The Riegner Telegram was a message sent on 8 August 1942 by Gerhart Riegner, then Secretary of World Jewish Congress, Geneva. The cable "confirmed the seemingingly inconclusive information about the [German] mass murder that had reached the West previously." Gutman, Israel, ed. Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. New York: Mamillan Publishing Co., 1990. S. v. “Riegner Cable,” Yehuda Bauer.