Refugees Resident in Columbia, 1939

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 78 records of refugees resining in Columbia in Entire list of related family members will be found with a search for any one family member.

The fields for this database are as follows:

Image # (Scan image number within the YIVO folder)

Surname

 Given name

 Age

        Last European Address

        Comments

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 19, Folder: France I-321, Reel: 16.21).  It can be accessed online at https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/7/archival_objects/176752

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.  

September 2023