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  1. 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.

  2. Jewish Refugees Committee London

    • Jewish Refugee Committee

  4. The Institute for Care of Refugees

    • Ústav pro péči o uprchlíky

    1938 - 1940

    The Institute took care of refugees from Czechoslovak territories occupied by Nazi in 1938 and also of those people (mostly foreigners) who were fleeing before Nacism from 1933. The Institute helped with finding a temporary accomodation, food and medical care. It also provided financial help and tried to integrate refugees in the society again.

  5. Centralna Komisja Uchodźców

    • Central Commission for Refugees
    • CKU

    The Area Associations set up the Centralna Komisja Uchodźców with sections for welfare work, provisioning, kitchens, craft production, clothing, housing, individual assistance, sanitation, and finance. One of the tasks of CKU was to help deportees find work and income. The CKU also acted as an arbitration tribunal.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Polish Jewish Refugee Fund

  9. Central Location Index

    • CLI

    The Central Location Index (CLI) was established by various relief organizations in May 1944. The goal of the CLI was to concentrate data regarding refugees and those missing.

  10. 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.

  12. International Refugee Organization

    • IRO

    1946/1952-01

    International Refugee Organization, temporary specialized agency of the United Nations that, between its formal establishment in 1946 and its termination in 1952-01, assisted refugees and displaced persons in many countries of Europe and Asia who either could not return to their countries of origin or were unwilling to return for political reasons. Beginning operations on 1947-07-01, the IRO took over the work of its principal predecessor organization, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Among the services supplied by the IRO were the care and maintenance of refugee...

  13. Joseph Heidingsfeld

    Jewish Refugees in Switzerland

  14. Yitzhak Weisman

    Jewish Refugees in WWII

  15. James Grover McDonald

    High Commissioner for Refugees from Germany

  16. 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...

  17. Gertrude Van Tijn

    • גרטרודה ואן טיין

    Head of the Comite Voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen - CJV (Committee for Jewish Refugees) in Amsterdam.

  18. Sternbuch Isaac

    Representative in the Va'ad ha-hatsala rescue committee of the Orthodox rabbis in the United States together with his wife Recha. Headed the Relief Organisation for Jewish Refugees Abroad. Helped rescue numerous Jews from Poland and Czechoslovakia.

  19. 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.

  20. Theodor Oberländer

    • Theodor Oberlaender

    A Nazi expert on "Ostforschung", research of European areas to the East of Germany. After the war served in the West German government as Federal Minister for Displaced Persons, Refugees and Victims of War.