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Public and Political: General: Patronage: Technion, British Committee for Technical Development in Israel., 1954 - 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/369

Scope and Contents

Correspondence and papers on the establishment of Technion, the Israeli Institute of Technology, Mount Carmel, Haifa, including:.Correspondence with Eliahu Elath, Israeli Ambassador to Britain, 1958 (2); correspondence, papers and press cuttings on opening of the Winston Churchill Auditorium at Technion, by Sarah Churchill, (later Lady Audley) May 1958; correspondence with Joseph Cohen, Executive Director, (2) and Sir Loius Sterling, Life President, (2) British Technion Committee on Annual Dinner, 1958; correspondence with Victor Mishcon, (2) on laying of foundation stone of the Winston Churchill Auditorium at Technion 1955; correspondence and photographs of WSC presenting a key to open the Winston Churchill Auditorium, 1958; letter from R Stephen Rubin to WSC, invitation to become Honorary President of the Younger Technion Society, 1957; souvenir brochure for Chanucah Dinner and Ball, Dec 1954; magazine "Illustrated Technion News, - Special Churchill Number" Feb 1955, brochure "The New and Greater Technion", 1953; correspondence, papers and photographs on British Committee for Technical Development in Israel dinner to launch appeal for funds for buildings named after WSC at New Technion City, Nov 1954, including extracts from speeches by Sir Simon Marks (later Lord Marks of Broughton), Lord Jowitt, Victor Mishcon, and the Chief Rabbi; correspondence with Sir Louis Sterling (3) on request to name group of buildings at Technion as 80th birthday tribute to WSC, 1954; copy of the "Jewish Chronicle", 18 Feb 1955, on presentation of Technion Scroll to Sarah Churchill on behalf of WSC, - the scroll is an outsized item stored separately (p.237).

Dates

  • Creation: 1954 - 1958

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Extent

1 file(s) (236 items - one outsized item stored separately)

Language of Materials

English

External Documents

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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