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  1. 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

  2. League of Nations

    1919/1946

    The League of Nations was an international peacekeeping organization set up as part of the Versailles Treaty in 1919, with headquarters in Geneva. Appeals by German Jews regarding human rights in the Reich were not adjudicated. Its High Commission for Refugees was ineffectual, leading James Grover McDonald to resign. Insincerity of the great powers lead to the League’s impotency. The High Commissioner for Refugees revealed, as early as 1939, the fate of Jewry in various countries and the persecution and gross violations of human rights. Although the League existed until 1946, it was replace...

  3. Relief Committee for the War Stricken Jewish Population

    • RELICO

    Founded in 1939-09

    The Relief Committee for the War Stricken Jewish Population was established in Geneva on 1939-09 by Dr. Abraham Silberschein under the aegis of the World Jewish Congress. He assisted Jewish refugees from Germany and later from Poland and Lithuania and other areas of Europe. This organization was instrumental in getting refugees to Kobe, Japan, and Shanghai, China. It was also one of the first to apprise the world of the Chelmno and Treblinka death camps. The Relief Committee for the War Stricken Jewish Population’s attempt to obtain 10,000 South American passports for prominent Poles fell t...

  4. Paul Grüninger

    • Paul Grueninger

    Head of the District Police of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Between August and December 1938, after the Switzerland closed its borders to Jewish refugees following the Anschluss, Paul Grueninger provided forged entry visas to more than 3,000 Jewish refugees backdating their visas and falsifying other documents. Paul Grueninger was dimissed from his office and lost all his rights, including his retirement benefits. He lived in harsh conditions until his death in 1972. In 1995, the Swiss federal Government finally annulled Grüninger's conviction and cleared his name completely. Paul Grueninger ...

  5. Commission des Camps des Oeuvres Israélites d’Assistance aux Réfugiés

    • Commission des Camps

    Founded in 1941-01

    Dr. Joseph Weill took part in the creation of the Commission des Camps des Oeuvres Israélites d’Assistance aux Réfugiés in 1941-01. He tried to made immediate improvements in the atrocious internment conditions in close conjunction with the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants.

  6. Oeuvres d'Aide Sociale Israélite

    • Israelite Social Aid Agency

    Founded in 1939-11

    The Oeuvres d'Aide Sociale Israélite was established in 1939-11 to aid Jewish refugees, extended their services to all Alsatians and Lorrainers in need after the German occupation of the border provinces.

  7. 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.

  8. Heim Otto

    • Heim, Otto H. 1896-1978
    • Heim, Otto H. 1896-1978

    17/11/1896

    12/05/1978

    Helped refugees during WWII, member of Verband Schweizerischer Jüdischer Fürsorgen VSJF (Association of Swiss Jewish Refugee Aid and Welfare Organisations) during the war and head of the VSJF 1945-1968.

  9. Steinerová, Hana (* 27.4.1894)

    Born 1894. Died 1944 in Auschwitz. Dedicated Zionist and social worker. One of the leading possition in Prague branch of HICEM, helped hundreds of Jewish refugees. Worked for the Jewish Community in Prague, in charge of the Department for Emigration. Deported to Terezín in July 1943. Transported to Auschwitz in October 1944.

  10. Abraham Silberschein

    Born in 1882, in Lwow, Poland, Dr. Abraham Silberschein was an attorney who dedicated himself to public service. He was one of the outstanding leaders of the Labor Zionist movement in Poland, and in 1922, he was elected by the movement to serve in the Polish Sejm as the Labor Zionist representative . In 1930 he arrived in Geneva as a representative to the Zionist Congress. Due to the outbreak of World War II, Dr. Silberschein did not return to Poland, but he remained in Switzerland from where he tried to organize relief activities for the persecuted Jews in Poland and Germany. He was the fo...

  11. Jüdische Nachrichten

    • Jewish News
    • JUNA

    Founded in 1936

    Jüdische Nachrichten was founded by the Schweizerischer Israelitischer Gemeindebund (SIG), Zürich, as its press office in 1936, with the objectives not only to confront Nazism but also to address growing Anti-semitism in Switzerland. To this end it produced news bulletins in German and French and distributed them to numerous editorial offices throughout Switzerland. Under the leadership of Dr. Benjamin Sagalowitz JUNA amassed a large archive of documentation concerning the Holocaust and the fate of Jewish refugees and other related subjects.

  12. Komisja Koordynacyjna Żydowskich Instytucji Społecznych

    • Coordinating Commission for Jewish Social Welfare Institutions
    • KK

    Founded in 1939-09-14

    On 1939-09-14, the Komisja Koordynacyjna Żydowskich Instytucji Społecznych was set up as one of the parts of the civil defense of Warsaw. In the first months of the occupation the KK organized district offices, set up a Section for Care of Refugees and Those Made Homeless and a Section for People's Kitchens.

  13. Eidgenössisches Justiz- und Polizeidepartement

    • Division of the Federal Department of Justice and Police
    • EJPD

    After Hitler seized power in Germany in early 1933, the Eidgenössisches Justiz- und Polizeidepartement issued regulations, approved by the Federal Counsil (the head of the Swiss executive branch), under which the borders were to be kept open, but refugees in most cases were to be granted only temporary residence.

  14. 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.

  15. Mayer Saly

    • מאיר סלי
    • Mayer, Saly, 1882-1950
    • Saly, Mayer
    • Saly, Mayer, 1882-1950

    1882

    1950

    President of the Schweizerische Israelische Gemeindebund (Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities) [SIG] 1936-1943 and representative of JOINT in Switzerland.

  16. Josef Rosensaft

    Josef Rosensaft (January 15, 1911 - September 11, 1975) was a Holocaust survivor who led the community of Jewish displaced persons (Sh'erit ha-Pletah) through the establishment of a Central Committee of Liberated Jews that first served the interests of the refugees in Bergen-Belsen DP camp and then DP camps throughout the entire British sector.

  17. 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.

  18. Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency in Budapest

    • ועדת העזרה וההצלה ב-Budapest

    Hungarian Zionist Alliance for Rescuing Refugees and Persecuted Jews

  19. 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).

  20. Schweizerischer Israelitischer Gemeindebund

    • Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities
    • SIG

    1904-11-27/present

    On 1904-11-27, 27 representatives of the 13 Jewish communities from the whole of Switzerland met in Baden for a founding assembly. Articles of association were adopted and a five-member executive appointed, thus constituting the launch of the Schweizerischer Israelitischer Gemeindebund. The objective of the newly founded association was 'to safeguard and represent the general interests of Judaism in Switzerland’. Early 1930s SIG redoubled its offensive against anti-Semitism by inaugurating its own press office late in 1936 - the Jüdische Nachrichten. During the Second World War the SIG and ...