List of Emigrants to Palestine and the United Kingdom, 1945

BACKGROUND

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.

DATABASE

This database includes 399 records of emigrants to Palestine and the United Kingdom, 1945.  

The fields for this database are as follows:

• Image # (Scan image number within the YIVO folder)
• Surname
• Given name
• Date of Birth
• Place of Birth
• Nationality (See Note A below)
• Last European Address
• Comments

Note A (Nationality)

Allemaande – German

Apatride – Stateless

Autrichenne – Austrian

Belge. – Belgian

Chilienne – Chilean

Cosda Rica – Costa Rica

Egyptienne – Egyptian

Francaise – French

Grecque. – Greek

Hollandaise – Dutch

Hongroise – Hungarian

Irakienne – Iraqi

Marocaine – Moroccan

Neerland. – Dutch

Palestinienne – Palestinian

Polonaise – Polish

Roumaine – Romanian

Russe – Russian

Sarroise – Saarland

Tchecholslov. – Czechoslovakian

Yougoslave – Yugoslavian

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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 60, Folder: France I-59, Reel: 19.5).  It can be accessed online at https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/7/archival_objects/175957

Thank you to Nolan Altman, Director of Data Acquisition and Coordinator of Holocaust Database, for his continued devotion and dedication to JewishGen's important work.  

May 2025