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Item type: Archival Descriptions

  1. Refugee children

    This story contains the last minute of an 11 minute documentary piece. Children listening to radio (staged), narration in English. Scenes from Julien Bryan's "Siege of Warsaw". Malnourished children, Russian children.

  2. Hungarian Refugee Registration Cards

    Hungarian refugee registration cards, created in the outbreak of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. More than 18,000 Jews fled to Austria. The AJJDC helped emigrants for resettlement, also supported two kosher kitchens in Vienna and furnished medical and religious supplies. While some emigrants stayed in Europe, other group of refugees emigrated to the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Israel and Latin America.

  3. Swiss refugee regulations document

    1. Max K. Liebmann collection

    Contains a document issued by the Justice and Police Department in Geneva, Switzerland, in July 1944, stating regulations and decisions regarding the forbiddance of dancing, visiting bars, and gambling by refugees.

  4. Refugee Relief poster collection

    The collection consists of three posters made to promote awareness of the need for refugee relief in the United States during World War II.

  5. Polish refugee children

    Title: "P.I.C. Films, Inc. Presents: Children in Refuge" "A film dedicated to children who suffer because of war" American children in classroom. Ruins in Warsaw (Julien Bryan footage from "Siege" of Warsaw in 1939). Relief packages for Polish children. National War Fund. Polish War Relief. American children reading thank you letters from Polish children. Scenes from refugee camps in Iran, Palestine, South Africa, Kenya, military school in Scotland. Unique shots include footage of emaciated boys in tattered clothing (at 01:11:13 and 01:11:27). These are Polish children deported to the Sovie...

  6. Refugee Assistance Fund letter

    Contains a printed announcement in letter form about the "Refugee Assistance Fund." The letter indicates that some money was raised at Albert Hall "as a result of his (Einstein's) generous and unselfish help when he spoke to the only public gathering he has ever addressed," but more money is needed for the cause.

  7. UJRA Refugee Case Files

    1. UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)

    UJRA refugee assistance program including immigration, vocational placement, location service, loans and relief. This series concerns such cases opened at the outbreak of the war and often not closed until after the war.

  8. Refugee organisations UK: notes

    These contemporary notes on the various refugee aid committees based at Bloomsbury House, London, give some idea of the provision, which existed for refugees during the war.

  10. [National Refugee Service]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Message of the President William Rosenwald to the Members of the Board of directors of the National Refugee Service from 1943. Report of the Executive Director Albert Abrahamson to the Members and Bord of Directors of the National Refugee Service from 1942 dealing among others with the Enemy Alien Messure

  11. Jewish refugee children in Britain

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 727, Part 2C. Release date, 12/12/1938. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Young Refugees Reach Britain" Harwich, England. 206 German-Jewish youngsters, whose parents fill Nazi concentration camps, arrive on peaceful shores with their meager belongings to start life anew in comfortable quarters and in safe surroundings. Young Jewish refugees arrive in Britain, including Hans Berlinsky [now John Berrys] at 12:10:08. Girls walking down ramp from ship. Coats. Suitcases. Boys and girls walking along street with luggage. CU of smiling, happy boys. ...

  12. 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...

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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...

  18. 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...

  19. Pencil brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee

    1. Marcelle Faust collection

    Pencil from the Gerson family's company in Vienna.

  20. 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...