Overview
- Description
- Contains deportation orders of illegal immigrants, 1938-1946. Records include memoranda of personal data (political), confidential questionnaires of the Palestine Police Force with portrait photographs that provide biographical data on illegal immigrants to Palestine from Nazi occupied Europe. Questionnaires also include biographical data and photographs of Jews from Vienna and Bratislava who were subsequently deported to a holding camp on Mauritius.
- Date
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inclusive:
1933-1948
- 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.
- Reference
- Guides to the Archives in Israel, Volume I, Editor: P.A. Alsberg.
Ofer,.Dalia. Escaping the Holocaust: Illegal Immigration to the Land of Israel, 1939-1944. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Questionnaires.
- Extent
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40,432 digital images : TIFF ; 6.03 GB.
33 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
3 DVD-ROMs ; 4 3/4 in..
- System of Arrangement
- Applications for deportation arranged by names of the ship and person's name.
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 of documents and duplication of microfilm reels or digital images for third parties require the written permission of the Israel State Archives, which may require payment of a license fee for commercial use.
- Copyright Holder
- Israel. Ganzakh ha-medinah
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Emigration and immigration. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Austria. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Slovakia. Deportation--Austria--Vienna--History--20th century. Deportation--Slovakia--Bratislava--History--20th century. Jewish Refugees--Palestine--History--20th century--Registers. Holocaust survivors--Europe--Registers.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Israel. Ganzakh ha-medinah
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Selected records of RG 17 (Palestine (Mandatory) Government: Police Force, 1933-1948. Source of acquisition is the Israel State Archives. Records were crated by the British Mandatory Government and transferred to the Israel Prime Minister's Office, c/o Israel State Archives. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project reproduced and transferred filmed collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in Sep. 2006.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:11:22
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