A document of the Hehalutz movement in Poland.

A document of the Hehalutz movement in Poland.
Warsaw, 1924,

Condition; Very Good, filing holes, folding mark. 

The Pioneer: There was a worldwide Zionist movement of young Jews who organized for the purpose of immigrating to Palestine. It began with spontaneous organizing in the 1880s and lasted until the Holocaust. Members of Hehalutz, who belonged to various Zionist youth movements, were at the forefront of immigration and settlement in Palestine and of the Jewish defense in the Diaspora, including in the ghettos where the Jews were concentrated during World War II.

Hehalutz in Poland: From the 1920s, he was the World Center of the Pioneer in Warsaw. The Hehalutz Center managed the various training kibbutzim loosely and sent the most prominent members of the training programs for training and missions to strengthen weak nuclei and establish branches. The Center also maintained contact with the WZO. In Warsaw he was published with the Hechalutz newspaper, The Future.

Between the two world wars, about 40% -50% of the members of Hehalutz lived in Poland. A general youth movement called "Hechalutz Hatzair" was established in Poland, which appealed to youth, including high school students in the cities. The movement took over during the 1930's Hakibbutz Hameuhad, which saw it as a quality human resource that would fill its ranks and kibbutzim in the Land of Israel. Hakibbutz Hameuhad sent emissaries and information material, and gave the movement and its training material assistance as well.

On the eve of the Second World War there were about 360 training kibbutzim in Poland, including about 12,500 members. A significant portion of the immigrants during this period came from the ranks of the Hehalutz movement in Poland.