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  1. JDC Refugee and Relief Program

    1. UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)

    A residual category designating all immigration cases not fully within specific CJC immigration programs. Includes one file of messages from overseas. Notification of sailings, overseas relief, special cases other than Displaced Persons. Interventions by UJRA personnel with Canadian government on behalf of individual immigration applicant, financing and subsequent retrieval of part or all of immigrant's transportation costs, resettlement assistance such as vocational guidance, relief and loan referrals. Also requests for information concerning property restitution and for assistance in loca...

  2. Leeds Jewish Refugee Committee: Papers

    This collection comprises papers and correspondence regarding individual children, who came or were hoping to come to Leeds on one of the Kindertransporte. There is also some general correspondence and papers.

  3. Comisia Autonoma de Ajutorare

    • Autonomous Refugee Aid Committee

    The Comisia Autonoma de Ajutorare was established in Romania, Bucharest, after the unsuccessful iron guard revolt and accompanying pogroms of 1941-01. The committee was instituted by leaders of the Union of Jewish Communities, Zionists, businessmen, and women known for their aid activities, in order to amass funds and supplies for the pogrom victims. After the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in mid-1941 and the Romanian authorities began deporting Jews to the region of Transnistria, many new volunteers joined the committee. They provided aid to victims of other persecutions, including the ...

  4. Flygtningedatabasen 1933-1945

    • Refugee Database 1933-1945
    • Rigsarkivet
    • Flygtningedatabasen 1933-1945
    • English
    • 1933-1945
    • files of 8.160 refugees

    Database has files of 8.160 refugees: 1) political and Jewish refugees, some of which stayed for a shorter or a longer period of time in Denmark, 2) refugees who have been rejected at the border, 3) person who sought asylum in vain either from abroad or from family and friends.

  5. Mosaiska församlingens Flyktingsektion

    1. Jewish Community of Stockholm
    • Flyktingsektionen
    • Refugee Section
    • Riksarkivet Täby
    • Mosaiska församlingens Flyktingsektion
    • English
    • 1941-1972
    • 45,6 linear meters of textual records in archival boxes.

    The Refugee Section's archive mainly covers the period from 1941 to 1972, when the Jewish Community of Stockholm was reorganized. The archive includes some documents dating back to the establishment of the former Relief Committee in 1933, although these have separate indexes. The Refugee Section's archive mainly consists of documents related to the section's administration and refugee aid. The personal files in the archive regarding support cover the period up to 1980.

  6. Portrait of a German Jewish refugee

    1. Hockenheimer, Loewenthal, Fraenkel, and Brock families collection

    Watercolor and pencil portrait of Rudi Hockenheimer (later Ralph Hockley) painted by G.W. Mooy, another refugee in 1941 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Rudi, his parents, Julius and Lilli, and his sister Marianne escaped from Nazi Germany to Marseille, France. Julius was held in Les Milles and Gurs internment camps of Les Milles and Gurs. But in 1940, the family left for the United States on the ship Winnipeg, sailing by way of Trinidad.

  7. Leather pouch brought with Jewish refugee family

    1. Isidor and Fanny Bieder collection

    Small leather bag brought with the Bieder family, Isador and Fanny, and their daughters Gertrude, 10, and Frieda, 14, who were forced to leave Vienna, Austria, in 1939. After the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in March 1938, anti-Jewish laws were passed and Jews were targeted for persecution. Germans raided the family’s apartment, taking most of their valuables. A short while later, Isidor’s retail business was confiscated. During Kristallnacht on November 9-10, 1938, Isidor was arrested and beaten. As a condition of his release from prison, he agreed to leave Austria with his family...

  8. 18. "Inter - Governmental Committee on Refugee"

    1. Lelio Vittorio Valobra
    2. Delasem Svizzera. Corrispondenza con i collaboratori e con enti di soccorso internazionale

    Minute su velina della corrispondenza di Lelio Vittorio Valobra da Zurigo con sir Clifford Heastcote-Smith, dell' Inter - Governmental Committee on Refugee presso il Foreing Office di Londra. Si segnala: Relazione sui trasferimenti bancari tra l'Inghilterra e paesi appartenenti al blocco della sterlina e la Svizzera (13 ottobre 1944); Lettera di Valobra a Heastcote-Smith relativa a proposte di intervento a favore degli ebrei in Italia, attraverso la Nunziatura ed il Vaticano (31 ottobre 1944); Lista dattiloscritta di persone di cui si cercano notizie (31 ottobre 1944); "Short relation about...

  9. Pencil brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee

    1. Marcelle Faust collection

    Pencil from the Gerson family's company in Vienna.

  10. International Refugee Organization Internationale Vluchtelingen Organisatie

    Records of the Dutch Delegation of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees relating to various aspects of migration and relief work for the period 1947-1957. It concerns documents on the status of Jewish, Hungarian, Polish and other refugees and displaced persons; the reception of refugees in the Netherlands; assistance; restoration of rights and legal status; emigration facilities in South America, Canada and New Zealand; the arrangements regarding refugees in the various German occupation zones; guidelines for the compensation of Nazi followers; correspondence and reports from charita...

  11. Yarmulke carried by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Kurt (Rosenbaum) Goldsmith family collection

    Kippah taken by thirteen year old Kurt Rosenbaum when he was sent by his parents on Kindertransport to Belgium in March 1939.

  12. Tallit carried by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Kurt (Rosenbaum) Goldsmith family collection

    Tallit taken by thirteen year old Kurt Rosenbaum when he was sent by his parents on a Kindertransport to Belgium in March 1939.

  13. Tallit bag carried by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Kurt (Rosenbaum) Goldsmith family collection

    Tallit bag taken by Kurt Rosenbaum as he was sent by his parents on a Kindertransport to Belgium in March 1939.

  14. Documentation of the International Refugee Organization (IRO) in the Netherlands, 1947-1953

    Documentation of the International Refugee Organization (IRO) in the Netherlands, 1947-1953 Stichting Vijfhonderd joodse kinderen (Fund for 500 Jewish Children): 500 Jewish children, who were displaced persons, were brought to the Netherlands from the camps in Eastern Europe and given refuge in the De Biezen home in Barneveld; Included in the collection: Documents related to the Stichting Vijfhonderd Joodse kinderen fund, for the rescue of 500 Jewish children.

  15. Trunk used by a German Jewish refugee

    Trunk used by Ruth Linz's husband when he immigrated from Nazi Germany to the United States.

  16. Jewish refugee children, England, play in park

    Jewish refugee children playing in a park. MLS of kids dancing in a circle. Girl with a hoop. Group of children playing leapfrog. Children indoors with toys at table. CU girl with doll. CU boy writing letter. High angle view of long table and children eating soup. Eating at table.

  17. Ribbon commemorating the Pentcho refugee ship

    1. Pentcho collection

    Blue and white striped fabric ribbon with image of the Pentcho ship and the dates 1940-1980. Safety pin attached.

  18. Ribbon commemorating the Pentcho refugee ship

    1. Pentcho collection

    Blue and white striped fabric ribbon with image of the Pentcho ship and the dates 1940-1980. Safety pin attached.

  19. "The autobiography of a Jewish refugee"

    1. Charles Leigh collection

    Memoir, 169 pages, about Charles Leigh's family history, his experiences in Germany as a child, and his later escape to England on a Kindertransport.

  20. Refugee children in the Middle East

    In Egypt, a tent city with Polish children. Daily activities in the tent city. Children at the beach, engaging in athletic activities, eating bread, playing, studying, working, etc. Field school. Polish soldiers. Refugees in tents. Sign: "TEHERAN 3 KM/WARSAWY 4,371 KM." Sign: "SZKOLA POWSZECHNA NO. 3." Visit by officials, CUs. Stage performance, children and adults performing Polish dances. Detailed cescription with original narration: 01:38:05 Narration begins in Polish: "One key responsibility of the Polish Army in the East is the caretaking of Polish children in exile. Thanks to whom wil...