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  3. Evacuees, Farm Settlers, Other A-K

    1. UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
    2. UJRA Refugee Case Files

    Includes Jewish mothers and children evacuated from Britain to Canada for the duration of the war. Currency regulations prevented transfer of funds from England, necessitating UJRA financial assistance in form of loans. The Council for Overseas Children was specifically charged with responsibility for this group. Also contains cases concerning relief to newly settled refugee farmers from Sudetanland, the latter having been initially sponsored by the Farm and Establishment Committee of what was the newly-formed Canadian Jewish Committee for refugees. Refugees from Japan and refugees in trans...

  4. B'nai Brith Leo Baeck London Lodge: Members life histories

    Personal, mostly autobiographical accounts of former German and Austrian Jewish refugees, who subsequently became members of the Leo Baeck London Lodge. Also list of authors at 1288/56.This collection of memoirs provides a rich and varied account of the experiences of German and Austrian Jewish refugees to Great Britain. They range in length from 1 page to almost book length.

  7. Teddy bear carried by a young boy on the Kindertransport

    Teddy bear received by 14 year old Jack Hellman as a child and carried with him on the Kindertransport in early 1939. When Jack was nine, his parents sent him away to boarding school in Frankfurt, Germany, to escape the vicious anti-semitism in his hometown, Tann. During the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, synagogues and Jewish businesses all over Germany were vandalized or destroyed. Soon after, the housemother of his boarding school petitioned Baron James de Rothschild in Great Britain to provide refuge for the 26 children in the school, as well as her own family. Rothschild ...

  10. Foreign Office and Predecessors: Control Commission for Germany (British Element), T Force and Field Information Agency Technical. Selected records.

    Contains FIAT files of captured enemy documents relating to Montan Anlage Auschwitz and Montan-Auschwitz Vertragsfragen. Also contains files relating to Jewish affairs and the treatment of Jewish DPs (Operation "Oasis") and various private office papers and administration and local government branch files.

  13. Aus der Emigration III

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the third part of Curt Rosenberg's account of life as a Jewish refugees in Scotland during World War II. It recounts his legal struggles with his landlord and final victory in the Scottish court and a detailed description of the Scottish landscape he appreciated on his various visits to British POW camps where he held lectures to German prisoners of war. He also reflects philosophically about life and ageing.

  16. Nicholas G. Winton collection

    Contains photocopies of pages from the book "Time Zones" by Joe Schlesinger; a photocopy of a names list containing hundreds of Czech children brought to the United Kingdom by the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia, Children's Section, under the leadership of Nicholas Winton; and a photocopy of an article published in the "Evening Post" 21 June 1991 entitled "Prague Reunion for Hero Father: He Rescued 664 Children."