Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, Initiatives to Open Doors to Palestine

11.01.1943 - 31.12.1946

Reference Code : HT 11 - 3/ 3

Archive: Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe
Material status: Scanned
Date Type: Approximate

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- 'The White Paper Policy in Palestine and the Problem of Saving the Jewish People of Europe' (Booklet, July 1943);
- Press reports, statements, memos, letters on subject of open doors to Palestine for free immigration of surviving European Jewry and protests against the White Paper Policy;
- 'Zionist Rabbis Misguide American Jewry' - article by Irving Zieman referring to the Zionist movement in the US, Jewish-Arab claims on Palestine and immigration into Palestine;
- Cable of protest against the resolution to open doors of Palestine to Jewish immigration sent by the Iraq Delegation in Washington to Senators Wagner and Taft (02/1944);
- Press reports on the offer of Hungarian Government to release Hungarian Jews holding entrance visas to Palestine (July-Aug. 1944);
- Petition and appeal to President Roosevelt, Congress and British authorities presented by the Emergency Committee and signed by 500,000 Americans on behalf of European Jews for action to establish emergency shelters in Palestine.