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Holding Institution: Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר לחקר התקופה הנאצית והשואה, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב

  1. The Refugees and Immigration

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A memorandum discussing the size of the refugee problem as well as arguments pro and against immigration. It further discusses the finance and retraining possibilities of refugees.Discribes the immigration policy and situation of Jewish immigrants in France and Palestine.

  2. About the Peninsular Refugees in France

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The document is a summary of the situations of the Peninsular refugees in France after an agreement between the Vichy regime and the Mexican Government to take the refugees under Mexican protection. It gives details about the situation of the refugees in occupied France, under German and French pressure, the different treatment of communists and humanitarian issues.

  3. [Interministerial Commission for German Refugees - Protocols]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file deals with the outpouring of political and economic refugees from Germany from 1933 onwards as a result of the takeover of the NSDAP party under Adolf Hitler. Therefore an interministerial commission had been convened in the Belgian capital, Brussels, in order to address the refugee crisis and deal with the influx of refugees from Germany. The file contains the protocols of those sessions, including delegates named, topics discussed as well as assessments made of the overall political and economic situation in Germany after the Nazi government had come to power in early 1933.

  4. [British Committee for Refugees from Czecho-Slavakia]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Conditions for entering Great Britain are shown in the notification which the files contain. Where to apply and which kind of rights or duties the applicants have are mentioned. If the conditions have been fulfilled the permits can be obtained through the committe for refugees from Czecho-Slovakia.

  5. [Interministerial Commission for German Refugees - Protocols]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file deals with the outpouring of political and economic refugees from Germany from 1933 onwards as a result of the takeover of the NSDAP party under Adolf Hitler. Therefore an interministerial commission had been convened in the Belgian capital, Brussels, in order to address the refugee crisis and deal with the influx of refugees from Germany. The file contains the protocols of those sessions, including delegates named, topics discussed as well as assessments made of the overall political and economic situation in Germany after the Nazi government had come to power in early 1933.

  6. [Arrival of destitute Jewish refugees in Dairen]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Report of DALJEWCIB regarding two groups of Jewish refugees arriving via the landroute from Siberia in Dairen and Shanghai and the warm welcome these refugees received from DALJEWCIB and rescue committee members.

  7. Treatment of refugees in the United Kingdom

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several informations from different organizations regarding the topic of the treatment of refugees in the United Kingdom. British organization collaborate closly with each other and represent all of their practical experience in dealing with refugees. A coordinating Committee for refugees in the United Kigdom has also been formed. Besides that there is a close cooperation between British and other organizations. The information given by other organizations are all regarding the refugee question. For example how they can organize themselves better, how they can help and rea...

  8. Evian Conference about Political Refugees. Memorandum of Certain Jewish Organizations Concerned with the Refugees from Germany and Austria

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A memorandum about the history of the persecution of German Jews since the Nazi Party came to power and the occupation of Austria. There is additional persecution and danger to Jewry in central European countries. The Council for German Jewry was formed to co-ordinate the efforts of the British and American Organizations and to meet the aggravation of the economic distress of German Jewry. The young Jewish generation must be prepared for productive manual occupation in the countries to which emigration must be directed. The memorandum furthers discusses the opportunities for occupation and ...

  9. [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 ...

  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 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 ...

  11. 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.

  12. [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 ...

  13. [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 ...

  14. 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...

  15. 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 ...

  16. [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...

  17. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of Isaac Meir Berman, b. 1906, a trader from Lodz, who describes the beginning of the war and the bombardment of Lodz, as well as the arrival of refugee from the surrounding countryside. He describes how he left Lodz with his family, making his way by car to Jezow, then Warsaw and Minsk Mazowiecki under heavy bombardments, together with other refugees. Many of the bombarded cities suffered casualties. He arrived in Vilnius by train. Protocol No.14 is an extract from a volume of protocols /statements provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugee writers and journalists who fled to V...

  18. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of Isaac R,. 26 year old tannery worker from Warsaw. He was in Warsaw at the beginning of the war, the fire-warden for his building, and describes the emergency procedures take during the bombardment. He left Warsaw before the Germans entered it, making his way to check on his mother via Pulawy, Ryki, and Kazimierz Dolny, and then returning to Warsaw. He describes the damage inflicted by the German aerial bombardment, and says that in Pulawy the Germans were already seizing Jews for forced labour. In Pulawy, likewise, the Germans ruined the Jewish community financially by confisca...

  19. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of rabbi E. S., from Kremenets, a yeshiva student from the Beit Yossef yeshiva in Międzyrzec. He describes attempting to return home to Kremenets from Międzyrzec under German bombardment. At first in Międzyrzec bombs destroyed the railway but no casualties resulted, however, incendiaries and more bombs killed over 200 people in the city. The author made his way to Terespol, then to Luzhki and Divin, encountering a flood of refugees, both civilian and military, and eventually to Kobryn where the Germans caught up with him, drafting him for forced labor to bury German and Polish sol...

  20. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland:Statement No2]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Aaron Berg, a 26 year old radio-mechanic from the town Kolumna near Łódź testifies abut his experiences during the invasion of the Nazis in Poland between the 1st to 14th of September 1939. He depticts the changes of behavior of christian Poles towards their jewish neighbours, heavy bombardments from the Nazis and the suffering of strong hunger. His protocol is an extract from a volume of protocols provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugees. The statement is presumably a translation from Yiddish, but the original is missing. Statement No 2