fate of the Jewish communities; sending parcels; organizing illegal border crossings; transferring funds to subsidize the halutz organizations in occupied countries. Concludes that, due to the dedicated work of the representatives of the Zionist Labor Movement in Geneva, the Center served as a focus of contacts, relief, and rescue for European Jews, despite the tardy reaction and insufficient responsiveness of the Yishuv's institutions.
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