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Country: Israel

  1. Personal files of Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1939-1956

    Personal files of Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1939-1956

  2. Personal files of Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1930-1950

    Personal files of Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1930-1950 The files are located in the N-Serie section in the Police department of the Swiss Ministry of Justice and the Police; the section contains approximately 45,000 personal files of civilian refugees who were absorbed by Switzerland from 1936 and until after World War II; approximately half of the refugees were Jews.

  3. [Correspondence & Reports of Dutch, Jewish Relief Organizations regarding Jewish Refugees]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains correspondence and numerous reports of Jewish refugee relief organizations in the Netherlands pertaining to the situation of Jewish refugees and the contiguous stream of Jewish and political exiles into Holland during the 1930s up until 1940 when the subsequent German occupation of the Netherlands began. The file contains reports in particular by two organizations, the "Comite voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen" as well as the "Comite voor Bijzondere Joodsche Belangen", moreover the High Commisioner for Refugees of the League of Nations as well as the Red Cross pertaining to the ...

  4. [Correspondence & Reports of Dutch, Jewish Relief Organizations regarding Jewish Refugees]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains correspondence and numerous reports of Jewish refugee relief organizations in the Netherlands pertaining to the situation of Jewish refugees and the contiguous stream of Jewish and political exiles into Holland during the 1930s up until 1940 when the subsequent German occupation of the Netherlands began. The file contains reports in particular by two organizations, the "Comite voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen" as well as the "Comite voor Bijzondere Joodsche Belangen", moreover the High Commisioner for Refugees of the League of Nations as well as the Red Cross pertaining to the ...

  5. Memorandum submitted to the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Memorandum of the Jewish Agency for Palestine submitted to the Evian Conference. The memorandum is discussing the current events and the situation of Jews in Europe and Palestine. It is further calling for an alleviation of the Jewish immigration in various countries and particularly to Palestine.

  6. [Actions of governmental and privat organizations in regard to refugees]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains correspondences between privat and governmental organizations in regard to refugees. Memoranda, reports, letters and plans of action can be seen. The principle of these organization is to protect the human victims of great political upheavals and especially of the intolerance of arbitrary governments. The 'League of Nation Union', for example, published an aide-mémoire concerning the problem of the refugees. Topics mentioned in the aide-mémoire are the coordination and cooperation to assist the German and Austrian refugees, as well as refugees from Czechoslovakia. Weather ...

  7. [Trainee visa in Great Britain for Jewish refugees]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains material of a correspondence between the German Jewish Aid Committee in London and couple of Refugee organizations, like the Jewish Refugee Committee/ Trainee department in Leeds, the British Committee for Refugees from Czecho-Slovakia and the York Refugee Committee. These organizations tried to save as many Jews as possible by the use of trainee and work visa for Great Britain. The correspondence is regarding the trainee or work positions and possibilities the organizations found for the Jewish refugees. Furthermore an active exchange between the organizations concerning ...

  8. Convention concerning the status of refugees coming from Germany

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains a convention concerning the status of refugees coming from Germany. The convention was signed by seven states, which like the 1936 provisional arrangement contained some restrictions on expulsion and refoulement. The convention shows definitions and handlings regarding the refugees. Beeing desirous of supplementing and consolidating the work done by the league of nation on behalf of the refugee. An identity certificate for refugees coming from Germany is also attached. This certificate is issued for the purpose of providing refugees from Germany with identety papers to tak...

  9. Draft. Memorandum for the Governmental conference on refugees

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A draft memorandum about the numbers of Jewish population of Germany and Jewish emigration. The memorandum discusses the limitation on Jewish Germans in medical, pharmaceutical, legal professions as well as universities and civil service. It further suggests the retraining of young Jews in manual and artisan professions. Presentation of the numbers of emigrants accepted in other states and asserts the economic difficulties posed by Germany for the Jewish emigrants. Jewish organizations contribute money to help immigration as well as support to Academic and Intellectual refugees. There is a ...

  10. [Correspondence & Reports of Dutch, Jewish Relief Organizations regarding Jewish Refugees]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains correspondence and numerous reports of Jewish refugee relief organizations in the Netherlands pertaining to the situation of Jewish refugees and the contiguous stream of Jewish and political exiles in Holland during the 1930s up until 1940 when the subsequent German occupation of the Netherlands began. The file contains reports in particular by two organizations, the "Comite voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen" as well as the "Comite voor Bijzondere Joodsche Belangen", moreover the High Commisioner for Refugees of the League of Nations as well as the Red Cross pertaining to the nu...

  11. 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 ...

  12. 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 ...

  13. O.12 - Perlman Collection: Testimonies of refugees from Poland who arrived in Eretz Israel, 1942-1943

    O.12- Perlman Collection: Testimonies of refugees from Poland who arrived in Eretz Israel, 1942-1943 The Perlman Collection consists of 64 testimonies gathered by Jewish Agency representatives during the years 1942-1943, mainly from Jews who arrived to Eretz Israel during World War II. Most of the testimonies were given by Jews who held Mandatory Palestine citizenship, were married to Mandatory Palestine citizens or were related to them. These Jews were included in exchange agreements of foreign citizens for German citizens, and they succeeded in reaching Eretz Israel. Another group of witn...

  14. 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.

  15. American State Department correspondence regarding refugees and the rescue of Jews, 1942-1944

    1. O.91 - Mordechai Friedman Collection

    American State Department correspondence regarding refugees and the rescue of Jews, 1942-1944

  17. Documentation regarding relief transferred by the JDC to the Jewish refugees in Shanghai, 1942-1946

    1. P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

    Documentation regarding relief transferred by the JDC to the Jewish refugees in Shanghai, 1942-1946 - Documentation regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees (most of them from Germany and Austria) in Shanghai, 1942-1946; - Correspondence with the Red Cross organization regarding the transfer of relief to the refugees in Shanghai, 1943-1946; - Report by social worker Laura L. Margolis, a JDC organization representative, regarding her activities in Shanghai, 08 December 1941-September 1943; - Article by L. Margolis, titled "Race Against Time in Shanghai", March 1943; - Letters sent by t...

  18. Survey conducted by M. Turek regarding refugees who escaped from Treblinka, 1943-1946

    1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

    Survey conducted by M. Turek regarding refugees who escaped from Treblinka, 1943-1946 - Report regarding life in Treblinka provided by refugees from Warsaw who succeeded in escaping from the camp, July 1943; - The lives of the Jewish inmates from Bialystok, Michalowa, Jalowka, Wolomin, Sokol and elsewhere in Treblinka; - Murder of Jews in gas chambers; - Murder by electricity as retaliation for the escape of Jews from deportation trains near Malkina; - Hospitalization in a Bialystok hospital of a refugee who contracted typhus.

  19. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Jewish refugees from the Soviet Union in Iran

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

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Jewish refugees from the Soviet Union in Iran In the file: -Testimony of Rabbi Hagar regarding treatment of the Jews by Anders Army, 30 September 1942; - Secret report, apparently prepared by someone on the Jewish Agency staff in Iran, regarding refugees and children who arrived with Anders Army, 18 September 1942. Also in the file: - Letter from Mrs. R. Ribovsky from Siberia, 04 June 1942; - Lists of Jews who perished in the Karaganda camp, 23 September 1947.

  20. Correspondence with the Hilfsverein fuer juedische Auswanderung (Relief Organization for Jewish Refugees) in Zurich, 1942-1944

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

    Correspondence with the Hilfsverein fuer juedische Auswanderung (Relief Organization for Jewish Refugees) in Zurich, 1942-1944 Correspondence between Hans Klee from RELICO (Relief Committee for the Warstricken Jewish Population) and Robert Faller from the Hilfsverein fuer juedische Auswanderung regarding food parcels shipments to needy Jews in Europe during the war. Also in the file: Protocol of a meeting of SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland) in Berne regarding coordination and cooperation among the Jewish organizations in Switzerland in relief activities on behalf of Jews out...