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  1. Υπηρεσία Αναζητήσεων Ελληνικού Ερυθρού Σταυρού

    • Hellenic Red Cross Tracing Department
    • Ypiresia Anazitiseon Ellinikou Erithrou Staurou
    • Διεύθυνση Αναζητήσεων του Ελληνικού Ερυθρού Σταυρού
    • Diefthynsi Anazitiseon tou Ellinikou Erythrou Stavrou

    Ever since its foundation, in 1915, until now the Hellenic Red Cross Tracing Department has performed very significant task. During its course, it has not only been active in unstable situations, in time of war and peace tracing missing persons, both in Greece and abroad, but also it has facilitated communication between captives, detainees and refugees and their relatives. Goals · Maintain family unity · Restore family links · Maintain communication among family members · Trace the missing persons and inform their relatives The Hellenic Red Cross Tracing Department has the largest tracing ...

  2. Lelio Vittorio Valobra

    • לליו ויטוריו ולוברה
    • Valobra, Lelio Vittorio

    Jewish activist; head of the DELASEM, the relief organization for refugees of the Jewish communities in Italy

  3. Stopford´s action

    • Stopfordova akce

    1938/1939

    After the signment of the Munich agreement in 1938 the British government decided to provide financial support (officially it was a loan for the Czechoslovak government) to refugees and emmigrants from former Czechoslovakia to other states. A person charged with care about matters of refugees was a british clerk Robert J. Stopford. British government gave about 4 millions pounds. Untill March 1939 this financial aid was given about 12.000 emigrants who than moved to Palestine, United States and Great Britain.

  4. 16-я 'Литовская' стрелковая дивизия

    • 16th Lithuanian Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
    • Lietuviškoji 16-oji Raudonosios Armijos divizija

    The 16th Rifle Division was a formation in the Red Army created during the Second World War. The division was formed twice, and was given the title 'Lithuanian' during its second formation. It was originally established at Novgorod in October 1939. In the end of 1941 reformed and given the title 'Lithuanian', the division participated in several battles against Nazi Germany, including Kursk, Belarus, and the Baltic. It was disbanded at the end of the war, although it was briefly revived in 1955 before being disbanded once more. When the 16th Division was reformed after its destruction, it w...

  5. Československý červený kříž, Londýn

    • Czechoslovak Red Cross, London

    After the forced dissolution of the Czechoslovak Red Cross on 5th of August 1940 by the German occupiers the Czechoslovak government in Exile founded the Czechoslovak Red Cross in London and its delegations in Egypt, Iran, Italy, Palestine, USA. After the liberation of Czechoslovakia, the London office moved to Prague. During the war, the main task of the Czechoslovak Red Cross was to provide medical care for the military, the medical care for Czechoslovak refugees and for Czechoslovak citizens in the territory of Nazi Germany.

  6. Abraham Asscher

    19 September 1880 – 2 May 1950

    a Dutch Jewish businessman and politician from Amsterdam. In the 1930s, he became a leader and spokesmen of the Dutch Jewish community. He served as the President of the nation’s central Jewish organization, the Nederlandsch-Israëlitsch Kerkgenootschap (Dutch Jewish Congregation). When Jewish refugees began to flee in numbers to the Netherlands from the Nazi regime in Germany, it was Asscher, along with Professor David Cohen, who established (with government support) two organizations to deal with the situation. The Comité voor Bijzondere Joodse Belangen (Committee for Special Jewish Intere...

  7. ESRA

    • Israelitische Zentrale für soziale Fürsorge „ESRA"

    Help organisation for Jewish refugees founded by the Luxembourg Jewish Communities. ESRA helped Jewish refugees from Germany and from German occupied territories.

  8. Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency in Budapest

    • ועדת העזרה וההצלה ב-Budapest

    Hungarian Zionist Alliance for Rescuing Refugees and Persecuted Jews

  9. Jewish Refugees Committee London

    • Jewish Refugee Committee

  12. Gradska uprava narodnih dobara Sarajevo

    • City's bureau for public goods Sarajevo

    1945 - 1946

    After World War 2 bureaus (directorates) were formed to manage the property war criminals, but also of individuals and families that were forcefully taken away or became refugees. The government thus aimed to manage these properties until it is returned to owners or assigned to someone else (in accordance with the law: Zakon o postupanju sa imovinom sopstvenika koji su je morali napustiti... Sl. list DFJ no. 36/45).

  13. Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society

    • HIAS

    1880/present

    The primary mission of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society is to help Jews whose lives and freedom are endangered. Since 1880, HIAS has been the worldwide arm of the American Jewish community for rescue, relocation, family reunification, and resettlement of refugees and other migrants.

  14. Polish Jewish Refugee Fund

  16. Bibelforscher

    • Jehovah's Witnesses

    1870s/present

    Founded in the United States in the 1870s, the Jehovah's Witnesses organization sent missionaries to Germany to seek converts in the 1890s. By the early 1930s, only 20,000 (of a total population of 65 million) Germans were Jehovah's Witnesses, usually known at the time as "International Bible Students". Even before 1933, despite their small numbers, door-to-door preaching and the identification of Jehovah's Witnesses as heretics by the mainstream Protestant and Catholic churches made them few friends. Individual German states and local authorities periodically sought to limit the group's pr...

  17. Comité d’Assistance aux Refugiés

    • Committee for Assistance to Refugees
    • CAR

    With the moderation of French policy toward the refugees as a result of the election of the Popular Front government in the spring of 1936, French Jewish refugee relief revived. At the initiative of the Joint Distribution Committee, a new committee, Comité d’Assistance aux Refugiés, was established with Raymond-Raoul Lambert as its general secretary. Under Lambert’s leadership, CAR focused on providing assistance, including vocational retraining, that would enable the refugees to finds a niche in France. From the fall of 1938 until the outbreak of the war in 1939-09 the staff of CAR worked ...

  18. Delegazione per l’Assistenza agli ebrei Emigranti

    • DELASEM

    1939-12/1943-09-08

    Delegazione per l’Assistenza agli ebrei Emigranti was Jewish welfare agency, founded in 1939-12 to help Jewish refugees in Italy. It operated until 1943-09-08.

  19. HICEM

    Founded in 1927

    HICEM is established in 1927, with the goal to help European Jews emigrate. HICEM was formed with the merger of three Jewish migration associations: Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, which was based in New York; Jewish Colonization Association, which was based in Paris but registered as a British charitable society; and Emigdirect, a migration organization based in Berlin. By the time the Second World War broke out in 1939-09, HICEM had offices all over Europe, South and Central America, and the Far East. Its employees advised and prepared European refugees for emigration, including helping the...

  20. Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees

    • IGCR

    Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees was a rescue organization set up as a result of the Evian Conference to search for new areas of large-scale Jewish settlements, find ways of pressuring the German government to release Jews, and prompt Evian nations (thirty-two) to accept Jews. The IGCR’s lukewarm rescue efforts were ineffective and did not lower immigration barriers. Its very existence, a mere token, frustrated other rescue plans.