HICEM

Identifier: 395
Type of Entity: Corporate Body

Dates of Existence

Founded in 1927

History

HICEM is established in 1927, with the goal to help European Jews emigrate. HICEM was formed with the merger of three Jewish migration associations: Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, which was based in New York; Jewish Colonization Association, which was based in Paris but registered as a British charitable society; and Emigdirect, a migration organization based in Berlin. By the time the Second World War broke out in 1939-09, HICEM had offices all over Europe, South and Central America, and the Far East. Its employees advised and prepared European refugees for emigration, including helping them along during their departure and arrival. After Germany invaded and conquered France in mid-1940, HICEM decided to close its Paris offices and move them to Lisbon, Portugal. Portugal, a neutral country, was friendly with the Allies and had an officially recognized Jewish community. Thus, HICEM simply functioned as the immigration section of the Jewish community council. In addition, because Lisbon was a neutral port, by 1940-07 it became the foremost route for Jews to escape Europe for North and South America. From 1940 on, HICEM's activities were partly supported by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. In all, some 90,000 Jews managed to escape Europe during the Holocaust with HICEM's assistance.

Sources

Yad Vashem, www.yadvashem.org

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American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
- AJDC
- EHRI Corporate Bodies
- Corporate Body
- Updated 5 years ago
1914/present

Founded in 1914, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee provided assistance to Jews around the world, particularly in eastern Europe. During the Nazi era, this umbrella agency for aid organizations in the United States was involved in emigration planning and relief work in Germany, until 1939 providing an increasing share of the budget for German Jewish organizations, such as the Reichsvertretung. The Joint efforts continued after the war began and extended beyond the Reich into countries occupied or controlled by Germany.
Emigdirect
- EHRI Corporate Bodies
- Corporate Body
- Updated 1 decade ago
Emigdirect, a Jewish migration organization, was based in Berlin.
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
- HIAS
- EHRI Corporate Bodies
- Corporate Body
- Updated 1 decade ago
1880/present

The primary mission of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society is to help Jews whose lives and freedom are endangered. Since 1880, HIAS has been the worldwide arm of the American Jewish community for rescue, relocation, family reunification, and resettlement of refugees and other migrants.
Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden
- Aid Association of German Jews
- EHRI Corporate Bodies
- Corporate Body
- Updated 9 years ago
1901/1939

German Jewish organization established in 1901 mainly to help Jewish communities in Eastern Europe that had fallen victim to pogroms and wars. It supported the creation of Jewish education and social welfare institutions in Eastern Europe, as well. After the First World War the association also helped Jews emigrate from eastern Europe through Germany to locations abroad. After Hitler came to power in 1933, the association began to provide assistance for German Jews who wanted to leave Germany for countries other than Palestine (those immigrating to Palestine were served by the Jewish Agency...
Jewish Colonization Association
- JCA
- EHRI Corporate Bodies
- Corporate Body
- Updated 1 decade ago
Jewish Colonization Association, a Jewish migration association, was based in Paris but registered as a British charitable society.
Ministerstvo financí I, Praha
- NAD 517
- MF I
- Ministry of Finance
- Finanzministerium
- Národní archiv
- 517
- English
- 1918-1945
- The collection consists out of 344 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. 56,1 linear meters are unprocessed and inaccessible.
- Updated 8 years ago
After the Munich Agreement in September 1938 and the establishment of the so called 2nd Czechoslovak Republic the new government in January 1939 took out a loan in Great Britain, part of which was set off as a support for the emigration of Czech and Moravian Jews to Palestine. On the base of a treaty between the Ministry of Finance and the Jewish Agency for Palestine the Czechoslovak Government supported Jewish emigration out of the country. Between October 1938 and July 1939 about 12 000 Jews left the country, mostly to Palestine. In the time of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia the Min...
Pomocný výbor pro uprchlíky, Paříž
- Committee for Refugee Assistance in Paris
- PVU
- NAD 658
- Comité d’Assistance aux Refugiés
- Národní archiv
- 658
- English
- 1936-1942
- The fonds consists of 47,84 linear meters of processed and inventoried documents. All material is accessible.
- Updated 5 years ago
The fonds Pomocný výbor pro uprchlíky, Paříž contains mainly of the correspondence of refugees, mainly from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland, with the Comité d’Assistance aux Refugiés. The correspondence is sorted by surnames of the refugees. Czechoslovak refugees are organized separately. Box 322 contains correspondence of the Comité d’Assistance aux Refugiés with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the other refugee organisations like the Schutzverband deutscher Schriftsteller.
Protocol of the Conference of the Interterritoriale Wanderfuersore (Internal Austrian-Jewish Relief Organization) for care of emigrants-refugees, Vienna, 15 January 1937
1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- O.30/69
- English, Hebrew
- pages 27 Protocol Official documentation Typewritten original Original
- Updated 9 years ago
Protocol of the Conference of the Interterritoriale Wanderfuersore (Internal Austrian-Jewish Relief Organization) for care of emigrants-refugees, Vienna, 15 January 1937 Representatives of the Jewish relief organizations Allianz, HICEM, HIAS, the Eretz Israel Office [Jewish Agency] and Jewish communities from European countries participated in the conference, which considered the emigration situation in general and the condition of the emigrants-refugees in the European countries in particular.