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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Herman F. Reissig memorandum

    The Herman F. Reissig memorandum, dated May 15, 1941, describes the SS Alsina’s departure from Marseille in January 1941 carrying more than 500 refugees en route to the United States and Latin America, its detention in Dakar by the Vichy government, Reissig’s unsuccessful efforts to work with the Vichy, British, and American governments to find a solution for the refugees, and cables received from refugees aboard the Alsina describing their confusion and anxiety.

  2. Selected records from the Library of the United Nations Office at Geneva

    Selected documents from two major record groups in the holdings of the Library of the United Nations Office at Geneva: the High Commissioner for German Refugees, Autonomous Period (1933-1936) and the Intergovernmental Committee Conference at Evian (1938-1939). These records relate to the Evian Conference as well as to Jewish refugees seeking to flee from Nazi persecution. Includes records pertaining to the British Mandate of Palestine, situation reports on various countries in Europe, and correspondence with Jewish communities in Europe and refugee organizations worldwide such as the Jewish...

  3. Western Campaign: France

    Refugees, destroyed tanks, dinghy, military exercise with a smoke bomb, formal service, watch on the Atlantic Ocean.

  4. Inge Schiffman papers

    The papers consist of newspaper clippings about a ship, "Navemar," that transported Jewish refugees from Spain to the United States during the Holocaust, one vaccination record, one receipt, one medical certificate, and one passport ("Reisepass").

  5. Oral history interview with Margit Subak Elsohn

  6. Shutters

    Pair of shutters from Taize, France, from the house in which between 1940 and 1942 Brother Roger, founder of the Communaute de Taize, hid refugees including Jews. The shutters served as a sign indicating to the refugees after police visits to the premises, the point at which the refugees could come back to the house without danger.

  7. Remembering Shanghai: A Jewish Journey

    Consists of one article, 12 pages, entitled "Remembering Shanghai: A Jewish Journey," by journalist Fredericka R. Maister. In the article, the author describes the history of the Jewish refugees in Shanghai, the memories of refugees she interviewed for the article, and the reunion gatherings of Shanghai refugees.

  9. Illegal ship

    Injured man helped by two Brits from ship, "The Four Freedoms." Pan of refugees on ship. Sick and tired refugees drooped on benches, holding their heads. Masses of people packed body to body, lying down on their decks. Injured person on litter being lifted from ship by crane. Chaos, disorder, everyone in close quarters.

  10. Selected records relating to Kindertransports, from the National Archives, UK

    Contains selected records from various government offices relating to the Kindertransports, including policy, the refugee situation, the Guardianship Bill, financial assistance, pamphlets and annual reports of the Refugee Children's Movement, and some personal case files.

  11. Friedman family papers

    The papers consist of letters, Red Cross forms, an American naturalization certificate, and an autograph album relating to the experiences of the Friedman family, their flight from Salzburg, Austria, to Switzerland, France, and Portugal, and their eventual immigration to the United States in 1941.

  12. Hans and Sophie Bernhard papers

    1. Henry and Sophie Bernhard collection

    The papers consist of documents, passports ("Reisepass"), a kennkarte, identification cards, and a photograph that record Hans (Henry) and Sophie Bernhard's immigration from Berlin, Germany, to the United States by way of Havana, Cuba. The Bernhards eventually settled in Columbus, GA.

  13. Erna and Herman Meyer papers

    1. Erna and Herman Meyer collection

    The papers consist of documents relating to the experiences of Erna Landau and her immigration from Rhede, Germany, to England from 1938 to 1939, photographs of Herman Meyer and his family in the Netherlands and then in Kenya where they lived as refugees during World War II.

  14. "Tehran Children" report

    1. Holocaust era antisemitic publication collection

    Consists of a printed report, February 1943, on the condition of orphans who came from Russia and were living in a refugee camp in Tehran, Iran. Also two handwritten letters written by HeChalutz members in Aden, Yemen, in 1944 and a news report from the HeChalutz sent from Tehran to the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem in 1946.

  15. Joseph H. Smart papers

    The Joseph H. Smart papers consist of a typed manuscript of his 1991 book Don’t Fence Me In!: Fort Ontario Refugees: How They Won Their Freedom"; a typed manuscript of his 1992 companion volume "The Documents: Friends of Fort Ontario Guest Refugees"; and the original documents that are reproduced in the companion volume. His 1991 book documents his service as the director of the Fort Ontario Emergency Shelter, and his 1992 companion volume comprising copies of the files of the Friends of Fort Ontario Guest Refugees, an organization formed by the Fort Ontario refugees to campaign for their f...

  16. Selected records from the archives of the kingdom of Belgium

    Contains records created and collected by the central and regional groups of the Association of Jews in Belgium (Association des juifs de Belgique), formed on November 25, 1941, at the order of the German occupation authorities, to serve as a national Judenrat. The materials consist mostly of registration forms containing personal data completed by all Jews in Belgium and registration forms containing data about Jewish-owned businesses and other properties. Additionally, there are files of change of address forms, organizations offering aid to refugees, immigration applications and processe...

  17. Fond du Cabinet du Préfet et Divisions (Police Générale)

    Contains various documents of the Cabinet du Préfet et Divisions including alphabetical name lists of various categories of French Jewish refugees, foreign Jewish, and non-Jewish refugees, political refugees, and Spanish, Polish, Italian, etc. refugees; administrative and other documents concerning French internment camps at Nîmes, Garrigues, Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort, L'Ardoise, Auch, and others; instructions and regulations regarding refugees in labor groups and refugees in internment camps.

  18. German Jewish Aid Committee collection

    The German Jewish Aid Committee collection documents the committee’s efforts to help Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany obtain English visas. The collection primarily includes the correspondence of committee representative Fritz Goldschmidt with refugees from Frankfurt am Main, Essen, Cologne, the Kitchener Camp for Refugees, and other locations. The collection comprises letters, postcards, and supporting documentation revealing the bureaucratic difficulties of receiving visas; efforts to obtain supporting funds from banks, organizations, and private business owners; and the stories of the a...