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  1. Alfred and Ellen Lewis papers

    The Alfred and Ellen Lewis papers document the journey of Alfred Lewy and Ellen Katz, two German Jews who immigrated with their families to Shanghai, China soon after the Kristallnacht. Documents include passports, registration cards, correspondence with the Consulate General, and other documents obtained in both families’ pursuit of a visa, first to China and later to the United States. Also included are copies of the Shanghai Jewish Chronicle (Shanghai Echo), a German newspaper published for Jewish refugees in China. The Alfred and Ellen Lewis papers contain primarily documents obtained b...

  2. Selected records from the French National Archives – Police Générale

    This collection contains police records, including files on national security, the General Secretariat of the Police, the campaign against “terrorism” organized by Vichy, internment camps, and records of the Fichier Central in the Cabinet du Directeur Général de la Sureté Nationale. The collection also includes correspondence and other documents confiscated from emigrants, lists of foreign Jews who were arrested and interned (arranged by country of origin), the personal records of various public figures, newspaper clippings, surveillance reports, and mixed documents. More specifically, the ...

  3. Emigrationsavdelningen

    1. Jewish Community of Stockholm
    • Riksarkivet Täby
    • Emigrationsavdelningen
    • English
    • 1941-1966
    • 40,5 linear meters.

    The department assisted refugees and survivors to emigrate to 'third countries'. The archive contains information about where Holocaust refugees and survivors went and how emigration was organized. The archive contains personal registers of cases handled 1946-1962 in 8 volumes. There is also a questionnaire to the 1945 rescued about emigration plans etc. in 1946, questionnaires about desired emigration destination, correspondence with Hias and other foreign aid organizations that partly financed Jewish emigration from Sweden, and 336 volumes of personal files in emigration cases from 1945 t...

  4. Mosaiska församlingen i Norrköping

    • The Jewish (Mosaic) congregation of Norrköping
    • Stadsarkivet Norrköping
    • Mosaiska församlingen i Norrköping
    • English
    • 1775-2010
    • Around 40 archival volumes. Textual records.

    The archive, which is the Jewish congregation of Norrköping’s congregational archive, is structured thematically in a number of series, each containing a number of volumes (boxes). Some of these volumes include documents related to the Holocaust. Most importantly, there is one volume (F 4) that includes documents relating to Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany and Holocaust survivors who came to Norrköping, and the refugee aid and relief work of the congregation, from 1938 to 1961. This includes calls for donations (1942–1949) and subscription lists (1942–1945) while the largest part of the c...

  5. James G. McDonald collection

    1. James G. McDonald collection

    The James G. McDonald collection consists of diary entries, correspondence, subject files, photographs, and printed materials documenting McDonald’s work as chair of the Foreign Policy Association, League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from Germany, chairman of President Roosevelt’s Advisory Committee on Political Refugees, member of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Jewish Problems in Palestine and Europe, U.S. Special Representative to the Jewish State, and U.S. Ambassador to Israel. McDonald’s diaries take the form of dictations he made to his staff, who typed and mai...

  6. Chancellerie du Premier Ministre. Cabinet du Premier Ministre et Secrétariat du Conseil des ministres.

    Ce fonds contient des dossiers du Cabinet du Premier Ministre, de diverses Commissions et du Secrétariat du Conseil. Le chercheur y trouvera notamment les dossiers suivants : n°17 : Réparations allemandes aux victimes belges du nazisme ; n°50 : Commission interministérielle chargée d’étudier le problème des Réfugiés politiques en Belgique et personnes déplacées ; n°52 : Comité ministériel restreint pour la répartition des réparations allemandes aux victimes belges du nazisme ; n°185-195 : Victimes des deux Guerres.