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

6,803 Records

Holocaust · Survivors · Lodz · Poland

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.

Fields Recorded

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.

Lists in This Collection

List	Description
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 archives.cjh.org

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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