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  1. Reports and other papers pertaining to refugees in Shanghai

    This collection comprises reports about the fate of Jewish refugees in Shanghai during World War Two; eyewitness statements of individual Jewish refugees; personal papers of Ernst Platz, former Jewish refugee in Shanghai; correspondence regarding documents relating to the Shanghai Jewish refugee experience

  2. International Committee for Intellectual Refugees: Statement of activities

    Statement of the activities of the International Committee for Intellectual Refugees, a Geneva based organization, founded to provide support to intellectuals, persecuted by the NazisEnglish 2 pages 

  3. "We Jewish Refugees in Italy" "Enquiry Results February 1946"

    1. Douglas Smith collection

    Consists of a copy of a book entitled "We Jewish Refugees in Italy: Enquiry Results, February 1946," published by the Organization of Jewish Refugees in Italy, Central Committee" in 1946, based on a survey of more than 12,000 Jewish refugees in post-war Italy. The text includes information about individual experiences, charts, and survey results.

  5. Rescue Movement of Refugees for the Persecuted: Correspondence

    This collection documents the responses from MPs and others to Gertler's proposal.

  7. Edgar Duchin: working papers re refugees from Nazi Europe

    This collection of papers relating to the fate of refugees from Nazi Europe was part of the working papers of Edgar Duchin (formerly Duchinsky), a solicitor who worked on behalf of refugees. A number of organisations dealing with the problems of refugees are represented. The papers at -/5 which document his activities viz representing the interests of individual refugees and his presence on a number of committees involved in similar work are testament to his commitment to the cause of refugees.

  8. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Jewish refugees in Switzerland: correspondence regarding matters pertaining to Jewish refugees in Switzerland: with the Eidgenossoaches Justiz und Polizeidepartment, Arbeterlager fuer Emigration and Polizeiabteilung

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Jewish refugees in Switzerland: correspondence regarding Jewish refugees in Switzerland: with the Eidgenossoaches Justiz und Polizeidepartment, Arbeterlager fuer Emigration and Polizeiabteilung Incomplete correspondence file regarding Jewish refugees in Switzerland. Also in the file: - Exchange of letters with Dr. David Farbstein, a member of the Swiss Parliament, regarding his intervention on behalf of the Jewish refugees in Switzerland, October 1940; - Excerpt from a report regarding a debate held in the Nationalrat (Swiss National Council), 22 September ...

  9. Documentation of the Schweizerisches Arbeiter-Hilfswerk, Abteilung Fluechtlingshilfe (Swiss Workers' Social-Welfare Organization, Department for Refugees Relief), regarding refugees and emigrants from Germany

    Documentation of the Schweizerisches Arbeiter-Hilfswerk, Abteilung Fluechtlingshilfe (Swiss Workers' Social-Welfare Organization, Department for Refugees Relief), regarding refugees and emigrants from Germany Reports from the regional relief organizations and the directors of camps and residences of the Schweizerisches Arbeiter-Hilfswerk, Abteilung Fluechtlingshilfe (Swiss workers' social-welfare organization, Department for refugees relief), regarding the refugees' recreational activities including detailed reports from several refugee camps and residences concerning lectures and cultural ...

  10. Jewish refugees in Holland: Papers of the Comite voor Joodsche Vluchtlingen, Amsterdam

    This microfilm collection consists of an archive of correspondence and reports of a German Jewish refugee organisation in the Netherlands during the 1930s and a hard copy file of similar material.

  12. International Bureau for the Right of Asylum Aid to Political Refugees

    The reports and other papers in this collection concern a proposed international convention on the problem of refugees from Nazi Germany, in France.

  13. The Association of Jewish Refugees in Great Britain: Board minutes and papers

    Minutes and correspondence of the board of the Association of Jewish Refugees in Great Britain, covering such subjects as restitution claims; social work; the newsletter: AJR Information; cultural activities; membership of the organisation 

  15. Calisthenics; German refugees; Hitler walking his dog; German troops advance; wounded

    Reel 1, Part 1 shows tuna fishing off the Spanish coast. Part 2, youths dig irrigation channels in Serbia. Part 3, athletes participate in mass calisthenics and sports events in Breslau. Part 4, wrecked U.S. bombers. Part 5, German refugees eat at a field kitchen, are given clothing, are evacuated by boat and train, and are cared for at a hospital. Part 6, Hitler walks his dog and stops to talk with Himmler and Mannstein. Shows Hitler, Jodl, Goring, and Keitel in conference. Part 7, German troops move up on the Russian front. A Russian attack is repulsed with artillery, rocket launchers, an...

  16. Stimson; Patterson; Churchill; Japanese children; German troops; French refugees; US soldiers; Tunisian front

    04:28:30 (NR-38) Sec of War Henry L Stimson Arrives in North Africa. Arrives at airfield. Stimson gets off plane and is greeted 04:29:34 Under Sec of War Robert Patterson, Adm William Leahy and Elmer Davis in a broadcasting studio. 04:29:45 Winston Churchill Speaks to Congress, standing on dais before many microphones addressing US Congress. At conclusion, entire Congress rises and applauds. Henry A Wallace and Alben W Barkley can be seen in BG. 04:31:11 Japanese Children in Mass "Kendo" Drill. Japanese school children in Tokyo performing skull-testing contest. Two groups charge each other ...

  17. Autobiographical ink drawing of 6 refugees trekking through the snow at night

    1. Peretz Chorshati collection

    Pen and wash drawing from a series of captioned, narrative illustrations created by Peretz Chorshati (born Pavel Szenwald) between 1994 and 1997 about his wartime experiences. It depicts Pavel and 5 other men hiking through deep snow in November 1945, disguised as Greek refugees illegally crossing the Czechoslovakian border en route to a displaced persons camp. Pavel was an 18 year old student in Warsaw when the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. He was imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto until his father got him forged papers and he escaped. He posed as a German national, and joined ...

  18. Photocopy of an autobiographical ink drawing of Polish refugees disguised as Greeks crossing the border

    1. Peretz Chorshati collection

    Photocopy of a drawing from a series of 19 narrative illustrations created by Peretz Chorshati (born Pavel Szenwald) between 1994 and 1997 about his postwar experiences. It depicts Pavel and 3 men at a train station on the Polish border in November 1945, disguised as Greek refugees en route to a displaced persons camp. Pavel was an 18 year old student in Warsaw when the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. He was imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto until his father got him forged papers and he escaped. He posed as a German national, and joined the German army. In March 1943, Pavel deser...

  19. Photocopy of an autobiographical ink drawing of 4 refugees peeling potatoes in a refugee camp

    1. Peretz Chorshati collection

    Photocopy of a drawing from a series of 19 captioned, narrative illustrations created by Peretz Chorshati (born Pavel Szenwald) between 1994-1997 about his wartime experiences. It depicts Pavel and 3 refugees peeling potatoes in a refugee camp in March 1946, in Germany prior to leaving for Palestine. Pavel was an 18 year old student in Warsaw when the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. He was imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto until his father got him forged papers and he escaped. He posed as a German national, and joined the German army. In March 1943, Pavel deserted the German army...

  20. Correspondence of the President's Advisory Council on Political Refugees, 1939-1944

    1. O.91 - Mordechai Friedman Collection

    Correspondence of the President's Advisory Council on Political Refugees, 1939-1944 - The American Committee for Care of European Children; - World Jewish Congress and American Jewish Congress reports and memos, 1939-1944.