Illegal immigration to Palestine (RG 17)
Extent and Medium
40,432 digital images, TIFF
33 microfilm reels, 35 mm
3 DVD-ROMs, 4 3/4 in.
Archival History
Israel. Ganzakh ha-medinah
Acquisition
Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Selected records of RG 17 (Palestine (Mandatory) Government: Police Force, 1933-1948. Source of acquisition is the Israel State Archives. Records were crated by the British Mandatory Government and transferred to the Israel Prime Minister's Office, c/o Israel State Archives. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project reproduced and transferred filmed collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in Sep. 2006.
Scope and Content
Contains deportation orders of illegal immigrants, 1938-1946. Records include memoranda of personal data (political), confidential questionnaires of the Palestine Police Force with portrait photographs that provide biographical data on illegal immigrants to Palestine from Nazi occupied Europe. Questionnaires also include biographical data and photographs of Jews from Vienna and Bratislava who were subsequently deported to a holding camp on Mauritius.
System of Arrangement
Applications for deportation arranged by names of the ship and person's name.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Israel. Ganzakh ha-medinah
Subjects
- Israel--Emigration and immigration--History--1939-1945.
- Mauritius--Emigration and immigration--History--1939-1945.
- Holocaust survivors--Europe--Registers.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Austria.
- Deportation--Slovakia--Bratislava--History--20th century.
- Deportation--Austria--Vienna--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Slovakia.
- Jewish Refugees--Palestine--History--20th century--Registers.
- Emigration and immigration.
Genre
- Questionnaires.
- Document