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  1. [Labor and Refugee Camps in Switzerland during World War II]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains various memoranda concerning the treatment of and legal rules of behavior for war and Nazi prosecution victims seeking refuge in Switzerland for the duration of World War II, while being interned in labor and refugee camps.

  2. [Labor and Refugee Camps in Switzerland during World War II]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains various memoranda concerning the treatment of and legal rules of behavior for war and Nazi prosecution victims seeking refuge in Switzerland for the duration of World War II, while being interned in labor and refugee camps.

  3. [Letter about the American delegation to Evian]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    American delegation to Evian: A letter regarding the late arrival of the American delegation to Evian. It has not been possible yet to get an agreement of the Jewish Organizations represented on the Council about a memorandum concerning the refugees. Bentwich sends Taylor a book he wrote about the Jews.

  4. [Letter of a DALJEWCIB staff member in Japan, asking the adressee to refrain from disclosing his identity]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Letter of a DALJEWCIB staff member in Osaka/Kobe, Japan, asking the adressee in Germany, an emigree to not reveal his identity to the customs staff in Osaka harbour, in order not to disclose the ongoing rescue efforts for Jewish emigrees from Germany to Japan and the organisation behind it

  5. [List of displaced German scholars]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file consists of 294 cards listing the names of exiled scholars in alphabetical order and one duplicate. Each card lists the date of birth, profession and biographical information as well as the area of expertise. Some entries include a third copy with updates. Most professions are in the humanities.

  6. [List of eyewitness reports sent to or from DALJEWCIB in Shanghai and the Jewish Relief Organisation in Berlin concerning the sociopolitical and socioeconomic situation of Jewish emigrees in the Far East]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    List of eyewitness reports sent to DALJEWCIB in Shanghai and from the Jewish Relief Organisation in Berlin from Jewish emigrees concerning the sociopolitical and socioeconomic situation of Jewish emigrees in the Far East. Reports have been written in the form of official telegraphs, personal correspondence and letters regarding living conditions in Shanghai and Dairen/Harbin. Some cover dire living conditions and call for a stop of Jewish emigration to Shanghai, others call friends and family to join them in Shanghai despite the poor living conditions and the prospect of unemployement and d...

  7. [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.

  8. [List of] Jews in England

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    List of various Jewish Italian individuals in England and English Jewish individuals in Italy.

  9. [Liste des Israélites libérés de camps de concentration d'Allemagne at arrivés en Belgique]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains two lists of liberated Jews from German concentration camps. One list gives informations about former Jewish citizens of Belgium, who immigrated back to Belgium from the 31st of March till the 31st of July 1946. An other list shows Jewish transits who passed through Belgium to an other destination. This list shows transits also from the 31st of March till the 31st of July 1946. Both lists include first and last names, informations about the native town, birthday and their nationality if they had one.

  10. [Ludwig Dische Papers - Bukovina History II]

    1. The Ludwig Dische papers : Bukovina’s Jewish history

    The file includes information about the acquisition of the Bukovina, quotes from the essay of Georg Drozdowski's "Zwischen den Herzogtümern" and Eduard Fischer's "Krieg ohne Heer : meine Verteidigung der Bukowina gegen die Russen". The "Heimatkunde Bukovina" mentions that Israelites are counted as German by authorities because of their mother tongue. There are also handwritten notes about the book "Geschichte von Czernowitz" by Raimund Friedrich Kaindl. Some of the handwritten notes are hard to read.

  11. [Magazine]

    1. Margit Meissner collection

    Photo Review Magazine with Truman on the cover acquired Margit Morawetz Gyorgy when she worked for the Office of War Information. Before the war, Margit's mother, Lilly, sent her to study in Paris in 1938 because the expansion of German rule posed a threat to their life in Prague. Lilly joined Margit there a year later, but because she was an Austrian citizen, was imprisoned as an enemy alien after France declared war on Germany following the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. Lilly was released when Germany occupied France in May 1940. She and Margit escaped to Portugal and, in 1...

  12. [Magazine]

    1. Margit Meissner collection

    Photo Review Magazine with MacArthur on the cover acquired Margit Morawetz Gyorgy when she worked for the Office of War Information. Before the war, Margit's mother, Lilly, sent her to study in Paris in 1938 because the expansion of German rule posed a threat to their life in Prague. Lilly joined Margit there a year later, but because she was an Austrian citizen, was imprisoned as an enemy alien after France declared war on Germany following the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. Lilly was released when Germany occupied France in May 1940. She and Margit escaped to Portugal and, i...

  13. [Max Nelki: Report on his experience as a jewish doctor in Nazi Germany and Shanghai]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Personal memoirs of Jewish dentist Max Nelki from Hamburg, depicting his incarceration by the Third Reich on the grounds of alleged racial defilement [Rassenschande] with an Aryan woman. Incarcerated for two years and after having atoned for the alleged crime, Nelki was transferred to concentration camps Dachau and Buchenwald. After 3 1/2 years in the concentration camp, he was being released and immediately left Germany for Shanghai. Max Nelki returned to Hamburg after WWII and stayed in Germany. The Report consists of 4 Parts, all available through the Wiener Library and Online Resources.

  14. [Measures taken against Jews II]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several documents dealing with regulations and procedures against Jews by the Nazi military commanders in France. Information and telegrams about confiscations of Jewish property and its aryanizations are given. Under the topic of measures against Jews correspondences regarding the confiscations of Jewish property and warehouses in Epinal, France are attached. The reduction was commissioned and processed by the Feldkommandantur 550. The Jewish company of Morice Weil from Strassburg was confiscated and the procedure of it discussed in the correspondences, the same was done ...

  15. [Measures taken against Jews]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several documents dealing with regulations and procedures against Jews by the Nazi military commanders in France. Information and telegrams about confiscations of Jewish property and aryanizations are given. Under the topic of measures against Jews correspondences regarding the confiscations of Jewish property in Epinal, France are attached. The Lehmann Sohn company, buying and selling cotton waste, was managed on January 6, 1941 under the provisional rule. The German authority had ordered the determination of the stocks. The contents of Levy Charmes' warehouse were also c...

  16. [Meeting of the Sub-Committee of the Liaison Committee of the High Commissioner for the Refugees from Germany]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Minutes of a meeting of the Sub-Committee of the Liaison Committee of the High Commissioner for the Refugees from Germany on the 16th of June 1938 in Paris. Information that the American Advisory Committee for the Evian Conference would welcome a Memorandum from the Liaison Committee and that a Delegate from the Committee might attend the Conference. Decision to present a Memorandum dealing with the position of refugees that already left Germany and Austria and pointing out the need for further emigration for them. Different suggestions regarding the Memorandum by several members of the Sub...

  17. [Memorandum about the rejection of emigration at the Evian Conference]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A Memorandum about the conference's rejection of emigration as a solution and the condemnation of the government's actions in depriving a minority of its legal and human rights. The memorandum suggests retraining young Jews in agricultural and manual occupations to find ways of financing the immigration. Hope that the Conference will seek to deal both with the causes of the trouble and with the immediate alleviation of the problem of refugees. Germany must release the immigrants' property. It is hoped that the Conference will establish a small executive body which will direct and supervise ...

  18. [Memorandum for the conference of the High Commission for German refugees]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains a memorandum regarding a conference for the High Commissionar for German refugees, which took place on the 2nd. of June 1936 is Geneva. The 'National Committee for German refugees' tried to present their views and proposals for the conference. Topics of the memorandum were questions of German emigration to Czechoslovakia. Specifically the legal standing of the German emigrants in Czechoslovakia and the right of asylum. But the right of asylum is not just a matter of legal arrangement, also the social problems of emigration were demonstrated in the memorandum. Furthermore t...

  19. [Memorandum of Cecil Roth Concerning the Situation of Italian Jewry in 1939]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Cecil Roth gives a personal analysis on the situation of the Italian Jews under fascist rule and to the state of anti-Semitism towards them. In his eyes it is not as much a popular widely spread sentiment as in Germany, but an anti-Semitism that has been ordered from "above". And even so, anti-Semitism in Italy does not spring from a genuine, latent feeling thereof, but of political necessity and Italian interests, mainly the Axis Berlin-Rom, which demands Italy to pursue anti-Semitic legislation and policies. The varying types of Jewish residents in Italy, genuine Italian Jews and Jewish r...

  20. [Memorandum to the Central British Fund for Relief Abroad, from the United Jewish Communities in Slovakia]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The Chief Rabbi Armin Frieder, Chairman of the United Jewish Communities in Slovakia writes a memorandum to the Central British Fund for Relief Abroad. First he is explaining how this organization was founded and aproved by the Slovak National Council in 1945. Before the war Slovakia had 120.000 Jews, only 25.000 survived and these are now organized in this organization. The Jewish communities in Slovakia suffer from missunderstanding by the Slovak National Council regarding the return of institutions, buildings, grounds and property which once belonged to this Jewish Community. They hoped ...