• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• M.18
• English
• 1944-1948
• 1,200.000 cards and 15 Boxes
• Updated 1 decade ago

In the collection there are documents, lists and index cards. There are two main sections to the collection: Index Cards and Boxes of Documents.1. Index Cards: There are approximately 1,200,000 index cards, not in alphabetical order. Most of the cards are in good physical condition; 2. Boxes of documents: There are approximately 210 boxes of documents clearly divided into two kinds of material:A. The lists are located in 83 boxes including the names of those survivors for whom the organization has searched. The names appear on the index cards as well (in Part 1), because with every applicat...

1. The Danish Refugee Administration in Sweden

• Rigsarkivet
• Centralregistret
• Danish, English
• 1943-1945
• 49 parcels
• Updated 6 years ago

Central Register of Refugees, 1943 - 1945.

• Rigsarkivet
• Den Danske Flygtningeadministration i Sverige
• Danish, English
• 782 parcels
• Updated 6 years ago

The General Department handled the assistance to refugees who were not in work and not stayed in barracks/ garrison: clothing assistance, lodging, maintenance, social assistance for elderly, mothers with children, pregnant women, medical and dental assistance, help in illness, death, help to the Danish Brigade personnel and its families. Legal assistance was transferred to the Refugee Office Secretariat.

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• M.56
• English
• 1945-1960
• 74 microfilm reels
• Updated 1 decade ago

The documentation covers the period from the end of the war until after 1960 and primarily relates to Jews displaced during the war. There is also documentation regarding activities in other countries as well as problems related to Eretz Israel and the creation of the State of Israel in the Record Group. The documentation in the Record Group describes the efforts that were made to evacuate Jews from Nazi-controlled Europe, 1933-1944, the subsequent care of these refugees, post-war reparation, the impact of the Holocaust on the Zionist movement, and many other issues. The archive is all the ...

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• M.17
• English
• 1933-1940
• 28 Files
• Updated 1 decade ago

The collection contains correspondence of Joseph Thon and Theodor Grubner, representatives of the Polish Jewish Refugee Fund in Geneva. There are also personal letters from relatives of Jews in Poland to the Polish Jews in Geneva, reports regarding the situation of the Jews in Poland and lists of Jews from Poland.

1. Segreteria di Stato
2. Archivio della Segreteria di Stato

• The Archbishop of Utrecht de Jong to Pope Pius XII

• Archivio Segreto Vaticano
• A.S.S. 1940 Razza 33, orig
• English
• 1940
• Updated 6 years ago

De Jong asks pope Pius XII that a part of the donation received from American Jews via the archbishop of Chicago would be given to the Dutch Catholic Committee for Refugees in order to help non-Aryan refugees in the Netherlands.

1. Segreteria di Stato
2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari

• The Nuncio in Bern Bernardini to Cardinal Maglione

• Archivio Segreto Vaticano
• A.E.S. 3778/39, Rap. nr. 6325
• English
• 1939
• One letter.
• Updated 6 years ago

Bernardini reports Maglione the difficulties he is facing in order to help Jewish refugees. Bernardini says he contacted on this matter the Lucerne-based « Unione Svizzera di Carità », and relates that South-American Embassies and Consulates in Switzerland became much stricter on issuing visas, even to Catholics.

1. Segreteria di Stato
2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari

• Professor Schmutzer and Father Strathmann O. P. to Pope Pius XII

• Archivio Segreto Vaticano
• A.E.S. 1356/39
• English
• 1939
• Updated 6 years ago

Prof. Schmutzer and the Dominican friar Strathmann write to Pope Pius XII about an International Committee for Catholic refugees. The letter third annexe (A.E.S. 5190/38) is a memorandum written by Pope Pie XII (at that time cardinal Eugenio Pacelli) in 1938, who suggests protecting converted-to-Catholicism Jews who are forced to leave Italy and Germany.

• The Ministry of Welfare for the War-Affected Areas of the Independent State of Croatia (ISC)

• Hrvatski državni arhiv
• HR-HDA-221
• English
• 1943-1945
• 14 books, 7 boxes
• Updated 10 years ago

The collection holds pleas for help from refugees within the ISC. Note that the refugees in question mostly are non-Jewish, as the dates point it is towards the end of the war, but the collection might be interesting to appraise the general atmosphere of social welfare after the collapse of Italy in 1943. It is not excluded some of the cases handled within the collection refer to the remaining Jews in Croatia.

1. Segreteria di Stato
2. Archivio della Congregazione degli Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari

• Archivio Segreto Vaticano
• A.E.S. 4248/40, orig.
• English
• 1940
• Unavailable.
• Updated 6 years ago

Notes track how 150 000 dollars donated to the Holy See by American Jews in order to help Non-Aryans have been used. Notes list beneficiaries: Raphaelsverein; the Utrecht bishop; Cardinal Boetto in Genua; American Relief Committees.

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 4019659
• English, Hebrew
• Financial accounts Letter List of names Newspaper clippings Official documentation Personal documents Reports Survey report Telegram
• Updated 12 months ago

P.12 - Chaim Pazner Archives: Representative of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel in Switzerland during World War II The record group contains a variety of documentation collected by Dr. Chaim Pazner (Chaim Posner) over the course of his life, mainly while serving as Director of the Eretz Israel Office in Geneva, Switzerland. - Files 80-112 include files of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in the United States. - Files 115-126 include personal documentation regarding Pazner's post-war activities including his role as Deputy Chairman of Yad Vashem. Chaim Pazner was born in Kowal, Poland, 04 Janu...