List Survivors Registered or Residing in Bialystok, Warsaw, Wloclawek, Przemysl, Dzialoszyce and Other Polish Cities - 1945

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 4,399 records of survivors that registered or were residing in various Polish cities at the end of June, 1945.

The fields for this database are as follows:

• Image # (Scan image number within the YIVO folder)       
• Surname
• Given name
• Year of birth
• Place of birth
• Father’s name
• Mother’s name
• List city (See “City Names” note below.)
• Other city (See “City Names” note below.)
• Other city description (See “City Names” note below.)
• Street address (See source documents for actual street addresses)
• Source (List #)
• Comments

City Names: Each list focuses on survivors that registered in that city at the end of June, 1945.  Within the list, an additional city is recorded but not given a consistent description.  For example, some records use “Origin”, “Birthplace” or “Residence 1939”.  

Therefore, each record includes the name of the “List City” in the first field, followed by the additional city name in “Other City” and its description in “Other City Description”.

Below are the names of the lists within this collection including all the cities mentioned within multiple-city lists.

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 85, Folder: France IV-323, Reel: 19.35).  It can be accessed online at https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/7/archival_objects/176237

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