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  1. M.30 - Kurt Grossmann Archives: Documentation regarding Kurt Grossman's activities as an advisor to the Jewish Agency and documentation regarding reparations

    M.30 - Kurt Grossmann Archives: Documentation regarding Kurt Grossman's activities as an advisor to the Jewish Agency and documentation regarding reparations Kurt Grossmann was born in Berlin, Germany. He served as the Executive Director of the League for Human Rights from 1926 to 1933. In February 1933, he left Germany and moved to Prague, Czechoslovakia where he founded the Democratic Refugee Relief Committee, an organization dedicated to providing relief to refugees. He also edited the news about Germany for a news service [news agency]. In 1939, he moved to the United States and worked ...

  7. ITS, Yearly Report 1948 / Registration Form / Program of Action for rescue of Jews in Nazi occupied territories

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains of a yearly report from 1948 which shows statistics from the UNRRA and IRO about missing and unaccompanied children. Furthermore it includes a document called "Program of Action for Rescue of the Jews in Nazi occupied territories, proposed by the joint Emergency Committee on European Jewish Affairs" ( not dated). The next document is a letter by the ITS informing about the increasing numbers of solved cases of missing and unaccompanied children from October 1949. The last document in a registration card for unaccompanied children from the ITS Child Search Branch for Barbar...

  8. Aus der Emigration II

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the continuation of Curt Rosenberg's account of his life in Scotland after his flight from Nazi Germany including his legal struggles with his landlord. He describes life in London in 1942 and his work in the German Refugee Center in Glasgow. He also recounts a court hearing, the differences between German and British jurisdiction, and the difficulties refugees face when settling in foreign surroundings.

  9. [Interministerial Commission for German Refugees - Protocols]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file deals with the outpouring of political and economic refugees from Germany from 1933 onwards as a result of the takeover of the NSDAP party under Adolf Hitler. Therefore an interministerial commission had been convened in the Belgian capital, Brussels, in order to address the refugee crisis and deal with the influx of refugees from Germany. The file contains the protocols of those sessions, including delegates named, topics discussed as well as assessments made of the overall political and economic situation in Germany after the Nazi government had come to power in early 1933.

  10. The Refugees and Immigration

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A memorandum discussing the size of the refugee problem as well as arguments pro and against immigration. It further discusses the finance and retraining possibilities of refugees.Discribes the immigration policy and situation of Jewish immigrants in France and Palestine.

  11. קהילות און שטעטע וואס ווערן דעסאנט אין ביולטינען און פראטאקאלן וואס זיינען ארויס אין ווילנע אין 1940-1939

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The list with approximately 300 names of communities and towns is provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugee writers and journalists who fled to Vilnius, Lithuania. The names of places are extracted from bulletins and protocols that were gathered by the commitee in order collect evidence on the condition of the Jews in Poland under Nazi occupation. The list is one of the efforts the committee undertook to collect the evidence in a professional manner so it could be used as evidence. [Communities and towns which were mentioned in the bulletins and protocols which were published in Vilnius ...

  12. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of Avraham Mlotek, 31 year old from Warsaw. He describes leaving Warsaw with two friends on September 7th. He describes bombardments and destruction, and Jews fleeing from towns. He made his way through Wawer, Międzyrzec Podlaski and Biala, where heavy bombardments resulted in destruction, fear and injuries, and onto a passenger train which was shot on by the Red Army at the border. Protocol No. 20 is an extract from a volume of protocols /statements provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugee writers and journalists who fled to Vilnius, Lithuania. In 1939 they formed a committee...

  13. International Tracing Service, Supplementary Record

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The document regards two cases handled by the ITS child search brand. Maria, a polish born girl was repatriated to her mother in Sweden due to a cooperation of the ITS in Germany and Sweden. The second case history shows how the identity of the polish boy Peter was established through field tracing.

  14. [An example of a Tracing Case of a child from Norway from the Lebensborn list]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains documents in English and German regarding a Norwegian boy who was found on the Lebensborn list. He was located in the Russian zone of Germany and not in the mandate of the IRO. Therefore the case went to the Norwegian authorities. The files include letters from the ITS to the mayor in Thüringen, the local registry office, and from the German ITS branch to the Norwegian ITS branch.

  15. [Interministerial Commission for German Refugees - Protocols]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file deals with the outpouring of political and economic refugees from Germany from 1933 onwards as a result of the takeover of the NSDAP party under Adolf Hitler. Therefore an interministerial commission had been convened in the Belgian capital, Brussels, in order to address the refugee crisis and deal with the influx of refugees from Germany. The file contains the protocols of those sessions, including delegates named, topics discussed as well as assessments made of the overall political and economic situation in Germany after the Nazi government had come to power in early 1933.

  16. [ITS case file, 1947-1948]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Case about the guardianship of a findeling boy named Peter, born 1945. Several parties claimed guardianship over the orphan and the identification of such took over 2 years. It was unclear to the authorities whether the boy was Polish or German. Documentation includes declarations regarding the boy from the German court, and correspondences between the parties in German, English and polish.

  17. United Restitution Organization (URO)

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains four circulars (“Rundschreiben”) by the United Restitution Organization (Frankfurt) from April and July 1969. The circulars include the following issues: no. 1612, no. 1603, no. 1605, and no. 1604. They mainly deal with recent court judgements made by the German Federal Court (Bundesgerichtshof) on questions of restitution after Nazi persecution, especially regarding newly established juridical regulations and proceedings for claims within the Federal law for restitution („Bundesentschädigungsgesetz”). Furthermore, the issues focus on the status of being recognized as a re...

  18. [Example of a Tracing Case]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains the complete correspondence between the International Tracing Service in the US Zone and the Service Social d'Aide aux Emigrants in Paris, regarding the case of a missing child from France until her return home from 1947-1948. The girl was taken from her family in 1944 and returned in 1948. The correspondence includes French translations.

  19. [Propaganda gegen Deutschland un Gegenpropaganda]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Summary of the German Embassy in the United States to the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin regarding a questionaire about Anti-German Propaganda, dated 17.08.1933. There is hardly any Anti-German Propaganda in the United States any more. Also there is hardly any French and Polish influence regarding Anti-German Propaganda. Other countries do not have any influence. Apart from singular travel reports and refugee stories, there is no influence from Germany, neither. The best preventive measure against Anti-German Propaganda seems to be informing the American public about objectives and polic...

  20. Tracing in the Soviet Zone

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    This file contains a letter from the Central Tracing Bureau to the Netherlands Red Cross regarding cooperation to trace children of nationalities which belong to the United Nations in the Soviet Zone in Germany in 1947. This includes analysis of personal data of the missing children and interrogation of personnel at former Lebensborn homes in Dresden, Leipzig und Chemnitz. Added to the letter is a list of children insured by the Berliner Verein which states the present name of the child, birth date, names and addresses of forster parents and the transfer date from Lebensborn institutes to f...