Collection of letters and documents from the collection of Ben-Zion Chomsky, editor of a radio program in Stuttgart to trace holocaust survivors, 1940s. English, Hebrew and German. Ben-Zion Chomsky was born in 1896 in Neve Zedek, Jaffa. At an early age he immigrated to France and then to Canada. In 1917 he volunteered to the Canadian Air Force in order to establish a Jewish Squadron that will serve in Eretz Israel. This plan failed but later he got permission to move to the USA in order to draft volunteers to the Jewish Legion. During the 1920 riots he participated in the defense of Jerusalem under Ze'ev Jabotinsky's command. Both were imprisoned in Acre Jail. Was deported by the British from Eretz Israel in 1927 and settled in France. At the end of that year was already active in the International League against Anti-Semitism and Racism which was established in Paris. In 1933 led an information campaign in the USA warning and protesting against the Nazis. When World War II broke out Chomsky was volunteering in the British Embassy in Paris. When France was occupied he was taken prisoner and sent to Vittel Concentration Camp where he stayed until 1944, together with the poet Yitzchak Katzenelson. When the war ended, Chomsky served in Germany as a Nazis Hunter in the Allied Forces Intelligence. In 1946 Chomsky broadcasted on Stuttgart radio an UNRRA program trying to trace holocaust survivors, at first not coordinated with UNRRA. The items presented here document his activity to trace holocaust survivors through the radio. The collection includes: *A Red Cross telegram, sent to Chomsky and his family in Vittel, France, by the Jewish Agency, August 1944. The telegram concerns an entry Visa to Palestine. * A dozen letters and copies of letters sent by Mrs. Margaret K. Wenner, director of Mass Tracing Division of the Central Tracing Bureau concerning Ben-Zion Chomsky's radio program (on behalf of UNRRA) broadcasted on Radio Stuttgart, 1946. The letters are with regards to the broadcasted material and the need to coordinate the broadcasts as far as tracing survivors is concerned. * A "Weekly Tracing Report" (issued by UNRRA central tracing office) and " Radio-Report, Report on enquiries broadcast by UNRRA-Tracing Office District 1 from Radio Stuttgart", with date about the number of people who have been traced and the ways in which they have been traced (amongst others things, thanks to the radio program). April-May 1946. *Certificate of Employment during the War testifying that Ben-Zion Chomsky participated in WW I. Lot of ca. 40 items. Sizes and conditions vary.
Collection of letters and documents from the collection of Ben-Zion Chomsky, editor of a radio program in Stuttgart to trace holocaust survivors, 1940s. English, Hebrew and German. Ben-Zion Chomsky was born in 1896 in Neve Zedek, Jaffa. At an early age he immigrated to France and then to Canada. In 1917 he volunteered to the Canadian Air Force in order to establish a Jewish Squadron that will serve in Eretz Israel. This plan failed but later he got permission to move to the USA in order to draft volunteers to the Jewish Legion. During the 1920 riots he participated in the defense of Jerusalem under Ze'ev Jabotinsky's command. Both were imprisoned in Acre Jail. Was deported by the British from Eretz Israel in 1927 and settled in France. At the end of that year was already active in the International League against Anti-Semitism and Racism which was established in Paris. In 1933 led an information campaign in the USA warning and protesting against the Nazis. When World War II broke out Chomsky was volunteering in the British Embassy in Paris. When France was occupied he was taken prisoner and sent to Vittel Concentration Camp where he stayed until 1944, together with the poet Yitzchak Katzenelson. When the war ended, Chomsky served in Germany as a Nazis Hunter in the Allied Forces Intelligence. In 1946 Chomsky broadcasted on Stuttgart radio an UNRRA program trying to trace holocaust survivors, at first not coordinated with UNRRA. The items presented here document his activity to trace holocaust survivors through the radio. The collection includes: *A Red Cross telegram, sent to Chomsky and his family in Vittel, France, by the Jewish Agency, August 1944. The telegram concerns an entry Visa to Palestine. * A dozen letters and copies of letters sent by Mrs. Margaret K. Wenner, director of Mass Tracing Division of the Central Tracing Bureau concerning Ben-Zion Chomsky's radio program (on behalf of UNRRA) broadcasted on Radio Stuttgart, 1946. The letters are with regards to the broadcasted material and the need to coordinate the broadcasts as far as tracing survivors is concerned. * A "Weekly Tracing Report" (issued by UNRRA central tracing office) and " Radio-Report, Report on enquiries broadcast by UNRRA-Tracing Office District 1 from Radio Stuttgart", with date about the number of people who have been traced and the ways in which they have been traced (amongst others things, thanks to the radio program). April-May 1946. *Certificate of Employment during the War testifying that Ben-Zion Chomsky participated in WW I. Lot of ca. 40 items. Sizes and conditions vary.
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