5 documents issued by Haavara – Trust Office Ltd., and by the Nazi Chamber of Commerce, related to private individuals who immigrated from Germany to the Land of Israel before the outbreak of World War II, within the framework of the Haavara Agreement (Transfer Agreement) between the Nazi authorities and the Jewish Agency, thereby saving their lives. Germany and the Land of Israel, 1930s.
Documents:
Certificate of transfer executed for Zilberman, Diskin, and Kaplan in the amount of 200 RM. May 9, 1935.
Certificate from Haavara – Trust Office Ltd. regarding a sum of money transferred from the company’s trust account to a private account. April 1937: “Haavara – Trust Office Ltd. makes available to banks in the Land of Israel sums in marks that were made available to it for this purpose by immigrants from Germany… The merchants deposit the proceeds in the banks, and Haavara Company pays them to the immigrants from Germany.”
Certificate for the shipment of goods from Düsseldorf, Germany, to the Land of Israel within the framework of the Haavara Agreement. December 12, 1939. Stamped with a Nazi ink seal of the Chamber of Commerce. The certificate includes a list of goods purchased for Barbara Mark’s immigration to the Land of Israel. (Leaf written and signed on both sides.)
Circular letter from Haavara – Trust Office Ltd. dated March 8, 1938, announcing for the first time the renewed possibility of including in the sale also high-value goods whose non-German value exceeds 20%.
Receipt from Haavara – Trust Office Ltd. for a sum received on behalf of Mrs. Rosa Billigheimer on July 19, 1939.
The Haavara Agreement (“Transfer”) was a document signed on August 25, 1933, between the Nazi authorities and the Jewish Agency. The initiator of the agreement was the Jewish-German businessman Sam Cohen. According to the agreement, Jews who wished to emigrate from Germany to the Land of Israel were required to sell their property in Germany and deposit their funds in German banks. The money was used to purchase German goods that were exported to the Land of Israel. Upon arrival, the goods were sold in the Land of Israel, and the immigrants received part of the proceeds. Seemingly, the agreement was beneficial to both parties—the Nazi regime sought the expulsion of German Jews as part of its intention to create a new era of a “Jew-free Germany, ” and saw the agreement as a means to accelerate their departure. The Zionist institutions, on the other hand, aimed to increase the number of immigrants to the Land of Israel.
The agreement was implemented through three intermediary companies: Hanotea Company (a subsidiary of Bnei Binyamin, which was the first to receive the concession for property transfer), the Anglo-Palestine Company (which, thanks to the agreement, transformed from a small bank into an international bank), and the Haavara Company.
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