List of Refugees From Sofia and Prague Leaving HIAS Care, 1948–1949
364 RecordsHolocaust · Survivors · Refugees/DPs · Bulgaria · Czechoslovakia
Introduction by YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
BackgroundThe 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.
Fields Recorded
The fields for this database are as follows:
Below are the names of the lists within this collection.
| List | Description |
|---|---|
| List 1 | Manifest for Emmigrants From Sofia 02-Nov-1949 |
| List 2 | Manifest for Emmigrants From Sofia 22-Oct-1949 |
| List 3 | Manifest for Emmigrants From Sofia 11-Oct-1949 |
| List 4 | Nominal Roll of Local Emigrants Who Left Directly From Our Country in April 1949 |
| List 5 | Nominal Roll of Local Emigrants Who Left Directly From Our Country in March 1949 |
| List 6 | Nominal Roll of Local Emigrants Who Left Directly From Our Country in February 1949 |
| List 7 | List of Persons Filing Applications For Assistance, Returned by IRO Mission (Prague) June 1949 |
| List 8 | List of Persons Filing Applications For Assistance, Returned by IRO Mission (Prague) July 1949 |
| List 9 | Advise of Daily Departure 04-Aug-1949 |
| List 10 | Nominal Roll of Emigrants who Left Directly to Place of Resettlement (July 1949) |
| List 11 | Advise of Daily Departure 16-Aug-1949 |
| List 12 | Nominal Roll of Emigrants who Left Directly to Place of Resettlement (August 1949) |
| List 13 | Nominal Roll of Emigrants who Departed Between 01-Sep-1948 and 31-Ded-1948 |
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-215, Reel: 19.24). It can be accessed online at archives.cjh.org
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May 2025
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