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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. [Correspondence between British and Czech Jewish relief organisations]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains letters of a correspondence between Dr. Frischer, living in Prague and Mr. Stephany, Joint Secretary of the Central Council for Jewish Refugees in London. Concerning contribution by the Central Council for the jewish communities in Czechoslovakia. But the poor exchange rate between the pound and the Czechoslovak crown makes arrangements for remittance quite hard.

  2. [Documents concerning the formalities connected with the emigration from Austria in 1938 and life as a refugee in Great Britain]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Documents concerning the formalities connected with the emigration from Austria in 1938 and immigration to Great Britain, including important details for life as a refugee in Great Britain, containing lists, adresses, advice and contacts for refugess from Austria after the "Anschluss" of Austria to the Third Reich in 1938. The documents also contains a list regarding children who are about to be sent to Great Britain on a so called "Kindertransport".

  3. [list of place name mentions with corresponding protocol numbers]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The document contains a list of all place names - over a hundred names -of Jewish communities in Poland mentioned in the testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German-occupied Poland, and the corresponding testimony numbers they can be found in. The list is arranged by statement / protocol number.

  4. Monthly Report for the month of December, 1952

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The monthly report shows a high acquisition of files for the ITS, namely 7.200 files from the Concentration camp Natzweiler. Furthermore, it mentions a list from the Israeli Consul covering the mass immigration of Jews from Germany to Israel from 1948-1950, reports about the administration and budget, data regarding the personnel, international relations and the relations of the ITS to German federal and land authorities.

  5. Tausende von jüdischen Flüchtlingen in Wilna

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains a report about the city 'Vilna' in Lithuania ('Wilna' in German, nowadays it is known as 'Vilnius'). The report starts with a long discription of a Lithuanian Army parade, which took place on 27th of October 1939, where the Army marched into Vilnius. The Lithuanians immediately attempted to Lithuanize the city. But it was not easy to help all the suffering Jews. Eventhough the city had been spared from a lot of war damage, but the economical situation of the Lithuanian Jews was devastating. To make matters worse a lot of Jewish refugees from Nazi occupied territories flew ...

  6. Flüchtlinge

    1. Judge Hadassa Ben-Itto collection 1926-2018

    The file contains documents written by Gorges Brunschvig, who was a Swiss lawyer and president of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities (SIG). Internationally, he is best known for representing the plaintiff in the 1934–35 "Berne Trial". Born in Bern to a family of Jewish horse traders, Brunschvig studied law at the University of Bern and passed the bar exam in 1933. In 1934, he founded a law firm on the Marktgasse in Bern. The documents are entitled as 'Flüchtlingsprobleme' - refugee (problems). Brunschvig speaks about refugee camps he visited as a refugee commissioner (Flüchtlingskom...

  7. Jews in Sweden I

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the first part of lists of holocaust survivors from the Jewish community in Sweden. The information was collected through refugees in Sweden about inmates of Theresienstadt. It is a compilation of names (First and last name, date of birth, address in Theresienstadt and nationality) assembled from information gained from refugees arriving in Sweden in the summer of 1945. The compilation consists of three parts: parts 1 & 2 are alphabetical lists of prisoners in Theresienstadt in April 1945, part 3 is a list of names and year of birth from the czech orphanage (Tschechisches Ki...

  8. [Correspondence of DALJEWCIB Harbin with Jewish relief organizations in Germany regarding the modalities and guidelines for emigration to Madchukuo]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Correspondence of DALJEWCIB Harbin with Jewish relief organizations in Germany [Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland] regarding the modalities and guidelines for emigration to Manchoukuo. Especially how one is to obtain a permanent residence permit from Mandchurian bureaucracy by having a valid work contract and income in Manchoukuo

  9. [World Jewish Congress of Paris 1939]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains protocols, reports and memoranda issued either officially or internally during the Paris 1939 World Jewish Congress meetings by working groups and the organization itself. The file contains protocols and proposed resolutions regarding the situation of European Jewry and refugees from fascist and National Socialist rule as well as lists of individually attending delegates and national delegations. Moreover the file also contains resolutions and proposals regarding emergency relief of Jewish persons who suffered under Nazi and fascist rule.

  10. [Correspondence of DALJEWCIB Harbin with a Jewish relief society in Paris regarding missing refugee families and entry visa permit regulations]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Correspondence of DALJEWCIB Harbin with a Jewish relief society in Paris regarding missing refugee families said to have embarked en sea-route to Mandchukuo, but have not arrived within the last three weeks as well as entry visa permit regulations to settle in Mandchukuo.

  11. [Correspondence of The In Harbin Located "DALJEWCIB" Office with a Jewish relief organisation in Germany]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Correspondence Of The In Harbin Located "DALJEWCIB" Office with a Jewish relief organisation in Germany, regarding the emigration of a Jewish professor Karl Kindermann, to Mandchukuo en route to Japan and the United States.

  12. International Tracing Service, Quarterly Report April- May-June, 1949

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The quarterly report (April-May-June 1949) includes the usual statistics and letters of thank by grateful parents who were reconnected with their children. Furthermore it states a deadline for refugees to seek assistance of the International Refugee Organization, namely the 31.9.1949. Also, that the child search will fall into the mandate of the IRO now and it presumably won't be completed before 1951.

  14. 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. The correspondence is regarding visa and trainee possibilities for Jews who want to escape Germany or other occupied countries and stay in Great Britain. All of the organizations tried to save as many Jews as possible by the use of trainee visa for Great Britain. Unfortunately Jews who applied need to be in a ...

  15. The Kitchener Camp Review

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains two examples of the journal the 'Kitchener Camp' for refugees, a monthly Camp newspaper on the Isle of Man (self-governing crown dependency in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland). Kitchener Camp was taken over by the Central British Fund of the Council for German Jewry (CBF) at the beginning of 1939 to rescue threatened Jews from Germany and Austria. Conditions for admission were that inmates must be aged between 18 and 40 and that they have a definite prospect of emigration overseas. The newspaper of the camp reports about the activities in the...

  16. [Correspondence of DALJEWCIB regading a variety of topics related to the living conditions, including housing, work arrangements, exit- and entry permits of Jewish emigrees into Manchdchukuo, Shanghai and Japanese occupied China, permanent resident status, danger of deportation and difficulties with an intransigent Manchurian bureaucracy]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Correspondence of DALJEWCIB regading a variety of topics related to the living conditions, including housing, work arrangements, exit- and entry permits of Jewish emigrees into Manchdchukuo, Shanghai and Japanese occupied China, permanent resident status, danger of deportation and difficulties with an intransigent Manchurian bureaucracy. The File also contains reports from and to DALJEWCIB and Jewish Relief and Aid organisations in Europe, as well as personal correspondence detailing said topics in detail.

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several letters, telegrams and one memorandum. The correspondence is between members of the Central British Fund for Jewish Relief and Rehabilitation, the American Joint Distribution Committee, the Relief Committee of Jews from Czechoslovakia and the Council of Jewish Communities in Bohemia and Moravia. Several grants have been given by the Central British Fund for establishing an old aged home, busaries for international jewish students in Prague, as well as for text books and scientific instruments. Furthermore subventions for a Kosher Kitchen in Prague and for the Jewis...

  18. [Condition of Jewish Communities in Wartime, a Survey Pt. 2]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Entries documenting the state of Jewish communities in the period of September 1939 – November 1939. This entry surveys Wegrow (held by the Germans, many Jews wounded as a result of shooting into the synagogue on Yom Kippur, evacuated into a refugee camp); Novy Jędrzejów, a village (held by the Germans, bombarded, some casualties among refugees from Warsaw); Żelechów (Held by the Germans, Jews threatened, shops looted and the synagogue burned, Jews displaced to a refugee camp); Sobienie Jeziory (Held by the Germans, Jews conscripted to forced labor); Piątek (Occupied by the Germans, destroy...

  19. [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 permits

  20. The Disaster of Wyszkow - Bulletin No. 4

    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 destruction of the town of Wyszków. It describes the aerial bombardment and artillery shelling of the city, which resulted in many casualties that could not due to the strength of the shelling be buried. When the Germans entered the city they shot and killed many of the wounded. The bulletin lists numerous names of victims. The victims were buried in mass graves. The Germans occupied the city, arrested refugees attempting to leave and burned tor...