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The CZA preserves the files created in the course of the activities of these bodies and the secondary bodies created by them. In addition, the
Central Zionist Archives holds the files of the institutions of the Jewish population in Palestine before the establishment of the State of Israel. Similarly,
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Jerusalem in 1956, and defined the status and the functions of the Central Zionist Archives as the "historic archives of the Zionist Movement and Organization and the Jewish Agency". The Congress passed a resolution that all the offices and institutions of the Executive of the Zionist
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Central Zionist Archives preserves more than 1,500 personal papers of the leaders and activists of the Zionist Movement and the Jewish population in Palestine before the establishment of the State. The list of personal papers includes well-known figures in modern Zionist history, such as
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Jerusalem. The architect Moshe Zarhi designed the new building. The building has six floors: two upper floors where there are the reading hall, a lecture room, a lobby for exhibitions and the offices of the Archives, and four underground floors where the various collections are stored.
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With the rise to power of the Nazis in 1933, Dr. Herlitz asked for permission from the German authorities to remove the
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The CZA collections include: files and printed material, a Maps and Plans
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In the 2000s, the CZA embarked on a project to computerize and digitize its materials. The computer system contains about 2,876,000 records, and about 12,518, 000 scanned documents, photographs, maps, posters and graphic material.
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Archives' transfer to Jerusalem, its collections expanded considerably; in addition to holding the material of the various Zionist bodies, it also undertook to be the historical archives for the institutions of the
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Central Zionist Office in London. Concurrently the Archives began to collect books, periodicals and photographs that documented the history of the Zionist Movement and Palestine in the modern era.
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