[Trainee visa in Great Britain for Jewish refugees]

Identifier
990004787790304146
Language of Description
English
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1939
Languages
  • English
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

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Scope and Content

The file contains material of a correspondence between the German Jewish Aid Committee in London and couple of Refugee organizations, like the Jewish Refugee Committee/ Trainee department in Leeds, the British Committee for Refugees from Czecho-Slovakia and the York Refugee Committee. These organizations tried to save as many Jews as possible by the use of trainee and work visa for Great Britain. The correspondence is regarding the trainee or work positions and possibilities the organizations found for the Jewish refugees. Furthermore an active exchange between the organizations concerning further ideas and posibilities to involve more trainee places and finding other ways to get more Jews to Great Britain can be read. Questions of payment, workhours, new or better work positions, living conditions and solving general problems of the refugees have been discussed as well in the letters. Several curriculum vitae of applicans and testimonial of their previous works can be also seen. Through the refugee organizations a lot of Jewish refugees from Germany and from the occupied territories could fled and found work in Great Britain.

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  • Electronic access only

  • Electronic text and image data. Jerusalem : Yad Vashem 2015

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