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  1. Melvin Goldfarb papers

    1. Melvin Goldfarb collection

    The papers consist of documents relating to Melvin and Estera Goldfarb and their experiences as displaced persons in Austria, including post-war certificates of vaccinations, letters stating their wartime experiences, and invoices for package deliveries. Also included is a post-war photograph of a memorial site.

  2. Jewish refugee children from Belsen in London

    Jewish teenage survivors of Belsen arrive at refugee center in London. Children eating in dining hall, dancing the Hora outside, arriving at Red Cross building, in classes.

  3. Report published by the VSJF (Association of Swiss Jewish Welfare and Refugee Relief Organizations) regarding its activities, November 1944-late May 1945

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959

    Report published by the VSJF (Association of Swiss Jewish Welfare and Refugee Relief Organizations) regarding its activities, November 1944-late May 1945 Circulars and reports regarding the Jewish refugees in Switzerland.

  4. Documentation containing protocols and reports regarding the situation of the Jews in Hungary, 1944

    1. P.32 - Collection of Hansi and Joel Brand, activists in the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest during World War II

    Documentation containing protocols and reports regarding the situation of the Jews in Hungary, 1944 Deportation of Jews; murder of Jews; underground activities; rescue possibilities; possibilities of aliya to Eretz Israel; situation of refugee Jews in Hungary.

  6. File

    1. W.P. Crozier's Confidential Foreign Affairs Correspondence

    Patria Manchester Guardian The file contains correspondence and reports concerning domestic and foreign affairs, including reports of the treatment of Jewish refugees by British soldiers, Libya, Finland, and Jewish refugees aboard in the wake of the disaster. Domestically, the file contains materials concerning rationing, the evacuation of British children, air raid reports, and interviews with Anthony Eden. There are also materials concerning the circulation, sales, advertisement,and accounts of the .

  7. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence regarding relief for refugee children in Switzerland

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

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence regarding relief for refugee children in Switzerland Also in the file: - Letter from an unknown female writer regarding treatment of refugee children in an orphanage in Ascona, 10 January 1944; - Various reports regarding orphanages for refugees in Switzerland and the number of refugee children; - Report submitted by L'Union Internationale De Secours Aux Enfants, 1942.

  8. Seinų apskrities viršininkas

    • Chief of Seinai County

    The fonds consists of personal documents of residents, documents concerning everyday life, applications from residents about various matters, applications of residents to obtain passports, registers of war refugees, lists of residents (Jewish names included),

  9. The Danish Refugee Administration in Sweden

    • Rigsarkivet
    • Den Danske Flygtningeadministration i Sverige
    • Danish, English
    • 782 parcels

    The General Department handled the assistance to refugees who were not in work and not stayed in barracks/ garrison: clothing assistance, lodging, maintenance, social assistance for elderly, mothers with children, pregnant women, medical and dental assistance, help in illness, death, help to the Danish Brigade personnel and its families. Legal assistance was transferred to the Refugee Office Secretariat.

  10. Le cardinal Maglione au vicaire apostolique de Shanghai Haouisée

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari

    Maglione informs Haouisée that the Pope extremely approves aid activities carried out by Catholics in Shanghai towards Jewish refugees.

  11. Le nonce à Berne Bernardini au cardinal Maglione

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari
    • The Nuncio in Bern Bernardini to Cardinal Maglione

    Bernardini informs Maglione that non-Aryan refugees in Switzerland are still waiting for a Brazilian visa.

  12. Mgr Montini à l'internonce à La Haye Giobbe

    1. Segreteria di Stato
    2. Archivio della Segreteria di Stato
    • Mgr Montini to the inter-nuncio in The Hague Giobbe

    Montini informs Giobbe that the Pope is willing to financially help refugees in the Netherlands despite his limited economical resources.

  13. Dorit B. Whiteman collection

    Contains university report card (Meldungsbuch) issued in 1938 in Vienna, Austria, to Edwin Bader, father of the donor, as a replacement for the original issued in 1910-1915; a photocopy of a note about proper behavior handed out to newly arrived refugees in England in 1938; and video recordings of the 1988 reunion of former Nuremberg-Fuerth refugees. Mr. Frank Harris arranged the reunion.

  14. Suit

    1. Rose and Mayer Zar collection

    The suit was handmade for Mayer Zar in a DP camp.

  15. Suit

    1. Rose and Mayer Zar collection

    The suit was handmade for Rose Zar (Szoszana Zarnowiecki) donor's mother in a DP camp.

  16. Louis J. Walinsky papers

    1. Louis J. Walinsky collection

    The papers consist of photographs of vocational classes at World ORT Union schools located in DP camps in Germany after World War II.

  17. Victor Klapholz papers

    The papers include two photographs, an identification card for Victor Klapholz from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), a document from the Jewish community at the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) DP camp in Fürth, Germany, and three false Polish documents used during World War II.

  18. Hechtkopf family papers

    1. Regina and Uscher Hechtkopf family collection

    The papers consist of documents relating to the Hechtkopf family during their time spent as displaced persons in Munich, Germany after World War II.

  19. Ticket

    The train ticket was given to Jadzia Liwer [donor] for passage from Yokohama-shi to Tokyo, Japan, and return; printed in black ink on recto and verso; recto background: printed red ink design; No 1418.

  20. Linda Marcus papers

    The papers consist of a letter from the Committee for the Defence of the Rights of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe in Paris, France, to the French Minister of the Interior on behalf of Lowy Isak Weitzner and an announcement ("In Neerland Roumt Israël") signed by O. Cahen.