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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

  1. Jews in several countries 1939

    1. Research files: research conducted by the JCIO and the Wiener Library

    The file contains a month by month survey of the Jews' situation in several European countries as well as in Palestine and of the refugees' problem all over the world. The first files are letters from the Jewish Central Information Office about the Jews in Italy. The other documents report about the Jews in Romania, the Jewish emigration policy and the official measures taken in favor of or against the Jews ; in the Baltic States and especially in Lithuania, about the virulent traders' anti-Jewish propaganda despite the official government position against anti-Jewish steps, the deteriorati...

  2. World Jewish Congress reports

    1. Research files: research conducted by the JCIO and the Wiener Library

    The file contains two copies, in German and in French, of a circular letter from the World Jewish Congress reporting about its main events and actions during the months of October and November 1939. They relate to its own international organization and also to political issues concerning the problem of the refugees in Europe, which was submitted to the Intergovernmental Committee for the Refugees. The letters also give information on negotiations for the organization of a rescue operation for the Jews in Poland, on the situation of the population in the territories occupied by the Russians,...

  3. The Jews of Switzerland by Dr. Willy Guggenheim

    1. Judge Hadassa Ben-Itto collection 1926-2018

    The file contains an essay written by Dr. Willy Guggenheim, published by the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities, entitled as 'The Jews of Switzerland'. It deals with the history of Jews in Switzerland, in detail the history before the World War I, between the two Wars, during World War II and after the War is described. Switzerland was for example the last country of all Western Europe which grant Jews full civic rights (1866) and only under strong foreign pressure. The fight for emancipation started from the canton of Aargau. From there the Jews fanned out to other places in Switzerlan...

  4. Flüchtlinge

    1. Judge Hadassa Ben-Itto collection 1926-2018

    The file contains documents written by Gorges Brunschvig, who was a Swiss lawyer and president of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities (SIG). Internationally, he is best known for representing the plaintiff in the 1934–35 "Berne Trial". Born in Bern to a family of Jewish horse traders, Brunschvig studied law at the University of Bern and passed the bar exam in 1933. In 1934, he founded a law firm on the Marktgasse in Bern. The documents are entitled as 'Flüchtlingsprobleme' - refugee (problems). Brunschvig speaks about refugee camps he visited as a refugee commissioner (Flüchtlingskom...

  5. [A letter to Saly Meyer]

    1. Judge Hadassa Ben-Itto collection 1926-2018

    A letter from the Joint Foreign Committee to Saly Mayer informing him he will not be getting the funds he had asked for, since the funds were needed for German refugees and the burden on the committee was too great. Saly Mayer was involved in the Bern trial and anti-fascist publications in Switzerland. This letter is part of a collection of letters and documents in the Bern trial case files.

  6. The Jewish Question in Japan

    1. Judge Hadassa Ben-Itto collection 1926-2018

    A document written by Tetsu Kohno entitled The Jewish Question in Japan covering a time span from the turn of the 20th century till 1986. He mentions Captain Norihito Yasueof who translated the Protocols into Japanese in 1924; the antisemitic article of Kaho Ohba, 1917, in the Asahi Shimbun newspaper; the retranslation of the Protocols in 1938 by Eikichi Kubota; the publishing of two antisemitic books, 1986, entitled 'If You Know the Jews You Will Understand the World' and 'If You Know the Jews You Will Understand Japan' by Masami Uno

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of Isaac Meir Berman, b. 1906, a trader from Lodz, who describes the beginning of the war and the bombardment of Lodz, as well as the arrival of refugee from the surrounding countryside. He describes how he left Lodz with his family, making his way by car to Jezow, then Warsaw and Minsk Mazowiecki under heavy bombardments, together with other refugees. Many of the bombarded cities suffered casualties. He arrived in Vilnius by train. Protocol No.14 is an extract from a volume of protocols /statements provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugee writers and journalists who fled to V...

  8. [Correspondence between British and Czech Jewish relief organizations]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Several letters have been written by Dr. Frischer, Chairman of the Central Jewish Committee in Prague, by Mr. Stephany, Joint Secretary of the Central British Fund and by Mr. Passman, of the American Joint Distribution Committee in the middle east. The Correspondence treats the situation of Czechoslovakian Jewry in August and September 1945. Furthermore the Committee in Czechoslovakia and its members are introduced. In this Mr. Benes serves as a Chairman in Prague and Mr. Revesz in Bratislava.

  9. About the Peninsular Refugees in France

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The document is a summary of the situations of the Peninsular refugees in France after an agreement between the Vichy regime and the Mexican Government to take the refugees under Mexican protection. It gives details about the situation of the refugees in occupied France, under German and French pressure, the different treatment of communists and humanitarian issues.

  10. [Situation of Jews in Galicia]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains three reports about the situation of Jews in Galicia. The report is based on the narration of a witness. It discribes the situation of Jews in Eastern Galicia from the beginning of the occupation by the Soviet Union on the 17th of September 1939 till December 1939. When the Red Army invated Poland the Jews were impute to welcome the invasion. But infact they saw the invasion by the Soviet Union as the lesser evil, as beeing occupied by the Nazis. But as the report shows, the Jewish population in Eastern Galicia had to suffer under the the new communist regime. Not just ant...

  11. ITS, Yearly Report 1948 / Registration Form / Program of Action for rescue of Jews in Nazi occupied territories

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains of a yearly report from 1948 which shows statistics from the UNRRA and IRO about missing and unaccompanied children. Furthermore it includes a document called "Program of Action for Rescue of the Jews in Nazi occupied territories, proposed by the joint Emergency Committee on European Jewish Affairs" ( not dated). The next document is a letter by the ITS informing about the increasing numbers of solved cases of missing and unaccompanied children from October 1949. The last document in a registration card for unaccompanied children from the ITS Child Search Branch for Barbar...

  12. [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.

  13. ITS Monthly Report for the month of December, 1952, and Annual Report for Year 1952

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The report contains information gives an outline of the work done by the ITS in 1952 with emphasis on Mail distribution and central files, general information, documentation and administrative service.

  14. [Visa modalities for Madchukuo explained in detail by DALJEWCIB Harbin to the Relief Society of German and Austrian Jews]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Visa modalities for Manchoukuo explained in detail by DALJEWCIB Harbin to the Relief Society of German and Austrian Jews by means of sea travel and by land. Also guidelines for emigration to Manchoukuo

  15. [Casualties World War II (2)]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the second out of two files containing various documents on the number of casualties during World War II. The documents include typewritten and handwritten notes and excerpts, as well as copies from books and articles. The information regarding statistics of casualties, victims, refugees, and the extent of destruction stems from various sources, such as encyclopedias, books, newspaper articles and research articles published between 1941 and 1975. Some of the documents deal with authors and publications promoting Holocaust denial. The sources were published in various languages:...

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

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Testimony of Isaac R,. 26 year old tannery worker from Warsaw. He was in Warsaw at the beginning of the war, the fire-warden for his building, and describes the emergency procedures take during the bombardment. He left Warsaw before the Germans entered it, making his way to check on his mother via Pulawy, Ryki, and Kazimierz Dolny, and then returning to Warsaw. He describes the damage inflicted by the German aerial bombardment, and says that in Pulawy the Germans were already seizing Jews for forced labour. In Pulawy, likewise, the Germans ruined the Jewish community financially by confisca...

  17. Aus der Emigration II

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file is the continuation of Curt Rosenberg's account of his life in Scotland after his flight from Nazi Germany including his legal struggles with his landlord. He describes life in London in 1942 and his work in the German Refugee Center in Glasgow. He also recounts a court hearing, the differences between German and British jurisdiction, and the difficulties refugees face when settling in foreign surroundings.

  18. [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.

  19. 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.

  20. [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.