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  17. Selected records of the Shanghai Municipal Archives

    Contains records from the Shanghai Municipal Government, International Settlement, Education Department, Finance Department, Public Works Department, Public Health Department, and French Concession. Topics include: Jewish schools, Jewish journal, school fees, grants to schools for foreign children, the Jewish refugee kitchen, health facilities, the Jewish cemetery, registration of Jewish aid organizations, and annual reports of aid organizations. Also contains documents relating to Polish, Czechoslovak, and other European refugees.

  18. Zbąszyń photographs

    The collection consists of six photographs of Jewish refugees from Germany on the Polish-German border in Zbąszyń, Poland. On the verso, stamped by Roman Vishniac.

  19. Torczyner collection

    Contains documents about the activities of the Maccabi Aid Committee and the Maccabi World Union. The activities involved the 1939 organization of illegal transports of Jewish refugees travelling by boat on the Danube River from Vienna, Austria, across Hungary and Yugoslavia, to Palestine. Another activity was to find a place in Bolivia to settle hundreds of Jewish refugees. Includes an atlas of Bolivia. Also includes corresdondence between various members of the family living as refugees in Palestine, Shanghai, China, and Havana, Cuba. The Palestine branch of the Torczyner family are survi...

  20. Selected records from the Varese prefecture

    Contains documents related to the formulation and implementation of anti-Jewish racial laws in and around the areas of Piedmont and Lombardia, Italy. Also contains documents related to Jewish refugees in this area.