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  1. [Correspondence & Reports of Dutch, Jewish Relief Organizations regarding Jewish Refugees]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains correspondence and numerous reports of Jewish refugee relief organizations in the Netherlands pertaining to the situation of Jewish refugees and the contiguous stream of Jewish and political exiles in Holland during the 1930s up until 1940 when the subsequent German occupation of the Netherlands began. The file contains reports in particular by two organizations, the "Comite voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen" as well as the "Comite voor Bijzondere Joodsche Belangen", moreover the High Commisioner for Refugees of the League of Nations as well as the Red Cross pertaining to the nu...

  2. [Resolution adopted by the Committee, July 14th 1938]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A resolution stating that a large number of involuntary immigrants cause various problems to the general economy as well as racism and religious problems. A long-range program is needed in accordance with existing immigration laws. Germany and Austria should collaborate and allow the refugees to take their property and possessions. Countries of refuge should be able to choose the emigrants and not be responsible for their financial situation. Another Intergovernmental meeting should take place in London on 3rd of August 1938.

  3. [Correspondence of DALJEWCIB with emigrants from Germany]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Correspondence of DALJEWCIB with emigrants from Germany regading living conditions, housing arrangements, work possibilities, exit- and entry permits into Manchdchukuo, Shanghai and Japanese occupied China, permanent resident status and obtaining Manchurian visa as well as residency

  4. Jews in Sweden II

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the second part of a collection of lists compiled by the Jewish community of Sweden. The list consists of two parts. The first for Jews who arrived before June 26th, 1945 (group 1) and the second part after (group 2). The lists are in alphabetical order (first and last name, date of birth, city and identity card no.) and grouped by nationality.

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Rabbi Abraham Efraim Nadelman, from Ostrow testifies about the incidents in his town from the 2nd September to the 2nd October 1939. He begins with describing the invasion of the Nazis and heavy canon fire and bombings that left a lot of casualties among the inhabitants. He depicts in details how the situation of the Jews of the town, with its Jeschiwa students, decreases rapidly and the Jews suffer severe torture and humiliation. Pious Jews suffer tremendously. Their beards get shaven off brutally, they get beaten and tortured for hours and they are forced to do degrading work. On every Je...

  6. [reports and resolutions of the sub-committees of the Conference for the relief of German Jewry]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Report of the Academic Committee of the Conference for Relief or German Jewry. Report of the Committee on Relief outside Germany. Resolutions adopted by Bureau. Location of the Committees. Report of the Reconstruction Committee. Report of the Refugees Sub-Committee. Report of the Sub-Committeeon Migration. Conference Resolution

  7. [A letter from Bentwich to Lord Herbert Samuel regarding Evian Conference]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A letter regarding the Zionists' wish to bring before the Evian Conference the whole Jewish problem and their pressure for the opening of Palestine for larger Jewish emigration. The American government is calling the conference primarily to deal with the problem of refugees from Germany and Austria rather than with a purely Jewish problem. There is no point of turning conference into a Jewish problem and it is better to focus on non-Aryan victims in Austria. According to Bentwich, it seems to be a pity that they Zionist should at this moment stress the need for a much greater immigration in...

  8. Jews in Sweden I

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the first part of lists of holocaust survivors from the Jewish community in Sweden. The information was collected through refugees in Sweden about inmates of Theresienstadt. It is a compilation of names (First and last name, date of birth, address in Theresienstadt and nationality) assembled from information gained from refugees arriving in Sweden in the summer of 1945. The compilation consists of three parts: parts 1 & 2 are alphabetical lists of prisoners in Theresienstadt in April 1945, part 3 is a list of names and year of birth from the czech orphanage (Tschechisches Ki...

  9. [DALJEWCIB in correspondence with the Jüdischer Hilfsbund (Jewish Relief Association) in Berlin on the intransigence of the Manchurian diplomatic mission in Berlin]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    DALJEWCIB correspondence with the Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland (Jewish Relief Association Germany) located in Berlin regarding the intransigence of the Manchurian diplomatic mission in Berlin in providing mostly Jewish emigrees with entry visas into Mandchukuo and the non-viability of the landroute to Mandchukuo

  10. [Arrival of destitute Jewish refugees in Dairen]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Report of DALJEWCIB regarding two groups of Jewish refugees arriving via the landroute from Siberia in Dairen and Shanghai and the warm welcome these refugees received from DALJEWCIB and rescue committee members.

  11. Correspondence Of The In Harbin Located "DALJEWCIB" Office Regarding Immigration Opportunities And Related Problems

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Correspondence the Harbin located "DALJEWCIB, The Far Eastern Jewish Central Information Bureau, regarding overall immigration opportunities for Jewish refugees and related emigration and immigration problems, including advice for organisations and individuals to turn toas well as offering assistance to refugees from Europe fleeing Nazi-Germany and Fascist-Italy and aligned Axis-states File divided into two subfiles, according to geographic location and professions

  12. [Correspondence of DALJEWCIB with emigrants from Germany]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Correspondence of DALJEWCIB with emigrants from Germany regading living conditions, housing arrangements, work possibilities, exit- and entry permits into Manchdchukuo, Shanghai and Japanese occupied China, permanent resident status and obtaining Manchurian visa as well as residency Part II of III

  13. Intergovernmental Committee. Evian Conference – July 1938. Verbatim Report of the Sixth Meeting (Public) held on Friday, July 15th, 1938 at 11 a.m.

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A recommendation to the governments to bring about a real improvement in the lives and prospects of refugees. Orderly immigration should replace disorderly exodus and emigrants should be able to take their possessions and property. United Kingdom accepts both resolutions. Palestine cannot be completely opened to Jewish refugees, because it is not a large country and special considerations arise out of the terms of the Mandate as well as out of local situation, which it is impossible to ignore. Difficulties in Palestine have led to proposals for drastic changes in the political structure of ...

  14. [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.

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of Shmuel Grossbard, 19 year old yeshiva student from Suwałki. He describes aerial bombardment and German planes flying over the city, and fire from the Polish military, as well as panic among the civilian population. The Germans entered the city the following day, and several of the neighboring cities that same day, but did no special harm. Here the testimony cuts off. Protocol No. 21 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 e...

  16. [Correspondence of DALJEWCIB Harbin with Jewish relief organizations in Germany regarding the modalities and guidelines for emigration to Madchukuo]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Correspondence of DALJEWCIB Harbin with Jewish relief organizations in Germany [Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland] regarding the modalities and guidelines for emigration to Manchoukuo. Especially how one is to obtain a permanent residence permit from Mandchurian bureaucracy by having a valid work contract and income in Manchoukuo

  17. [World Jewish Congress of Paris 1939]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains protocols, reports and memoranda issued either officially or internally during the Paris 1939 World Jewish Congress meetings by working groups and the organization itself. The file contains protocols and proposed resolutions regarding the situation of European Jewry and refugees from fascist and National Socialist rule 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.

  18. Six Mois D'Activite De La Section

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains a research realized by the Aide aux Israélites Victimes de la Guerre in Belgium regarding the resettelment and transit of Jews in 1945. After the war a lot of Jews were resettled to Belgium or used the country for a transit. This caused a lot of orgizational work for the relief organizations in Belgium. The Office national des anciens combattants et victimes de guerre (ONAC), the Aide aux Israélites Victimes de la Guerre (IVG), the Intergovernmental Committe on Refugees, the American Joint Distribution Committee and others created special committees concerning the needs of...

  19. [Memorandum to the Central British Fund for Relief Abroad, from the United Jewish Communities in Slovakia]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The Chief Rabbi Armin Frieder, Chairman of the United Jewish Communities in Slovakia writes a memorandum to the Central British Fund for Relief Abroad. First he is explaining how this organization was founded and aproved by the Slovak National Council in 1945. Before the war Slovakia had 120.000 Jews, only 25.000 survived and these are now organized in this organization. The Jewish communities in Slovakia suffer from missunderstanding by the Slovak National Council regarding the return of institutions, buildings, grounds and property which once belonged to this Jewish Community. They hoped ...

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of J. K., 19 year old yeshiva student from Zawady, a small village by Ostrow Mazowiecka. He describes the village being relatively unharmed at the beginning of the war, but tell that once the Germans entered it, they took all men, Jews and Poles, and deported them ot Germany. The men were held confined in a church for several days in harsh conditions, without food, then sent off by train. In Germany the Jews were separated from the Poles and sent on to a prisoner camp (stalag) near Stablak. They did forced labour on a minimal amount of poor food. The Poles also were brought there,...