Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, March of 500 Rabbis, Correspondence, Invitations, Speeches, Reports, News Items
01.10.1943 - 31.10.1943
Reference Code : HT 11 - 11/ 2
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Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe
Material status:
Scanned
Date Type:
Approximate
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- Reports, letters, newspaper items, etc. about the organization and ceremony of the Pilgrimage of 500 Rabbis to Washington, organized by the Emergency Committee in order to present a petition to the President and Congress requesting support in operation to rescue European Jewry (Oct. 5 - Nov. 11,
1943);
- Invitations sent by the Emergency Committee to senators, congressmen, and other personalities, inviting them to attend the ceremony; acceptances and refusals;
- Statement by Vice-President Henry Wallace to the delegation of Rabbis (Oct. 6, 1943);
- American press reports on the Pilgrimage of the 500 Rabbis.