List of 650 Survivors in Hamburg, Germany

Holocaust · Survivors · Hamburg · Germany

Introduction by YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) correspondence, “650 Jews, all of whom were married to non-Jews, are all that remains of the 20,000 who formerly lived in Hamburg. Max Heineman, director of the Jewish Self-Aid Committee told a JTA correspondent. It is expected that 500 of the last transport of Jews sent from here to Theresienstadt will return, Heineman said.”

The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) is the world’s oldest refugee agency, formally incorporated in 1903. HIAS emerged from the work of several agencies which supported Jews fleeing pogroms in Russia and Eastern Europe beginning in the 1880s.

This data set comes from records of HIAS’s work in France during the war years. HIAS provided assistance to refugees in the form of legal support, monetary aid, and family reunification services, among other things, during this timeframe.

The information contained in this database was indexed from the files available from the Center for Jewish History’s collection of scanned source documents from the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. This data set is from the “Records of HIAS-HICEM Main Office in Europe (RG 245.5, France I-IV)”, File: Box 82, Folder: France IV-279, Reel: 19.31). It can be accessed online at archives.cjh.org

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May 2025

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