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List of Survivors Registered in Lodz, and Several other Polish Cities, 1945

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 6,803 records of survivors registering in Lodz and other Polish cities in 1945

The fields for this database are as follows:

  • Image # (Scan image number within the YIVO folder)
  • Surname
  • Given name
  • Maiden name
  • Year of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Town of residence before 1939
  • Town where registered or residing
  • Source (List #)
  • Comments

Below are the names of the lists within this collection.

1

Jewish Survivors Registered in Lodz (July-1945)

2

Jewish Survivors Residing in Proszowice

3

Jewish Survivors residing in Starachanowic

4

Jewish Survivors Residing in Poland

5

Jewish Survivors Residing in Ostrowiec

6

Jewish Survivors Residing in Ostrowiec

7

Jewish Survivors Residing in Ostrowiec

8

Jewish Survivors Residing in Ostrowiec

9

Jewish Survivors Residing in Szyblowiec

10

Jewish Survivors Residing in Suchedniow

11

Jewish Survivors Residing in Stopnica

12

Jewish Survivors Residing in Szeczekociny

13

list of repatriates from Italy arriving in Villefranche on 19 September 1945

14

Repatriates from Italy arriving on 5 September 1945

15

Repatriates arriving from italy on 15 September 1945

16

Repatriates arriving from italy on 14 September 1945

17

Jewish Survivors Residing in Wachock

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 85, Folder: France IV-324, Reel: 19.35). It can be accessed online at https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/7/archival_objects/176238

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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