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Country: Israel

  1. [DALJEWCIB Correspondence regarding the situation in Shanghai, advice for refugees, living conditions and numerous information]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    DALJEWCIB Correspondence regarding the living situation of Jewish refugees and emigrees in China, including Shanghai,Japanese occupied Dairen and Harbin in Mandchukuo. The correspondence is detailing living conditions, the overall political situation and many more aspects in reports and personal correspondence with potential emigrees and people who have already arrived in China and have sent word of their current state of affairs.

  2. [DALJEWCIB correspondence regarding transit-visa Problems for Emigrees from Germany traveling via Poland or the Soviet Union by land/train to Mandchukuo]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    DALJEWCIB correspondence regarding transit-visa Problems for emigrees from Germany traveling via Poland or the Soviet Union by land/train en route to Mandchukuo. Especially the intransigence of Polish and Soviet border authorities is mentioned as one of the hindrances in reaching Mandchukuo by train.

  3. [DALJEWCIB correspondence with Jewish emigrees from Germany categorized into professions]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    DALJEWCIB correspondence with Jewish emigrees and interested parties from Germany, as well as Jewish relief organizations categorized into professions.

  4. [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.

  5. [DALJEWCIB in correspondence with the Jüdischer Hilfsbund (Jewish Relief Association) in Berlin on the intransigence of the Manchurian diplomatic mission in Berlin]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    DALJEWCIB correspondence with the Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland (Jewish Relief Association Germany) located in Berlin regarding the intransigence of the Manchurian diplomatic mission in Berlin in providing mostly Jewish emigrees with entry visas into Mandchukuo and the non-viability of the landroute to Mandchukuo

  6. [Documents concerning the formalities connected with the emigration from Austria in 1938 and life as a refugee in Great Britain]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Documents concerning the formalities connected with the emigration of Jewish citizens from Austria in 1938 after the so called "Anschluss" of Austria to the Third Reich. Additionally information pages on life as a refugee in Great Britain, employement regulations, official German questionaires regarding emigration, official instructions for children boarding one of the "Kindertransports" as well as containing lists with adresses and general advice.

  7. [Documents concerning the formalities connected with the emigration from Austria in 1938 and life as a refugee in Great Britain]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Documents concerning the formalities connected with the emigration from Austria in 1938 and immigration to Great Britain, including important details for life as a refugee in Great Britain, containing lists, adresses, advice and contacts for refugess from Austria after the "Anschluss" of Austria to the Third Reich in 1938. The documents also contains a list regarding children who are about to be sent to Great Britain on a so called "Kindertransport".

  8. [Documents from the estate of Julius Bloch regarding emigration to the United States]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Documents from Julius Bloch in January 17th 1939 sent from London via telegraph to his family (in Frankfurt/Main and New York) and the answer he received about the preparations for emigration to the United States as well as the restrictive laws concerning cash money of Jews in the Third Reich.

  9. [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.

  10. [Documents on the German resistance group "Onkel Emil"]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains various documents on German resistance during World War 2 and more specifically on the resistance group “Onkel Emil”. It consists of a correspondence between the German lawyer Ludwig Ruge and his acquaintances in which he asks for sources on the German underground, as well as of member lists of “Onkel Emil”. However, the largest part of the file is a typewritten chapter of a book by Ruth Andreas-Friedrich, a key member of the group. The book was published in 1947 under the title of “Der Schattenmann” . There, she describes in detail the struggle of living through the last ...

  11. [Exchange of letters to and among several British officials]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Exchange of letters between several British officials regarding the question of immigration of German Jewish refugees and the resolution adopted at the Evian Conference on 14th of July 1938.

  12. [Fundraising Efforts DALJEWCIB Shanghai/Harbin with Jewish Communities all over Asia]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Correspondence Of The In Harbin Located "DALJEWCIB" Office with a a Jewish community representative of the Jewish community of Bombay, regarding the emigration wave of Jewish refugees arriving in Harbin and Shanghai and a plea for financial assistance in order to help the disposessed refugees

  13. [Hell or Paradise]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several reports written by Paul Anderson, regading the reality of Soviet life. He gives informations about Soviet collective farms, the trade Unions and about Red Army refugees who recently escaped to the West from the Soviet zone of Germany. As Anderson argues communities in the country side of Russia had a hard and not easy life, which makes it even more surprising why they were still voting for the communist party. This is based ultimately on illudions and ideals that are false even if they are genuinely and sincerely belived in. To every Soviet citizen the first experi...

  14. [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.

  15. [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.

  16. [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.

  17. [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.

  18. [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.

  19. [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...

  20. [Jewish emigration I]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains diplomatic correspondence between various diplomats of the German Foreign Ministry regarding the emigration of Jews from Germany following the Evian Conference of July 1938. The correspondence mostly contains letters and reports by Ernst von Weizsäcker and Ernst Woermann concerning a possible meeting between George Rublee, the director of the “Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees” that had been founded during the Evian Conference, and German Officials. While American, British and French diplomats urged the German Authorities to meet Rublee, the German side first rejecte...