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Lists of Refugees From Bucharest (Romania), Budapest and Warsaw, Leaving HIAS’ Care for Various Destinations (1947 – 1949)

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 525 records of refugees leaving from Bucharest, Budapest and Warsaw for various destinations.

The fields for this database are as follows:

  • Image # (Scan image number within the YIVO folder)
  • Surname
  • Given name
  • Departure date
  • Immediate/transit destination
  • Final destination
  • Means of transportation (if by ship, with ship name)
  • Source (List #)
  • Comments

Below are the names of the lists within this collection.

1

List of Departures (Report Dated 19-Oct-1949)

2

List of Departures (Report dated 31-May-1949)

3

List of Italian Departures (July 1947-February 1948)

4

Persons Left 07-Oct-1949

5

Persons Left end of November 1949

6

Persons Left End of October 1949

7

Persons Left 31-Oct-1949

8

Persons Left 12-Nov-1949

9

Lists of Departures in September 1949

10

Lists of Departures in January 1949

11

Lists of Departures in February 1949

12

Lists of Departures in April 1949

13

Lists of Departures in 1947 - 1948

14

List of Departures (October 1949)

15

Persons Left (November 6, 1949)

16

List of Emigrants Sent off By HIAS - Bucharest (September 1949)

17

Persons Left (04-October-1949)

18

Persons Left (21-September 1949)

19

List of Emigrants Sent off By HIAS - Bucharest (August 1949)

20

List of Emigrants Sent off By HIAS - Bucharest (July 1949)

21

List of Emigrants Sent off By HIAS - Bucharest (June 1949)

22

List of Emigrants Sent off By HIAS - Bucharest (May 1949)

23

List of Emigrants Sent off By HIAS - Bucharest (March / April 1949)

24

List of Emigrants Sent off By HIAS - Bucharest (January 1949)

25

List of Emigrants (Report dated January 16, 1949)

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-216, Reel: 19.24).  It can be accessed online at https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/7/archival_objects/176114

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

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