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Holding Institution: Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust, Tel Aviv University/ספריית וינר לחקר התקופה הנאצית והשואה, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב

  3. Intergovernmental Committee. Evian Conference – July 1938. Verbatim Report of the Sixth Meeting (Public) held on Friday, July 15th, 1938 at 11 a.m.

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A recommendation to the governments to bring about a real improvement in the lives and prospects of refugees. Orderly immigration should replace disorderly exodus and emigrants should be able to take their possessions and property. United Kingdom accepts both resolutions. Palestine cannot be completely opened to Jewish refugees, because it is not a large country and special considerations arise out of the terms of the Mandate as well as out of local situation, which it is impossible to ignore. Difficulties in Palestine have led to proposals for drastic changes in the political structure of ...

  4. [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.

  5. [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.

  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. [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.

  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. [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 ...

  10. [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...

  11. [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.

  12. [A letter from Bentwich to Lord Herbert Samuel regarding Evian Conference]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A letter regarding the Zionists' wish to bring before the Evian Conference the whole Jewish problem and their pressure for the opening of Palestine for larger Jewish emigration. The American government is calling the conference primarily to deal with the problem of refugees from Germany and Austria rather than with a purely Jewish problem. There is no point of turning conference into a Jewish problem and it is better to focus on non-Aryan victims in Austria. According to Bentwich, it seems to be a pity that they Zionist should at this moment stress the need for a much greater immigration in...

  13. [Jewish migration from Germany and Austria and the Comite voor Bijzondere Joodsche Belangen]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Professor Cohen was upset about a memorandum sent to him by Mr. Stephany and claims that it has done its best to solve the refugee problem.

  14. [A letter connected to Evian Conference]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Bentwich sent Taylor documents regarding German Jewish refugees and explained shortly his past work and positions.

  15. Minutes of a meeting of the editing sub-committe held at the offices of the Council of the German Jewry, Woburn house, on Thursday, 2nd June, 1938, at 11:00 a.m.

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Summary of a meeting and the tasks to consider the draft memorandum, which the chairman had prepared and should be given to the Council for German Jewry, and to suggest headings for material to be prepared by the Jewish organizations for submission to the Evian Conference.

  16. Evian Conference about Political Refugees. Memorandum of Certain Jewish Organizations Concerned with the Refugees from Germany and Austria

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A memorandum about the history of the persecution of German Jews since the Nazi Party came to power and the occupation of Austria. There is additional persecution and danger to Jewry in central European countries. The Council for German Jewry was formed to co-ordinate the efforts of the British and American Organizations and to meet the aggravation of the economic distress of German Jewry. The young Jewish generation must be prepared for productive manual occupation in the countries to which emigration must be directed. The memorandum furthers discusses the opportunities for occupation and ...

  17. 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 ...

  18. Discussion on Friday May 20th about the Preparation of a programme for the governmental conference

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Suggestion how to deal with question of Jewish refugees(Jews from Germany and Austria should bementioned but not Jews from Poland and eastern Europe, figuers and finance) in the Evian confence.

  19. The Refugees and Immigration

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A memorandum discussing the size of the refugee problem as well as arguments pro and against immigration. It further discusses the finance and retraining possibilities of refugees.Discribes the immigration policy and situation of Jewish immigrants in France and Palestine.

  20. Political aspects of the refugee problem in relation to the conference called by the US Secretary of State

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A note on the advantages and disadvantages of the USA organizing the Evian conference including topics, which should be discussed at the conference such as propaganda.