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Language of Description: English
Item type: Archival Descriptions

  1. Discussion on Friday May 20th about the Preparation of a programme for the governmental conference

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Suggestion how to deal with question of Jewish refugees(Jews from Germany and Austria should bementioned but not Jews from Poland and eastern Europe, figuers and finance) in the Evian confence.

  2. Rokiškio apskrities policijos Južintų punktas

    • Police Department for Južintai County, Rokiškis District

    Various administrative documents; personnel files of the staff; pay registers; applications of residents to join the police precinct; information about Poles in the district as well as war refugees, prisoners of war, Jews; reports about criminal incidents and various protocols concerning crimes; certificates issued to police officers of the sef-defence battalions; lists of police officers; lists of arrested people; other items.

  3. Ukmergės apskrities viršininkas

    • Chief of Ukmergė County

    The fonds consists of information about refugees in 1940, correspondence and statistics about refugees in the district (there are many Jewish names), applications of the residents (many Jewish names) to obtain passports in 1940, information about Jewish organizations from 1922 to 1940, the lists of residents who were punished for administrative offenses (many Jewish names). *Note: In many cases the documents created in 1940 may provide the last information about the people in question before the Holocaust. *Note: In many cases the documents created in 1940 may provide the last information a...

  4. Ministarstvo skrbi za postradale krajeve Nezavisne Države Hrvatske

    • The Ministry of Welfare for the War-Affected Areas of the Independent State of Croatia (ISC)

    The collection holds pleas for help from refugees within the ISC. Note that the refugees in question mostly are non-Jewish, as the dates point it is towards the end of the war, but the collection might be interesting to appraise the general atmosphere of social welfare after the collapse of Italy in 1943. It is not excluded some of the cases handled within the collection refer to the remaining Jews in Croatia.

  5. Nazi kidnapping

    1. Research files: research conducted by the JCIO and the Wiener Library

    The file contains information on kidnappings in foreign countries committed by Nazis. Several kidnappings are mentioned in the documents and usually involve political refugees such as communists. After the abduction most of the persons were incarcerated in Germany. Friedrich Kuhlmann however, was abducted in Copenhagen but managed to escape while still being in Denmark.

  6. 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.

    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.

  7. Collection of the Rijksvreemdelingendienst (Government Service for Foreigners in the Netherlands), 1929-1945

    Collection of the Rijksvreemdelingendienst (Government Service for Foreigners in the Netherlands), 1929-1945 Koninklijke Marechaussee - the Border Police, subordinate to the Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands, was responsible for the implementation of the policies toward foreigners in the Netherlands until 1940; its function included the issuing of entrance visas, registration of foreigners, and guarding of the country's borders; during the Nazi occupation period, the Germans controlled the borders of the Netherlands and set the policies towards foreigners; despite this, the Dutch borde...

  8. Protection of Danish nationals in Europe

    1. Ministry of Foreign Affairs Stockholm

    Concerns Danish refugees in Sweden - both resistance fighters and Jews (pcl. 367-404).

  10. Other records

    1. The Finnish Jewish Archives
    2. The Jewish Community of Helsinki Archives
    3. COMMITTEES RECORDS/Refugee committee

    Statistical reports, records concerning refugees’ upkeep, travels, account receipts, etc.

  11. Henry and Rose Basch papers

    1. Henry and Rose Basch collection

    Consists of a collection of documents, letters, and photographs documenting the experiences of Henry and Rose Basch while fleeing Nazi occupied Europe to Shanghai, China as well as post-war documentation. Includes documents regarding refugees in Shanghai and their attempts to assist family members in Europe to immigrate. The refugees were cousins of the donor's wife.

  12. Selected records from the State Archives of the Penza Region related to the evacuation of civilians during WWII

    Contains selected records related to the evacuation and resettlement of the Soviet civilians evacuated to the Penza region during WWII. It includes lists of evacuees and their families, statistical data, information about food and medical supplies provided to the evacuated population by the local government authorities etc.

  13. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jewish Relief Committees

    Woburn House, Bloomsbury, London. Headquarters of the Jewish Relief Committees. Interior, dark, big busy room, older men sitting at tables, women too waiting to be seen, people asking questions. Stock shots of Orientation signs in German on doorways. Refugees in line at desk to receive immediate dispensation of funds from Mr. Nathan (according to MoT card) for needy including women with infants. MS and CU of those waiting and of money and coins on table. 02:33:23 MS Mr. I.B. Davidson of Jewish Aid Committee speaks of enormous cost of helping refugees, thanks non-Jewish friends who have cont...

  14. "Ash Camp" photograph album

    The Ash Camp photograph album is a leather bound photograph album, black with embossed horses, which includes 326 mounted and labeled photographs. The photograph album's owner is unknown but includes photographs of the Gabe family, the Saul family, the Jake family, and the Elais family. In addition to candid family photographs, there are also photographs of life in Shanghai, the "Ash Camp," likely a camp for Jewish refugees in Shanghai in 1945, and the distribution of food delivered by parachutes by “Yanks.”

  15. Selected records related to evacuation from the State Archive of the Republic of Mari El, Russian Federation

    Contains various records and correspondence files created by the Soviet Government and Communist Party authorities related to the evacuation of civilians to the Republic Mari El during WWII. It includes lists of evacuees, statistical data, information about food and medical supplies etc provided by the above-named authorities to the evacuated population.

  16. Kriminalpolisen i Malmö

    • Malmö Criminal Police
    • Stadsarkivet Malmö
    • Kriminalpolisen i Malmö
    • English
    • 1874-1970
    • 240,7 linear meters of textual records

    The archive includes the F7 series, which contains 12 volumes of extensive material on refugees and survivors, including survivors and refugees who arrived in Sweden during and after the Second World War. The documents from 1943-44 contain documents concerning refugees who came to Sweden from Denmark, including those who fled to Sweden in the autumn of 1943. Later documents concern refugees and survivors from other countries. The series also includes lists of survivors who came to Malmö using various boat transports and interrogation protocols. Volume F7: 9 contains the Malmö police's alpha...

  17. Jewish Philanthropic Association : Membership Card Index Asociación Filantropica Israelita : Indice

    Contains membership card index of the Asociación Filantrópica Israelita (AFI), with approximately 20,000 names of Jewish refugees, mostly from Nazi Germany (including Nazi annexed Austria), who emigrated to Argentina between the years 1933 to 1939. Also includes the names and biographical data of a few Jewish refugees from Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Romania, and other countries in Europe. The card index was periodically updated through the 1970s.

  18. Malah (Malach) family photographs

    1. Malah (Malach) family collection

    Consists of 35 pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the families of Zigmund (Zishe) Malah (Malach) and Maria (Manya) Adlerfliegel Malah, both originally of Bedzin, Poland. Includes photographs of Zishe Malah while he was serving in the Polish Army as well as portraits of family members who did not survive the war and photographs of Zishe and Maria Malah (and their children) after the war.

  19. International Refugee Organization, Bad Kissingen: reports

    These papers consist of information sheets; administrative and provisional orders; and printed IRO statistics on the occupational skills of refugees.

  20. Private collection Hélène Benatar (Sig. P129)

    Contains personal papers of Hélène Benatar regarding her activities concerning Jewish refugees in Northern Africa (mostly in Morocco). The collection also contains interviews with Hélène Benatar and articles related to her.