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List of Refugees From Cities in Occupied Germany, Leaving HIAS’ Care for Various Destinations, 1949 - 1950

Introduction by YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

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 720 records of emigrants, leaving French ports, going to various destination.

The fields for this database are as follows:

  • Image # (Scan image number within the YIVO folder)
  • Surname
  • Given name
  • Country of origin
  • Citizenship
  • Departure date
  • Final destination
  • Transit country
  • Means of transportation
  • Address of relatives in Canada
  • Source (List #)
  • Comments

Below are the names of the lists within this collection.

List 1

Departure from HIAS Munich (November 1 -30, 1950)

List 2

Movements from Munich Office to non-US countries during month of November 1950

List 3

Departure from HIAS Munich (October 1 -31, 1950)

List 4

IRO Individual Migration Monthly Nominal Roll of Movements Completed, Month Ending June 1950

List 5

IRO Individual Migration Monthly Nominal Roll of Movements Completed, Month Ending July 1950

List 6

Departure from HIAS Munich (April 1-30, 1950)

List 7

Daily list of departures (June 25, 1950)

List 8

Daily list of departures (August 21, 1950)

List 9

Canadian close relatives

List 10

IRO individual Migration monthly nominal roll of movements completed, month ending November 1950

List 11

Arrivals from July 11-20, 1951

List 12

Arrivals from July 1-10, 1951

List 13

Arrivals from June 16-30, 1951

List 14

Arrivals from May 21-31, 1951

List 15

Arrivals from Jun 1-15, 1951

List 16

Arrivals from May 11-20, 1951

List 17

Arrivals from May 1-10, 1951

List 18

Arrivals from Apr 21-30, 1951

List 19

Arrivals from April 11-20, 1951

List 20

Arrivals from April 1-10, 1951

List 21

Arrivals from March 21-31, 1951

List 22

Arrivals from March 11-20, 1951

List 23

Arrivals from March 1-10, 1951

List 24

Arrivals from February 1-10, 1951

List 25

Arrivals from February 11-20, 1951

List 26

Arrivals from February 21-28, 1951

List 27

Arrivals from January 1-10, 1951

List 28

Arrivals from January 11-20, 1951

List 29

Arrivals from January 21-31, 1951

List 30

Arrivals from December 11-20, 1950

List 31

Arrivals from November 11-20, 1950

List 32

Arrivals from November 21-30, 1950

List 33

Arrivals from March 6,7,8,9,10,11,12, 1950

List 34

Arrivals from March 14,15,16,17,18,19,20, 1950

List 35

Arrivals from March 21,22,23,24,25,26, 1950

List 36

Nominal roll of emigrants having directly left from the British zone of Germany

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-219, Reel: 19.25). It can be accessed online at https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/7/archival_objects/176117

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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