List of Refugees (Undated)


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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 481 records of those who do and do not have exit visas from France.

The fields for this database are as follows:

Image # (Scan image number within the YIVO folder)

Page No.

Surname

Given name

Family member description

Year of Birth

Nationality

Current living place

Destination

Source (List #)

Comments

Below are the names of the lists within this collection. Lists in French are translated below the French title.:

List 1

Emigrants Ne Pouvant Pas Actuellement Obtenir Le Visa De Sortie De France (categories recemment bloquees) (Destination Etats Unis)

Emigrants Currently Unable to Obtain an Exit Visa from France (recently blocked categories) (Destination United States)

List 2

Emigrants Ne Pouvant Pas Actuellement Obtenir Le Visa De Sortie De France (categories recemment bloquees) (Destination Mexique)

Emigrants Currently Unable to Obtain an Exit Visa from France (categories recently blocked) (Destination Mexico)

List 3

Personnes Se Rendant En Argentine,ou Transitant Par Argentine Pour Qui Les Visas De Sortie Sont Autorises

Persons Traveling to or Transiting Through Argentina Whose Exit Visas Are Authorized

List 4

Personnes Se Rendant en Uraguay Pour Qui Les Visas De Sortie Sont Suspendus / Autorises

People Traveling to Uruguay Whose Exit Visas Are Suspended / Authorized

List 5

Personnes En Possession De Visas Dominicains. Visa De Sortie Autorise / Supprime.

Persons in Possession of Dominican Visas. Exit Visa Authorized / Canceled.

List 6

Personnes a Destination De Chili, Cuba et Afrique Du Sud. Visa De Sortie Autorise / Suppime / Suspendu.

People destined for Chile, Cuba andSouth Africa. Exit Visa Authorized / Suspended / Canceled.

List 7

Personnes Pour La Palestine. Visa de Soortie Autorise / Suspendu.

People For Palestine. Exit Visa Authorized / Suspended.

List 8

Personnes En Possession De Convocations Consulaires Pour Les Etats Unis (Visas De Sortie Non-Bloques)

Persons in Possession of Consular Summonses for the United States (Exit Visas Not Blocked)

List 9

Non-Internes, Titulaires De Visas USA ou Mexique (Visas De Sortie Non-Bloques)

Non-Internal, Holders of USA or Mexico Visas (Exit Visas Not Blocked)

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 43, Folder: France II-4211, Reel: 17.13). It can be accessed online at https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/7/archival_objects/177071

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

Learn more about our organizational leadership, mission, and values. There are numerous opportunities to get involved yourself!

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List of Refugees (Undated)

Introduction by YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

BACKGROUND

DATABASE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS