20 documents describing the attempts of the World Agudat Yisrael and Swiss Jewish organizations to save the Jews of Hungary and Czechoslovakia before and during the Holocaust. Hebrew, German, Czech and English.
Amongst them: Letters by Dr. Ya'akov Griffel, an Agudat Yisrael representative in Constantinople, who took care of transit visas to Turkey; a letter by Ludwig [Yehuda Leib] Kastner, a former Czech businessman who worked together with Griffel, addressed to the Jerusalem Agudat Yisrael Management; letters from Agudat Yisrael in Bratislava and London; three copies of telegrams in English about saving rabbis (including a list of names) requesting to issue them certificates to bring them to Eretz Yisrael; three leaves with lists of names "from Terezin to Slovakia until the end of 1944"; a handwritten protocol which states, "Va'ad Hatzala of 250 Czech survivors that were granted aliya permits", and other documents. For additional details about the attempts of Agudat Yisrael to save Jews and its unique cooperation with the Revisionist Movement, see the attached article by Yehudit Tidor-Baumel. Varied size and condition.