Title

Letter from Haavara Limited, Tel-Aviv

Authors

Object ID

2015.2.72ab

Object Name

Letter

Date

6-20-1940

Files

Description

Two page Letter on acidic tan paper. Haavara title in English and Hebrew on top in blue. Beneath a typewritten message, including several ink-written checkmarks. Second page continues the typewritten text with signature in bottom right.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Haavara was a company established in 1933 as the result of an agreement between the Jewish Agency (the official Jewish executive in Palestine) and the Nazi regime. The Trust and Transfer Office Haavara Ltd. was established in Tel Aviv to facilitate Jewish emigration to Palestine. Though the Nazis had ordered Jewish emigrants to surrender most of their property before leaving Germany, the Haavara agreement let them retain some of their assets by transferring them to Palestine as German export goods. Approximately 50,000 Jews emigrated to Palestine under this arrangement.

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Dimensions

10 3/4 x 8 1/2"

Keywords

Alice Moor, Haavara, Jewish Agency, Trust and Transfer Office, Tel Aviv, Palestine, Germany

Subcollection

Early

Recommended Citation

"Letter from Haavara Limited, Tel-Aviv" (1940). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2015.2.72ab.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/306