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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of B. H., 18 year old student from Vishnevets. He states that while the town had no military operations of any kind or any military presence, it was bombarded heavily by German airplanes, and the Jewish sections of the town suffered heavy damage, with one street completely destroyed. There were about sixty people killed, twenty of them Jews. Protocol No. 155 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 on the condition of ...

  2. [World Jewish Congresses of 1944 on Jewish Emergency Relief measures and 1948 the creation of the State of Israel]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains protocols, reports and memoranda issued either officially or internally during the 1944 and 1948 World Jewish Congress meetings by working groups and the organization itself. Moreover the file contains open editorials and proposed resolutions regarding the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 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 in newly liberated areas in Eastern and Western Europe.

  3. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland: Statement No 109]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of H. M., 33 year old trader from Hrubieszów. The city was taken over by the Germans, and then by the Russians, who arrested people as provocateurs. The Russians left the city after only a short time, returning it to German control. The Germans executed Jews in town and kidnapped Jews for conscript labor. After the German reentry, the Polish population attempted to dismiss the Jews from the civil guard and city authorities, until the guard had been dismantled by the Germans and replaced with a Ukrainian contingent. With which the Polish population cooperated against the Jews. The ...

  4. [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.

  5. [Conference for the relief of German Jewry]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains the booklet version of the “Reports and Resolutions” of the “Conference for the Relief of German Jewry” held in London in October 1933. The contributions include the Report of the Sub-Committee on Migration, the Report of the Committee on Relief outside Germany, the Report of Academic Committee, the Report of Reconstruction Committee, the Report of Refugees’ Sub-Committee, the Resolutions adopted by the Conference, as well as the opening speech by Neville J. Laski and the closing speech by Chaim Weizmann.

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Protocol No 118 is a testimony by Israel A., a jeshiva student from Lyda, a city near Minsk. He states that on the 1st of September 1939 he saw the first german airplanes above Lyda and one week later the city was bombed. After the polish military had left the city on the 17th of September, the inhabitants formed a people's militia, Jews and Polish people together. The head of the militia was the mayor of the city who also prevented anti-jewish riots. He further states that the Bolshevik which entered the town on the 19th of September were warmly welcomed by the Jews. On the 22nd of Septemb...

  7. [Propaganda in Ungarn, unter Bezugnahme auf den Erlass vom 26. April 1933, P2143]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains a report by the German Embassy of Budapest to the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin dated 31.07.1933 as an answer to decree P2143 from 26.04.1933 regarding Anti-German propaganda in Hungary. There are two main sources of Anti-German Propaganda in Hungary: the ones rooted in Hungary's inner political life and the ones influenced by foreign countries like France and Poland. The report names reasons for Anti-German Propaganda and means of promoting it. Furthermore, it describes the Hungarian Press, the French and Polish Propaganda in more detail. It also mentions influcence f...

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of J. F., 27 years old lacemaker from L'viv. After initial bombardments, he describes the German control of L'viv, and the sabotage of efforts to establish Jewish civilian authorities after the invasion. He describes the welcome of the Ukrainian population and their actions against the Jews of the city by serving as informers. Likewise, he described the fleeing of the Jewish population from the neighboring city of Krystynopol, and the temporary retaking of it by the Polish military. The Jews of Krystonopol received the Poles with joy and resisted the Germans with Molotov cocktail ...

  9. [Correspondence between Rosenblueth, Bentwich and Stephany]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Correspondence between Rosenblueth, Bentwich and Stephany and others regarding the memorandum from the Council of the German Jewry at the Evian conference.

  10. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland: Record No. 18]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Ezriel Kruk was a jewish soldier in the Polish army, a member for the jewish comittee in Lipna and a member of the Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund in Lite, Poyln un Rusland (General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia. He depicts how on the 5th of September 1939 the civil population and the army were evacuated from Lipna. Although the Germans and the Jews of his unit were not put on guard anymore, he stayed with the unit and testified how the Polish army arrested german civilians. He also describes lynching of German civilians by the Polish population. During heavy air raids...

  11. [National Refugee Service]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Message of the President William Rosenwald to the Members of the Board of directors of the National Refugee Service from 1943. Report of the Executive Director Albert Abrahamson to the Members and Bord of Directors of the National Refugee Service from 1942 dealing among others with the Enemy Alien Messure

  12. [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.

  13. [IRO-ITS- Child Search Branch- Quarterly Report, July/August/ September 1949]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    This file contains a statistical review of the work done by the ITS in cooperation with the UNRRA and IRO in the third quarter of 1949. It included statistics about missing children, unaccompanied located children, a questionnaire called "Personal Data of the Child"(Personalien des Kindes) and an evaluation of the questionnaire.

  14. Enquiry concerning relative of unaccompanied child in Germany

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Form about the sought of the parent of an unaccompanied child by the Preparatory Commission for the international Refugee Organization (PCIRO). The enquiry is about a mother named Regina that was an inmate at the women's Concentration Camp in Ravenbrück / Germany. This enquiry is a cooperation between the military authorities and the PCIRO.

  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...

  16. [Resolution adopted by the Committee, July 14th 1938]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A resolution stating that a large number of involuntary immigrants cause various problems to the general economy as well as racism and religious problems. A long-range program is needed in accordance with existing immigration laws. Germany and Austria should collaborate and allow the refugees to take their property and possessions. Countries of refuge should be able to choose the emigrants and not be responsible for their financial situation. Another Intergovernmental meeting should take place in London on 3rd of August 1938.

  17. [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

  18. Jews in Sweden II

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the second part of a collection of lists compiled by the Jewish community of Sweden. The list consists of two parts. The first for Jews who arrived before June 26th, 1945 (group 1) and the second part after (group 2). The lists are in alphabetical order (first and last name, date of birth, city and identity card no.) and grouped by nationality.

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Rabbi Abraham Efraim Nadelman, from Ostrow testifies about the incidents in his town from the 2nd September to the 2nd October 1939. He begins with describing the invasion of the Nazis and heavy canon fire and bombings that left a lot of casualties among the inhabitants. He depicts in details how the situation of the Jews of the town, with its Jeschiwa students, decreases rapidly and the Jews suffer severe torture and humiliation. Pious Jews suffer tremendously. Their beards get shaven off brutally, they get beaten and tortured for hours and they are forced to do degrading work. On every Je...

  20. [reports and resolutions of the sub-committees of the Conference for the relief of German Jewry]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Report of the Academic Committee of the Conference for Relief or German Jewry. Report of the Committee on Relief outside Germany. Resolutions adopted by Bureau. Location of the Committees. Report of the Reconstruction Committee. Report of the Refugees Sub-Committee. Report of the Sub-Committeeon Migration. Conference Resolution