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  1. Illegal Immigrants

    British soldiers guarding groups of refugees. Refugees smile and wave at camera. Refugees dancing. Refugees mill about with bundles. Tired refugee on ground. Group of young refugees sitting, singing. Guard brings refugee on beach. Refugee ship (SS Susanna) anchored on beach. British soldiers on beach. More shots of ship. Life boat with refugees' goods.

  2. Exodus Jews in France

    INTs of refugees sleeping on cots, of floor, rough conditions (too dark). Refugees sleeping on cots outdoors, in trucks (police trucks). Shot of harbor. "Ocean Vigour," the "Runnymede Park," and the "Empire Valour" in harbor. Small boats go up to ship. Shots of refugees on ship (Runnymede) with barbed wire. Sailors on ship, more refugees. French Red Cross on shore, give water to refugees.

  13. Central Register

    1. The Danish Refugee Administration in Sweden
    • Rigsarkivet
    • Centralregistret
    • Danish, English
    • 1943-1945
    • 49 parcels

    Central Register of Refugees, 1943 - 1945.

  14. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Alphabetical list of the names of emigrants living in Switzerland

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

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Alphabetical list of the names of emigrants living in Switzerland Also in the file: -Newspaper clippings regarding the condition of the refugees in Switzerland; - Photographs taken at labor camps for refugees in Switzerland, 1940-1944; - List of refugees from Italy.

  15. Lydia Golston papers

    The papers consist of a Polish passport with a visa allowing residence in Canada for the duration of World War II issued by the Polish embassy in Japan to Lidia Barbara Fruchs [donor] and a permit allowing temporary residence in Japan issued to Lidia Barbara Fruchs.

  16. Exodus Jews in Germany

    Refugees washing clothes, sewing, near quonset huts and tents. Couple poses with young child. CU boy eating bread. Good view of tents. VAR CUs of refugees. Barbed wire enclosed camp. More general views of camp, people walking, talking. Nice CU of boy wearing a hat with "Exodus 47." Train station, British medical personel load ambulance. Refugees leave train, go onto trucks. British soldiers guard road, trucks pass. Soldier guards camp. More CUs of refugees.

  17. Tibor Stern papers

    1. Tibor Stern collection

    The papers consist of 16 photographs, documents, and a postcard related to Tibor Stern's experiences living as a displaced person at the Cinecittà DP camp in Italy immediately following the Holocaust and his immigration to the United States.

  18. Documentation regarding the Holocaust from provincial archives in Switzerland, 1930-1950

    The documentation is composed mainly of material received by Yad Vashem from the archives of cantons and Jewish communities in Switzerland. Documentation received from the Federal Archive of Switzerland and the State Archive of Lichtenstein is also included in the Record Group. There is also material from various institutions that dealt with Jewish refugees in Switzerland, personal files of thousands of Jewish refugees who escaped to Switzerland as well as the files of Jewish refugees who were deported from Switzerland across the border (especially in the area of Geneva).