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Item type: Archival Descriptions

  2. Komitet pomoshchi evreiskim bezhentsam (g. Zagreb)

    • Odbor za pomoc židovskim izbeglicam (Zagreb); Committee for Aid to Jewish Refugees (Zagreb)

    The collection's contents are described in one inventory, which is arranged by structure and chronology. Deposited in the collection are documents connected with the activities of the Zagreb HICEM Committee regarding the reception, settling, and transport to third countries of Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria. It includes correspondence with HICEM committees in Austria, the United States, Britain, Germany, Italy, and other countries, and with the Union of Jewish Religious Communities of Yugoslavia, the German Jewish Aid Society, the Jewish religious community of Brody, the JDC, the ...

  3. Rabbi Munk Personal Archive: Correspondence with prominent people and various relief organizations regarding assistance to refugees and appropriate representation of Agudat Israel in refugee organizations, 1940-1944

    1. P.15 - Rabbi Eli Munk Archives: Correspondence regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees in Germany during the early post-Holocaust years

    Rabbi Munk Personal Archive: Correspondence with prominent people and various relief organizations regarding assistance to refugees and appropriate representation of Agudat Israel in refugee organizations, 1940-1944 Also in the file: Lists of names of refugees some of whom are in camps and some of whom have emigrated including the country to which they emigrated.

  4. P.15 - Rabbi Eli Munk Archives: Correspondence regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees in Germany during the early post-Holocaust years

    P.15 - Rabbi Eli Munk Archives: Correspondence regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees in Germany during the early post-Holocaust years Rabbi Eli Munk was the son of Rabbi Azriel Munk, the rabbi of the Adass Yisroel community, the separatist Orthodox congregation in Berlin. In 1938, he emigrated to England and established a community of former German Jews in Golders Green, London, serving as its leader. He was active in Jewish affairs and organized, among other projects, camps for Jewish youth. Along with his brother, Rabbi Yechiel Aryeh Munk, he edited the book, "Faithful Testimony"...

  5. Testimony of Kurt Schick, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1918, regarding his experiences as a refugee in Shanghai, as a soldier in the Czechoslovakian Army in the Middle East, in Britain and in the Air Force

    1. O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

    Testimony of Kurt Schick, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1918, regarding his experiences as a refugee in Shanghai, as a soldier in the Czechoslovakian Army in the Middle East, in Britain and in the Air Force Born in Czechoslovakia. Transfer of Jewish refugees from Prague to Shanghai, 1939; Jewish volunteers in Shanghai join Czechoslovakian units in the Middle East and in England, 1940; situation of the Czechoslovakian Air Force in England, 1941; due to heavy losses, more Jewish volunteers admitted; training in British Royal Air Force (RAF) centers; Jewish participation, 1943; percentage of J...

  6. Rabbi Munk Personal Archive: Reports from Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad meetings regarding assistance to Jewish communities in Germany and to Jews in the DP camps, including reports regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees in various countries,

    1. P.15 - Rabbi Eli Munk Archives: Correspondence regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees in Germany during the early post-Holocaust years

    Rabbi Munk Personal Archive: Reports from Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad meetings regarding assistance to Jewish communities in Germany and to Jews in the DP camps, including reports regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees in various countries, 1947-1950 Also in the file: - Statistical report regarding the Jewish population in the American Occupied Zone in Germany,as of 28 February 1947.

  9. Home Office: Aliens Department: Internees Index (HO 396)

    Contains an alphabetical list of records of German, Austrian, and Italian nationals and their spouses who were interned or considered for internment in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia during World War II. Each record contains personal details of the individual and some information about their case. A digital copy of this collection is available via Ancestry.com.

  10. Selected records relating to Kindertransports, from the National Archives, UK

    Contains selected records from various government offices relating to the Kindertransports, including policy, the refugee situation, the Guardianship Bill, financial assistance, pamphlets and annual reports of the Refugee Children's Movement, and some personal case files.

  11. Erna and Herman Meyer papers

    1. Erna and Herman Meyer collection

    The papers consist of documents relating to the experiences of Erna Landau and her immigration from Rhede, Germany, to England from 1938 to 1939, photographs of Herman Meyer and his family in the Netherlands and then in Kenya where they lived as refugees during World War II.

  13. Prime Minister's Office: Confidential Correspondence and Papers (PREM 4). Selected records.

    The collection consists of selected correspondence files and reports from the Prime Minister's Office related to the Jewish situation in occupied Europe and the refugee situation in Palestine. Files originate from the record group PREM 4 at the National Archives, United Kingdom.

  15. Foreign Office: General Correspondence, FO 371

    Contains correspondence relating to persecution and atrocities against Jews; refugees from Germany and Austria; disturbances in Palestine; the formation of a Jewish fighting force; immigration issues; German war criminals, and files on the conditions for Jews in occupied Europe including, Germany, Slovakia, Italy, Hungary, Iraq, and Poland.

  19. Kenneth and Margaret Lowe papers

    1. Kenneth and Margaret Lowe collection

    The papers consist of a German passport ("Reisepass") issued to Kurt Löwenstein in January 1939 in Düsseldorf, Germany, and one British travel document issued in London, England, to Margaret Pappenheimer [donor], a refugee from Nazi Germany.

  20. Andrew Blau papers

    1. Andrew Blau collection

    The papers consist of a publication and two letters relating to refugees at the Kitchener internment camp in Richborough, England, and an internment camp on the Isle of Man during World War II. In a special camp, Kitchener, in Richborough, Kent, England, some 5,000 people who needed immediate shelter were housed during an eighteen - month period from the end of Jan. 1939. These 5,000 refugees had been released from concentration camps, or their internment had been deferred by the Nazis, who were willing to let them alone on condition that they leave Germany immediately. The Home Office gave...