Het archief van de Nederlandse Delegatie van het Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees bevat voor de periode 1947-1957 gegevens over diverse aspecten van migratie en opvang. Het betreft stukken over de status van Joodse, Hongaarse en andere vluchtelingen en displaced persons; de opvang van vluchtelingen in Nederland; hulpverlening; rechtsherstel en rechtspositie; emigratiefaciliteiten in Zuid-Amerika, ...

Documentation of the International Refugee Organization (IRO) in the Netherlands, 1947-1953
 
 Stichting Vijfhonderd joodse kinderen (Fund for 500 Jewish Children): 500 Jewish children, who were displaced persons, were brought to the Netherlands from the camps in Eastern Europe and given refuge in the De Biezen home in Barneveld;
 
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The International Refugee Organisation was a non-permanent specialized agency of the United Nations. It came into being on 20 August 1948. Its functions were previously carried out by a Preparatory Commission (PCIRO), which assumed on 1 July 1947 functions formerly exercised by its predecessor organizations: The League of Nations; the Intergovernmental Committee on refugees; the United Nations Relief ...

Copyright Holder: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Refugee and Forced Migration Studies has grown from being a concern of a relatively small number of scholars and policy researchers in the 1980s to a global field of interest with thousands of students worldwide studying displacement either from traditional disciplinary perspectives or as a core component of newer programmes across the Humanities and Social and Political Sciences. Today the field encompasses ...

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The reports and other papers in this collection concern a proposed international convention on the problem of refugees from Nazi Germany, in France.

"In May of 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, effectively putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of this global military conflict did not cease with the signing of truces and peace treaties. Millions of lost and homeless POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and concentration camp survivors overwhelmed Germany, a country in complete disarray. British and ...

Contains two vaccination certificates, an international certificate of vaccination against small pox, a copy of a birth certificate and an English translation, and a medical processing certificate from the International Refugee Organization (IRO), for Dina Lanceter Cohen.

<div>The Committee of Jewish Refugees was founded in April 1933. It was part of the Committee of Special Jewish interests (CBJB). The main task was to arrange the practical assistance and care of Jewish refugees in Amsterdam. Prof. D. Cohen was appointed Chairman of the Refugee Committee. The committee was in 1939 at the 's Gravenhekje 7 in Amsterdam. The point of departure of the CJV was that the ...

Contains certificates, postcards, and various other documents, some from the International Refugee Organization, relating to Neff Fremont's time in several displaced persons camps in Italy after World War II.

Jean Richard Samuel Werner (April 9, 1912 - October 8, 2002) studied natural sciences at the University of Bern. In 1942 he became an assistant director of the work camp Thalheim and in October 1942 he became a deputy head of the work camp Davesco. In 1943 he became a head of the women's refugee house in Kriens and later on the head of the work camp in Saint-Cergue. In August 1943 he became an inspector ...

Contains records from the Shanghai Municipal Government, International Settlement, Education Department, Finance Department, Public Works Department, Public Health Department, and French Concession. Topics include: Jewish schools, Jewish journal, school fees, grants to schools for foreign children, the Jewish refugee kitchen, health facilities, the Jewish cemetery, registration of Jewish aid organizations, ...

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is an organization associated with the Society of Friends (Quakers) that works to encourage peace and social justice matters around the world. The AFSC was founded in 1917 in response to the major humanitarian crises related to World War I. Throughout the 1920s the AFSC sought to relieve suffering by operating child feeding programs across Europe, most ...

Documents (3), two from post-liberation Dachau camp, one from International Refugee Organization, all three attesting to the imprisonment of Benjamin Schepsman (Szepsman) at Dachau, and prior to that, at Natzweiler.

Contains records of the Organisation Internationale pour les Réfugiés (International Refugee Organization), and other supra-national institutions, allied in the effort to repatriate or immigrate refugees to safe havens. The bulk of the materials concern refugee Jews during the years immediately following World War II.

The bulk of the collection is composed of correspondence, accounts, and other documents relating to the office of reparation at the preparatory commission for the International Refugee Organization, from 1945 to 1948.

Consists of eight post-war certificates for Roman Rotszyld at the Feldafing displaced persons camp, including his identity card, certification from the Obschestvo Remeslenovo i. zemledelcheskovo Trouda (ORT) as an electrician, and certificate of incarceration. It also includes an International Refugee Organization (IRO) certification for Nechama Rotszyld as a dressmaker-helper.

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