List of Contributors in Israel (1946-1947)


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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 3,178 records of contributions made by Israelis to survivors living in Romania.

The fields for this database are as follows:

Set # - There are two sets of source documents within the website

Image # (Scan image number within the YIVO folder)

Donor surname

Donor given name

Donor town (all towns in Israel unless otherwise specified)

Donee surname

Donee given name

Donee town (all towns in Romania unless otherwise specified)

Source (List #)

Comments

Below are the names of the lists within this collection.:

List 1 - Source List No. 48. Dated 30-Apr-1947.

List 2 - Source List No. 47. Dated 24-Apr-1947.

List 3 - Source List No. 46. Dated 20-Apr-1947.

List 4 - Source List No. 45. Dated 14-Apr-1947.

List 5 - Source List No. 44. Dated 09-Apr-1947.

List 6 - Source List No. 43. Dated 04-Apr-1947.

List 7 - Source List No. 42. Dated 31-Mar-1947.

List 8 - Source List No. 40. Dated 27-Mar-1947.

List 9 - Source List No. 41. Dated 28-Mar-1947.

List 10 - Source List No. 39. Dated 20-Mar-1947.

List 11 - Source List No. 38. Dated 28-Feb-1947.

List 12 - Source List No. 37. Dated 24-Feb-1947.

List 13 - Source List No. 36. Dated 19-Feb-1947.

List 14 - Source List No. 35. Dated 10-Feb-1947.

List 15 - Source List No. 34. Dated 07-Feb-1947.

List 16 - Source List No. 35. Dated 31-Jan-1947.

List 17 - Source List No. 32. Dated 24-Jan-1947.

List 18 - Source List No. 31. Dated 20-Jan-1947.

List 19 - Source List No. 30. Dated 05-Dec-1946.

List 20 - Source List No. 29. Dated 20-Nov-1946.

List 21 - Source List No. 28. Dated 15-Nov-1946.

List 22 - Source List No. 27. Dated 07-Oct-1946.

List 23 - Source List No. 26. Dated 31-Oct-1946.

List 24 - Source List No. 25. Dated 27-Oct-1946.

List 25 - Source List No. 24. Dated 21-Oct-1946.

List 26 - Source List No. 23. Dated 14-Oct-1946.

List 27 - Source List No. 20 Dated 25-Sep-1946.

List 28 - Source List No. 22. Dated 04-Oct-1946.

List 29 - Source List No. 21. Dated 30-Sep-1946.

List 30 - Source List No. 16. Dated 09-Sep-1946.

List 31 - Source List No. 17. Dated 13-Sep-1946.

List 32 - Source List No. 18. Dated 17-Sep-1946.

List 33 - Source List No. 19. Dated 20-Sep-1946.

List 34 - Source List No. 15. Dated 04-Sep-1946.

List 35 - Source List No. 14. Dated 30-Aug-1946.

List 36 - Source List No. 13. Dated 23-Aug-1946.

List 37 - Source List No. 12. Dated 20-Aug-1946.

List 38 - Source List No. 11. Dated 16-Aug-1946.

List 39 - Source List No. 10. Dated 12-Aug-1946.

List 40 - Source List No. 9. Dated 05-Aug-1946.

List 41 - Source List No. 8. Dated 25-Jul-1946.

List 42 - Source List No. 7. Dated 16-Jul-1946.

List 43 - Source List No. 6. Dated 11-Jul-1946.

List 44 - Source List No. 5. Dated 07-Jul-1946.

List 45 - Source List No. 4. Dated 05-Jul-1946.

List 46 - Source List No. 3. Dated 02-Jul-1946.

List 47 - Source List No. 2. Dated 26-Jun-1946.

List 48 - Source Dated 03-Jul-1946.

List 49 - Source Dated 04-Jul-1946.

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 94, Folder: France IV-421, Reel: 19.45). It can be accessed online at https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/7/archival_objects/176335

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.

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Learn more about our organizational leadership, mission, and values. There are numerous opportunities to get involved yourself!

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Discover your ancestral town, explore geographic/regional based sections of the JewishGen site (Research Divisions), and explore what daily life was like for your ancestors - and what we can learn from them today.

Enhance your research with online classes and dozens of helpful articles. University students can apply for the Bennett & Robin Greenspan L'dor V'dor Legacy Program, and those "out of school" can help preserve Jewish Heritage in Poland with unique study & volunteer experiences.

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List of Contributors in Israel (1946-1947)

Introduction by YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

BACKGROUND

DATABASE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS