Lists of Refugees From Austria, Belgium, London, and Munich Leaving HIAS’ Care for Various Destinations (1950)


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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 958 records of refugees from Austria, Belgium, London and Munich going to various destinations.

The fields for this database are as follows:

Image # (Scan image number within the YIVO folder)

Surname

Given name

Country of origin

Departure date

Final destination

Transit city / country

Means of transportation

Source (List #)

Comments

Below are the names of the lists within this collection.

List 1

Monthly Departures from Vienna, December 1950

List 2

Persons Who Left in December 1950

List 3

Transport to Canada

List 4

Persons Who Left in October 1950

List 5

Persons Who Left in September 1950

List 6

Persons Who Left in August 1950

List 7

Persons Who Left in July 1950

List 8

Transport List Aug 3, 1950

List 9

Persons who left in June 1950

List 10

Persons who left in April 1950

List 11

Persons who left in March 1950

List 12

Emigrants left for Australia in September 1950

List 13

Person left in January 1950

List 14

Person left in December 1950

List 15

Person left in November 1950

List 16

Person left in October 1950

List 17

Person left in September 1950

List 18

Person left in July 1950

List 19

Person left in June 1950

List 20

Person left in August 1950

List 21

Persons left in July 1950

List 22

Persons left in June 1950

List 23

Persons left in May 1950

List 24

Persons left in April 1950

List 25

Persons left in Mar 1950

List 26

Persons left in January 1950

List 27

Persons left in December 1949

List 28

left directly to place of Resettlement in October 1950

List 29

left directly to place of Resettlement in August 1950

List 30

left directly to place of Resettlement in June 1950

List 31

Departures in December 1950

List 32

Departures in November 1950

List 33

Departures in October 1950

List 34

Departures in September 1950

List 35

Departures in August 1950

List 36

Departures in July 1950

List 37

Departures in June 1950

List 38

Departures in May 1950

List 39

Departures in April 1950

List 40

Departures in September 1950

List 41

Departures in July 1950

List 42

Departures in June 1950

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 76, Folder: France IV-218, Reel: 19.25). It can be accessed online at https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/7/archival_objects/176116

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.

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

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Lists of Refugees From Austria, Belgium, London, and Munich Leaving HIAS’ Care for Various Destinations (1950)

Introduction by YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

BACKGROUND

DATABASE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS