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  2. Jewish Refugees Committee London

    • Jewish Refugee Committee

  4. 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 ...

  5. Chaim Pazner

    • חיים פזנר
    • Chaim Pozner

    1899-1981

    Chaim Pazner was born in Kowal, Poland, 04 January 1899. In his youth he was active in the Hechalutz movement in the Wloclawek area in Poland, and he served as Vice-Principal of the Hebrew High School in Wloclawek. He was the director of the Committee of Assistance to Polish Refugees in Danzig, 1920-1922. He also served as the representative of the Jewish Telegraphic Association (JTA) in Danzig, 1921-1923. He was one of the leaders of the League for Working Eretz Israel in Wloclawek, and he was elected as a representative to the 12th Zionist Congress in Karlsbad and to other Zionist convent...

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. Joseph Heidingsfeld

    Jewish Refugees in Switzerland

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. Komoly Ottó

    1892

    1945

    Architect, Zionist leader. During the Holocaust, Komoly was among the most prominent Hungarian Jewish leaders to participate in rescuing the Jews of Hungary. Zionist organisations established the so-called Relief and Rescue Committee of Budapest (Budapesti Segélyező és Mentőbizottság or Va‘adat ‘Ezrah ve-Hatsalah) in 1942. Komoly, as president of this organisation, smuggled Jews across the border, assisted refugees in Hungary, and made preparations for the self-defence of the Jewish community. Komoly’s rescue action of Jewish children was his most successful achievement. He worked in this a...

  12. 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.

  13. Blobel Paul

    • Blobel, Paul 1894-1951
    • Blobel, Paul

    13/08/1894

    07/06/1951

    SS-Standartenführer (1941), head of Sonderkommando 4a, Leiter (head ) of the massacre of 33 771 Jews in the ravine of Babi Jar near Kiev. Later head of Sonderkommando 1005. Sentenced to death in Einsatzgruppen Trial and executed.

  14. Frankfurter David

    • Franqfûrṭer, Dāwid 1909-1982
    • Frankfurter, David 1909-1982
    • Frankfurter, David, 1909-1982
    • Frankfurter, David
    • פרנקפורטר, דויד
    • ...

    1909

    1982

    Killed W. Gustloff (NS-Landesgruppenleiter in Switzerland) on 04.02.1936; since 1933 in Bern, Switzerland, expelled from Switzerland in 1945, emigrated to Tel Aviv.

  15. Gamzon Robert

    • Gamzon, Robert
    • Castor

    1905

    1961

    Founder of the Jewish scout movement in France and partisan commander, joined the executive board of UGIF in January 1942.

  16. Gruenbaum Yizhak

    • Gruenbaum, Isaak Icek, 1879-1970
    • Grinboym, Yitsḥaḳ, 1879-1970
    • Gruenbaum, Isaac, 1879-1970
    • Gruenbaum, Itzhak, 1879-1970
    • Gruenbaum, Yiẓḥak 1879-1970
    • ...

    1879

    1970

    Zionist.

  17. Gustloff Wilhelm

    • Gustloff, Wilhelm
    • גוסטלוף, וילהלם
    • Gusṭlof, Ṿilhelm 1895-1936
    • Gustloff, Wilhelm, 1895-1936

    1895

    1936

    Swiss Nazi party leader, killed by David Frankfurter.

  18. 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.

  19. Jarblum Marc

    • Jarblum, Marc, 1887-1972
    • יארבלום, מרדכי
    • יארבלום, מ.
    • Jarblum, Mordʹkhai, 1887-1972
    • Jarblum, M.
    • ...

    1887

    1972

    Socialist president of the Zionist Organization of France and head of the Fédération des Sociétés juives de France (FSJF), one of the leaders of the Jewish underground in rance, refuged in Geneve, Switzerland, in 1943.

  20. Kapel Shmuel René

    • Kapel, René Samuel
    • Kapel, Shmuel René
    • Ḳapel, Shemuʾel Reneh
    • Kapel, Samuel René
    • קפל, שמואל רנה
    • ...

    1907

    1994

    French Rabbi during WWII, one of the chaplains for the internment camps in South France. Holocaust survivor, France. Israeli Ambassador to Greece and Latin American countries.