The Polish Jewish Refugee Fund was established in 1938 to provide relief for Jews of Polish origin seeking refuge in Great Britain.

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M.17 - Documentation of the Polish Jewish Refugee Fund in Geneva, 1933-1940
 
 The collection contains correspondence of Joseph Thon and Theodor Grubner, representatives of the Polish Jewish Refugee Fund in Geneva. There are also personal letters from relatives of Jews in Poland to the Polish Jews in Geneva, reports regarding the situation of the Jews in Poland and lists of Jews from Pol ...

Title: "P.I.C. Films, Inc. Presents: Children in Refuge" "A film dedicated to children who suffer because of war" American children in classroom. Ruins in Warsaw (Julien Bryan footage from "Siege" of Warsaw in 1939). Relief packages for Polish children. National War Fund. Polish War Relief. American children reading thank you letters from Polish children. Scenes from refugee camps in Iran, Palestine, ...

Anatole Ponevejsky (1900-1969) was born in the Siberian city of Irkutsk. In the 1920s, he and his brothers David and Leo moved to Harbin, Manchuria, where they began a business of importing woolens from Japan. There he married Gita Preisman whose family had also come to Manchuria from Irkutsk. In 1935, Ponevejsky went to Japan to run the exports side of the business. He first settled in Yokohama where ...

Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld (1912-84) was the son of Dr Avigdor Schonfeld, the founder of the Jewish Secondary Schools Movement. In 1933 Solomon Schonfeld became rabbi of the Adath Yisrael Synagogue; he succeeded his father as principal of the Jewish Secondary Schools Movement, becoming also the presiding rabbi of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations and president of the National Council for Jewish ...

Fonds consist of series of administration documents, minutes of meetings, correspondence, standing committees (including United Jewish Appeal), ad hoc committees and agencies and institutions. BOX 1 - Series: Minutes Organizational Meeting Minutes - 1934: Documents pertaining to the creation of an Ottawa Vaad Ha'Ir, as favoured unanimously by the Vaad Hakashruth. Minutes - Quarterly, General, Special ...

This collection of records about and from Nazi concentration camps was collected by a working group in Lund in Southern Sweden, led by a Polish academic in exile, Zygmunt Łakociński. Initially, the working group that was later named the Polish Research Institute (Polska källinstitutet, PIZ) was a sub-section of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (Utrikespolitiska Institutet) and also received ...

The collection contains minutes of the Germany Emergency Committee, which was later renamed the Friends Committee for Refugees and Aliens (FCRA). Records relate to the situation of Jews in Germany, support for refugees, internment, political prisoners, and visits to concentration camps. The collection also includes the pamphlet “An Account of the Work of the Friends Committee for Refugees and Aliens, ...

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Jakovas (Jacob Josef) Bunka (1923-2014) was born in Plungė, Lithuania, to Leib (1895-1943) and Toybe Ril Bunka. Jakovas had three sisters, Dina, Hene, and Chane, and one brother, Avrom Lazar. His father fought for Lithuanian independence after World War I, and was awarded a Freedom medal and some land to work. Roughly half the town’s population of 5,000 were Jewish. Jakovas’ family regularly attended ...

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...

John Pehle discusses the War Refugee Board, U.S. policy and inaction, the Riegner cable of March 1943, Rabbi Wise and the rally at Madison Square Garden, antisemitism, the bombing of Auschwitz, the International Red Cross, and the Vatican. FILM ID 3259 -- Camera Rolls #38-42-- 01:00:18 to 01:07:31 Roll 38 01:00:19 John Pehle exits his house, which is located in a wooded area, and walks around his yard. ...

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The Stolz and White families papers include biographical material, correspondence, school records, writings, restitution material, and photographs relating to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Erika Stolz and her parents, Leon and Rosa, originally of Vienna, Austria. At the beginning of the war Erika was sent on a Kinderstransport to Christian boarding school in England. Leon and Rosa ...