First DP edition. Original boards. 8vo. [100] pages. 21cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to "Tractate Megilah with All Commentaries. " The Vaad Hatzala (literally, "rescue committee" in Hebrew) was created by the Executive Committee of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada at an emergency meeting held in New York in 1939. Originally named "The Emergency Committee for War-Torn Yeshivot, " the name was later changed to "The Emergency Committee for Relief, Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction" as the organization's activities expanded after World War II. It became best known as the "Vaad Hatzala. " While the organization's headquarters were located in New York, branches were established throughout Europe both during and after the war, including Germany, France, and Switzerland. The organization's initial purpose was to raise funds for groups of rabbis, yeshiva students and their families stranded in Vilna, Lithuania after fleeing eastern Poland following the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939. The Vaad did succeed in actually taking out thousands of Jews from concentration camps and bringing them to Switzerland in 1945, transmitting great sums of money to their agents to negotiate with German officials. Following the end of the Second World War, the Vaad's activities, centered in Germany and France, consisted of distributing funds and shipments of food and religious books to Displaced Persons camps in Germany and newly established yeshivot. It provided spiritual rehabilitation to remnants of Jewish communities destroyed during the Holocaust, while arranging for visas to the United States for refugee rabbinical teachers and students. SUBJECTS: Displaced Persons Holocaust Talmud. OCLC lists 9 copies worldwide. Binding repaired. Pages browning. Otherwise Good Condition. (YID-27-40)