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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. [Report of the Sub-Committee for the Reception of Organisations concerned with the Relief of Political Refugees coming from Germany including Austria. The report inludes an annex]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    List of bodies, individuals and countries participating in the Evian Conference. The annex gives the main features of the declarations made at the Evian meeting. There are four schools of thought regarding refugees: 1. Return Jews to Palestine, 2. Assistance to Jews to be assimilated into new national environment into which they are transplanted, 3. Emigrants should have placed at their disposal an area not inhabited by any other population, 4. Jews should be guaranteed in their present country of residence all necessary protection.

  2. [Address of Sir Neill Malcolm, to the Evian Conference]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A speech by Sir Neill Malcolm to the Committee about his responsibility as the High Commissioner for refugees. There is litttle room for a large-scale settlement of refugees in any of the countries overseas. There is no hostility towards migrants, but a settlement of a solid block might cause such feelings. Private organizations have until now taken care of refugees as well as conducted research about their numbers. The financing of refugees shall happen with loans from government and private funds.

  3. [Fundraising Efforts DALJEWCIB Shanghai/Harbin with Jewish Communities all over Asia]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Correspondence Of The In Harbin Located "DALJEWCIB" Office with a a Jewish community representative of the Jewish community of Bombay, regarding the emigration wave of Jewish refugees arriving in Harbin and Shanghai and a plea for financial assistance in order to help the disposessed refugees

  4. [DALJEWCIB in correspondence regarding the transit-visa situation with Lithuania, Poland and Latvia]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    DALJEWCIB correspondence regarding the transit visa situation on the European part of the journey to Manchuria covering up to the Soviet border via Lithuania and Latvia. A limited number of transit visa via Poland exist as well. Also the Soviet refusal of of entry of refugees without a Manchurian transit visa is thematisized, due to the Soviet-Manchurian border stations refusal to grant entry or provide transit visas to European refugees. Finally the correspondence also covers the destitute financial situation of the refugees.

  5. Intergovernmental Committee. Evian Conference – July 1938. Verbatim Report of the Sixth Meeting (Public) held on Friday, July 15th, 1938 at 11 a.m.

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A recommendation to the governments to bring about a real improvement in the lives and prospects of refugees. Orderly immigration should replace disorderly exodus and emigrants should be able to take their possessions and property. United Kingdom accepts both resolutions. Palestine cannot be completely opened to Jewish refugees, because it is not a large country and special considerations arise out of the terms of the Mandate as well as out of local situation, which it is impossible to ignore. Difficulties in Palestine have led to proposals for drastic changes in the political structure of ...

  6. Minutes of the meeting held in Paris, on June 13th, 1939

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains minutes of the meeting held in Paris, on June 13th, 1939, released by the 'Liaison committee of the high commissioner for refugees under the protection of the league of Nations'. Representatives of several organizations were participating in the meeting. The agenda was concerning the change of the status of the committee, ratification of the minutes of the last meeting and the admission of new organizations to membership. Besides the participants were dicussing about the situation and the continuing proceeding with Jewish refugees from Czechoslovakia and from Bulgaria. Fur...

  7. [A letter connected to Evian Conference]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Bentwich sent Taylor documents regarding German Jewish refugees and explained shortly his past work and positions.

  8. Discussion on Friday May 20th about the Preparation of a programme for the governmental conference

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Suggestion how to deal with question of Jewish refugees(Jews from Germany and Austria should bementioned but not Jews from Poland and eastern Europe, figuers and finance) in the Evian confence.

  9. Nazi kidnapping

    1. Research files: research conducted by the JCIO and the Wiener Library

    The file contains information on kidnappings in foreign countries committed by Nazis. Several kidnappings are mentioned in the documents and usually involve political refugees such as communists. After the abduction most of the persons were incarcerated in Germany. Friedrich Kuhlmann however, was abducted in Copenhagen but managed to escape while still being in Denmark.

  10. [Correspondence between British and Czech Jewish relief organisations]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several lettes, telegrams and one memorandum. Mostly between the Relief Committee of Jews from Czechoslovakia, American Jont Distribution Committee and the Central British Fund for Jewish Relief and Rehabilitation. Topics mentioned in the letters are establishing hostels in Bratislava, religous schools in Slovakia and opening a Kosher Kitchen in Prague for Jews passing through Prague on their way to Western Europe. As it might be a specifically Jewish need for some refugees and essential for their welfare. Also grants have been asked for necessary reconstructions of synago...

  11. [Advice by the Far Eastern Central Information Bureau on the possibilities of emigration to Shanghai and Tientsin]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Advice by the Far Eastern Central Information Bureau on the possibilities of emigration to Shanghai in China and Tientsin in Mandchukuo, the difficulties of obtaining exit-permits and entry visa to Mandchukuo, as well as the overall situation of Jewish refugees in the Far East.

  12. [Documents from the estate of Julius Bloch]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Documents from Julius Bloch in January 17th 1939 from London to his family (in Frankfurt/Main and New York) and the answer of them about the (preparations for the) migration to New York and the restrictive laws concerning money of Jews in the Third Reich.

  13. [Correspondence of DALJEWCIB regarding destitute nature of emigrees from Germany]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Correspondence of DALJEWCIB regarding destitute nature financial situation of in China arriving Jewish emigrees and refugees from Germany and the restrictions put on Jewish refugees arriving from Austria via the Siberian land route

  14. [Correspondence of DALJEWCIB with emigrants from Germany]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Correspondence of DALJEWCIB with emigrants from Germany regading living conditions, housing arrangements, work possibilities, exit- and entry permits into Manchdchukuo, Shanghai and Japanese occupied China, permanent resident status and obtaining Manchurian visa as well as residency

  15. Correspondence Of The In Harbin Located "DALJEWCIB" Office Regarding Immigration Opportunities And Related Problems

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Correspondence the Harbin located "DALJEWCIB, The Far Eastern Jewish Central Information Bureau, regarding overall immigration opportunities for Jewish refugees and related emigration and immigration problems, including advice for organisations and individuals to turn toas well as offering assistance to refugees from Europe fleeing Nazi-Germany and Fascist-Italy and aligned Axis-states File divided into two subfiles, according to geographic location and professions

  16. [Correspondence regarding the immigration to Great Britain]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several letters of a correspondence between Jewish family members and friends concerning the immigration to Great Britain. In the letters informations have been exchanged, ideas have been discussed and requests, as well as help, have been declaimed. The correspondence regards furthermore questions of payment, workhours, new or better work positions, living conditions and asking general questions about problems of the refugees. All letters are written in 1939, some are handwritten and others are typed, most of the letters are in German and only a couple in English. Furtherm...

  17. [Correspondence with the League of Nations Union]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains a correspondence between the 'League of Nation Union', the 'Council of the Central British Fund for Jewish relief and rehabilitation', the 'Board of Deputies of British Jews' and the 'German Jewish Aid Committee'. The correspondence is concerning two conferences reagarding the refugee question. One conference is called the 'Evian ' conference concernig the coordination and cooperation to assist the German and Austrian refugees. A memorandum has been prepared by the 'League of Nation Union' based on political and pratical grounds. The idea of the 'Evian' conference should b...

  18. Correspondence of the German Jewish Aid Committee

    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 ...

  19. Jews in several countries 1939

    1. Research files: research conducted by the JCIO and the Wiener Library

    The file contains a month by month survey of the Jews' situation in several European countries as well as in Palestine and of the refugees' problem all over the world. The first files are letters from the Jewish Central Information Office about the Jews in Italy. The other documents report about the Jews in Romania, the Jewish emigration policy and the official measures taken in favor of or against the Jews ; in the Baltic States and especially in Lithuania, about the virulent traders' anti-Jewish propaganda despite the official government position against anti-Jewish steps, the deteriorati...

  20. On the Borders - Bulletin No. 3

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    This bulletin was intended to publish the work of the Committee for collecting material about the destruction of the Jews in Poland, describing the conditions around and at the borders. The bulletin collects fragments of testimonies from several cities and towns that found themselves on the border between the German and Russian occupied territories. Among them Sierpc, Ostrów Mazowiecka, Wysokie Mazowieckie and Brok. They bulletin mentions eviction proclamations to Jewish populations living around the border, as well as perilous illegal crossing of the border to the Russian side. Testimonies...