Overview
- Description
- This collection includes postwar files from the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) and its branch offices in Poland. Records include organizational files, Information bulletins, news releases, correspondence abroad and with branch offices, monthly reports on activities, personal files and indices of staff relating to emigration, personal search files, indices, and cards relating to efforts to trace survivors and family members.
- Alternate Title
- Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), Poland
- Date
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inclusive:
1946-1949
- Credit Line
- Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Collection Creator
- HIAS (Agency)
- Reference
- M. Wischnitzer, Visas to Freedom. The History of HIAS. Cleveland- New York : World Pub. Co., 1956.
Epsztein, T. Reszka, A. Inwentarz Archiwum Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society w Polsce (1946-1949). Warszawa: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelblumaa, 2006.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Reports. Affidavits. Correspondence. Photographs.
- Extent
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76,404 digital images : JPEG ; 201 GB .
63 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in the microfilmed reels. Arranged in five series: 1. Organization files; 2. Emigration files; 3. Personal files for searching people; 4. HIAS files; 5. Miscelaneous.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Publication or copying of more than several documents for a third party requires the permission of the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny imienia Emanuela Ringelbluma.
- Copyright Holder
- Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
Keywords & Subjects
- Geographic Name
- Łódź (Poland) Wrocław (Poland) Gliwice (Poland)
- Corporate Name
- HIAS (Agency)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma (ŻIH), Sygn. 351. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Programs Division in July 2012.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 17:49:51
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