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  1. Supplementary Administrative Files about Refugees

    1. UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)

    There are 8 boxes in this series:0.52 metres of refugee case files and transmigration files. 0.30 metres of refugee location services. 0.30 metres of Immigration and labour cases (1948-1952) relating to Shanghai, the Guild of Craftsmen, and Garment/ Tailor Projects. 0.30 metres of refugee transportation (departure lists, 1948-1954). 0.15 metres of transmission of funds. 0.15 metres related to projects: Refugee Youth Project (1947-1949), orphan cases (1948-1967), citizenship cases (1948-1950), Film Board projects (1949), and Rabbinical College (1950). General note: 2 photographs were removed...

  2. German Jewish refugees: miscellaneous material

    This collection consists of a variety of material which documents the experiences of German and Austrian Jewish refugees during the 1940s.

  3. Correspondence re refugees from Czechoslovakia

  5. Jewish Refugees Committee, Leeds: Correspondence and papers

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm archive of correspondence and papers was created by the Leeds office of the Jewish Refugee Committee. Most of the correspondence is either addressed to David Makovski or written by him. The overwhelming majority of letters in this collection relate to the fate of individual refugees.

  6. Central Council for Jewish Refugees: Donor forms

    Donation form of the Central Council for Jewish Refugees/London, special emergency appeal by N. M. Rothschild English 

  7. Photographs of Jewish Refugees in Cyprus

    Consists of one photograph album containing 44 photographic prints of Jewish refugees in British camps in Cyprus. The photographs show the arrival and internment of the refugees, as well as daily life and organized protests of the internment. The album was presented to the American Jewish Committee by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus in September 2007.

  8. Suitcase used by German Jewish refugees

    1. Hanneliese Mendowsky family collection

    Suitcase used by Hanneliese Mendowsky when she left Breslau, Germany, for the United States before the war.

  9. Commission for War Refugees Commissie voor Oorlogsvluchtelingen

    The archive consists of minutes and other documents of the Commission meetings related to the organization, and coordination and reception of refugees in the particular provinces in the Netherlands.

  11. New batch of children refugees from Czechoslovakia ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    New batch of children refugees from Czechoslovakia sheltered in London. Women and children refugees writing letters home at the Y.W.C.A. Central Club in Bloomsbury, London.

  12. New batch of children refugees from Czechoslovakia ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    New batch of children refugees from Czechoslovakia sheltered in London. Children refugees playing at the Y.W.C.A. Central Club.

  13. New batch of children refugees from Czechoslovakia ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    New batch of children refugees from Czechoslovakia sheltered in London. A little refugee asleep in an armchair at the Club.

  14. Polish Refugees Leave Teheran for Palestine

    350 Polish Refugees Leave Teheran for Palestine, (no date, originally reviewed March 27, 1944) INTs, Teheran railroad station. Polish refugees on platform bustle about as some bid farewell to departing friends. Persian/Arabic inscriptions. Pan, wall of newsstand/booth. Dolly shot, relatives and friends bid one another farewell from train windows; along railcars, more crowded, various men in uniform. Belongings on platform. Men, women, and children mill about, looking anxious and excited, some dressed well, some with hats (mix of Middle Eastern and Baltic looks). CU, native porter salutes in...

  15. Refugees fleeing Belgium and France; destruction

    [Refugies sur le bord d'une route - Nord de la France, Mai 1940] Refugees fleeing villages between Belgium and France. Planes in air, cut in. "Evacuation" sign on bus. Children, elderly, others onto truck/bus, sleeping child in arms. Air attack. Fierce scenes just after fall, flames. Storefront, "Bazar Parisien." Big fires, houses along square, church tower, burnt and falling, broken sculpture, INT. "Femmes Medecin" ruins. "Medecin Maternite" smoldering cots. Wounded nun. Tracking shot of street, low buildings, destruction. Planes in sky. Civilians hide under brush lining road, in courtyard...

  16. Documents on the Jewish refugees in Dalmatia

    1. Државна комисија за утврђивање злочина окупатора и њихових помагача

    The files contain several personal dossiers of Jews who escaped from the Independent State of Croatia or German occupied Serbia to Dalmatia, then under Italian occupation. There are detailed information about the identity of the refugees, life and the escape-lines used to reach Dalmatia. The dossiers were produced by the Italian authorities in order to keep under control the Jewish refugees. Sometimes they were sent to Italy; in other cases they were kept in Dalmatia or sent to concentration camps in Portorè/Kraljevica and Arbe/Rab. The materials had been produced by Italian police in Dalma...