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  1. [Fundraising Efforts DALJEWCIB Shanghai/Harbin with Jewish Communities all over Asia]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Correspondence Of The In Harbin Located "DALJEWCIB" Office with a a Jewish community representative of the Jewish community of Bombay, regarding the emigration wave of Jewish refugees arriving in Harbin and Shanghai and a plea for financial assistance in order to help the disposessed refugees

  2. [Hell or Paradise]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several reports written by Paul Anderson, regading the reality of Soviet life. He gives informations about Soviet collective farms, the trade Unions and about Red Army refugees who recently escaped to the West from the Soviet zone of Germany. As Anderson argues communities in the country side of Russia had a hard and not easy life, which makes it even more surprising why they were still voting for the communist party. This is based ultimately on illudions and ideals that are false even if they are genuinely and sincerely belived in. To every Soviet citizen the first experi...

  3. [Intergovernmental Committee. Evian – July 1938. Report of the Technical Sub-Committee]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The technical sub-committee is appointed to hear in confidence the statements of laws and practices of the participating government and the statements of the number and types of immigrants each is prepared to receive as well as to consider the question of documentation for refugees. There are no legal restrictions in the countries represented upon the admission of refugees as such. The sub-committee recommends that if the immigrants do not have the usually required documents, then other documents serving the purpose of the requirements of law should be accepted.

  4. [Interministerial Commission for German Refugees - Protocols]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file deals with the outpouring of political and economic refugees from Germany from 1933 onwards as a result of the takeover of the NSDAP party under Adolf Hitler. Therefore an interministerial commission had been convened in the Belgian capital, Brussels, in order to address the refugee crisis and deal with the influx of refugees from Germany. The file contains the protocols of those sessions, including delegates named, topics discussed as well as assessments made of the overall political and economic situation in Germany after the Nazi government had come to power in early 1933.

  5. [Interministerial Commission for German Refugees - Protocols]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file deals with the outpouring of political and economic refugees from Germany from 1933 onwards as a result of the takeover of the NSDAP party under Adolf Hitler. Therefore an interministerial commission had been convened in the Belgian capital, Brussels, in order to address the refugee crisis and deal with the influx of refugees from Germany. The file contains the protocols of those sessions, including delegates named, topics discussed as well as assessments made of the overall political and economic situation in Germany after the Nazi government had come to power in early 1933.

  13. [IRO-ITS- Child Search Branch- Quarterly Report, July/August/ September 1949]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    This file contains a statistical review of the work done by the ITS in cooperation with the UNRRA and IRO in the third quarter of 1949. It included statistics about missing children, unaccompanied located children, a questionnaire called "Personal Data of the Child"(Personalien des Kindes) and an evaluation of the questionnaire.

  14. [ITS case file, 1947-1948]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Case about the guardianship of a findeling boy named Peter, born 1945. Several parties claimed guardianship over the orphan and the identification of such took over 2 years. It was unclear to the authorities whether the boy was Polish or German. Documentation includes declarations regarding the boy from the German court, and correspondences between the parties in German, English and polish.

  15. [Jahres Generalversammlung]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains an invitation to the annual meeting (Jahres Generalversammlung) of the Comite Israelite des Refugies Victimes des Lois Raciales (COREF). The annual meeting should take place at the 23rd of January 1949 in the Elysee 15, Place Fontainas, 1st Level. On the agenda were reports of the directorate, cash reports, discussions, general informations concerning Jewish life after the war and answering questions of the members. Afterwards a gathering with all members was planed to speak about new projects and past ones. Furthermore the members were asked to bring some cakes or snaks t...

  16. [Jewish emigration I]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains diplomatic correspondence between various diplomats of the German Foreign Ministry regarding the emigration of Jews from Germany following the Evian Conference of July 1938. The correspondence mostly contains letters and reports by Ernst von Weizsäcker and Ernst Woermann concerning a possible meeting between George Rublee, the director of the “Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees” that had been founded during the Evian Conference, and German Officials. While American, British and French diplomats urged the German Authorities to meet Rublee, the German side first rejecte...

  17. [Jewish emigration II]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains various diplomatic documents regarding the emigration of Jews from Germany following the Evian Conference of July 1938. The first document is a typewritten “Memorandum” of 3 pages, published in English and dated October 18, 1938, in Berlin. The “Memorandum” presents the newly established “Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees” and suggests a meeting between representatives of both the Committee and Germany in order to discuss details regarding the emigration of Jewish people planned by Germany within the context of its anti-Semitic politics. Furthermore, the file contain...

  18. [Jewish migration from Germany and Austria and the Comite voor Bijzondere Joodsche Belangen]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Professor Cohen was upset about a memorandum sent to him by Mr. Stephany and claims that it has done its best to solve the refugee problem.

  19. [Jewish restitution claims in Rheinland-Pfalz]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains the Law and Regulation sheet of the State Government of Rhineland-Palatinate, Part II, public advertisement dated March 17, 1950 (Gesetz- und Verordnungsblatt der Landesregierung Rheinland-Pfalz Teil II öffentlicher Anzeiger). On 57 pages the notices of the reparation chambers of State Government of Rhineland-Palatinate, for example refund and recompensation of real estates and other properties, are illustrated. Several parties are suing for a declaration of nullity and reimbursement of real estate and other property in accordance with ordinance no. 20 and 120 of the Frenc...

  20. [Labor and Refugee Camps in Switzerland during World War II]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains various memoranda concerning the treatment of and legal rules of behavior for war and Nazi prosecution victims seeking refuge in Switzerland for the duration of World War II, while being interned in labor and refugee camps.