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  1. 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...

  2. 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 ...

  3. [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...

  4. Switzerland and Jewish refugees: Reports by JUNA and other material

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This collection of material on the fate of Jews and Switzerland during the Nazi era, comprises several deposits, the first three of which share the same provenance, the other two being unrelated. Parts of this archive were used to create the three dossiers in this collection.The three dossiers, all produced in 1955, and apparently emanating from the same source, have been produced in the same format. Namely, an introductory essay on a topic punctuated by references to related transcript documents (Be...

  6. Leather briefcase used to hold family papers by Jewish refugees

    1. Henry and Rose Basch collection

    Briefcase used by Henry and Rose Basch when they lived as refugees in Shanghai, China. They used the valise to store documents related to their efforts to get family members out of Nazi-controlled Europe. Henry and Rose, originally from Poland, fled Germany to escape the antisemitic policies of the Nazi government, probably in the late 1930s.

  7. Bomb damage in Italy; Italian refugees; British troops; German prisoners

    04:08:10 NR-85 Army Pictorial Service - Film Report (Silent) Effects of Bombing by USAAF in Italy, October 6, 1943. VS, Italian refugee women and children in flight, enter town, carrying their small belongings. CU, sign at improvised bridge: George Washington Bridge. LS, US Army truck moves through bomb-wrecked city passing ruined church and much debris. CU, religious statues in church. AV, town showing Reggio Canal, ruined factories and building; bomb craters in parts of the city along the RR yard and in ancient amphitheatre. LS, ruined railroad yard and demolished bridge. 04:12:59 NR-76 A...

  8. Leather and metal box owned by German Jewish refugees

    1. Lewin and Levi family collection

    Leather and metal box presumably brought with Simon and Violet Lewin, their daughter Marion, and Violet's son, Rolf, who fled Berlin, Germany, in late December 1938 for the United States.

  9. Metal needle case with cap brought with German Jewish refugees

    1. Lewin and Levi family collection

    Metal needle case with removable cap brought with Simon and Violet Lewin, their daughter Marion, and Violet's son, Rolf, who fled Berlin, Germany, in late December 1938 for the United States.United States.

  10. Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Correspondence regarding refugees and rescuing Jews

    1. P.49- Archive of Leni Yahil, Holocaust Researcher, 1904-2002

    Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Correspondence regarding refugees and rescuing Jews In the file: - Correspondence with people and institutions in the United States and Great Britain, the Red Cross and others regarding Jewish refugees and rescuing Jews.

  11. Lists of Ichud members who are refugees in Switzerland

    1. P.7- Archive of Marc Jarblum, Zionist Leader and one of the leaders of the Jewish underground in France, 1941-1967

    Lists of Ichud members who are refugees in Switzerland Also in the file: Addresses of Jewish organizations and personalities and receipts from the Swiss post.

  12. List of Jewish refugees from Poland who are in Romania

    1. M.17 - Documentation of the Polish Jewish Refugee Fund in Geneva, 1933-1940

    List of Jewish refugees from Poland who are in Romania The list is organized alphabetically and includes name, place of birth, age, occupation and current place of residence; list compiled by the Committee for Relief of the War Stricken Jewish Population ]sponsored by] the World Jewish Congress in Geneva.

  13. List of Jewish refugees from Poland who are in Vilna

    1. M.17 - Documentation of the Polish Jewish Refugee Fund in Geneva, 1933-1940

    List of Jewish refugees from Poland who are in Vilna The list is organized alphabetically and includes name, place of birth, age, occupation and current place of residence; list compiled by the Committee for Relief of the War Stricken Jewish Population [sponsored by] the World Jewish Congress in Geneva; Included in the file: A list containing names of Jewish refugees in Vilna who are not originally from Poland.

  14. Child refugees from Germany disembark at Harwich. An ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    Child refugees from Germany disembark at Harwich. An immigration officer examining the "label" of a little refugee as she disembarked at Harwich.

  15. Three-year-old twin refugees arrive in England - youngest ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    Three-year-old twin refugees arrive in England - youngest so far. The three-year-old twins holding hands at Harwich.

  16. Bathing parade for child refugees from Germany. Some ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    Bathing parade for child refugees from Germany. Some of the 200 refugee children, towels over their shoulders, line up for bathing parade on their arrival at the holiday camp.

  17. Third party of child refugees arrive from Germany. ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    Third party of child refugees arrive from Germany. Some of the little refugees find a seat on a barrow at Harwich.

  18. Second party of refugees children arrives - 500 from ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    Second party of refugees children arrives - 500 from Vienna seek shelter in England. A lonely little refugee crying on arrival at Harwich.

  19. Third party of child refugees arrives from Germany. ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    Third party of child refugees arrives from Germany. The child refugees aboard the steamer on arrival at Harwich.

  20. First of the German child refugees arrive. Happy little ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    First of the German child refugees arrive. Happy little refugees cheering at the first sight of England on arrival at Harwich this morning.