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  1. International Committee for Intellectual Refugees: Statement of activities

    Statement of the activities of the International Committee for Intellectual Refugees, a Geneva based organization, founded to provide support to intellectuals, persecuted by the NazisEnglish 2 pages 

  2. "We Jewish Refugees in Italy" "Enquiry Results February 1946"

    1. Douglas Smith collection

    Consists of a copy of a book entitled "We Jewish Refugees in Italy: Enquiry Results, February 1946," published by the Organization of Jewish Refugees in Italy, Central Committee" in 1946, based on a survey of more than 12,000 Jewish refugees in post-war Italy. The text includes information about individual experiences, charts, and survey results.

  4. Rescue Movement of Refugees for the Persecuted: Correspondence

    This collection documents the responses from MPs and others to Gertler's proposal.

  6. Personal files of Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1939-1956

    Personal files of Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1939-1956

  7. Personal files of Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1930-1950

    Personal files of Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1930-1950 The files are located in the N-Serie section in the Police department of the Swiss Ministry of Justice and the Police; the section contains approximately 45,000 personal files of civilian refugees who were absorbed by Switzerland from 1936 and until after World War II; approximately half of the refugees were Jews.

  8. [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 ...

  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. 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.

  11. [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 ...

  12. [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 ...

  13. 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...

  14. 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 ...

  15. [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. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Jewish refugees in Switzerland: correspondence regarding matters pertaining to Jewish refugees in Switzerland: with the Eidgenossoaches Justiz und Polizeidepartment, Arbeterlager fuer Emigration and Polizeiabteilung

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Jewish refugees in Switzerland: correspondence regarding Jewish refugees in Switzerland: with the Eidgenossoaches Justiz und Polizeidepartment, Arbeterlager fuer Emigration and Polizeiabteilung Incomplete correspondence file regarding Jewish refugees in Switzerland. Also in the file: - Exchange of letters with Dr. David Farbstein, a member of the Swiss Parliament, regarding his intervention on behalf of the Jewish refugees in Switzerland, October 1940; - Excerpt from a report regarding a debate held in the Nationalrat (Swiss National Council), 22 September ...

  18. Documentation of the Schweizerisches Arbeiter-Hilfswerk, Abteilung Fluechtlingshilfe (Swiss Workers' Social-Welfare Organization, Department for Refugees Relief), regarding refugees and emigrants from Germany

    Documentation of the Schweizerisches Arbeiter-Hilfswerk, Abteilung Fluechtlingshilfe (Swiss Workers' Social-Welfare Organization, Department for Refugees Relief), regarding refugees and emigrants from Germany Reports from the regional relief organizations and the directors of camps and residences of the Schweizerisches Arbeiter-Hilfswerk, Abteilung Fluechtlingshilfe (Swiss workers' social-welfare organization, Department for refugees relief), regarding the refugees' recreational activities including detailed reports from several refugee camps and residences concerning lectures and cultural ...

  19. Register över flyktingar, ankomna före 1945

    1. The Jewish (Mosaic) Congregation of Stockholm
    2. Flyktingsektionen
    3. Register och Liggare
    4. Register över flyktingar i Sverige
    • Register about Refugees arrived before 1945
    • Riksarkivet
    • A
    • Swedish
    • 1940-1942
    • Serien i kartonger.

    Avser till Sverige på 1930-talet fram till 1942 ankomna flyktingar. Serien övertagen från Hjälpkommittén.

  20. O.12 - Perlman Collection: Testimonies of refugees from Poland who arrived in Eretz Israel, 1942-1943

    O.12- Perlman Collection: Testimonies of refugees from Poland who arrived in Eretz Israel, 1942-1943 The Perlman Collection consists of 64 testimonies gathered by Jewish Agency representatives during the years 1942-1943, mainly from Jews who arrived to Eretz Israel during World War II. Most of the testimonies were given by Jews who held Mandatory Palestine citizenship, were married to Mandatory Palestine citizens or were related to them. These Jews were included in exchange agreements of foreign citizens for German citizens, and they succeeded in reaching Eretz Israel. Another group of witn...