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  1. [Documents from the estate of Julius Bloch regarding emigration to the United States]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Documents from Julius Bloch in January 17th 1939 sent from London via telegraph to his family (in Frankfurt/Main and New York) and the answer he received about the preparations for emigration to the United States as well as the restrictive laws concerning cash money of Jews in the Third Reich.

  2. Lists of Hungarian Jews in Belgium

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    An asortement of lists compilled by either the Royal Hungarian Consulate or the Sicheheitsdienst of the SS in Belgium, regarding Hungarian Jews under protection from the Hungarian government and to be released from custody in concentration camps in Belgium.

  3. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland: Statement No 8]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Protocol No. 8 is an English translation from original Yiddish. It was given by the 23 years old tailor Ajzenszer Jechiel about his escape from Warsaw on the 7-8 October 1939. In it, he describes bombardements and intense shootings in Warsaw and the advancements of the German troops. Furthermore, he depicts the different treatment of Christians and Jewish Poles by the Nazis. He shows how Jews were maltreated and their property taken and divided among the christan population. When Jechiel and some others were captured by the Nazis, they were badly tortured and kept in Transit Concentration C...

  4. [Restitution, business, tax, accounting and labor law in Germany]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains newspaper clippings by Der Bertriebs-Berater (business consultant) and other documents. The Betriebs-Berater is a weekly trade journal for business and tax lawyers since 1946. It gives relevant information from the areas of business, tax, accounting and labor law - each broken down according to independent headings. The newspaper deals with the topic of Rückerstattung (recompense) as a constitutional law, the interference of the state in economic questions, the control of foreign exchange, the law of taxation, income tax and other taxes. Furthermore topics of social law, s...

  5. Das Laterndl

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several informations about the 'Laterndl, Wiener Kleinkunstbühne' (the Lantern). The material which is attached includes programms, announcements of performances and social events, texts and drafts of satirical pieces, documentary photographs of performances and rehearsals, newspaper reports and critiques and letters. The Lantern was a small theater, founded and run by Austrian exiles in London during World War II. It was connected to the 'Austrian center', the 'Free Austrian Movement' and the 'Interniertenfond'. Opened on June 21st, 1939, it was active throughout the war ...

  6. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland: Statement No 107]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of L. B-ca., 38 year old social worker from Lodz. She describes the entry of the Germans into Lodz, and the evacuation of men, Jewish and Christian, of military age, preceding it. The local German ethnic population greeted the German army with joy, and the Jews avoided them, and generally avoided the streets for fear of persecutions. The commandant of the city called to him the two rabbis and after they were beaten they were brought into the synagogue and ordered to burn the Torah scrolls. They refused and were beaten again, their beards torn. The Germans issued orders forbidding ...

  7. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of B. H., 18 year old student from Vishnevets. He states that while the town had no military operations of any kind or any military presence, it was bombarded heavily by German airplanes, and the Jewish sections of the town suffered heavy damage, with one street completely destroyed. There were about sixty people killed, twenty of them Jews. Protocol No. 155 is an extract from a volume of protocols /statements provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugee writers and journalists who fled to Vilnius, Lithuania. In 1939 they formed a committee to collect evidence on the condition of ...

  8. [World Jewish Congresses of 1944 on Jewish Emergency Relief measures and 1948 the creation of the State of Israel]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains protocols, reports and memoranda issued either officially or internally during the 1944 and 1948 World Jewish Congress meetings by working groups and the organization itself. Moreover the file contains open editorials and proposed resolutions regarding the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 as well as lists of individually attending delegates and national delegations. Moreover the file also contains resolutions and proposals regarding emergency relief of Jewish persons who suffered under Nazi and fascist rule in newly liberated areas in Eastern and Western Europe.

  9. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland: Statement No 109]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of H. M., 33 year old trader from Hrubieszów. The city was taken over by the Germans, and then by the Russians, who arrested people as provocateurs. The Russians left the city after only a short time, returning it to German control. The Germans executed Jews in town and kidnapped Jews for conscript labor. After the German reentry, the Polish population attempted to dismiss the Jews from the civil guard and city authorities, until the guard had been dismantled by the Germans and replaced with a Ukrainian contingent. With which the Polish population cooperated against the Jews. The ...

  10. [List of displaced German scholars]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file consists of 294 cards listing the names of exiled scholars in alphabetical order and one duplicate. Each card lists the date of birth, profession and biographical information as well as the area of expertise. Some entries include a third copy with updates. Most professions are in the humanities.

  11. [Conference for the relief of German Jewry]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains the booklet version of the “Reports and Resolutions” of the “Conference for the Relief of German Jewry” held in London in October 1933. The contributions include the Report of the Sub-Committee on Migration, the Report of the Committee on Relief outside Germany, the Report of Academic Committee, the Report of Reconstruction Committee, the Report of Refugees’ Sub-Committee, the Resolutions adopted by the Conference, as well as the opening speech by Neville J. Laski and the closing speech by Chaim Weizmann.

  12. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Protocol No 118 is a testimony by Israel A., a jeshiva student from Lyda, a city near Minsk. He states that on the 1st of September 1939 he saw the first german airplanes above Lyda and one week later the city was bombed. After the polish military had left the city on the 17th of September, the inhabitants formed a people's militia, Jews and Polish people together. The head of the militia was the mayor of the city who also prevented anti-jewish riots. He further states that the Bolshevik which entered the town on the 19th of September were warmly welcomed by the Jews. On the 22nd of Septemb...

  13. [Propaganda in Ungarn, unter Bezugnahme auf den Erlass vom 26. April 1933, P2143]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains a report by the German Embassy of Budapest to the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin dated 31.07.1933 as an answer to decree P2143 from 26.04.1933 regarding Anti-German propaganda in Hungary. There are two main sources of Anti-German Propaganda in Hungary: the ones rooted in Hungary's inner political life and the ones influenced by foreign countries like France and Poland. The report names reasons for Anti-German Propaganda and means of promoting it. Furthermore, it describes the Hungarian Press, the French and Polish Propaganda in more detail. It also mentions influcence f...

  14. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of J. F., 27 years old lacemaker from L'viv. After initial bombardments, he describes the German control of L'viv, and the sabotage of efforts to establish Jewish civilian authorities after the invasion. He describes the welcome of the Ukrainian population and their actions against the Jews of the city by serving as informers. Likewise, he described the fleeing of the Jewish population from the neighboring city of Krystynopol, and the temporary retaking of it by the Polish military. The Jews of Krystonopol received the Poles with joy and resisted the Germans with Molotov cocktail ...

  15. [Correspondence between Rosenblueth, Bentwich and Stephany]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Correspondence between Rosenblueth, Bentwich and Stephany and others regarding the memorandum from the Council of the German Jewry at the Evian conference.

  16. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland: Record No. 18]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Ezriel Kruk was a jewish soldier in the Polish army, a member for the jewish comittee in Lipna and a member of the Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund in Lite, Poyln un Rusland (General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia. He depicts how on the 5th of September 1939 the civil population and the army were evacuated from Lipna. Although the Germans and the Jews of his unit were not put on guard anymore, he stayed with the unit and testified how the Polish army arrested german civilians. He also describes lynching of German civilians by the Polish population. During heavy air raids...

  17. [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

  18. [Report of the Sub-Committee for the Reception of Organisations concerned with the Relief of Political Refugees coming from Germany including Austria. The report inludes an annex]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    List of bodies, individuals and countries participating in the Evian Conference. The annex gives the main features of the declarations made at the Evian meeting. There are four schools of thought regarding refugees: 1. Return Jews to Palestine, 2. Assistance to Jews to be assimilated into new national environment into which they are transplanted, 3. Emigrants should have placed at their disposal an area not inhabited by any other population, 4. Jews should be guaranteed in their present country of residence all necessary protection.

  19. [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.

  20. Enquiry concerning relative of unaccompanied child in Germany

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Form about the sought of the parent of an unaccompanied child by the Preparatory Commission for the international Refugee Organization (PCIRO). The enquiry is about a mother named Regina that was an inmate at the women's Concentration Camp in Ravenbrück / Germany. This enquiry is a cooperation between the military authorities and the PCIRO.