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  1. Raoul Wallenberg Project Archive collection

    Consists of interviews and transcripts collected by the Raoul Wallenberg Project containing testimony of Holocaust survivors from Hungary. The interviews contain information about the diplomatic work of the Swedish government and its agents, among them Raoul Wallenberg, Per Anger, and Charles Lutz, in Hungary (primarily Budapest) during 1944 and 1945. Also contains records copied from Sweden's Foreign Office, the Hungarian Interior Ministry, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in New York, the Public Record Office in London, and the War Refugee Board in Hyde Park, N.Y.

  2. Anna Leist collection

    The collection consists of a handmade portfolio and five books relating to the experiences of Anna Zajac and her sister Lydia in the Ahawah Children's Home in Berlin, Germany, from 1936-1938 and her subsequent journey to Great Britain as a Kindertransport refugee in December 1938.

  3. Norman A. Miller family collection

    The collection consists of religious and military artifacts, correspondence, a diary, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Norman A. Miller and his family before and during the Holocaust in Nuremberg, Germany, and in Great Britain where Miller was a Kindertransport refugee and later a World War II soldier, as well as his postwar life in England, Canada, and the United States.

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    World Jewish Relief

    • Central British Fund
    • United Kingdom
    • Oscar Joseph House, 54 Crewys Road, London, England
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    Association of Jewish Refugees, Serving Holocaust Refugees and Survivors Nationwide

    • AJR
    • United Kingdom
    • Winston House / 2 Dollis Park, Finchley, England

  6. Executive Files

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Relief and Rescue Departments

    Consists of correspondence of the Relief Department (and includes some material related to the Rescue Department) along with files of the Relief Committee, Arieh Tartakower, Kalman Stein, and Kurt R. Grossman. Also included are files from the Courses on Jewish Social Work, a training program for social workers planning to help displaced Jews in Europe that was sponsored by the WJC in 1945. Box D1. Folder 1. World Jewish Congress, relief work, reports and drafts, 1939-1941 Box D1. Folder 2. World Jewish Congress, relief work, memos and reports, 1942-1943 Box D1. Folder 3. World Jewish Congre...

  7. Alphabetical Files, A-Z

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Alphabetical Files

    Box H1. Folder 1. Aden, 1947-1948 Box H1. Folder 2. Aden, 1958-1968 Box H1. Folder 3. Aden, Aden Chronicle, Messa, Bentob, 1960-1967 Box H1. Folder 4. Aden, disturbances, 1947-1948 Box H1. Folder 5. Aden, Jewish Emergency Committee, 1947-1949 Box H1. Folder 6. Aden, Kubowitzki, Aryeh L., mission, 1949 Box H1. Folder 7. Aden, Messa, Bentob, 1965, 1967 Box H1. Folder 8. Aden, Organization Department, 1947-1950 Box H1. Folder 9. Aden, Organization Department, 1951-1952 Box H1. Folder 10. Aden, Organization Department, 1953-1959 Box H1. Folder 11. Aden, Political Department, 1956, 1958-1962 Box...

  8. Komitet pomoshchi evreiskim bezhentsam (g. Zagreb)

    • Odbor za pomoc židovskim izbeglicam (Zagreb); Committee for Aid to Jewish Refugees (Zagreb)

    The collection's contents are described in one inventory, which is arranged by structure and chronology. Deposited in the collection are documents connected with the activities of the Zagreb HICEM Committee regarding the reception, settling, and transport to third countries of Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria. It includes correspondence with HICEM committees in Austria, the United States, Britain, Germany, Italy, and other countries, and with the Union of Jewish Religious Communities of Yugoslavia, the German Jewish Aid Society, the Jewish religious community of Brody, the JDC, the ...

  9. Sbírka Československé školy ve Velké Británii

    • Collection of the Czechoslovak school in the United Kingdom
    • Národní archiv
    • 1578
    • English
    • 1941-1945
    • 1,3 linear metres of which 1,3 linear metres inventoried. The fonds is partially accessible.

    The collection consist of originals and copies of the various documents, such as copies of identity documents, birth certificates, writing pads, textbooks, school certificates, photographs, messages from teachers to parents (or to the legal representatives of children), memoirs, school notes, presentations and newspapers. These materials also relate to more than 670 mostly Jewish children saved by the Kindertransporte organised by Nicolas Winton and other rescuers.

  10. Location Service

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Relief and Rescue Departments

    The Location Service files include lists of survivors, known dead, and inmates of concentration and refugee camps. The subseries also contains correspondence, reports, and other materials pertaining to displaced persons camps and survivors after the war. Box D46. Folder 1. Displaced persons location index, lists, memos, releases, 1942-1946 Box D46. Folder 2. Location service activity reports by Finkelstein, Chaim, 1943-1948 Box D46. Folder 3. Central roster, central registration, 1943-1945 Box D46. Folder 4. Central Location Index, 1944-1946 Box D46. Folder 5. American Red Cross, Washington...

  11. Correspondence with d’Avigdor-Goldsmid, Henry

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding the delivery of published material to d’Avigdor-Goldsmith; the storage of archival material, compiled by the Dutch Jewish Refugee Committee in the 1930s and then held by The Wiener Library; and the Library’s grant applications to the Claims Conference, the Allocation Committee and the Humanitarian Trust. Included is also a letter of condolence to his wife.

  12. Correspondence with Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR)

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence - with AJR chairman Werner Rosenstock almost exclusively - comprises a wide variety of issues including amongst others: an AJR Information editorial on the work of the Jewish Restitution Successor Organisation; an obituary on Ludwig Foerder; publishing the memoirs of Gustav Schröder, captain of the MS St. Louis, in England; the visit of The Wiener Library by a group of young German unionists; and an appreciation of Leonard Montefiore in the AJR Information on occasion of his 70th birthday.

  13. Testimony of Fritz Beer, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1911, regarding his experiences in Poland, with a Czechoslovakian Army unit in France and England, and in combat in Dunkirk

    1. O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

    Testimony of Fritz Beer, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1911, regarding his experiences in Poland, with a Czechoslovakian Army unit in France and England, and in combat in Dunkirk Born in Czechoslovakia; activities of Jewish Communists in Brno and Prague, 1930-1939. Organizing escapes to Poland, 1939; formation of the Writers and Journalists Aid Committee in Krakow; cooperation with Herman Field, the British Refugee Committee representative; struggle to obtain refugee visas to England; Communist infiltration of liberal refugee organizations in London; Communist influence over liberal refugee...

  14. Rabbi Munk Personal Archive: Correspondence with prominent people and various relief organizations regarding assistance to refugees and appropriate representation of Agudat Israel in refugee organizations, 1940-1944

    1. P.15 - Rabbi Eli Munk Archives: Correspondence regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees in Germany during the early post-Holocaust years

    Rabbi Munk Personal Archive: Correspondence with prominent people and various relief organizations regarding assistance to refugees and appropriate representation of Agudat Israel in refugee organizations, 1940-1944 Also in the file: Lists of names of refugees some of whom are in camps and some of whom have emigrated including the country to which they emigrated.

  15. Rabbi Munk Personal Archive: Correspondence with the Refugee Children's Movement in England and additional organizations regarding care for refugee children in England, including dormitories, schools, foster parents and religious education, 1939-1964

    1. P.15 - Rabbi Eli Munk Archives: Correspondence regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees in Germany during the early post-Holocaust years

    Rabbi Munk Personal Archive: Correspondence with the Refugee Children's Movement in England and additional organizations regarding care for refugee children in England, including dormitories, schools, foster parents and religious education, 1939-1964 Also in the file: - Two lists of children; - Various reports regarding the situation of the refugee children in England.

  16. Correspondence of the -Polish Jewish Refugee Fund in London with the representatives in Geneva regarding extending relief help to Jews in Poland

    1. M.17 - Documentation of the Polish Jewish Refugee Fund in Geneva, 1933-1940

    Correspondence of the -Polish Jewish Refugee Fund in London with the representatives in Geneva regarding extending relief help to Jews in Poland Financial support of the Lithuanian Government for the Polish Jewish Refugee Fund; inquiry into the situation of the Jews in Poland by their relatives by means of sending postcards to Poland; replies to the postcards sent; appointment of Yoseph Thon as chairman of the PRC [?] in Geneva in place of Theodor Grubner; Included in the file: List of Jews who arrived in Ulanow and Jarocin in Poland from the Kattowitz and Teschen areas, October 1939.

  17. Correspondence of the Polish Jewish Refugee Fund with the representation in Geneva regarding extending relief help to the Jews in Poland

    1. M.17 - Documentation of the Polish Jewish Refugee Fund in Geneva, 1933-1940

    Correspondence of the Polish Jewish Refugee Fund with the representation in Geneva regarding extending relief help to the Jews in Poland Inquiry into the situation of the Jews in Poland by their relatives by way of sending postcards to Poland; replies to the postcards that were sent; activities of the American, German and Polish Red Cross; Included in the file: - Notification of the Juedische Telegraphen-Agentur (JTA - Jewish Telegraphic Agency) regarding various issues including Jewish refugees and the situation of the Jews in the Baltic and European countries and in Eretz Israel; - Excerp...

  18. Testimony of Fischl Davidovic, born in Czechoslovakia, regarding his experiences in detention in Poland, 1938, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in France and England and being wounded, 1944

    1. O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

    Testimony of Fischl Davidovic, born in Czechoslovakia, regarding his experiences in detention in Poland, 1938, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in France and England and being wounded, 1944 Born in Czechoslovakia. Service in a Czechoslovakian military intelligence unit during the mobilization, 1938; capture and arrest in Poland; release after intervention by members of the Jewish community in Stary Sambor, 1939; establishment of a joint refugee center in Krakow; establishment of a refugee group headed by Prof. Goldstuecker; arrival in England via Sweden, May 1939; transfer to the Czechoslo...

  19. Testimony of Malvina (Friedmannova) Fantova, born in Cejkov, Czechoslovakia, regarding her experiences in Poland, the Soviet Union and as soldier in the Czechoslovakian Army

    1. O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

    Testimony of Malvina (Friedmannova) Fantova, born in Cejkov, Czechoslovakia, regarding her experiences in Poland, the Soviet Union and as soldier in the Czechoslovakian Army Born in Czechoslovakia. Hungarian occupation of Carpathian Ruthenia; dramatic evacuation from Carpathian Ruthenia, 1939; unsuccessful attempt to escape to Great Britain; handed over to the Germans at the Dutch border; interrogation by the Gestapo; expulsion to Poland; life in a refugee center in Katowice, 1939; air flights to Rowne during the war between Germany and Poland; role of the Communists in classifying and deci...

  20. Testimony of Jindřich Hora, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1909, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Patria", 1940, in the Atlit camp, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Tobruk, in England and in combat in Dunkirk; persecution by the Comm

    1. O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

    Testimony of Jindřich Hora, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1909, regarding his aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Patria", 1940, in the Atlit camp, as a Czechoslovakian Army soldier in Tobruk, in England and in combat in Dunkirk; persecution by the Communists after 1948 Member of a group of Jewish military men abroad the refugee ship, "Patria", sailing to Eretz Israel, 1940; contacts with the Czechoslovakian attaché in Jerusalem; refusal of the British to grant permission to dock; explosion abroad the "Patria"; sinking of the "Patria"; detention of the survivors in the Atlit camp; enlistm...