Your relative is not on the list, New York March 23, 1945 
Letter from the Va’ad Hahatzala in New York
- Lot Number 54538
- Title (English) Your relative is not on the list, March 23, 1945
- Title (Hebrew) Letter from the Va’ad Hahatzala in New York
- Note Holocaust
- City New York
- Publication Date 1945
- Estimated Price - Low 200
- Estimated Price - High 500
- Item # 2635966
- End Date
- Start Date
Physical Description
[1] p., 280:215 mm., mimeographed letter, dated via typewriter, light age toning, creased on folds.
Detail Description
Letter from the Vaad HaHatzala responding to an inquiry about a relative lost in the Holocaust, advising that his/her relative was not on the first list of 1200 survivors of Theresienstadt concentration/extermination camp.
The Va’ad Hazzalah, a group organized by Rabbi Eliezer Silver and the American Rabbinate to rescue survivors and provide sustenance until their resettlement. Rabbi Silver established the group when the refugee yeshiva pupils reached Vilna in 1939–40 following the Nazi invasion of Poland. During the ensuing years he applied the same body to rescuing European rabbis, scholars, and students. In 1946, Rabbi Silver visited Europe and Erez Israel as an official representative of the United States government to assist the war refugees.
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