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Item type: Archival Descriptions
  1. Remembering Shanghai: A Jewish Journey

    Consists of one article, 12 pages, entitled "Remembering Shanghai: A Jewish Journey," by journalist Fredericka R. Maister. In the article, the author describes the history of the Jewish refugees in Shanghai, the memories of refugees she interviewed for the article, and the reunion gatherings of Shanghai refugees.

  2. Documentation of the Finance Department of the temporary government in Brest-Litovsk, 1939-1940

    Documentation of the Finance Department of the temporary government in Brest-Litovsk, 1939-1940 In the collection there is documentation regarding taxes paid by the residents and lists of refugees who went to Brest Litovsk and received financial assistance.

  3. Documentation of the council and the Executive Committee of the Mogilev municipality, 1939-1940

    Documentation of the council and the Executive Committee of the Mogilev municipality, 1939-1940 Included in the collection: - List of Jewish residents and refugees from western Belorussia; - Personal files of Jews; - Survey report regarding the housing situation.

  4. Ulkomaalaisia koskevat erityiset Suomeen tulokysymykset

    • Special issues concerning foreigners willing to enter Finland

    Correspondence, reports, and newspaper clippings concerning foreigners willing to enter Finland in the years 1920s-50s. The material includes records concerning Jewish refugees from Austria and Germany in the late 1930s, as well as Polish and Baltic Jewish refugees in 1940.

  5. Illegal ship

    Injured man helped by two Brits from ship, "The Four Freedoms." Pan of refugees on ship. Sick and tired refugees drooped on benches, holding their heads. Masses of people packed body to body, lying down on their decks. Injured person on litter being lifted from ship by crane. Chaos, disorder, everyone in close quarters.

  6. Selected records relating to Kindertransports, from the National Archives, UK

    Contains selected records from various government offices relating to the Kindertransports, including policy, the refugee situation, the Guardianship Bill, financial assistance, pamphlets and annual reports of the Refugee Children's Movement, and some personal case files.

  7. Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Issues of the JUNA (Juedische Nachrichten, press agency of SIG [Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland]) information sheet, 1945-1946

    1. P.13 - Archive of Benjamin Sagalowitz , head of the press agency of the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland, 1929-1969

    Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Issues of the JUNA (Juedische Nachrichten, press agency of SIG [Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland]) information sheet, 1945-1946 In the file: - Issues of the JUNA information sheet including information regarding Holocaust survivors after the war (DPs); Jewish refugees who remained in Switzerland; Zionism and the Jewish population in Eretz Israel prior to the establishment of the State of Israel; postwar displays of antisemitism in Europe and other subjects.

  8. Friedman family papers

    The papers consist of letters, Red Cross forms, an American naturalization certificate, and an autograph album relating to the experiences of the Friedman family, their flight from Salzburg, Austria, to Switzerland, France, and Portugal, and their eventual immigration to the United States in 1941.

  9. Hans and Sophie Bernhard papers

    1. Henry and Sophie Bernhard collection

    The papers consist of documents, passports ("Reisepass"), a kennkarte, identification cards, and a photograph that record Hans (Henry) and Sophie Bernhard's immigration from Berlin, Germany, to the United States by way of Havana, Cuba. The Bernhards eventually settled in Columbus, GA.

  10. Erna and Herman Meyer papers

    1. Erna and Herman Meyer collection

    The papers consist of documents relating to the experiences of Erna Landau and her immigration from Rhede, Germany, to England from 1938 to 1939, photographs of Herman Meyer and his family in the Netherlands and then in Kenya where they lived as refugees during World War II.

  11. "Tehran Children" report

    1. Holocaust era antisemitic publication collection

    Consists of a printed report, February 1943, on the condition of orphans who came from Russia and were living in a refugee camp in Tehran, Iran. Also two handwritten letters written by HeChalutz members in Aden, Yemen, in 1944 and a news report from the HeChalutz sent from Tehran to the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem in 1946.

  12. Joseph H. Smart papers

    The Joseph H. Smart papers consist of a typed manuscript of his 1991 book Don’t Fence Me In!: Fort Ontario Refugees: How They Won Their Freedom"; a typed manuscript of his 1992 companion volume "The Documents: Friends of Fort Ontario Guest Refugees"; and the original documents that are reproduced in the companion volume. His 1991 book documents his service as the director of the Fort Ontario Emergency Shelter, and his 1992 companion volume comprising copies of the files of the Friends of Fort Ontario Guest Refugees, an organization formed by the Fort Ontario refugees to campaign for their f...

  13. Fiches familiales de recensement des réfugiés établies en 1945 en vue de leur rapatriement

    1. Rapatriement des prisonniers de guerre et des réfugiés : fiches individuelles et familiales et listes de rapatriés

    Fiches établies par commune et transmises au Ministère des Prisonniers, Déportés et Réfugiés par les directions départementales de ce ministère. Il s'agit essentiellement de réfugiés Alsaciens-Lorrains, mais on trouve également des fiches de réfugiés provenant de départements du nord de la France et d'autres départements. Les fiches sont établies au nom du chef de famille et comportent les renseignements suivants : état civil du chef de famille, nationalité, résidence actuelle et résidence avant le 3 septembre 1939, profession actuelle et avant 1939, composition de la famille accompagnant l...