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TOr Secretary of State, Washington

DATED! October 31, 1944 (received November 1, 3r09 a,m.)

NtJI.Illl:lR: 4440

CONTROt COPY .X

This is' being repeated to London ae No. 1400. . <

~~e following rotors ·to Department's message to to~on dated

September 27, No, 78Bl, which was sumrna.rized to Legation in London's lio.

513. .., It 19 now the desire of Red Cross off1o1a1e and Polish Legation

to forward additional Bh1pment_to Pruskow through aame channel$ and in

ilame way as outlined in our message of Septeml)er 15, No. 3681, which was

repeated as No. 1806 to tendon; 'l'ho Poles subml t copy of telegl'IIJII from r' ,,

Intercross as evidence of safe arrival of former Bhlpmente made in September.

~~is telegram also outlinee additional requirements ot lTuekow Poles and

quotes as number of people passing through camp the German control figure_

of 238,000.

The follo11blg items are lnoluded ln proposed ehipment1 4,000

kilos underclotheo; 2500 kiloe Bhoes; 15.000 kilos soap; 20,000 kilos used

clothing collected in Sweden1 10,000 kilos llun8iarlu pee. meal.

Arra.ngememts lie..,.e bee made to eead ahlpmenh through DeMark Via

rail. w are told b.r Polish LepUoa. i DEC , . _-. II Ci.\

DCR:GFw 1~44

Urgent a.pprow.l 1s reCOliU!I8Jl4ed b;r Legre~

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StateDepi. Let.ter,J-11·72

By R. H. P11<ks Date~ 1 ·1972

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LONDON 55 Now Cavendish St., W· l

GENEVA 37 Quai Wilson

BUENOS AIRES Corrientcs 1979

JERUSALEM· Vnnd Leumi P, 0. B. 471

MONTREAL 1121 St. Catherine St. W

MEXICO CITY Sonora 1744

In reply refer to No, 271

1884 'BROADWAY

NEW YORK, 23, N. Y.

Hon. John W. Penle War Refugee Board Treasury Building Was~ington, D. 0.

CABLEs: CoNGREss, NEw YonK· TE~E~HONE: CIRCLE 6 ~ 1900"

October 31, 1944

Dear Sirs: Attention; Mr. McCormick

With reference to the telephone conversation I ~ yesterday with Mr. McCormick concerning the shipnent of fOod parcels to Bergen .Baleen, I would like to inform you of the following cable we received this morning from our Swedish Section:

"Mine 13/10 YMO.A. guarantees watching distribution food parcels navicert received 21/10 40,000 par­cels 2,5 kilos each,"

Thank you again for your fine cooperation.

Sincerely yours,

RRG:bn

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TELEGRAM . COMMUNICATIONS ' DEPARTMI::NT OF STATE AND RECORDS

DI'!I'Wll' OF r EK-675 S_tockholm

rEading only b s E1ct\QY I PM 2pgaEd OctobEr 31, 1944 Distribution o~t ~ ·

arrangEmEnt. W)

COhli·~L<;·!lli/;rJONlEc'd 5:45p.m. A/(0 HEGOHOS

SEcrEtary of StatE, (LIAISON)

4432 OctobEr 31, 6 p.m.

"' This is our 100 fbr WRB. l(

CONTROL COPY

HavE discussEd contEnts of WRB 223 (DEoartmEntls , /

2152, OctobEr ~6, 8 p.m.) with GlEn WhislEr of.REd

Cross.

HE bas takEn all stEos nEPEssary to havE parcEls

rEpackagEd and shiomEnt is moving forward in a fEW days.

r--~--. HE has de>nE a vEry gocd jc·b, L_Egation would apprEciatE /

clarification of mEaning of words "unassimilatEd pErsons

in concEntration camps".

Jl'IIS EEC

JOHNSON

DEer ASSIFIED State ~ept. Lf:tt~r, 1_11 .. 72

By R. H.Pal:ks Date SEP 21 1972 -

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Dear Mr. Lerivl.tts

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November 11 1944

Tho following mesaat;o f'or you from Laura Margolis was received through the' Amerioan Legation in Stockholm under dllte. of' October .301 194111

nrt-wne hrrenged by tha World Jewish CongrBGIJ hero to send 1001000 kilos of foodstuffs in imlividunl pacl«lgea to Bergen llelaen, Theresienatadt, etc. 81000 nllllles wore procured from Zurich Congress. Htts requested the necessary fundB from Congress New York. Tho 1'/c,l' Rofugaa Boord representative he1•e :ls moat helpful and I tun in oloee touch with himJ will advi~e you ue soon no .furthor f'lltldfl f<Yr packages are noedtnl. Against futuro needs he hue at present balance 2181000 kronor of our funds,"

Very truly yours,

J, W, Pohle Executive Director

Mr. M. A. L~avitt, Secretary, American J'ewiah Joint Distribution

Oommittee, 270 Madison Avenue, New York 161 New York,

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DIVISION OF COMMUNICATIONS

AND RECORDS

ALH-320 Dis.tribution of tru~ rEading only by sp~cial arrangEmEnt. ( W)

SEcrEtar.y of- StatE,

Wa~hington, .)~-

oErARTMENro·~rATE · f\j\J!<'~/rl ,. ,r

19-H NOV V M,f 1n oo Stookho"lm"

CDf,. :P,at;r;;qoP.stobEr 30, 1944 1\i.J:l {(ECf;HDS ( UJi{ftf6ll(l) 9 p.m.

CONTROL copy - 0.~1 ~ ~/J.a-.~-:;;-

44f3, OctobEr 3o,- 9 p~~J}';qrr---- ·(/' "!p,- --"_ ' ~' ~ I - ..- I '/ I/(/ This mE:ssagE: from~Aergo Li to L~avitt of Joint. _- ~"--/:

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v ,.,.." 'K' ;/ DEpartl!IEnt 1 s ~of OctobEr ~3, 10 p.m.. ((

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World JEwish CongrEss hErE has arrangEd for

100,000 kilos foodstuffs to bE sEnt as individual-r r

parcElS to thE REsiEnstadt, BErgEn BElSEn, EtCEtEra, .-

Has rE:cEivEd 8000 name:s from Zurich congrEss, NEcEs-

sary funds rEque:ste:d from co:qgre:ss in Ne:w York, Am y

in closE touch with WRB re:prEsEntativE hErE who is

most hElpful and as soon as additional funds for

parce:ls nEEdEd will advisE you. HE now has balancE /

of 218,000 kronor of our funds against futurE nEEds,

JOHNSON . :~'I_·MPI\ _,_I U'l I 71 ;2

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By R. H. Parks Date S E P 21 1972 --

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Dear Dr, Kubowitzkia

The i'ollowinff meQaege fol' you £rom !.lr. HollOJlder , WtUJ reol•i·n;d timonr:h the· AJ~<elric~.n Lecat.ion in Stockholm

·Z\ll!.der date of October )01 19441

"The necol.latll'Y approvo.lB were obtained for . the piU•oels· program nnrl the R.pproxtnmte coAt

oi' the entire 100 tona will be $65 1000, An initial ammmt of $25 1000 11hould be tranAf'erred by ;vou tmd i1' aM1ti.onr.l i~ neces£>u:ry you will later be ndv1.s~cl by ur.. Firvmr:·u,_l ?,$r. !.tlt(ln\le. b not br.lin1; requested by us of thP. Buenos Airee branab. n ·

Dr. Laou Kuboriltzki1 v:orld Jewjah Congress, 1834 Broadway, New York 23, !1e·,; York.

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J. W, Pohle Executive llirootor

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Secretary of State

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Dated October 30, 1944

Recld 8:55p.m.

4419~ Oc~2ber 3q, ? p.m.

Hol~nder 1o;. S111edish section sends following message

for Kubo1.,i tiki of Worl~ Jewish Congress, This· is our No,

9~ for 1var Refugee Bo,ard.

Parcels program obtaine.d necessary appravals and cost /

' of whole quantity of 100 tons will ap:)roximate $65,000

Please transfer an~ initial am~unt of $25,000 and we

,.,ill advise you later if more is necessary. We are not

.request~~g -~~eno_~ .. ~~-~-~.S.---~7n_o_~_::'?!.: ... ':'~~--~~~a.~~=~~-~s:~-=-~---~~::ce Note for \VRB from Olsen. Above is program i'le parti'-

. ci}?ated in 1vorking out 1vith loca.~ mosaic community .,for

shipment of pa!lcels to internees in concentration camps,

A trial consignment of few thousli~d packages being shipped

soon and prospects appear very good of satisfactory

delivery.

WSB

JOHNSON

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~~ate Dept:.. _Letter, -1-11-72.

By R. ·H. Parks Date~ 1· 1972

I . . WORLD JEWISH. CONGRESS CONGRES JUiF MONDIAL CONGRESO .JUDIO MUNDIAL

LONDON 55 New Cavendish St., W I

GENEVA 37 Quai Wilson

BUENOS AIRES Corricntcs 1979.

JERUSALEM Vood Leurui P. 0. B. 471

MONTREAL II2I St. Colheride 81. W

MEXICO CITY Sonora 1744

1834 BROADWAY

NEW YORK, 23, N. Y.

CABJ.ES: CoNGREss, NsW Yoalt TELEPHONE: CiacLE 6 ·1900.

In reply refer to No. 268

October 27, 1944

..!_ Hon. John W. Pehle War Refugee Board Treasury Department· Washington, D. C.

Attention Mr. McConnAok

Dear Sir:

I tried in vain to reach Mr. McCormick this afternoon.in order to read to him the following cable we received from our repre­sentative in Stockholm con;9rning the license for the sending of food parcels to camp Bergen Belsen. ·

r' 11 Re: foodpapkages licence was approved last week 11nder condition International Red Cross .willing guarantee pac~ ages reaching destineee stop Explained your authorities such guaranty impossible as nobody able visiting camps but e~eri,nce proving parcels arrivi~g safely furthermore Hjaelp Kr:l:gets offer which part of Yf!C.A. through which Or­ganization sending parcels confirmed willingness control as far as possible furthermore we confirmed stopping send­ing immediately if discovering parcels unarriving and pre­pared fully cooperating your authorities even after license granted stop Legation here recommended WaShington accepting this scheme now informed also Allied .A.uthorities Loi:uion accepting your Le~tion recommended for hurrying decision Stephen Wise conttacting authorities Washington intervene immediately cable urgently."

Please telephone me by Monday at ·the very latest and let me know what we can answer our Swedish Section.

Trusting that you will give this matter your urgent consideration, I remain,

UG:bm

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LONDON 55 New Cavendish St., W I

GENEVA 3 7 Quai Wilson

BUENOS AIRES Corricntes 1979

JERUSALEM Vnad Leumi P. 0. B. 471

MONTREAL 1121 St. Catherine St. W

MEXICO CITY Sonora 174-4

1834 BROADWAY

NEW YORK, 23, N. Y.

.!... War Refugee Board · Treasury Building

Washington, D.O.

CABLEs: CoNGBEss,.NEW YonK. TELEPIION£: Cin~i. 6 ·1900

October 26, 1944

Attention: Mr. MoOormaok

In Reply Refer to #267

Dear Mr. MoOorroaok:

Attaoheo/, please find o_opy of my letter to the F9reign Eo·onomio Admini­stration (Mr. Pollak).

I am still looking forward to receiving your letter with reference to the three matters we have taken up with you.

Thank you in advance for giving theee mttem your attention.

KRG:t )mo .•

You~ 2truly.

~R. 11~ Assistant Rescue ~part!IJ!!l"

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Forr.lign r~oon6mlc 1\d.minlstrrltlon \ranb1ngton 26 o.o. Attonttoht Mr. Pollak

H01 Your o~?OO...;;'HP . 'i)(o)t:.r Mr. Pollnkt

·,''ith l'l'lfP.:ronoo to ou:t v·1r1ou.s toh:nhoM oonvorMtionn oonoeim1ng thll aancling of Qlohihg · to tlw untnrtunate init.~tOIJ of :aorgen-Bf.'laon and . to 'i'opuako• l w1ah to tb~Jnk you fO\' tbe wrAl'lll oonaide:rv.tlon you hava t~V0'n thhJ urgont mttoJ'•

l l\llll vm1t1ng for <1 Navy 0flrt1t1oC~tfl 1 whtoh ~te l71111 undoubtfldly reoft1Vfl from your offloe1 and l havR r.1ppronohad Mr. !lavekartlp reg,,.rd1ng

:tllipplng fao1l1t1fll'l 1 in or<'lar not to Mlny ''otion.

I £1.1'4 a~re that :fO\~ u1ll give uo th(! ne~tessury 1nstruot1ono for tt.aking thl!Y amnopo:rt. of clothing. •

RllOtt

co: Mr. Meaormack

Very truly youra 1

Kurt Ro Oroanman Assistant n,uot !)~;p~<rtmen«

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WAR REFUGEE BOARD

INYER-OFFICE COMMUNICATION

TO Mr, McCormack

FROM Mr. Abre,Qamson

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DATE Optober 261 1944

Mr, Prince of New York (Canal 60467) called this afternoon. He is experiencing difficUlty getting· clearances from federal agencies, notably VIFA, in c~ection with some packaging he is doing;for the American Federation of Polish Jews and a V/arS!)ll organi­zation which wants to ship packages, through Russian V/ar Relief, The packages are going to the Polish Govern­ment at Lublin, He wonde1•ed whether we could be of any help to him, I told him that you wou).d call him Monday,

He also wondered whether we could send him a letter to read to his staff, tellin~~hat a fine job they did on their part of the 151000 fiaclmge program, Zollinger had told him that the Prince packages arrived in good shape whereas the others did not,

Maybe we should discuss these two points before you actually telephone him,

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FROM: Secretary of State, V:ashington

TO: American Legation, Bern

DATED: October 26, 1944

. CONTROl COPY NUMBER:

MCCT.fn.LAND. FROM WAR REFUGEE BOARD,

Re your 6927, October 19,. For your information food parcel program

from Sweden to unassimilated ·persons Bergenbelsen and. other German-controlled

camps was presented for approval to MEW, Department and FEA. without

.reference to WRB. FEA and Department in accord with L!EI'f on october 20

authorized the program calling for shipment of 93 tons of parceled food

to German-controlled camps, Plan as developed by World Jewish Congress

representative in Sweden calls for ·distribution o~ these parcels under

supervision of Swedish Y.M.C.A.

\'fith respect to VIRB prograra calling for shipment of }00,000 parcels

from United states, Amcross will have all of remaining 285,000 three-kilo

parcels ready for shipment via Marseille in November. All instructions

contained in your 6263, September 21, being observed by Amcross,.

THIS IS 1'/RB BE!lli CABLE NO, 240,

STETTINIUS (Acting)

- Note: This is for .correction of number which vms previously sent through

as #3633 instead of #3653

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Seo!;'etar,r of State 1 Washington .; mnerican Legation, Bern

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october 26, 1944

3633 )r'

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MCCLEUJ\ND FROM WAR REFUGEE OOARD. ,/

RA your 6927, October 19, For your information food parcel program . . . . / .

from sweden to unassimilated pe:rsons Bergenbslaen and other German-controlled ~ . . I .

camps was presentsd for approval to HEW, Department and:FEA without ......

ret'erenou to WRB• FEll and Department in accord with l4E\V on october 20

authorizud the program calling for shipment of 93 tons of paroeled·food /

to German-controlled camps. Plan as d.eveloped by World Jewish Congress

representative in-sweden calls for distribution of these parcels under

supervision of swedish Y.u.O,A. . . I . With respect to VIRB program oall1ng for shipment of 300:,000 parcels

from United states, Amcross will have_ all of remaiiling 285,000 three-kilo

parcels ready for shipment via Maru1lll111 November. All. instruct1o11• c'on­

tained in your 6263, September 211 b6il:lg obl!erved b7 Amoross.

THIS IS WRB BERN CABLE NO~ 2l9•

STETTINIUS (Acting)

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Re ;vour 69Zl, October 19. Por ;vour in£orMt.1cm toocl paroel progNII

troa 8wden to una111aUated pertone Dergalbelun and ot.ber Oerun-controUed

oupe 'lt'lll p:r .. ented tor approftl t.o IBW, DepartMnt encl Pllwitbout . '· . .

reterenoe,<'to WRB. ·FHA and '~nt.' 1n accord 'lr1\h IBif on Oot.ober 20

authorised the pro8J'IIII oel.l1Da ~or mlpllellt ot 93 t0111 of paroeled tOOcl

t.o oe.-n-oontroUed .01111p1. Plan ae drfelopecl by Worlcl J..Uh Ooaareee

repre .. ntatlv• in Snclen oeUe tor d11trlbut1on ot these paroele lmftr

. npel"f111on ot 8Wdleh J:.Jl.O.A.

With reepeot to 1lll8 proaraa oallilla tor .til~ ot 3001000 paroele

tr011 l.klltecl Statee, Aaoroee wU1 have all of ruatnlng 28,,000 three-kllo

paroele ready tor · lhl)llllllt via lllree1Ue in lfovuber. AU inetruotlone

aontaiaed in your 6263, Septeaber 21, being obaernd by Alloro ...

ll~tt::t«:UilifiiXjRibUGC~lXctiCSW':UeUJiiX~X~

JM~~U'Uct:~lftlaBJtH!il.Ke\r'C.,XJtWtqn~ftllliUii~W

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9:30 a''"• October 26, 1944

flr?l., ~~Cha1mcey (for the Sec 'Y), Abrahamson, 41411 :;:~. . ~ .. · .· ·.1l.an:li8n, 1~<;. ~lJlilEl.. ck, Files

DuBois, Friedrrian, Hodel, Lesser,

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parcel progrmn from sweden to unaesldla.ted penone

Bergenbeh&n nnd other Geraan .. controlled o~pe wo.o presented

tor npprovnl to MltW, Depa.rtmen\ and fF.:A wltbl)ut reference to ' . ~ .

W.RB. FEA and Deputaent .in· accord with MEW on October 20

authorhed the progrnll calling tor uhipraent of 93 .tone of

p'arc.,led food to German-controlled oaraps. Plan as developed

by World J!fwhh Oongreus representative in Sweden oa.Us for

dietribuUon of the~e pucds under supervision of swoot.eb

Y.M.O.A.

With reopeot to WilD prosraa calling for shipment of

300,000 parcels from United Statea, A~crooo will have all of

remaining 285,000 throe~kilo parcelo ready tor shlpaent via . . Ma.rseU 1 e in Hove11ber. All 1nat tucUone contained in your

6263. September 21. being observed by·Amoroes.

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cent:ra tion CQlll);>S in ·<ierm(<n-occu,.i P.ti t:el"ri to:ry, hoar<> r.,l s been I ~

aiivleed throue;n ~-linitner HarJ•lson ... md :·~.cClell:ind th~:t tile I"

lti ,002 tt.ree-k1lo P<1rcels sl.ir,:)et; from here on s, 3. 11ripeholm

o.nc! off loariel\ i.ioth<mburg n:r:ri veCl. sorr,e~1i:.l'.t iio.mq>;ed, r_equi1•ine;

some rehab1l1 ta.t1on befC're be in;;: fort·!ar;ued cvm~e for un<.<e-. ,/

cirJil~•te6. ;.;ercons Gel'm'1.n controlle<1. terr1toz•y. G-len li1blet> I

ot ,.zllcross ana. lniiercroee Oelee;nte in 3'tJeden a~llll'e of thin

situation. l'lease ci;eck the exact etatur. ;.hie e.l11!m:ent and

o.o.viae lloard.

. · ~a-ons the \ For secur1tY· r~ ." t ·. -·t.'-~x·t or_' this_ message_ ~us _: b.=. c·,tq:-;~l?. f!';: .. ~·,··l~·~l_. _____ ·

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Si'ET~IIUUS ...t.C'l'lNG (Glfll)

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CABLE TO MINISTER JOHNSON, STOOIQIOLJl, FOR OL$N B'RO!o! WAlt REFUQ&B BOARD.

In aonneotion with Board's program to ship 300,000 food

paroele from United states for unassimilated persons 1n concentration .)__

campe in Oerruan-ooaupied territory,_ Board has been advised through

Jll.n~eter Hardeon and loloOlellanc;l that the 151 002 three-kUo plroels

shipped from here on s.s. Oripeholm and off loaded Gothenburg

arrived -eomewhat damaged, requiring some rehabilitation before being

forwarded camps !or unassimllated persons German controlled territory.

Glen Whisler of Amoroes and Intercross Delegate in Sweden aware of

this situation. Please check the exact statue this shipment and

advise Board,

THIS IS WRll Bl'OOKIIOLU CABLE NO, a2),

:2iS 9:30a.m. Octobefi> 26~ 1944

:Miss .Chauncey (for the sec •y)- Abrahamson, Cohn, DuBois> Friedrilan, Hodel, Lesser, Mannon, J~cCormack,_ Files

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1834 BROADWAY

NEW YORK, 23, N. Y.

LONDON 55 Now Cavendish St., W J

CABLJ::s: CONGREss, NEw YoaK. Tf!tEPliONE: ClnctE 6.1900

GENEVA 31 Quai Wilson

BUENOS AIRES Corrienles 1979

JERUSALEM Vand Lenmi P. 0. B. 471

MONTREAL 1121 St. Catherine Sr. W

MEXICO CITY Sonora 1744

In reply rei'er to ho, 266

lion. John W. Pehle War Hei'u"ee ljo'ard Treasury Bu:0:dii1g Washington, D. c.

Dear i•ir •' Pohle~

October 24, 1944

I would like to refer to ~y letter (Uo. 229) of August 31st concerning the camps to be included in the par~l program of the International Committee of the Red Cross. ""

I I understand that a second dispatch of food parcels is now being pre­pared, and I must express our deep concern over the probability that the camps specified by the ICHC are not lilcely to benefit any sub­stantial number of Jews.

It appears r~ reoen~i'ormation th&t there.~re stili/Jews iU the 1

i'olloF,g camps in Polan~: CzestoJhoMl., ,.Jedrzejaw_,. Ka.ttowioe, Jlielce, Klimontov, 'rak~w, 1lfjle~, l:.!yslowice,f>P'6le, <?.'wiecim, l'iotrkow, Ha.dom,./

/sa.nolc, Ska.rzyske, Trzebinia., Wieliczka. - Boclu'iia.. The ICRC has ruled out some of these camps. May I however suggest that this Committee be requested to make a. serious attempt to provide the iiuna.tes of the.se camps with food. These are the camps which deserve the greatest care, since their internees who a.re too weak to work, pay for such inability with their lives, a.nd in a. most gruesome wa.y.

The ICRC information, a.ccoJding to which there are no internees any longer.in the camp of Sered in Slovakia., is contradicted by recent ne1vs._ It. seems that the entire Jewish population of Tiso Slovakia ha.s now been concentrated in that camp, and is very badly in need of help. ·

Looking forward to he§.\.ing i'rom you, I remain,

ALK:bg

Sincerely yours,

tJ.edj • Leon 1\U~witzki

Head, Rescu\Depa.rtinent

' DEPARTMENT OF

STATE

DOO.

I OUTGOING TELEGRAM

· :O!<tw~.~io;l oi' .tt>ut:.· l'lt(~:J.~\.ri!.) r.>:;:t:.:r '1'!'1 &J)£01~1 al'i'8ll(:f.;;lt':li:li · i1}

~o~ ~lease explore posa1bil1t1ea sen¢tng rrom ~ . /

Stockholm ~ood ~aroels to oaQps such aa Therea1enatadt,

~ergenbtlaen, 31rkeneau etc. ~•auld euoh poao1b111tiee

exialt 4-hbon ott1oe bas 11ata ot 1ntemaee Yarioue oallpe to

vnom .Pal'oele oan be tnd11'1dl.lallr a4dreflaad. tJNQUOi'l£

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t A ~W>NG) For ll&ourit te;~tlt ot• th. Y. reasons thllt b" Cl lS message mu.st

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DECLASSIFIED State Dept. Lcttei·; 1·11·72

By R. H: Parks Date..s..E.£..,2 1 1972

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Jtockholro~ f:rm~ ~. A. Loe.v.ltt of tho Ameria!Ul Jo·,,illh Jt.~Int; llll;tribt~ti.on Cot<:.ilttl.lel

(,!KWE !'f.'>Mli: t:1PLQ?.k: PfJf:;SHliY.JTll:t1 ;-:r~tW!liG FllOM HTOCKfiOU:l t'CKJfi PMl:C£18 TO GAW\C: l.'f.!CH f..S TUBRBBIEl'/ST.I.fJT 1 llf;IillEiiBELShN 1 lHilKlmil{ltl M:C, SHOUr.ll

-< SUCH l'I)ESI!HLlTIES K1U81' USBQN ')FJ.'ICl" lW3 LISTS Or' lNTlmm,;r;s V!.HIO!JS GAMPS N ?if!OJ( l'AM£LS OAll Bf. I!IDlVtnU/,LLY l1DlJllliflSED !ffit.,lJO'l'E

- 5:15 p,m, october 18, 1944

J.!iss Chauncey (for the Sec•y) Abrahamson, Cohn, DuBois; Frtedman, Hodel, i:.esser, Mannon, McCormack, Files _ .·. :;;r-

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TO Miss Hodel

FROM Mr. i·AcCormack

EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

WAR REFUGEE BOARD

INTER-OFFICE COMMUNICATION

Subject: VJRB. Food Pa1•cel Program

"J-·

DATE October 21 1 1944

There appears below a brief accounting of the status of the Board •s food parcel program afl of this date. . .

The Natc.cnal Container Corporatjon of New York began delivery of the necessary cartons te the A~erican Red Cro;>s packing center i!YNew York on October 16 and will continue delivery e.t the rate of 501 000 cartons weekly to the expiration of the contract, ·

Ameriwn Red,OToss will actually begin the packing operation on October 26 lind will pack at the rate of 14,000 parcels daily, six days per week. The first 185,000 parcels will contain the following items:

1 pckge. cigarettes ............................... , .... J/4 ounces Biscuits, K-2 (or c~uivalent) ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, •• 6t ounces Cheese •••• , , • , , , ,, • , ••• , , , , ••••• , , •• , •• , , ••• , , ••• , •• , 8 Whole powdered milk , , , , , , , ••••• , ••• , , • , •• , , , •• , , , , , . 16 Oleomargarine •• , •• , •••• , , , , , , , , ••••• , , , •• , , , , , , , •• , , 16 Salmon (or tuna) .. .. .. .. .. .. • ... • .... .. .. • .. .. .. .. .. • 8 Sugar . , , , • , •••• , , , , •••• , , •••• , , , •• ; , • , • ~·. , • , , , , •• ; , • 8 Chocolate bars (or equivalent) .......... ;.; ........... · 4 Dehydrated soup (3 servings) .. .. .. • .. .. .. .. .. • .. .. .. 2i[ ivieat •••••••••••••••• ,. , , • ••, •••••• , •••• •• ••• ,,,, •,,. 12 1 packet of ascorbic acid tablets 1 bar so!ip ... · ........................................ 2

Also in this run each parcel will contain· the receipt card prescribed by the International CollUnittee. The 185 1 000pracel run,will be completed on approx­imately November 10.

The second =n of 100,000 parcels will be bep;!ID on November ll or November 13, contingent upon the ability of the Feinberg Kosher Sausage· Company to make delivery of so;ooo tins of Kosher meat by that time and tne remaining 50,000 tins by November 17. Kosher h1eat will be shbstituted in this run·for the non-Kosher product contained in the first 185,000 parcels. No receipt cards will be included in the final 100,000 parc·els as-per.the International Committee's instructions. This lot will be forwarded indiVidually via parcel post to internees with a special receipt,that will be affixed by the International CollUUittee. ·

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• As to shipping: American Red cross will have two ships sailing between

November 5 and November 10 and two ships sailing between November 15 and November 25. Such portions of our purcels as are ready for shipment as of these dates will go forward. The Marseille route will be employed as recommended by the International conunittee in their recent cable to the Board.

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Sec~etary ot State

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PLAIN

"" London

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Dated October 20th, 19~4

Rec 1d 8:l6 p.m.

UONTROL COPY / TIMES reports that British airman, who was assisting

-' Polish resistance forces in Warsaw and whose occasional

mess,~s b~fore eurrender were reported in Emba,esy 1 s earlier

telegrams, is now known to be safe. It publishes following

brief message which has now been received from him: 8 The

Germans are giving no help to Polish population evacuated

from the capital. Medical supplies are very short, and <f

badly wounded people are to be seen'lying by the roadside,

Tens of thousands of the citizens are sleeping in the open

fields. Food is short. The Germans are rounding up all

men from 16 to 40 years of age and sending them to Reich."

TIMES also contains following brief item by a Polieh

correspondent in London: 1An oftioia1.announcement disclos­

ing new German atrocities against population deported from

Warsaw has been issued by the Polish Government in London.

It says in part: 'The Germans have arrested-males between

the ages of 16 and40and have deported them in the direo--·

tion or Germany. Some were separated from the rest and ··. . . . . .· ·. I

directed.etraight to the infamous death camp of Oawiecim •.

Up to

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~2- 9033. Twentieth. From London

Up to October 14, 12,400 of those deported trom Warsaw had

been sent there and are now threatened with death. On

~- October 7 the Germans began mass execution ot Polish prison­

ere in Oew1eo1m by means ot polson gaa elthB~ in gas cham­

bard or in mo_torvans. 1 A report trom Poland has been

.received concerning a rising in Oewlecim Camp. It says '

that on October ·7, when mass executions or. politioal p:r1Son-

(?~ers began, the Polish prisoners w~o were in a majority in

the camp, attacked the Germane. In the course of the unequal

struggle, during which the Germans machlnegunned the barracks,

the Poles succeeded in killing 6 German executioners. More

than 200 Polish prisoners periahed in the tight."

WINANT

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FRON:

TO!

DA'l'ED:

NUNBER&

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PAllAPHHASE OF TELEGHAH SEN'!'

~eor·et~u·y of Gta.te,. \1aeh1ne;ton on',·'' TROl ~OPl Al•IERlCAN LmA'l'ION, STOCKH<.'H:M \JUt't' October 20, 1944

21ll. !(

(Ht: ,mted to I,om1on EUl 8~?0} 1" ..r

See London9o 8907 9f the ole;hteenth ot Octobe.-, I

rspeated· ae 587 to Stockholm. PEA ant1 th<': D~partment ngx-ee I " .-

ln l'ecornmendctl.on of E~iD and l•EiJ with rega:r'd food pa:r'cel.

shipnwntfl to Jew a interned i.n (1e;rmany •

DECLASSIFIED . State Dept.- Leiter, 1·11-72- _

. By n; R ~a~ks DateS E P 21 1972

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TO Miss Hodel

Mr. McCormack

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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

WAR REFUGEE BOARD

INTER-OFFICE COMMUNICATION

"' "'

DATE October 19 1 19ft4

Subject: Food.parcels from Sweden to unassimilated persons in German· camps.

The attached cables tell the story of the status of a food parcel pl;ogram comparable to our own to ship parcels from neutral Sweden to un­assimilated persons in Bergenblesen and other camps in Germany.

" This project was called to our attention in a let~er from the World ~~Jevtit'lh Congress of September 22, in which was· quoted two cables received by

the Congress from its :representative in Sweden urging that they place the matter before the interested governmental agencies. On October 2, 1944, the Board drafted a proposed cable; Stockholm 96, requesting Minister Johnson's and the Board representative's comments.with respect to this project and when the cable was submitted to Special War Problems, it was learned that Minister Johnson had already, on September 20, 1944 (see 3772) ~econunended to London that tpe project be approved. Special Division and FEA endorsed the project to lllEW London, and as, of this date there is being despatched from the Department a cable to London and Stockholm in answer to 4181,

. October lL, from Stockholm in which Ministej;--Johnson outlined the manner in which the parcels would be distributed. Swedish Y.M.C.A. will be employed in a ·supervisory capacity in distributing a total of 93 tons of foodstuffs which will be made up into parcels comparable to our arm.

Needless to say, this is a worthwhile project and supplements the ,-. Board's program in this direction. The significant thing, it woj.!ld appear, is that in this instance the Board was not consulted by eitherSWP or FEA while the project was under discussion, and we probably would· not have learned of it except for the fact that we had submitted a proposed cable· on the sub­ject.

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FROM I (

American Legation, StockhOlm

TO:

DATElh

l!UMBER:

· · London today.

Secret!U'Y of State, Wa-shington , ·

October 14, 1944

4181 >(

US URGEET

CONTROl COPY

lie repeat below . cable No. 1.281 whlch has been .. nt to )(

1·11th refwencs to E!ibaasy1 s cable dated Ootobtl' 8, No.

546, to Legation and Dep!ll'tment's meeeage l'lo. 8244 to l'inbassy dated ,/ .

, October 7, in connection with food :pe.foela for Jewe 1ntented :l.n Gt:l"~ • ..-

According to World Jedth Oongrees represe1;1tat1vee 1n :Sweden, as ~- :l'ule . r ~ .

Ge~!-~~ not allow IRO · ~ntr_~l of__!.,!'!.~·.!~L~!Ln.G.fJUr&t.i9lL~!~ However,_

they_b&ve eent a hlegram.,uk1ng aid :l.n whateftl" control possible, to

IRO 1n Geneva. It 1s claimed by ·Jews .that parcelll_!!'!l~ P!.~-~~!ll_:trOIII ~-~-~-~--·-·~ ~ . ' . -· ·- . - , .... •'"·~· ' . -· 'i· - . ···:~·-·-

Sv1tse:rland, Portugal 8liJl cloee rtlaUTd b. Svt4n ;l'e&Ohet1. tu11:' deetil!At1oa

eat1sfe.ctor1ly. '"'"-=---->~·-"' ..........

Letters trom reolplente coDflra this, ·r< ,----

Svediah '!MOA v111 fol'JifU4 foebtufi'e ln pacllagee of u• to .. -·'-<>..>'..:c<~;. ... -.;.="'"__.,.._ ....... ,~d~"""",.,. ....... ___.,.. ....... ,.,...,._......~ - .""'~-

three ldloe 'rl.a pWOelpol\.. 'lhell!' 1'ep1'ee-.t&U~u in ~.will, tn' to . - -~--.. ---·---

help _1n seOUl'~Dfi'; tntor-ttC!a that ~la are ·:reaohillg rec1p1enb. . ~ - -· -~~· --.-~ -~ -~--.._-~~----~~-~~-~~-~-~~ --~~--- ---·-~~-......:-.-.- -=-:._ -- --

wUl not be ••re of part O~~,_,~WC•f,\'~PW• .ao~Uoa~­addrns••• b7 oar4 or le•t•r (vl.\lc;h 'ld11 W ate ..,.s;i,&'ble .to ~·1• fo:r

con~~~~) "~~~~~-:~.~-"! Sv~~~~~~\tfOHlble.~t~n ::::;:..

.. DECLASSIFIED State Dept, Letter,l"lV7li

By R. H:ParkllD~;:·sEP~211~??

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No, 4181 • page f2

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Bergenbelaen, 1t 11 believed reo1p1enta will be al1ove4 to write cont!raat1on

that p&rOell haTe been recehed, in •oat caeee, The maJor1ty of the J;

)--- reo1pUntl vUl cona1et of 1Ddlrtduale which the 1forld Jewish Congr11e 1n (f Swi her land has authorized, ·0 ' .

In ·the event conflr•Uone do D.Qt reach Sweden r~u17,

or if conditions JueUty, forwud1ng of parcels can be stopped· at once,

According to reports, foo4 a1t~t1on tn Jewisn concentrat!aa

Caillps, :particularlT in :Sergenbeleeni'"}ii;JI.Np~J"e,1;e,

The above arrangements are Bat1efactory,_ ~e~tion is

convinced, (and llrithh Legation agrees)., and urge111.t approval iB r~Jeommendld.

JOHlfSOll

DORtGPW

10-17-44

J'ROIU

TOI

).~ DATED1

!WMBEih

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PARAPHRASE Oli' TELmBAM RECEIVED

v Aaer1can Le~t1on, Stockhola

Secretar;r of State,, Wa&hington

Ssptember 20, 1944

3772 X

!l'his meaeage 1s repeated to LOndon ae lio. 1~1 _today,

When Depart111ent determines polic;r conc~tniDg incrMsed ,-~~ ,", ' / ..-- '

applications for forwarding food parcele to ciTil1ans interned in Ge~,

we aak that consideration be g\Tea to iSo application V/781 to eeDd 93 / ~ .

tons foodstuffs to Jet111 interned 1n Gll'lll&JI1 (r'ece1Tid on behalf Swedith ;'

Section of World Jewish Congress).at the saae time.

Oo_nl!ignmant will be fol'W&rded in eepara.e f1Ye, Jr:c p.;;Oela

and inoludea :f'itteen tone ot American b&oon and twent;r tone of llanilh

sugar.

DCR:GPW

10-17-44

~OIDISON

DECLASSIFillD State Dept. Letter, 1-li-72

By R. H. ParksDate.sE£:211972

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J.'o: h'1r. Stet.tinius

From: J. "·Pohle

I wish to call your att<mtion tu tile i'lwt tnat ·eceritly the

''"""'imm Minist~r in Switzc,rJ.und ,,resenteu for tl;e co oicierution of lkMr

in Loj)aon, unci the !Jepartment «nd ~'l!.A in 1\ullhingto , u. food 1mrcel program

benefiting unu:osimiluted·per:;ons in camps in Ger an-controlled territory.

As you Know, sudh u proposaJT,,paral·~els the \(a Refugee Donrd 1 s program

of food parcels from t.his country benofiti g the s~;nw c~;tegory oi' ;•Eopl€.

NtwdlLSS ."to saw, Vl\& are eai~ at the prompt and positive

'"''"'-l!ner in 1v.hich thE> iJeparLmGnt huildled Minister Johnson's request

' u"encies in tt1is country iyter~sttod in this fie.Ld oi' activity, which up

t.o tr,e time of t!le begin~nr; of our 'paclcage progr!im wus a rnatter that

was dismissed quickly tj inter.,sted gov.ornment.!il·agencie~, have been

looking to 1.he War nc0rgee Board tci explorE: the po~sibilitles of making I

projects of ti1is natJr"' possible, With specific reference to the ::Jweciish

pro,;ram, ti1e liorJ.d,ewish Congress in tlle. Unitea Stat&s called this matter

to our ~;ttention It the very moment when-tE.A <J.nd the Dei>tu'tment bVI/ ~ !i;a

~Si(f.f~li(Q'~-~1: {!/I,[Jf.A,.,Ve had _actually drafted and eubmitted a

proposed caJ;J-e/to Minister· Johnson ·asking_for his recommendation with ft~d1Po6tMtll·

respect to ~. As oui' cable made it.5 weary way frOIJI C,esk to Clesk iii

the Department, the !Jroposal, without reference.to the Board, had become

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" r<mli ty, wiJereus our Jll'OjJOsed cable enwrgc,d a tir'cd and turuy pape:r:.

I am not so much oisturbed that t"e D8pm·tmunt und Jll\h is ut the-present

timt re!,dy to app1·ove !Jl'ojects of tnis nature o.s l c.m over the fiwt that

Lhe1·e seems to be no desire to clear 1·e.1uests of tilis 11ature with the-

Botti'ci, t.be ~~~vernmerrt..ul at~~ncy char~ed with the rE:sponsibility CJf bringing )-.

relief to these uni'ort.un>tte victims of the war. I shull a1jpreciate >t WOl'd

i'rom yul). ou t1~is mutter together with ·your assurances tillit ln tws futur·e

we wiLL IJe conou.Lt,ed un uildt:rtukin;,s of tull3 nature.

PJ:·.icCormack:ur 10/25/44

CABLE TO MINIST1R JOIINJJON, Sl'OCKIIOLM, ~'OR OLSEN I•'ROM WAR HJi.JiUQI!;E DOARD

World Jewish Congress haa called to the attention oi' Department and Board B. proposed food parcel project benefiting detilined persons Borgenbeleen and othor COJllpB. Parcels to be m11de up in Sweden and shipped from that point, Hillel Storch, Viorld Jewish Congress repre­sentative, Stockholm, can ticqueint you with texts of' Ida cables ot: September 6 and September 20, Department und Board desire your opinion of thie pnroel scheme, Specific information is desired as to who is to finance the project and what .Bhipping facilities B.l'" currently available i'rom Sweden to Germaey, Recent Amcross shipments to Gothenburg~ w4ich include Prisoners of War and \Var Refugee Board packages, apparently have not yet gone forward to GerUlaey due to shipping dif'ficultiea, We suggeot that this mutter be discussed with Intercross delegate with a view J:.o determining Intercross intereet, ubility to supervioe program, If i'hvorabl,, reoom•nendation is received from you, Department, FEA and Bonrd would be ln a position to recommend favorable cot~sider~<tion of tllis program to Joint lteliaf Committee, MEW.

THIS IS \\Rll CABl,f: 'fl) STOCKHOLM NO, ~·

ll:JO a.m. October 2, 1944

Miss Chauncey (for the Sec-ty) Abrahamson, Cohn, DuBois~ Friedman, Hodel, Laughlin, Lesser, Mannon, McCormack, Files

~Cormai! 9/30/JJ.

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WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS CONGRES JUIF MONDIAL CONGREJSO JUDIO MUNDIAL

1834 BROADWAY

NEW YORK, 23, N. Y. LONDON 55 New Cavendish St., W 1 CABLES: CoNcnEss, NEw Yon&

TELEPHONE: ClncLE 6 ·1900 GENEVA 37 Quui Wilson

BUENOS AIRES Corrientcs 1979

JEituSALEM Vaa~,Leumi P. 0, D. 471

MONTREAL ll21 St. Catherine St. W

MEXICO CITY Sonora 1744

September 25, 1944

In rePly please refer to no. 242

Mr. MoOonniok We.r. -Refugee Board Treasury Buildipg Washington, D. C,

Dear Mr. McCormick:

I wish to confirm our. telephone conversation of today regal·dl.ng the c'able we received from ~r representative in Stockholm, Mr. Hillel Storch.

I understand that you have not received any answer from Swi tizerl and regarding the poeei bi-li ty of sending food parce~ to Bergenbelsen and other camps Which have Jewish inmates mainly, To avoid any postponement of the possibility to help the endangered people in Bergenbelsen, I understand that you will take up the matter to submit thil!l question to the b:f(;ckla.d.e authorities withMr. Pehle and Miss Hodell, I am extremely anxious to learn their decision as soon as possible.

:l:hank yOU"· for giving this matter your consideration.

KRG:erl

Very truly yours,

~~ ......... . Rescue Department

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WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS CONGRES JUIF MONDIAL CONGREJSO JUDIO MUNDIAL

1834 BROADWAY

NEW YORK, 23, N. Y. LONDON 55 New Cavendish St., W 1

CABLES: CONGRESS, NEW YonK

TELEPHONE: CIRCLE 6 -1900 GENEVA 37 Quai Wilson

BUENOS AIRES CorrientCs 1979.

JERUSALEM Vood Leumi P. p. B. 471

MONTREAL ll21 St. Catherina St. W

MEXICO CITY Sonora .1744

In reply refer to No. 241

Hon, John w. Pehle , War REii\lgee Board Treasury Building· Washington, D. O,

Dear Mr. Pehle:

September 22, 1944

May I refer to the following excerpt of' a cable dated September 6th which we received fran our Stockholm of'tice on September 11, and the text of' which was communicated to the Beard orally: ' ' 11SWedish G~vernment granted World Jewish Oongres~c buy

and ship Sergenbe1sen and other camps 100 tons f'oodatutra including meat canned f'iah sugar vitamins dried milk dried eggs bread etc atop Intervene urgently USl Government to grant license. 11 •

Today we received the following cable,dated September 20th: ,. 11Mine sixth September definite arrangement 20000 foodpaokets 5 kilos eaoh totalling 4000 kilos canned fish 20000 dried milk 3000 peasemeal 2000 sugar 3000. redwhortleberryjam 2000 canned meat 10000 hard bread 15000 various canned f'oodstuf'ts 2500 sweetoil 2000 codliveroil stop Swedish Government applied f'or naviaerta allied governments,•

I would be eatremely gratefUl to you ~r supporting the re~eat of' the Swedish Government with the blockade authorities.

ALK:bg

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TELEGRAM STATE .

MB-724 ~'is .telegram must be paraphrased boforo being communicated to anyone othor than u Govornmont a€\oncy, ~D?iiililli!!'J:iiD'

.Secretary of. Stat0,

Washington,

6927, 0ctober 19, 11 ,r I'

FOR WRB,,MCCL;E:LLAND I' I

Riognor of tho World

Dated October 19, 1944

Roc'd 2:03 p~m.,

Genova, informs me their representative at Stockholm, /

Hilolstorch,, has secured permission of Sv10dish

aut(loritios and has purchased foodstuffs sufficient make

up 40,000 five pound parcels intended for Jovdsh

" / deportees in Borgen-Bolson and Thor0sionstadt," Riognor

bas forwarded individual names and addrossos of 2,200

Borgen-Bolson and 4 1 000 Thorosiem,tadt internees to

Storch for ini'tial shipment,

Storch wired Riot:nor October 13 that thoro·was

some difficulty cencortl.ing final export license;

Swedes and I ·believe our Legc.tion.have roquostod I .

assurance that Intornationa Rod Cros.s' would~vori:fy

p~oper distributioriand ·roeoption thos'o pcrc~is.

I discus sod _tho nia t tor with In horriat'iona1 Fiod -,_

Cr.Oss Octobo'r-"18~ ·· Commi'tteo states th[;t p.s •is known

they have only

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-2- 6927, Octob._r 19, 11 r •• m., from Born

they lwvo only boon able visit Thol'OS:Lonsto.dt once

and have not yet succocdod obtain permission vi2it

Borgen- Bolson. Individual rocoi.pt curd svstum,

howovor, hns pr.oducod very sr>.tisfc ctory i'· .. sul ts as

far as both plc.cos nrc concerned, pr,rt5. cult:'.rly

'l'hc,rosionstndt. Pc.rcols from Intopno.ti,onnl Hod Cross

roo ch addros aos rop;ularly nnd as norme:lly as co.n

bo o'lq:ioctod undor tho circumstnncos, .Hunc;nric.ns

from Burc;on-Bolson no'll in Swi tzorl::md o:lsci ~aport

satisfactory arrival and distribution such parcels

while they wore thoro.

Intornationc.l Rod Cross willing instruct their

dolognto in Sweden affix International Rod Cros~ labels, enclose stnndard rocoipt car,ds those parcels,

Would much approci8.to:any stops you could

take fo.cili tn to e;:ran ting clearance this lot pctrcols, ,/

Scorns to mo this project vory similo.r ~;1100,'000

JDC-ICRC (Department's 437, Fc;!cruory 9_, noon :).9Ll4)

pro[yarr, which was authorized eel though I o.m

unacquainted sourco 1!</JC ftincl.s used Stocldlolm

purchase theso foodstuff's,

View time_ olCm.Ont in~rolvcd t·rr~nsport 2;.6ods

from overseas [mel :l.ncrc:tsirct:oly- difficult ti'C'.lisport

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us well us scnrcity purchnsnbl~ foodstuffs, rupid

used nn ·goods immedinte1y nvui1nb1e in-Europe most

reconunondn ble.

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1 on October 1'1, 1944, a Uleeting was conveneci in ti1e office of the

Spccl;ol \Ou.r Prob.L'1n~ Division, ~epartt~1ent ~of Stc,.t.c. In attendance \\'~~~ ;,l'V"sn. Lldreu Kupp:j,lls8r, SI'IP, FrunKlln l'ollock, G~:onel'D.l Counsel's Olilce1

FICA, and J'aul j. ,1

c1Jormb.ci_c, W'7r Hefugc;e llmcru. 'Ihe s';lbject u~der'dis­cussion v,,,.s the ••orld J 5Uah Congress' 11rop9sb.l to slnp clotlun;:; from. the Unitui Stcct&s to unnc;sir,lilt,teci jJersons in Bcrgenbel~en and to a group of 1,000 refugees in Croatia. (see \VJC letters of October 5, l944, re:J,ating to these two propo~als) •.

FtA, v:ho bau also received copies of these _specific lett&rs, hnd b.lrecct<y uesp\Ytched ·a cable to Lonaon (Lonuon 13364, October LL, l9L,4) from Gordon to ;,·~one, endorsin,; the wJc proposc;l with respect to Bergenbelsen and aslcin1; t:J;y, to concur. No reply has yet been received ·to this cable. \ilt.h respect tc• tile 1,000 refugees in Croatia, there was attached to the World J,;wish Congress letter of Jct.ober 5, 19M., to I'GA, the eomplete text of a lett&r from on" Hugo V;ollu<r ·to tile world Jewish Con;;ress in th& Uni":.ed. States wi.ich was not attached to VHH' I-tefugee Board's lEtter of the· same db.te. (Chrbon copy now o.ttc..cJ.1ed to tuis memorandwn.) The text of this lett&l' Itt&.de it &.ppear th;~t t,·,e refugees in 4.uestion ·sere not in enemy­occupietl territory, but were presently loc&.ted in Tito-liberuted territory. l1·:r. Kup,Jint;er therefore indicute<i t.hat },lUi approvul to ship clothing to tltis ;;roup was not necessary inasmuch as they were in territory liberated from the enemy. A "round robin" telephone conversation was had with ;·~n·. urot>smari of the \"iorld ;:; e'Nish Congress in New· York, dtiTing ·which Mr. GrosaJ<~an v.'1lS advised (a) that the proposal t.o ship clothing to Bergen­bels.;n i1t.ci been submittea to ;·,ILl'< in London <lith a recorrunendntion that it be approved. Tne World Jewish Congress in the UniM<i States would be advised V!hen reply is received from London. (b) trot the World J8wish Cont;ress should di13cuss with t11e Yugoslav E:mbassy. in Washington the Jtir.tter of shipping clothing to the refugees in Croatia through the medilun of shippin6 facilities avrdlable to the Yugoslav· representatives in this, country, Lnci if failure to secu:o:e shippin6 spac,e tr1rough this source results, thc.t the ;,,utter be referred to ,;;r·. J:'hilip L. hyan, Foreign War Relief Aml:l'icun Hed Cross, wlth a viev; to securing· Shippini spaCe from that agency to this theater of C?lJerE.tion.

:,\r. Grossrn!m~ exiJr8ssed !ippreciation with respect to both proposals and inC\ice.ted th&.t the 1o1atter with respect to (b) would be immediately presented to the Yugoslav embassy in Washington.

Lat8r ~ .. ~r, ,:;~atthey, Assistant tu. i;~arc Peter, _forwarderi -to the offiqe (ste a.ttach.~1ient)_ B.ol~tter receive-d frorn the lllternationq.l Committee·vltrich imlicatEOs thht the International Committee~ is willing to receive and able to ·supervise the disposal of clothing to inmates of camps in Croatia.

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Dear i'ri&nci,

You probably know that tuerG 11re 2, 700 Jews from Yugoslavia

who SIW&d themsel v"u from U stc.shi ten·or· «n<l i'ouml re;fut,;e in a camp

on tlle lsl1md of hub held by tne I~;uliuns. Aft~r the It,;lians cupitu-

lateu, ~bout bOO of our ~eople succeed~u in 6etting to the British in

Dc.r·i, while tne remaining 2,100 were trhnsported to Lika and the Kordun

-- territories liberated by Marshal 'l'ito. Tile entir·e youth, rilale and

i'em&.le, Joined the !J&.rtiouns in tneir fight at;aiw;t the enemy and are

still fi;Jhting heroica.:.ly shoulder to should,;r with the Army oi'

Liberation. Unfortunlitely a great nuwber of them have alreuuy met a

OHl'OiC UGb.th.

Appruximut..E:ly one thousand 1J8I'sons, mo8tly aged ffien and women,

ccnd cbiinr&n unfit for fighting, are settled under the most aifficult

conditions between i5lunj anu Glinc., in tne territor-y libel'!ited by 'fito, ·

and unanimously wish to be trunsferr_yd. to a rno1·e secure place. -- We are

living together with the peasants often in corrununities burne<i down and

loQted by the enemy, in the most pr·imitive way. Vie sleep on dirt floors

without straw and lirE< fed mostly ori corn and beans. The most difficult

problein, however, is that we are surrounded by the et1emy. ~·requently

attackeu by his banus we have to_ escape in order not. to ;be captured a:nd

killed. Uni'ortuncctely 3UO of our ;;roup have iilr~;atiy lost their- lives.

Partly because they were unabie to Ji1ove. quickly enough, partly be~ause

they vlere not .familiar with the surroundings and fell into enemy· hands,

In such instances we wei·e ·forceti to flee for olir lives and to hide in

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ut,eu., tu1:0. siclc b.!lu i...!.~e young ones, such excursion~ were: ca.tast.rovhic,

because tney lnbant physic:o.l sui'ferint:, hardship ami hunger. During the

last lista6hi robbing expedition, 111any oi' us haci to fleb :250 kilometers

on i'oot am• for lu ciays h.:.a to live and sleep in rain and svorms

in tne wuou.::. Many among us nave: tu.lcen their own lives because_ they

cOulu no lon5er endurt: the s~.d'ferint.D. i'lll our pusseosions we1·6 lost

durint;; such f:l.ights. ·r,e lack tne most elementttry neeas, particulc.rly

sull.s, un0.erwear unCi shoes, esvecia-ly t..He J.a~t.. vti1ich are worn oUt.

Li vc rc.J.ly many of ·us "''e barefuot, lJur money is gone and hunger is

S!Jl'eaoin~. 'Ihel'e is no help from anywhere. 'l'I1e Libel·htivn Arnzy is

fi;;;htir.g un<>er mont dil'i'icult condit1cns una ii<tS (;nou;;h troublG without

us. I l;e,; yuu urgently to uescribE: our uespo:rate situt"tion to competent

authorities with tne plE>a t!w.t suits, underwear, boots und food ~s well.

as mono:y be sent us by airplane. anti tru,t they also t_ry to evacuate us

to Bu1·i, bemJ.uoe one thousfl.nd of "'l:IS arc thrt;at.eneci with extermination.

Very close to us we see Allied planes bringing food, clothing

a rd medic&l suppli c•s for tne rartimms, ::>uch pl•mes cuu'ld ··gradually

evacuate our group on their way back. Our authorities would like to

help us, but they do not possess the means.- There is no other way

to ;;et out from tills place, Please help us urgently, Ohe thousand

soUls await help.

hith kindest r<;gards

Yours Hugo Wollner

Topusko, c/o Joka Gregoric via Bari

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MONTREAL 1121 St. Catherine St. W

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1834 BROADWAY

NEW YOR.K, 23, N. Y.

CAf:~LES: CoNGREss, NEW YoRK TELEPHONE: CIRCLE 6 • 1900

October 5, 1944

, In reply please refer to letter nci. 249

Hon. John W. Pehle, Executive Director War Refugee Board Treasury Building Washington, D.O.

Dear Mr. Pehle:

With reference to the/letter of September 29 sent to you by Dr. Kubowitzki in the interests of the Yugoslavian Jews in Topusko, I wish to inform you ,that our clothing division has 5000. pounds of clothing at its disposal in the evant that there is a chance of sending this clothing to the unfortunate Jews in Topusko.

Would you be good enough to take up this matter with the authorities 9oncerned? Ithave also approached Dr. Marc Peter of the International Re~ Oross, and I take the liberty of enclosing a copy'! of 1hy letter to him.

Very truly yours, ././ ;;;?

·~R'Ciros~man, Rescu~ D~partment·

KRGferl

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October 5, 1944

J)r. Marc Peter, 'Dahgat e tnh:rnt<.Honel Oomml ttee of the Red Oro as 1645 Oonnootlout Av,.mull, lf.lf. 'iUtlhington, D.O.

Dear Dr, Petert /

Enoloeel'l yQU will find a letter from 'lop~lco, o/o Jokl<\ Gregorio vi~ Bed, by BuBo Wollner,,..­wh 1oll de !1 a w1 tb t:hu ncHldB ''f :.l'·~Ut 1000 Yu!Jo­B1Tfl.1llan Jewo iaol;.te~<l in thn 11ooda of. Orout1<~•

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A,q;ain the -1ueo1;·•on IH1:J l'~l.ood of whethf r or aot it wn 1 bn noa¢1 blo to put olotl1!np; at the dh• p011~1l of t:houe un:tortunato people. In bringing this latt0r to your "tt.!lntton, t wir•h to t.nfol'DI you th<.'<t onr .;Uot11ng c11v1e1on has 5000 nounde of o1ot:h1.ng a.t 1 ts dtspoa.U aal'llle.:t'ked tor tlli<~ pUrpOH!h '

I I ~ writin~ alao to t~e Foreign Eoonom1o jdmln• 1atrat1clll tltld tho Tl~.<r R<~~fug<Je Bourd in this rnatt~r, lml I tumted 'o bring ytlur attention to tbe u:rgenoy 1n\tolved.

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JERUSALEM Vnnd Leumi P, 0, B. 471

MONTREAL 1121 St, Cn1herine St. W

MEXICO CITY Sonora 1744

1834 BROADWAY

NEW YORK, 23, N. Y.

CA.ntES: CoNGREss, N~w YoRK

TELEPJIONEI CIRCLE 6. 1900

October 5, 1944

In reply ~lease refer to no, 248

Ron. John W. Pehle, Exioutive Director War Refugee Board Treasury BUilding Washington 25, D.O.

Dear Mr" Pehle:

Enclosed you will find a copy of o~ letter op September 29 sent to Dr, Marc Peter, of the Internati mal Red Cross, together with a copy of hie answer. In compliance with the suggestion of Dr. Peter, I would indeed be grateful to you if you would be good enough to investigate the possibilities of sending clothing to Bergenbelsen. The cables reproduced in the letter to Dr. Peter manifest:. the urgency of the whole 'matter.

I would be very much obliged to you if you would give us the necessary information as soon as :9ossible. Thank you for your cooperation.

truly yours,

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Dear Dr, Peter:

With reference to our telephone conversation of today, I wish to inform you that we received from our Geneva representative a cablegram as follows: ·

ASKING FURTHERMORE INTERV:W:NE AT ALLIED AUTHORITIES to ISSUE NAVYCERTS AND PERMIT DISPATCHES WARllA: CLOTHES TO 1400 HUNGARI'AN JEWS INTERNED CAMP BERGENBELSEN AS APPROACHING WINTERTERM WILL PLACE THEM MOST PAINFUL CONDITION IF DISPATCH CLOTHES NOT IMMEDIATELY AUTHORIZED.

A second cablegram reached us todE~ from our representative in Geneva stressing again the urgent necessity of sending clothing to C ~P Bergenbelsen. It states as follows:

ACCORDING INFORMATION FROM PEOPLE ARRIVED HERE ABSOtuTELY NECESSARY SENDING REMAINING PEIDPLE IN BERGENBELSEN WARM CLOTHES OTHERWISE EVERYBODY WILL DIE SUPPLY FROM HERE IMPOSSIBLE PLEASE SEND CLOTHES FROM THERF. TO INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS WITH DESTINATION BERGENBELSEN STOP,

As I pointed out to you on the ~elephone, I would be gratefUl to learn whether the International Red.Cross is in a P9ftition to accept this clothing for distribution in Camp B~rgenbelsen.

:i: am looking forward to ycu r earliest reply,

KRq: er 1

Very_ truly yours,

,/ Kurt R. G~ossman, Assistant Rescue Department

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Qotober 3, 1944

Mr. Kurt R. Grossman, Assistant l}escue Department World Jewish Oongress 1834 Broadway New York 23, New York

Dear Mr. Grossmann:

The question raised by your letter of' September twenty-ninth must be investigated i1~smuoh as the regulations about sending supplies to concentration camps in Germany or elsewhere have been, in the past, related only to :f'ood supplies and not to clothing.

Before we ask Geneva wh7ther or not. clothes could be sent to oamp Bergenbelsen, I think yo

1u should ask either the Wc..r Refugee Board o_ythe

Foreign Economic Administration whether the Blockade Authorities would authorize the sending to Switzer­land of' clothing besides ·the :f'ood supplies.

As soon as I know this is permissible, I shall ask Geneva whether they are in a position to send the clothing to Bergenbelsen.

MP: MJH

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Delegation nux Etats-Unis · . .ln G~nllvl\ 1 awlt;~.t~rhll\11 .'

Dohljll\tion 1(1 tl\11 Unltt~ll ~HIIIl~ d'Amerique

1645 Conr~ecticut 4vQ, N, W, Washingto11 Cl, D. Q.

Ootobe~ 17, 1944

Wa~ Refugee Board Washington 25, D. c.

Attention ~· f• l• MoCormaok

Gentlemenz

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With ~eferenoe to our tele~hone oonve~satlon of today, I oonfi~m the ~eq~est of our Geneva Headqua~te~s for olothin8 ~ Pe distributed to inmates of the oam~a in OrofttiR,

The lette~ from Genev" on the A~UJeot roads z ( tranala tlon)

Kindly point out to the Wa~ Re:t'w!ee Boa~d that it would be useful to the Inte~national Committee to have at itft disposal olothing fo~ th:ts Ofttegory of persons. At the same time Wfl ~··" remind you of our p~ojeot i·n our httfH" <>{ 7', f ~ ,. to the Ame~ioan Legation~n Bern fo~ ~alief to oivilian ~r1aone:J'a,

FMtMJH

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f i 899?, Ootobe:r 18, 9 p.~·:· O;••·.: 1

l•i(W nnd dro rEcommEnd approval of fi~·:· pm'Lo:l

fJhi:_)mEnts to JEws intErnEd in GErmany on concl.itiono

(;ivEn in Stockholm's 1281, OctobEr 14 to London, -:1;181

to DEpartmEnt. Embassy suggEsts that if DEpnrtramt

nnc1 FEA ·also npprovE f;!tockolm Is suggEstion LEgation

bE so informEd without furthEr rEfErEncE to London,

SEn'c DEpartmEnt as 890? 1 rEpEntEd Stockholm as 587,

Er.lbassy would apprEointE DEpartmEnt Is rEpEnting 'Go

London tElEgram sEnt Stockholm.

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1 wish to (i<lknowhdge with thanka your

lettPr of October 1~, 1944, (S/4/C), enoloning· I .

photontatic copies of dor.um .. nt• ackno~tledginR

raceipt of rolief p•,rcels addreRned to "'rhereoien-

otr•dt".

Hr. Marc Peter, Delegate, InternRtionel Committee of

the Red Cross,

Vary truly yours,

J, \i, Pnhle Executive Direetor

1646 Connecticut Avenue, N. \i. , Wnshin~ton 9, D. c.

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Delegation aux Etats-Unis d'Amerique

+ I~terrfntio • Committee of the Red Cross

in· Geneva, Switzerland Delegation to the United States

·of America

1645 Co1mecticut Ave., Washington 9, D. C.

October 12th, 1944. In replying, refer lo ( .. $./4,/Q ...... J

Mr. J.W. Fehle, Executive Director, Executive Orfice of the President, War Rbtugee Board, Washington 25, D.C.

My dear Mr. Pehle,

copies of addressed

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documents acknowledging receipt of relief paroels to "Theres~stadt. v v

We also attach copy of a document ~ acknowledging receipt of 52 cases containing pharmaceutical products and tonics which have been addressed to the same ghetto by the Joint Relief Committee of the International Red Cross. o/ ·

You will note that if tor the period November lst 1943 to March 28th 1944 we have succeeded in.· obtaining only one receipt for 6 1194 parcels, the document' for the·period .A;priil. lOth to July 3rd 1944 acknowledges receipt ot 13,444 individual parcels.

We are forwarding these documents to you merely for information and as a proof that these relief parcels have reached Theresienstadt.

sgc. encls: 1 copy of' letter

1 report - 12 pages.

Sincerely yours,

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40~6 CONTROl COPY See Btockhdm's 1146 of the twenty fifth of September

to London, repeated to the Department as 3960J Lcnt!on 'a o13

or the thirtieth of Sept/ber to Stockholm~ ·

As yet the Polish relief consignment for l'rulzkow h1;S •

not left. Plans had been made to route it by the Saesnitz

Trelleborg Ferr7 which has been stopped now. The other

possibilities for shipment are now being explored by the Poles~

In addition this Legation is explor·ing the other poesibillties

in connection with dispatch of prisoner of wai:• paroels to

Germany including routing by Swedish rail and ferry to D~nmark or

carriage by German safe cone.uot vessel to German port. See

message from th.e Department to London repeated as 1964 to

Stockholm of the thirtieth of SeptemberJ 8940 from the Legation

ot the twenty third or SeptemQer. In addition, the Pol~-

are awaiting German approval of travel of a representative

whom Swedish Red Crose desires to sent with consignment.

~he foregoing message was repeated to London as my 1214 of the

fifth ot Ootober. Thh Legation will advise of method

of shipment eventually utilized'.~ o{-c 2 WI 11 0 _~,

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Secret~ of State, Waahlngton

October 5, 1944

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1'h11 cable refere to f/781, food'*lli'fa to Gvm&JI,J', 8JI4

has today been repeated as llo, 12),0 to London.

~to the fact that they belleYe.opportunity of forward-~ ?

ing relief paroela to Germany for distressed Jevlaa intern••• -.y diiappear

llhorUy, a deoblon wlth regard to refereAOo applicaUon. b belli& urge4 /

by Javhh :repre .. ntatbea in Swe4en.

Unless it le possible for Departaent to oo..aD!oate

'deoidon on,enUre applioaUon.'b7 October 9, approval of fbe"tone 'b7

ilhat date ilo coYer 111oet urgent a.eee f.a et:rongl;v reeolllllelld.e4.

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DIVISION OF COMMUNICATION$

AND RECORDS

'; . lr . . (: GS!!-il97 Born ·· · 'lllis tdo[;rnm r.mr;t bo . ·, pnrnphrnsod bufoJ.'O being Dntod Octobol' 5 1 19~,1 . ; ·{) col :·,mnicrtod to ~nyonc ) ·· · 'Z other thr.rbr. Gp"rnmcntnl Roc'd 1:20 p;r\. ·. 6\-'· ~-:?;cm.cy. (11 - 0) /' L .. · .

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1L \ COP_.Y ~\-_;, \

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l OCT 6 tn/1·~ 15

662'&, October 5, noo•. ~ v ij (.ftlf!iit\'iU?J!Gf\HV!~S ~ I•'OR •;mB l"RO!':I i.ICCP..:LLi;ND .. ,,, .. ,.. ,, .. ,._,,,."'' U

Wushtngton.

v Rl~dio S)-1i:Jso sto,tos

J t;;huy trr.nsmittod YJ:ll'O )hoto

J.•ocoipt cf\rd on So)tombur 22 nnd Now Yorl~ confirmed

rvooption. Dopr.rtnont t s 3392, Octo bur 2. · T>oy o._re

sending service clwclc up; sum;ost mommh:i.J.o you usk

LmcroBs mf\ko furtho1• inquirtos. Photo rHspcctchod \'lith

dosignrtion for 11 For 1\,mcros s Wrshington Fro111 J.!cClollr.nd,

rmB".

H;~RRISON

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_ DECLASSIFIED Stata De~;__ J~.~tt~1~, 1-11-72

I_Jy R. H. Park~ D~teStU 1 19Z2

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·.I DEPARTMENT OF

STATE

MF-104

I J INCOMING

TELEGRAM;.

This tElEgram must bE paraphrasEd bEforE bEing commun~oatEd to anyonE othEl' than a GovErnmEnt AgEnCY• ~cgs~iQTC~

S~crEtary of StatE

\-· \

REcEiVEd word Oot?bE:r 3 from AmErican ~mbassy London

~ - - ~ that food parcEl proposal for FrEnch political intErnEES

in GErman camps has also bEEn approvEd thErE.

Our sincEr.E thanks for your succEssful Efforts in.

obtaining so rapid a de:cision.

Intf'rnational Oommi ttEE REd Cross advisEs considEration

bE givEn aftEr consultation with AmErican REd Cross to

shipping balancE 2851000 \'IRB parcEls.to MarsEillEno~r

rathEr than to GothEnburg. ThESE arE bEComing incrEasingly

~-~oe:ssary pArticularly for JEwish de:portEES in camps such a::O.

BErgEn ... BElse:n as pqssibilitiES for IntErnational CommittEE

REd Cross to purchasE foodstuffs sui tablE for parcE:ls in

EuropE arE nm• practicaily .!til,

HARRISON

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FROM:

TO:

DA'l'E:

NUMBEH:

ORIGINAL T~XT OF TELEGRAM SEijT ;

Secretary of State, Washington

American Legation, Bern

October 2, 1944

3392

• a Cable to Minister Harrison, Bern, for McClelland from

liar Refugee Bdard,

Sample 'receipt card being forwarded to American Rl)d Cross

by wire photo September_22, re your 6263 of Septemb~r 21, not

yet received, Please,follow up as failure to get receipt cards

printed will automatically delay Amcross package production,

THIS IS WRB CABL~ TO BJ~RN NO o 1"9 5o

HULL

·- l_ '· :+~·lt) LOri' o· C .:;r:_t_nt;r:i~{iO\ _-;:._; 1\~:ctl,~,:-=:n

DECLASSIFIED State Del}.~, Leue-r, l·Ii-72

By R.ll.Pru:k~ Date SEP 21 1972 .-

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C.W.lil !1.'0 HINIS7!lllllliAilUSON, BlllllN, lOR KO OIJILLAND ~ VAll DrWII BOARD

S~~~ple receipt O&l'4 'bebc forva:r4e4 to Alaeriou Ue4

· ol'll .. by wln photo Septnbtr 22, re :your 6263 of Septft'btr 21,

~• yet rtoi~Ttd. Pl .. lt follow up ae fallurt to gft receipt

oardl printl4 wfll autoaaUcally:; 4elay ~aro11 pallkll&t produottoa,

'l'!JIS IS WRB GABLE TO BERN ~0, 195,

......

9:40 a.m. October .3 1 1944

Miss Chauncey (for the Sec 'Y) Abrahamson, Cohn, DuBois> Frie~man, Hodel, laughlin·, Lesser1 Mannon, McCormack, Cable Control F~les

diJJ;, .. 0-.4.:_ qd.­v~~r.-..--·A l0/2/44

October 2, 1944

Att!nUoa: Mr. MoDo!l!ld

Dear Mr, O'Oonaori ·

This is to confirm an agreement reached between Mr. McDonald of four staff and Mr. McCormack of my staff with respect to an additional item to be included in eaCh of the 285~000 }-kilo parcels that will be packed and shipped by the American National Red Gross in· conforalty with our agreement or· August l1, 1944.

It is recommended tba\, in addition.'to the lt•s a.lreaey suggested la our previous exchange of<oo:rreapoadenee, there~e added to each individual food parcel, one packet · of escorbic acid tablets, packed 7 to the packet and we1cb-1ng 50 mllograme each, It will _be appr~olat~~ if fOU v1ll a1•range to process the necessary requlaitio»s coyering the procureme»t of this item,

The Honorable, /. Baeil 0'0oDJIOr, Obair.an,

/America» Natio!Uil Red Oroes;. lfa11hington 13, D. 0.

Very truly youra,

J. w. Pehle lxecutive Director

DEPARTMENT OF

STATE

INCOMING TELEGRAM

MS-591 This tElEgram must bE paraphrasEd bEforE bEing communicatEd to anyonE othEr than a GovErnmEnt agEncy. (P'smprgmrp)

SEC'.'Etary of St~tE 1

'ilashington 0

./ London

Dated

\_... DIVISION OF f COMMUNICATIONS \_ AND ~PJRDS cJ (/.-~.. . 0 ...

t1 .. _.~o (r'h.-; , f',; j,' ,·. \ . i {/ (:,,: ·!~· '.J 1>.) '.· ·~ . . //

OctobEr 2, 1944

9:50 p.m •.

MEW concurrEd iq rEcommEndation in DEpartmEnt's :..,~., .. -r -~--cv i~.!C.c--3

7949, SEptEmbEr 29 concErning shipmEnt of pars::Els to ./'

Frmch political intErnEes in GErmany and Embassy

has so informEd BErn,

WINANT

MRM

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MARVIN JoNES ADMINISTRATOR

·L. :~.',-li!MI·

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WAR FOOD ADMINISTRATION WASHINGTON 25

J. w. Pehle, Executive Director War Refugee Board Executive Office of the President Washington 25, D. c.

Dear Mr. Pehle:

September 2 0, 1944

·This will aclmowledge your letter of September 151 19441 enclosing the memorandum,from the President of the United states, ~d your letter of September 191 19441 regarding foOd parcels for.unassimilated persons in concentration and refugee camps located in Europe.

The War FoOd Administration will be glad to cooperate by acquiring the necessary food supplies.

··;#

Veryt~~

Administrator (If ·

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DEPARTME~[. ~~- OUTGOING 0 F 1'111s to p:•e.m mu · )

STATE paraphr l~ed befo~~C.ilnSRAM con»:llmdcnted to o.nyone

· ~ other than e. Government agency. (ftESiltiOIS!iJ)

I ~ATlON

3361 ~

ravu~able eot1on QU ~eQuoe~

Uaptcmbe;r 23, llas 'been :retoMll!lenJled to Londor •• With

~aquent that London communioeto d1~eot with Bern in

regard tMre~o. HULL

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mfNTROl COPY

Approved by: \'IR!3 - lU..olil Hodel !l'EA - Mr. it1aer

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J'.ROMr

7:'01 Seoretar7 ot State, Washington

September 28, 1944

6097 Jl

,... lT01'1ded InternaUoDIJl Red Croee can'' lilllletanUah the

fact tl!at tJ~e btiUifto,.SJ"ln for whem they are lnttlll4ed. vtll ue foo41tllffe,

n f.e the fetlt!!g of liM.ll alld MRW that eone!.jPUDtmt of :atnety..,thl'ee tone ot ,.... foobtutfe to inte.rned Jewe in Ge~ (TJ'/81) ehould be &ppro'f'e4, i~t 111it

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wUh J'oot - lltrle agreement. 'l'he apprnat of Ioeption ehoul.~ be aonU~t -----~--/'""'""" ........ ~ . - .

on &ppl'oYSl bT IRC ot fbe k& ~oeu,· 011' 2U8J'Jiati1'tl7, of :paotaglng of

" ' foo4etllfte 1n tlmte q illQ'Otl* 111 svet.n. ~ JJ!ev of. datfttll.t ade f01'1l4U'J7

b7_Uo that . three q iaet.t. of t11'e leg lliU'Gtla an req~~bet for · COfi.Ctlllt:rattoa

aa!llpe, llimbaaq will adwtae itooldlol.ll, ehOuld 1011 ooBIIIIi' 1n the a\lou,

WI !WI!

DO!laGPit

CONTROL COpy

.·· DECLASSIFll')I) State Dept, Letter, 1·11·78 . . ·. ·.

ll.YR.H.ParksDat8 SEP 211972 -~-:-.--._o--.

PARAPHRASiil OF TELEGRAM SENT

/ To: London

From: Secretary of State

Dated: September 27, 1944

Number: 7881 X

This message from FEAand Department,

We do not object to shipment of supplies in manner

described in Stookholm.1 s 1146, September 25 to London,

· repeated as ~~~Bi) September 25 to Department. You may ···-........ • 11""

so inform Stockholm 1t-MEW.concurs,

In connection with the onward lhipment or prisoner

ot war'supplies now in Goteborg, Department would be /

interested in knowing by what means shipment is to be "' . accomplished of Polish relief supplies from Sweden,

HULL

9600,48/9-2544

CONTROl

DECLAS!lll!'mD S.t~te Dep't. Letl:er, 1-li~?a

ByR. H. Parks Date....,S££. 21 1972

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~~.·.·. INCOMING TELEGRAM . ( ~. ~)

KEM .. i368 Th1e telegram mQet be paraphrased before being oommunica.ted to anyone other than a Government agency. fj !)

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Seorete.ry. of State,

Washington.

'3966. September 26, 6 p.m. I(

"" Stockholm

Dated September 26, 1944

Rec 1d 10;14 p.m.

rnNTR.Ot COPY Th~ following telegram has been sent to London

1145, September 25,·6 p.m. " . There is no representative of International Red

. / . Cross now in Sweden ~~t Swedish Red Cross ie satisfied

that distribution of Polish relief ror.'Pruskow (repeat

Pruekow) wi,ll be handled without supplies: ,falling into

enemy hands. It states transportation will b,e through

Swedish and German Red Crose but will be checked by

International Red Cross and distribution subJect to 1

International Red Crose control. My 3966, September 25, 6 p.m. repeats this telegram to Department.

Unless Washington or London has an obJection,

Legation assumes that this will be satisfactory and is

eo advising Poles. BritiSh concur. London's 459,

s:ptember 19, 7 p.m. to Legation and Ilepartinent•@.

September ~a. to London~

JOHNSON

WMB NPL DECLASSIFIED State Dept. Letter, 1·11·72 .

1972 · · · .. SEP 21 B,y B. H. Parks Date_

·.·.-f.

/ Honot'll.!)ltl Dutsil O'C(,)nno:r Chn.1.l'l!lan, Aml'ricin Nationd Red CX'o&o \la~hiuuton, D. c •

. De&r Mr. viConnorJ

·~····.·J? ,, . ..,.

AD per u d1aous~1an between Mr. MncDouald or your Pr1ooner of War staff !Uld lil'. MCCorlilack of ~~Y etaft, an agret~ment was reached '11'1 tb respect to the Wlrkinl~"' tm.t r.r,; to appe~or on tho outer oht.ppirlg oar­t.ona in which wU.l be pmlkoo eix three--kilo parcels.

n was llg;t'eeoi that toone uw.rkingl!l Wo:>uld be ll.ll tollo:>WIU On eaoh o!' til(l two ende the!'e ;r()uld llllpear

CUBIC :V!JiT1 1,1,32

There simll also lllJ.ll"'ar on the t~o ond.Ll nnd two &idee 1111 ident.i­fyint: ctrolo fiv~; inche11 in outside diuetflo with e. J/4• ring in oolor. The purpoae or this idantifyiug mark 1iJ to expeclho the handling of . ·Mmt portion of aey llhip~~~ent which is di:reotocl t1» the Internn~ioaal · Committee for distribution to pai·sons in conoeutr~t.ion OllllpU as opposed t.o 1;he l!lWlDe1· ~ which your regul&r pr1110llflr of W1U' paolcage1 &rc lUrked.

Attached you will !ind oopies.o£ our outgoing cable to Bw1t,srland of September !6 in uhich was rG1se4 tho speoitio questiona as suggested by tho Pr1eoner of ifar unit, togethwr with the in001111ng 8111Jwer from the American Mi~sion 1n Switzerland, dated September 21.

cc: ;,'Jr. George Smith l~r .. Rob£. LeFev1·e

Sincere!T yours,

J. w. l?ebk ~cutive Direator

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t.,,"·- .. _·, ' --,

l'.:;ws•lctn LqE&t.ton, Rern

TO:

DArliJ~D! SFptember ~?, 1944 CONTROL COPY /

li,cClel1 f.nd ''e nor• the f'ollo,..l nr fop thfl '!~; r "l.f'1'U['ee Boe rd •.

HCR~ ,r llil

HA'\RI·.'O~'

.I ,

DECLASSIFIED State Dept. Letier;l-11-72

By R.H, Pa:ks Date S E P 2 11972

Propo,;ed Cable in /,nswor· to 6306,' ·september 23, from Bern. in Collal·,oration

wi.tli Kuppineer and Ka1.or

;Wf<c

To London

From Dep11rtment, ',\!ill and FZA.

lle Bern 113 telegram September 23 repeated \.o Londo11 concerrdne

ICRC request t~ fot~'larcl to French P''litical .internees in Gerl!Ulny . 4.0,000 pa.l'CelS oriein&.lly intended for French prisoners of Ylur from

Horth f,frica, Parcels would he distribut.ed j_n manner spccifj_ed :ln

Bern's 1262, July 18 to I.ondon. (-)~-{/. -; . ~-;·

\le 4ayg no ... objection.to·:·tlti_s .r·equest-nnd reconu,tend thnt faVOl'E,blo

act.ioii. t.hm:eon .be taken by. the Relief :JubcoJ•unitr.ee, If W3'.l concurs

we uneeest. that Ber·n be so informecl direct,

To Bern

F"'vorable action on request set forth your 6306 Jcptemher 23 has

been reconunended to London with reCJ.uest that ·r.ondon conununic&te

direct Ylith Bern in.recard thereto.

·.•...t·

·~ARTMEr\JT OF

STATE ;·

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"INCOMING TELEGRAM . : ;\TE

'REC 1 d 9:48a.m •

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. SEcr~tary of .St~ittE,

lvashington~ CONTROl. COPY 6306 1 SEptEmbEr 23, 11 a.m. _,..

In linE ~ri th ICRC 1 S food parcEl program for

political prisonErs in c.oncEntration camps in GErmany

follOwing rEqUESt was rECEiVEd from ICRC on SEptEmbEl' 22.

A stock of food parcEls originally sEnt. by rEliEf

organizations in FrEnch North Africa on bEhalf of nExt

of kin has bEEn storEd in SwitzErland for many months~

ThEsE parcEls wErE originally intEnded f'nr Fl'onch prisoners

of war from North Africa scattEi'Ecl throughout prisol!

cah1ps in GErmany and part:l,cularly for -FrEnch colonial

prisonErs of' war in camps in formEr GErman occupiEd

FrancE who cannot now bE practically rEaChEd.

DElEgation of REd Cross sociEt:l.ES of FrEnch En·pirE

·act:ing for"commissarint for- p~isonErs dEportEEsnncl. rEfugEEs'

(pElEussd. has EXprESSE(l its urgEnt wish to ICRC to USE ' ' • ·- - <

40,000 cif ~hEBE parcEls out of total of: R.pproximnt.Ely

260JOOO for FrEnch poli tj_cal il)tErnEES in GErmany unc1Er

. ICRC-1'/RB p11reE;L program for this catEgory of Nazi victims;

But sincE

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~f~ .·· . -2..; #6306i S~ptEmbEr 23, 11 a~m. from 'BErn

But sinCE thESE parCElS WErE shippEd to Swi tzErlo.nd

in agr'EEmEnt ~~1i th blockadE authoritiEs for prisonErs

of ••= spEcial pErmission would bE rEquirEd as :l,n

thE casE of salvagEd. CRIST!NJ\ goods to usE thEm for

a diffErEnt catEgory of bEnEficiariEs,

In viEW of fact that somE timE will ElapsE bEforE

i·JRBIS 2851000 parcEls can rEach crunps in GErmany ana

that EVEn 15000 rECEntly unloadEd at GothEnburg cannot

bE dispatChEd immEdiatElY dUE to shipping difficulitiEs

ICRC would bE vEry gr?'ltEf'ul if with support of i'/lU3 thE

nEcEssary authorization coula bE sEcurE(l to usE forty

tl.wusan\'1. of thf:sE: parcEls~ I warmly sEc?nd ICROIS

rEquEst sincE: thEsE parcEls could bE forwardEd to

GErmany at vEry short notice: to takE aavantagE of

rapiC\.ly dwincUing transpor·t facilitiEs.

Suoli parcEls would nat.urally b.E undEr ·thE tErms

· agrG:Ed .. to and oli th ICRC guarantEES as sE:t forth in

LEgat_;tonl s 45?8 July 18 ( ~262 to Lonaon) ..•

An Early answEr ~ould bE most apprEciatEd.:

REpEatEd to :Lonaoh;

VMC

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PjlH/\PilRA'3h O:B' 1'l!:l,U:GRA,.r REJEIVJ.W

ii.mez:·j.can 111gat:lor:, l3orr,

TO: Secretary-of Sto.te, \Va!Jhington

DA'rE;

NUiv.BhR: e::.oo >(

CONTROl. COPY . McO leJ l!!nd a.:.nca the following to Voar Refue;ee Board,

Although I wU1

in collnborat1cn with

recent llOncontre.t:t.at,tt

cmdes.vot• to obtain mo1•c c>xact 1iif_o~m~at1on / . . I :i:GflC relative to Cl'lmp of Yrotigen .and other

• I of Haltlc J'ewa in :U.a11t Px·u:1sin, it ia

meanwhile respectfully pc.tr.ted out t.bt"t un.rortunately ICRO h!~s

no 11 pfot_t,ram 11 which ,)oulo l.lo considal·ed (l~pnble oi' i?refJervi:ng.

fx•om death tlw lriiM\tfts of .:uch .}amps,[purtioulnrly if' they are

undel' U.S. control wbieh is prohnbl~~ In addition attention is 4

dl'fl.Wn to the fact that nt pl'£•sent J!,ust Prussia is scene, of very

active mi1ltary operations which will ml\ke lt doubly difficult

·to rendcn• effe<:t:!.vo intervention en behalf of inmates of Jewish

O!lmp~ •

In an effort to o'btuin infot•:naticn on c~amps'1n 'Au-stria,

Jewish nnd otherwise, all possible steps are be111g undertaken.

Rei'erence is made ln the i'oregoing to the Lega~_ton' s

September 21 Ollble No. 6265 and the ~apartment's Septe:nbet-19

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ilARRISON

DECLASSIFIED State Dept_ Let(er. 1-11~72

By R. H. Parks DateS£P 21 1972

/.~.\ri·_DEPAR·f~lENT l· n .,, . OF .

STATE

SECrEtary of St~. t E,

Washington.

x . CONTROL COPY 6263 1 SEptEmbE: 21, 6 p,m,

FOR if/RB FROM MCCLELLf,:tW,

D Epe.rtmmt 's 3208 1 S Ep£EmbEr 16 ~

ICRC hns just rEcEivEd rEport from its dElESC;tEs 'in

GothF.nburg. concErning J.5,002 parcEls which <'l'Pi'JEd on

GRIPSHOLM, HEgc.rding one: lot ccimr~·ising 1,667 shil'l·:· ·s

curtons ccntulning 10,002 pc.rot<:Jts, hE stc.tEs th£~t inrlividua]

parcEl cartons wEr·E too lP.r'(';E for contEnts which hc>c1 movEd

around·with rEsult that considEr:?.blE portion of sug:::r, for

ExamplE1 v1ils lost, · Balr.nt;E ~f 5000 parcEls VIEr·E packEd in

' smt:\llEr cartons SO that cdntEnts .viE:rE intcct although tapE

incircling thEm was 'too wEak to pErmit r:Eshipping by mail

without 'rEconditioning, . ICRC dElEgatE furthEr 1' Ept'~ts thu t

outsidE of' individval parctl cnrtons borE vnrioue "cExts in

English which will mc.kE .mailing into GErmany for c'JncEntra-.

tion camps d.if'f'icul t, . . i,"WcEb ,. . . . .·

As rEgards ·p£ick;gEillg, k'i't /.fl.{}yrE ship!nmt of 285,000 ' .:-':) ~),-., . . .-

parcEls, ICRC sti'glJ~'cJ'iiirti~fJ~l,l'-rn_E;r;ds ths.t individud parcEl tr.,i:iJHnc<( D [}:I!

. · . , ~Eof.l~~9~oybD · : 'certons bE

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t -2-#6263, SEptEmbEr 21, 6 p•m· from BErn,'

cartons bE compact, sturdy, not too l':\rt;E ~for contr.nts,

and bEar on ExtErior no (rEpEat no) printin~ whatso:-:vEr

in any.lan[IU!1BEl OutEr shippine:; carton shouH1.nlso.bE

plain with ExcEption of addrEss 11 DElr.:;~c,t'E of IntEp:·,ati.:,nul

CommittEE of ThE REd Cross, GothEnbure;, SwEdEn.11

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REgarding rEcEipt cards, thosE r.ncl6sEc1 in oriGina~

l5,002 parcEls w·ErE 1: :''ortunatEly net EntirEly" sntisfuctory

ICRC asks that J,mErican REel Cross h.avr. rEcEipt cttrds

print Ed according to samplE .bEins ::.·orwardEc1 to Lmsrican

REd cyoss by wirEphoto SEptEmbEr 22. Such recEipt curd's

should bE includEd in 185,000 pr::c·~•E;Ls which will bE: sEnt

into camps in collEctivE -shipmEnts;·

ThE balancE of lOO,OOO_parcEls ·should coLtain n~ rE-

cEipt cards wli.atsor.vr.r, ICRC will usE thEsE, for tnt1ivid­

ual mailing ·nnd will attach to mch a sptcinl 'toe;, back

of which constituEs a rEc~ipt .to b<: rEturnEL1 to IC:lC,

dEnEva. · Sych taBs haVE bEEn usEd Tiith ~onsidErnblE' sue-

CESS SO far,'

and ICRC has alrEady·;,;o.ttEn back nbc·l1t 150·J ~"Ecdpt;· carets

frol)l camp of Dachau glon E, E.ach onE b_Enrin::; · si:-;nnttlrEs - ·-_ 0 -- -,

and numb~:rs ·of f.rom l. to ui pr:LsonErS so t~1c.t vr.l\.jnblE

data on.ut lEast:fivE\im'is nutnb:r cf l)risonErs as

piu•cElS'SEbt has''bEEll rEcElVEdo

._._.t,

• •• ICRC statEs that oonsidp'ablE difficulty is l::E:!.:1g

mcount£rEd transshipping pal'CEls Gothmburg. to GErmany

concErJ?-ing which I assumE /,mErican ·HEd Cross is kE;)ing you

postEd.

PlEasF, EXprEss to .hmEriean REd Cross ICRC.'S warm o.pprEC·

ia tion of thEir invaluablE aid in makin,s' up thEs s pare Eilis •

HAR<:ISON

MJK