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Language of Description: English
Item type: Archival Descriptions

  2. Megillah (Book of Esther) from the former Zülz synagogue brought to the US by German Jewish refugees

    1. Donald H. Harter family collection

    Megillah (Book of Esther) from the former synagogue in Zülz, Germany (now Biała Prudnicka, Poland). The synagogue burned down on November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht. The handwritten scroll tells the Biblical story of Esther, a Queen of Persia, who saved the Jewish people from a massacre planned by an advisor to the King. The story is read aloud on the Jewish holiday of Purim. Historically, the town of Zülz had a large Jewish population, and a sizeable brick synagogue was built in 1774, after the previous one burned down. The new synagogue was one of the largest in Germany at the time of ...

  3. Records of the Religious Society of Friends in Great Britain: Friends Committee for Refugees and Aliens (FCRA)

    The collection contains minutes of the Germany Emergency Committee, which was later renamed the Friends Committee for Refugees and Aliens (FCRA). Records relate to the situation of Jews in Germany, support for refugees, internment, political prisoners, and visits to concentration camps. The collection also includes the pamphlet “An Account of the Work of the Friends Committee for Refugees and Aliens, first known as the Germany Emergency Committee of the Society of Friends 1933-1950,” by Lawrence Dalton, issued in 1954, as well as various other pamphlets relating to the work of the Committee...

  4. Collection of the Commissie-Clevering committee, which examined the attitude toward refugees by the authorities in the Netherlands, 1946-1950

    Collection of the Commissie-Clevering committee, which examined the attitude toward refugees by the authorities in the Netherlands, 1946-1950 Official documentation of the Commissie-Clevering committee, established by the Foreign Ministry of the Netherlands in 1946 for the purpose of examining the attitude of the embassies toward Dutch citizens who escaped to Switzerland, France, Spain, Portugal and other countries during the war period: Included in the collection: Testimonies of: A. Cohen E. Elzas L. Flesseman M.H. Gans A.J. Goedkoop E.H. van Hasselt M.H.J. Hedeman-Joosten J.M. Kijzer J. P...

  5. Autobiographical painting depicting a young girl and her parents as refugees in flight painted postwar by a Croatian Jewish woman

    1. Dina Pollak Gabos collection

    Grayscale painting created by Dina Pollak Gabos in 1977, commemorating her family’s escape from Yugoslavia to Italy in December 1941. The Axis powers invaded Yugoslavia on April 6, 1941. Dina, age three, and her parents Otto and Rifka lived in Zagreb, which became part of Croatia and was ruled by the fascist anti-Semitic Ustasa regime. On April 28, Otto was sent by the Ustasa police to Kerestinec concentration camp, but was released in June. In October, the family fled to Italian controlled Ljubljana. They lived in hiding until they escaped to Italy in December 1941. The family lived as con...

  6. Letter from Leo Baeck and Otto Hirsch to George Rublee, Director of the Intergovernmental Committee on Political Refugees

    Consists of a photocopy of a letter, dated March 2, 1939, from Leo Baeck and Otto Hirsch to George Rublee, offering gratitude for his work on the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees (IGC) and thanking him on the occasion of his retirement. The letter was written on Reichsevertretung der Juden in Deutschland stationery.

  7. Isaac Bitton collection photographs of arrivals of Jewish refugees in Lisbon, Portugal, and their departures to various destinations

    1. Isaac Bitton collection

    Contains twelve gelatin silver copyprints of Jewish refugees upon arrival in Lisbon, Portugal, and of Jewish refugees at the time of their departure from Lisbon to various destinations.

  8. The Committee of Refugees Print and explanatory page depicting the refugee committee from the Hollandia Regenerata series

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn543901
    • English
    • 1796
    • a: Height: 12.875 inches (32.703 cm) | Width: 9.875 inches (25.083 cm) b: Height: 12.750 inches (32.385 cm) | Width: 9.875 inches (25.083 cm)

    This etching of the Committee for Refugees is the twelfth in the twenty plate series, Hollandia Regenerata. The series was originally illustrated by Swiss soldier and caricaturist, David Hess, as a satirical commentary on the newly created, French-supported Batavian Republic. The images were refined and etched by James Gillray, and published in 1796, likely by Hannah Humphrey of London, England. In December 1792, the French Republic decreed that it would declare the sovereignty of the people in nations it helped liberate. The Batavian Republic (now the Netherlands) was one such country, for...

  9. National Committee for Relief to Political Refugees Comité national de secours aux réfugiés politiques, Paris (Fond 533)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    Minutes of the meetings of the Federation of German emigrés in France; proposed revisions to an international convention on German refugees; a paper on aid to refugees in Czechoslovakia; statistical reports and other materials from the Comité national de secour aux réfugiés politques (National Aid Committee for Political Refugees); committee documents, including correspondence with aid committees in various French cities; and letters and information bulletins from other organizations involved in aid including the Parti socialiste (Socialist Party), Parti républicain-radical et radical-socia...

  10. M.23 - Benno Kaufmann Collection - Documentation of the Aid Council for Jewish Refugees from Germany, Basel, 1939-1947

    M.23 - Benno Kaufmann Collection - Documentation of the Aid Council for Jewish Refugees from Germany, Basel, 1939-1947 Correspondence of Benno Kaufmann from Basel, Switzerland, regarding aid to Jewish refugees from Germany, 1939-1947. The Record Group contains personal letters belonging to the persecuted detainees in the camps in France, such as the Gurs camp.

  11. Files from the Foreigners Police in the Nidwalden, Switzerland canton (region) regarding five families of Jewish refugees, 1935-1946

    Files from the Foreigners Police in the Nidwalden, Switzerland canton (region) regarding five families of Jewish refugees, 1935-1946

  12. Documentation from the National Archives in Geneva regarding the fate of the Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1939-1945

    Documentation from the National Archives in Geneva regarding the fate of the Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1939-1945

  13. Documentation of Jewish refugees in Switzerland who made aliya to Eretz Israel after the war, dated 1945

    Documentation of Jewish refugees in Switzerland who made aliya to Eretz Israel after the war, dated 1945 - Personal files of Jewish refugees from the Swiss Federal Archive in Bern [including?] the Gaon and Majrovitz families; - List of candidates for aliya from the Youth Aliyah House in Bex, in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland.

  14. Collection of the Department for Relief to Refugees from Germany in The Hague, the Netherlands, 1938-1942

    Collection of the Department for Relief to Refugees from Germany in The Hague, the Netherlands, 1938-1942 Collection of the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken: Zorg voor de Vluchtelingen uit Duitsland (Department for Relief to Refugees from Germany of the Ministry of the Interior of the Netherlands), 1938-1942; thousands of refugees from Germany began to arrive to the Netherlands starting in 1933; the Ministry of the Interior and Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands established approximately 60 refugee camps, including the Hotel-Lloyd and the Zeeburgerdijk isolation institution in Amsterda...

  15. Collection of the Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen - Committee for Jewish Refugees, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1933-1939

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 6257542
    • English, Hebrew
    • Committee requests Curriculum Vitae (CV) Document Letter List of names in relief agency records List of refugees Official documentation Reports Statistics Testimony

    Collection of the Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen - Committee for Jewish Refugees, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1933-1939 Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen - the Committee for Jewish Refugees in the Netherlands was established in Amsterdam in 1933; the function of the committee was the coordination of relief activities for Jewish refugees who arrived from Germany; the committee was active in the context of the umbrella-organization, Comité voor Bijzondere Joodsche Belangen - CBJB, the Committee for Special Jewish Affairs established by Professor Dr. D. Cohen, A. Asscher and others; th...

  16. [Number of reports and description or DALJEWCIB regarding the arrival and condition of refugees in Shanghai via searoute from Italy]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains numerous reports, correspondence and detailed description of DALJEWCIB and relief commitee members regarding the arrival and physical as well as psychological condition of refugees in Shanghai via sea route from Italy and Germany

  17. [Meeting of the Sub-Committee of the Liaison Committee of the High Commissioner for the Refugees from Germany]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Minutes of a meeting of the Sub-Committee of the Liaison Committee of the High Commissioner for the Refugees from Germany on the 16th of June 1938 in Paris. Information that the American Advisory Committee for the Evian Conference would welcome a Memorandum from the Liaison Committee and that a Delegate from the Committee might attend the Conference. Decision to present a Memorandum dealing with the position of refugees that already left Germany and Austria and pointing out the need for further emigration for them. Different suggestions regarding the Memorandum by several members of the Sub...

  18. The Benno Kaufmann Collection - Documentation of the Aid Council for Jewish Refugees from Germany, Basel, 1939-1947

    Correspondence of Benno Kaufmann from Basel, Switzerland, regarding aid to Jewish refugees from Germany, 1939-1947. The collection contains personal letters belonging to the persecuted detainees in the camps in France, such as the Gurs camp.

  19. Rabbi Eli Munk Archives: Correspondence regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees in Germany during the early post-Holocaust years

    The Record Group includes correspondence with relief and welfare organizations in Britain and Germany during the Nazi period and after the war, reports regarding the activities of these organizations and reports from visits of Jewish leaders in Germany after the war, including much information concerning the situation of the Jews living in various places in the country.

  20. [DALJEWCIB correspondence on the topic of finding alternative localities on the Chinese Coast for Jewish refugees to settle in]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    DALJEWCIB answer correspondence on the ventilation of the topic of finding alternate localities and harbour cities on the Chinese Coast for Jewish refugees to settle in as opposed to mass emigration into Shanghai and worsening of social conditions for new arrivals