Letter written by Rabbi Eliezer Silver to Rabbi Aharon Milavsky of Montevideo. 1949. On the subject of the Rescue ...

Letter written by Rabbi Eliezer Silver to Rabbi Aharon Milavsky of Montevideo. 1949. On the subject of the Rescue Committee.
The Rescue Committee was a Jewish-American organization dedicated to rescuing Jews from the Holocaust in Europe. The organization was founded in November 1939 by the United States and Canada "Rabbinic Association".
The organization also transferred information from occupied Europe to the United States about the situation of the Jews, contrary to the policy of the State Department, which prohibited the transfer of information about the Jews of Europe.
Among the founders of the organization were Rabbi Aharon Kotler, Rabbi Yechiel Mordechai Gordon, Rabbi Mordechai Shulman and Rabbi Eliezer Silver, who was the organization's president.

Background
In the winter of 1941, refugees of the Yeshivot and their rabbis escaped from Lithuania to Shanghai, which was then under the rule of Japan. The emissaries of "Va'ad Ha'Hatzalah", headed by Rabbi Eliezer Silver and Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz, transferred money, help and information to Japan. Yet, when the USA joined the War, in Kislev 1942, the diplomatic relations between the USA and Japan were severed and the yeshiva students were on the verge of starvation. Therefore, the heads of "Va'ad Ha'Hatzalah", headed by Rabbi Shmuelowitz (who was in Japan) risked themselves and transferred the money and information through Uruguay, which was still neutral, and later through Argentine. Rabbi Aharon Milevsky was responsible for this dangerous mission.