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  1. [Jahres Generalversammlung]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains an invitation to the annual meeting (Jahres Generalversammlung) of the Comite Israelite des Refugies Victimes des Lois Raciales (COREF). The annual meeting should take place at the 23rd of January 1949 in the Elysee 15, Place Fontainas, 1st Level. On the agenda were reports of the directorate, cash reports, discussions, general informations concerning Jewish life after the war and answering questions of the members. Afterwards a gathering with all members was planed to speak about new projects and past ones. Furthermore the members were asked to bring some cakes or snaks t...

  2. [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...

  3. [Jewish emigration II]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains various diplomatic documents regarding the emigration of Jews from Germany following the Evian Conference of July 1938. The first document is a typewritten “Memorandum” of 3 pages, published in English and dated October 18, 1938, in Berlin. The “Memorandum” presents the newly established “Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees” and suggests a meeting between representatives of both the Committee and Germany in order to discuss details regarding the emigration of Jewish people planned by Germany within the context of its anti-Semitic politics. Furthermore, the file contain...

  4. [DALJEWCIB Correspondence on a report on the Jewish situation in Shanghai]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    DALJEWCIB Correspondence on the situation of Jewish emigrees and refugees living situation in Shanghai as detailed by the "Jewish Messenger" magazine, published by emigrants from Europe, including current living conditions, political situation and many more aspects

  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. [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.

  7. [Correspondence regarding 'das Laterndl']

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains newspaper reports, critiques and letters regarding the 'Laterndl, Wiener Kleinkunstbühne' (the Lantern). The Lantern was a small theater, founded and run by Austrian exiles in London during World War II. It was connected to the 'Austrian center', the 'Free Austrian Movement' and the 'Interniertenfond'. Opened on June 21st, 1939, it was active throughout the war years, with a break between summer 1940 and 1941, when most of the Austrian refugees were interned. The newspaper reports are published by the 'Zeitspiegel', which was a weekly published newspaper. The newspaper inf...

  8. [A letter regarding important points of Bentwich's talks with Myron C. Taylor]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A letter regarding important points of Bentwich's talks with Myron C. Taylor, such as dealing with the problem of refugees from Germany and Austria rather than with the large Jewish problem of Eastern Europe. The conference should be urged to adopt a definite practical program of enlarged emigration. A committee should be set up to deal with the German government. Topics that should be discussed at the Evian conference

  9. [ITS case file, 1947-1948]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Case about the guardianship of a findeling boy named Peter, born 1945. Several parties claimed guardianship over the orphan and the identification of such took over 2 years. It was unclear to the authorities whether the boy was Polish or German. Documentation includes declarations regarding the boy from the German court, and correspondences between the parties in German, English and polish.

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of N. B. a 15 year old yeshiva student from Goworowo, who gives a brief account of the state of several towns under German occupation. Lapy, occupied by the Germans then by the Soviets, mostly destroyed by bombardment. Goworowo, occupied by the Germans; most of the Jews were forced to leave the city and many were killed. He lists names of several of the victims. Protocol No. 52 is an extract from a volume of protocols /statements provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugee writers and journalists who fled to Vilnius, Lithuania. In 1939 they formed a committee to collect evidence ...

  11. Die Geschichte eines Lebens III

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the third part of the autobiography of Ludwik Hirszfeld "Die Geschichte eines Lebens" (story of a life). The surrender of the city and the German occupation are described. Jews are being separated because they are supposed to be carriers of a virus they are immune to, but which is infectious in the non-Jewish population. Dr. Hirszfeld is removed from his post and he and his wife try to work from their bombed out home. He is given the opportunity to emigrate with his wife and daughter, but because of sick and dependent relatives they decide to stay. He recounts his meeting with D...

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The author, S. M. from Lodz, describes how at the order of Major Ulyushkovsky he and many other Jewish refugees left Lodz on September 6, 1939. He describes the difficulties on the road to Warsaw, including German bombings and machine-gun fire behind Pruszkow and anti-Semitic incidents from the Polish army. At the village of Wiskitki he learned the Germans occupied Warsaw and returned to Lodz. He provides a description of the initial repressive orders given the Lodz Jews, including curfew, expulsion from schools, firing of all state employees and physicians, and confiscation of radios. On N...

  13. [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...

  14. [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.

  15. [Condition of Jewish Communities in Wartime, a Survey Pt. 3]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Entries documenting the state of Jewish communities in the period of September 1939 – November 1939. This entry surveys Przemyśl (Occupied by the Germans for three days, then by the Russians, heavily damaged in bombardment with multiple casualties, Jewish shops and businesses looted, elderly Jews shot, the Jewish population displaced); Gabin (Occupied by the Germans, all Jewish houses synagogues and schools destroyed, several casualties); Stoczek Łukowski (Occupied by the Germans, destroyed in bombardments)' Kutno (damaged in bombardments especially the Jewish sections, multiple casualties ...

  16. [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.

  17. [Intergovernmental Committee. Evian – July 1938. Report of the Technical Sub-Committee]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The technical sub-committee is appointed to hear in confidence the statements of laws and practices of the participating government and the statements of the number and types of immigrants each is prepared to receive as well as to consider the question of documentation for refugees. There are no legal restrictions in the countries represented upon the admission of refugees as such. The sub-committee recommends that if the immigrants do not have the usually required documents, then other documents serving the purpose of the requirements of law should be accepted.

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of A. J., from Wyszkow, 44 year old kaftan-maker, member of the local Bund committee, socialist delegate and a chairman of the laborer front. He describes initial bombardments and refugees arriving from nearby towns such as Pultusk and Maków Mazowiecki. He and his family hid in the orchard during the last period of the war, and were arrested by Germans on their return to Wyszkow. The Polish men were released but the Jews were held. After being held the Jews, too, were freed. He describes anti-Semitic incitement of the Polish population by the occupying German soldiers in Wyszkow, ...

  19. [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 ...

  20. [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.