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Passenger Lists 1941 & 1942
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 13,732 records of persons leaving various ports, including Marseilles and Casablanca going to the United States and various other destinations.

The fields for this database are as follows:

Set ID#
Frame # (Scan image number within the YIVO folder)
Surname
Given name
Date of birth / Age
Ship name
Departure date
Departed from
Destination
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 42, Folder: France II-207, Reel: 17.13). It can be accessed online from the following pages:

https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/7/archival_objects/177067

https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/7/archival_objects/177068

https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/7/archival_objects/177069

https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/7/archival_objects/177070

https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/7/archival_objects/177072

https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/7/archival_objects/177073

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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