List of Refugees Staying In Switzerland, 1944–1945

3,218 Records

Holocaust · Survivors · Refugees/DPs · Yugoslavia · Hungary

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.

Fields Recorded

The fields for this database are as follows:

Image # (Scan image number within the YIVO folder)

Surname

Given name

Place of birth

Date of birth

Last residence

Nationality

Profession (Please see German Occupation Definitions — English Translations JewishGen Info File for translations of occupations from German to English)

Camp name

Religion

Source (List #)

Comments

Below are the names of the lists within this collection. Lists in French are translated below the French title.:

List	Description
List 1	Fluchtlinge aus Italien
	Refugees From Italy
List 2	Liste Des Refugis Civils Du Caux Esplanade Et De Caux / s. Montreaux (Dated 26-Feb-1944)
	List of Civilian Refugees of Caux Esplanade and Caux / s. Montreaux (Dated 26-Feb-1944)
List 3	Liste Ungarischer Fluechtlinge, Die Aus Bergen-Belsen Kuerzlich Mit Eines Transport In Der Schweiz Eingetroffen Sind.
	List of Hungarian refugees who recently arrived in Switzerland from Bergen-Belsen on a transport. (Report Dated 24-Jan-1945)

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 86, Folder: France IV-330, Reel: 19.35). It can be accessed online at archives.cjh.org

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.

May 2025

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