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Item type: Archival Descriptions

  1. Selected records from the archives of the kingdom of Belgium

    Contains records created and collected by the central and regional groups of the Association of Jews in Belgium (Association des juifs de Belgique), formed on November 25, 1941, at the order of the German occupation authorities, to serve as a national Judenrat. The materials consist mostly of registration forms containing personal data completed by all Jews in Belgium and registration forms containing data about Jewish-owned businesses and other properties. Additionally, there are files of change of address forms, organizations offering aid to refugees, immigration applications and processe...

  2. Fond du Cabinet du Préfet et Divisions (Police Générale)

    Contains various documents of the Cabinet du Préfet et Divisions including alphabetical name lists of various categories of French Jewish refugees, foreign Jewish, and non-Jewish refugees, political refugees, and Spanish, Polish, Italian, etc. refugees; administrative and other documents concerning French internment camps at Nîmes, Garrigues, Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort, L'Ardoise, Auch, and others; instructions and regulations regarding refugees in labor groups and refugees in internment camps.

  3. Documentation regarding the JDC organization's allocations for relief activities for Jews in Switzerland, including correspondence by the JDC with the Association of Jewish Communities in Switzerland and balance reports by the Association of Jewish Welfar

    1. P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

    Documentation regarding the JDC organization's allocations for relief activities for Jews in Switzerland, including correspondence by the JDC with the Association of Jewish Communities in Switzerland and balance reports by the Association of Jewish Welfare Organizations in Switzerland, 1943-1945 - Pamphlet by Silvain S. Guggenheim, chairman of the Verband Schweizerischer Israelitischer Armenpflegen - VSIA, including a report regarding the relief activities for refugees in Switzerland, 1933-1945; the pamphlet includes a chronological summary of the situation of world refugees and refugees in...

  4. German Jewish Aid Committee collection

    The German Jewish Aid Committee collection documents the committee’s efforts to help Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany obtain English visas. The collection primarily includes the correspondence of committee representative Fritz Goldschmidt with refugees from Frankfurt am Main, Essen, Cologne, the Kitchener Camp for Refugees, and other locations. The collection comprises letters, postcards, and supporting documentation revealing the bureaucratic difficulties of receiving visas; efforts to obtain supporting funds from banks, organizations, and private business owners; and the stories of the a...

  7. Passengers on the St. Louis

    Passengers from SS St. Louis returning to Europe. CU of ship's prow. People waving from the deck. Disembarking.

  8. German Army in Warsaw

    Footage from the Polish uprising, August 1944. Tanks rolling into town. Man being arrested. Soldiers walking through archway. Polish refugees boarding train. Soldier kneeling on balcony.

  9. Fighting in Germany

    Ice boats transport wounded across a frozen body of water. Refugees with horse-drawn carts cross the ice. A herd of cows is driven into Germany. Fighting in and around the Marienburg castle.

  10. Europe's stranded millions begin emigration

    Issue 166, Part 4: Refugees in Allied displaced persons camps, including Leipzig and Shanouw, are routed homeward.

  11. Burnt Polish villages; Polish government signing agreement

    Burnt Polish villages in 1944. Destroyed homes, children gathering firewood and water in the snow. Destroyed bridge, train tracks; large columns of refugees. New Polish government signing agreement in 1945.

  12. Swedish Red Cross Aid for prisoners in Germany, 1945

    "Witness Stand: Diverse Clips" Red Cross ship "Crown Princess Ingrid" in port. More unloading refugees. Transport from Lubeck to Sweden. Bathing women.

  13. Angèle Gelbard papers

    The papers consist of 17 postcards and 8 letters written to Angèle Gelbard in Paris, France, from her family in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland.

  14. George Kulstad papers

    The papers consist of three hand-written receipts issued to Helen Kulstad [donor's mother] by Jewish emigrants to Shanghai, China named Fritz and Daisy Willdorf.

  15. Judith Hershkovitz photograph collection

    The collection consist of two photographs of a demonstration of refugees at Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp in Germany demanding permission to immigrate to Palestine.

  16. Refugee organisations UK: notes

    These contemporary notes on the various refugee aid committees based at Bloomsbury House, London, give some idea of the provision, which existed for refugees during the war.

  17. Sirota family papers

    1. Sirota family collection

    The Sirota family papers, 1939-1947, consists of identification documents, passports, certificates, and vaccination documents relating to the immigration of Johann Sirota, Alice Sirota, and Horst Sirota from Berlin, Germany to Shanghai, China in 1939 and the United States in 1947.

  18. Ministry of Foreign Affairs : Danish Refugee Administration in Sweden Central Register (Group A-Ø)

    Consits of the alphabetical (phonetic) register of refugees with detailed information about an each refugee, including both Jews and resistance fighters and their families. There are no related files to the register, but the information on the cards is quite unique. This collection contains the most detailed and systematic overview of Danish refugees in Sweden.

  19. Andrew Blau papers

    1. Andrew Blau collection

    The papers consist of a publication and two letters relating to refugees at the Kitchener internment camp in Richborough, England, and an internment camp on the Isle of Man during World War II. In a special camp, Kitchener, in Richborough, Kent, England, some 5,000 people who needed immediate shelter were housed during an eighteen - month period from the end of Jan. 1939. These 5,000 refugees had been released from concentration camps, or their internment had been deferred by the Nazis, who were willing to let them alone on condition that they leave Germany immediately. The Home Office gave...

  20. "Some Victims of the Nazi Terror"

    Consists of one magazine entitled "Some Victims of the Nazi Terror," which contains photographs and propaganda information about the Kitchener camp in Richborough, England. The magazine describes the daily lives of the mostly Jewish refugees living in the Kitchener camp. The magazine was created by the Kitchener Camp Committee. In a special camp, Kitchener, in Richborough, Kent, England, some 5,000 people who needed immediate shelter were housed during an eighteen - month period from the end of Jan. 1939. These 5,000 refugees had been released from concentration camps, or their internment h...