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Holding Institution: ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives

  1. Correspondence regarding refugees, 1940-1945

    1. O.91 - Mordechai Friedman Collection

    Correspondence regarding refugees, 1940-1945

  4. Documentation regarding relief to Jewish refugees in Yugoslavia and to Jewish refugees from Yugoslavia staying in Switzerland, 1944-1946

    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 to Jewish refugees in Yugoslavia and to Jewish refugees from Yugoslavia staying in Switzerland, 1944-1946 - Correspondence between Saly Mayer and Dr. Dragutin Rosenberg, deputy chairman of the Jewish community of Zagreb, regarding the treatment of Jewish refugees from Yugoslavia who are in Switzerland; - Correspondence between Dr. Rosenberg and Silvain S. Guggenheim, chairman of the VSJF - Verband Schweizerischer Juedischer Fuersorgen (Association of Jewish Welfare Organizations in Switzerland), regarding the treatment of Jewish refugees from Yugoslavia who ar...

  5. Police documentation from the Schaffhausen, Switzerland canton (region) pertaining to Jewish refugees and personal files of refugees, 1938-1949

    Police documentation from the Schaffhausen, Switzerland canton (region) pertaining to Jewish refugees and personal files of refugees, 1938-1949 - Files of Jewish refugees; - Police documentation.

  6. Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Correspondence regarding refugees and rescuing Jews

    1. P.49- Archive of Leni Yahil, Holocaust Researcher, 1904-2002

    Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Correspondence regarding refugees and rescuing Jews In the file: - Correspondence with people and institutions in the United States and Great Britain, the Red Cross and others regarding Jewish refugees and rescuing Jews.

  7. Lists of Ichud members who are refugees in Switzerland

    1. P.7- Archive of Marc Jarblum, Zionist Leader and one of the leaders of the Jewish underground in France, 1941-1967

    Lists of Ichud members who are refugees in Switzerland Also in the file: Addresses of Jewish organizations and personalities and receipts from the Swiss post.

  8. List of Jewish refugees from Poland who are in Romania

    1. M.17 - Documentation of the Polish Jewish Refugee Fund in Geneva, 1933-1940

    List of Jewish refugees from Poland who are in Romania The list is organized alphabetically and includes name, place of birth, age, occupation and current place of residence; list compiled by the Committee for Relief of the War Stricken Jewish Population ]sponsored by] the World Jewish Congress in Geneva.

  9. List of Jewish refugees from Poland who are in Vilna

    1. M.17 - Documentation of the Polish Jewish Refugee Fund in Geneva, 1933-1940

    List of Jewish refugees from Poland who are in Vilna The list is organized alphabetically and includes name, place of birth, age, occupation and current place of residence; list compiled by the Committee for Relief of the War Stricken Jewish Population [sponsored by] the World Jewish Congress in Geneva; Included in the file: A list containing names of Jewish refugees in Vilna who are not originally from Poland.

  11. O.35 - The Heidingsfeld Collection: Documentation regarding Jewish refugees in Switzerland

    O.35 The Heidingsfeld Collection: Documentation regarding Jewish refugees in Switzerland Correspondence of Joseph Heidingsfeld, a teacher and Jewish refugee in Switzerland, who was active in the Vevey-Montreux area, and taught children in the refugee camps and hospitals in the area, 1936-1950.

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

    Personal files of Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1939-1956

  13. 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.

  14. 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 ...

  15. 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 ...

  16. 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.

  17. 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

  19. 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...

  20. 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.