The German Jewish Aid Committee was founded as the Jewish Refugees Committee in 1933 by the Jewish Banker Otto Schiff under the aegis of the Central British Fund for the Relief of German Jewry. Its purpose was to assist Jews to escape from Nazi Germany to England. At first, the organization took upon itself the costs of arranging for the admission of refugees to England and their maintenance, training, ...

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Minute books of the general committee, 1896-1946, of the musical committee, 1909-38, and of the case sub-committee, 1913-14. Cash books, 1911-46; special fund account, 1930-9; ledgers, arranged alphabetically, 1938-50; analysis of income and expenditure, 1910-29; papers relating to the Henry Lewis Bequest and Fund; memorandum on the financial position, 1937. Case files (approx. 300 files). Correspondence ...

Jewish Immigrant Aid Services was established during the first Plenary Assembly of the Canadian Jewish Congress, in 1919. The need to settle Jewish post-World War I immigrants became apparent at this time, but the community organizations established in part for this purpose, such as the Baron de Hirsch Institute, were overwhelmed by the flow of Jews into Montreal and the rest of Canada. Thus JIAS, ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1119-1166). xix, 1166 pages ; 28 cm

Ministerie van Defensie: Directoraat (Directoraat-Generaal) voor Administratieve Diensten > Archief van het Directoraat voor Administratieve Diensten, (1945-1947) 1948-1953, later Directoraat-Generaal, 1954-1963 van het Ministerie van Oorlog, vanaf 1959 van Defensie > Financiën >

Met lit. opg. XXIII, [231] p. : ill. ; 30 cm. + cd-rom.

The reports are published by the Information Service of The International Bureau for the Right of Asylum and Aid to Political Refugees. This organisation was created by the Conférence Internationale pour le Droit d'Asile, held in Paris on June 20-21, 1936. It served as an umbrella organization for all German émigré associations. A major aim of the organization was to lobby the League of Nations for ...

Met literatuuropgaven.

The Evreiskii Komitet Pomoshchi Zhertvam Voiny (EKOPO) (Jewish Committee for the Assistance to the War Victims) was established in Russia in 1914. This organization provided necessary assistance and relief to tens of thousands of Jewish families who were displaced by Russian Tsarist government from Lithuania and Belarus during WWI. After WWI, the organization (under the Polish name, the Krajowy Komitet ...

Michael Maren has spent much of the last twenty years in Africa, first as an aid worker, later as a journalist. He witnessed at close range a harrowing series of wars, famines, and natural disasters. In The Road to Hell he tells how CARE unwittingly assisted a Somali dictator in building a political and economic powerbase. How the UN, Save the Children, and many other nongovernmental organizations ...

Throughout the 1990s, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) faced the challenges posed by the genocide of Rwandan Tutsis and a succession of outbreaks of political violence in Rwanda and in its neighbours. One of the authors, a doctor, participated in MSF's Rwandan operations during the 1990s. The other, a sociologist, has been an assiduous researcher into humanitarian action and its context since 1994. ...

Met lit. opg. 35 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.

P. 231-262. ; 24 cm

HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, was founded in the 1881 in the Lower East Side of New York City. Their original mission was to rescue Jews in Eastern Europe and Russia who were being persecuted and murdered in pogroms. They provided the recent refugees with meals and shelter, and helped them find jobs. In 1904, HIAS set up an office on Ellis Island and expanded their aid services to new arrivals, ...

"Armed conflict has become the overarching challenge for foreign policy and puts development and humanitarian assistance at considerable risk. How to deal with the situation? What to do? A milestone in its field, this guidebook provides conceptual thought and practical support. It leads both practitioner and academic reader through a planning and evaluation process that helps the user to better design ...

Collectie 182_ENG: Inventory 2. > Departments and committees of the Jewish Council 2.06. > Central Bureau for the department of aid for departees

Collectie 249-1128: Dossier - Netherlands Aid Society

US Army assisting survivors of Buchenwald and shots of the dead and dying. Ambulance with Red Cross drives through gate into camp compound, past brick building labeled 59, many GIs walking around, can see several other same kind of brick buildings. MCU some kind of entryway past brick wall manned by GIs thru which German civilians are filing into or out of camp. HAS of GI smoking next to wall as civilians ...

This collection contains information about David Diamant (David Erlich), a Communist who remained in Paris during World War II, took part in the Resistance, and after the war worked with the UJRE helping Jewish refugees from Poland. It includes documents concerning Jewish immigrants in the Communist Party; documents of Jewish volunteers in the Spanish Civil War; the final letters of Jewish resistance ...

Omslagtitel. 4 p. ; 25 cm.

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Collectie 249-1128: Dossier - Netherlands Aid Society