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archival history: The territory of what is today the State of Israel was part of Mandatory Palestine between 1917 and 1948. After Hitler rose to power in Germany, some 60,000 Jews emigrated from the Third Reich to Mandatory Palestine, while about 220,000 moved there from other countries. Before the British victory at El Alamein in Egypt in November 1942, the British feared that Mandatory Palestine, like its neighbors, would be invaded by the German forces advancing from North Africa in an eastern direction. During the course of 1942, news of the mass murder of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe reached Mandatory Palestine. The leadership of the Jewish community in Mandatory Palestine attempted to help rescue Jews in Europe, but its ability to accomplish anything to that effect was extremely limited. For this country there are no sufficient findings on the history of Roma during the Second World War. EHRI would be pleased to receive any information.
archival situation: The State of Israel has a great variety of archives: governmental, national, public and private. The Israel State Archives are officially authorized to supervise, guide and administer the archives of government institutions and local authorities. The Israel State Archives also authorize and supervise the country‘s private archives.
research extensive: Disclaimer: The EHRI Extensive Report was updated in 2024. **A. EHRI approach to Israel: Pre-existing research and third-party surveys, archival guides and expert support** In Israel, EHRI was able to rely on and cooperate with Israel Archives Network, or RE'I Project of the National Library and State Archives in Israel which in 2013 conducted a survey, under the auspices of the Prime Minister's Office, to identify and map most archives in Israel. In the process, information was collected on archives holding Holocaust-related material, as well as on the documentation itself. The RE'I Project aimed at building an infrastructure, creating uniform standards for the archives in Israel, ensuring proper maintenance of documentation in various archives in Israel, and granting easy archival access to the public in Israel. The RE’I Project has established that there are some 600 archives in Israel. Whether they hold Holocaust-relevant sources, and to what extent, was largely unknown before. In the first implementation stage of the RE’I Project, a survey was conducted in all the archives that had been designated by the project steering committee. Surveyors were recruited to visit the various archives and to conduct an online survey via a dedicated survey system provided by Ransys Feedback Technologies. The survey was conducted over the course of a year. At the start of the survey, a list of 350 archives was available. Cooperation between EHRI and RE'I, which was facilitated by Yad Vashem and started in the planning stages of the survey, allowed for the insertion of questions relating to the existence of Holocaust-related materials in the archives to be surveyed. The questions were designed to ascertain whether or not any Holocaust-related documentation existed in a particular archive; the nature of the documentation (personal documents, official documents, testimonies, memoirs); and the number of relevant collections in the archive. Likewise, the archives were asked to briefl…
research summary: Israeli archives store important Holocaust-relevant collections. They include vast amounts of personal documentation brought to the country by refugees and survivors of the Holocaust, as well as testimonies given by survivors during and after the war. These testimonies describe the survivors’ experiences in the ghettos, camps, hideaways and with the partisans. It is important to point out that refugees and immigrants in Mandatory Palestine corresponded with relatives still living in their countries of origin. The letters from their relatives contain important information regarding the situation in these countries before and during the Nazi-occupation and the immediate post-war period. The Yad Vashem Archives, whose official activities date back to 1946, holds the largest number of Holocaust-related collections by far. When the Israeli Parliament entrusted Yad Vashem with the mission to commemorate the Shoah and its victims in 1953, Yad Vashem began to systematically collect Holocaust-related documentation from all kinds of sources. The first documents arrived at Yad Vashem from the “Historical Commissions” and various documentation centres established after the war, mostly by Holocaust survivors, but also from public institutions, researchers and private individuals. Material collected in Israel was added to the documentation collected by Jews during the war in the ghettos, camps and hideaways, as well as materials collected in the first years after the war, for example in DP camps. Since its establishment, the Yad Vashem Archives have initiated activities with a view to collecting and copying Holocaust-related documents that have been housed in various archives in Europe and throughout the world. Over the years, they have collected extensive and comprehensive documentation in various forms. For more detailed information on the activities and holdings of the Yad Vashem Archives, see the extensive report. In addition to Yad Vashem, the Ghetto Fighters House, the Mass…
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