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  1. 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.

  2. [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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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 ...

  5. [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...

  6. 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.

  7. [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.

  8. [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.

  9. [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.

  10. 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...

  11. [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.

  12. [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...

  13. 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...

  14. Third circular report of the International Tracing Service at Arolsen on the establishment, nature and purpose of DP-Documentation

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    This Circular report by the ITS is regarding the establishment, nature and purpose of DP-cards for official and private agencies that are in co-operation with the ITS. The purpose is to evaluate the DP-Camp documentation.

  15. The Grünspan Case

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains a report about the 'Grünspan case', written by Reich Minister Dr. Goebbels in 1938 and printed by 'M. Müller & Sohn K.G., Berlin S.W.68'. The Günspan case is concerning Herschel Feibel Grynszpan (German: Hermann Grünspan), who was a Polish-Jewish refugee, born in Germany. His assassination of the Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath on the 7th of November 1938 in Paris was his way to take revenge for his Jewish brethren in Germany. After the murder of the secretary of legation, the German nation took up retaliatory measures against Jews in Germany, as Goebbels writes. R...

  16. Monthly Report for the Month of September, 1953

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The business report provides an overview of the work and figures of the ITS in 9/1953 regarding the Case Work (inquiries, requests for death certificates, certificates of residence or historical and statistical data), Archive (e.g. Concentration Camp and civil administration records) and Administration (supplies and utilities, transport, communication, travel, budget and finance and personnel).

  17. United Restitution Organization (URO)

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains five circulars (“Rundschreiben”) by the United Restitution Organization (Frankfurt) between August and December 1969. The circulars include the following issues: no. 1633, no. 1632, no. 1631, no. 1627, and no. 1626. 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”), and regarding pensions, professional damages and dama...

  18. [ITS, Translated correspondences between a Polish mother and her daughter who is located in a foster home in Germany]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains a collection of letters between a mother in Poland and her daughter, living with German foster parents, initiated by the Lebensborn project of Heinrich Himmler. The letters, translated by the ITS from German / Polish to English show, how the 8 yr old girl changed in the course of her "Germanization". In the beginning the girl is writing in Polish but after changing her Polish name to a German one she starts identifiying with her German foster parents and is also writing to her mother in German. The mother wants her daughter back but the daughter, now with a German name and...

  19. Die Territorial-Bewegung

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the third part of Max Apt's paper on the history of the Diaspora. “The Territorial movement” (Israel Zangwill) believed in the establishment of a Jewish state in a territory other than Palestine to avoid conflict with the Arab population. The file lists abstracts from the Geneva conference of the International Labor Office from March 7, 1938 by South American government representatives. A letter to Dr. Apt from the American embassy is included. The next chapter deals with the “Evian conference” which tried to find a solution to the refugee crisis. The chapter includes extensive ...

  20. Child- Tracing

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains two letters from the Chief Representative of Central Tracing Bureau, Berlin to the Red Cross Netherlands, Berlin. In the first short letter the CTB asks to forward documents (21.10.1947). In the second one the CTB is requesting help from the RCN in order to find out what happened to a working camp in Finow, Brandenburg /Germany in which 60 Ukrainians boys were held until 1945. Furthermore, they seek help to investigate a children's hospital in Dresden (21.10.1947).