MZ-444-D

The documents presented here concern plans for organized Jewish emigration at the beginning of the Second World War. The first is a letter sent from Berlin on November 30, 1939, by Leon Schönker, chairman of the Jewish Council of Elders in Oświęcim, to Kurt Lischka. It concerns a plan for Jewish emigration from the Katowice region to Palestine and overseas. The document contains a seven-point plan for carrying out the entire operation. The second document is a letter from the Jewish Council of Elders in Oświęcim to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Amsterdam, dated January 4, 1940. The Jewish Council lists more than 60,000 Jews in the area and asks for immediate assistance to make emigration possible. This page contains information about towns and villages with the number of Jews in them.