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1. Aufl. 108, 10 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991. xvii, 327 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 1 map, portraits ; 24 cm

The son (the depositor), Robert Miller (formerly Marx), came to Great Britain in 1937 to attend school. His parents, Ludwig and Regina, left in 1939, the father having been incarcerated at Dachau in November 1938, from where he was released on the understanding that he would leave Germany for the USA, where a distant cousin ofthe mother had given an affidavit of support. It was on the strength of this ...

This collection contains a pre-war Polish passport of Mordja Najman and his Belgian war-time ID, issued by the municipality of Charleroi.

In this book the author uses true accounts of her family's history to discuss the treatment of Ukranian citizens of Poland after World War II and the political upheaval and relocation which occurred to them. Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-170) and index. xiv, 177 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Bayor (history, Georgia Tech), wishing to get a sense of "how the peopling of America took place," presents eight chronological chapters exploring the history of immigration, race, and ethnicity in the United States. Authors were asked to deal with issues of migration, intergroup relations, nativism and racism, and identity formation, as well as the changing views on immigration and ethnicity among ...

Contains transcripts of oral history interviews, correspondence, reports, and photographs compiled by Tad Szulc while conducting research on the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Among the materials is information concerning Jewish emigration, displaced persons, Holocaust survivors, and Jews in predominantly Arab countries during the 1960s through the 1990s. Also includes the research notes used by Tad ...

Recommendations -- Methodology and terminology -- The context : girl childhood and migration in West Africa -- Recruitment into domestic work -- Life of domestic girl workers in lower Guinea -- The legal framework -- Legal policy and programmatic responses to protect child domestic workers -- Conclusion. Caption title. 108 pages : illustrations (come color), color maps ; 28 cm

The various series and subseries of this fonds contain many files relevant to the work of HIAS and HICEM in Belgium, or concerning aid to refugees from Belgium. We also point out that, as with other record groups of the HIAS-HICEM collection, the series and files in this fonds often include correspondence of Max Gottschalk, due to his position in this organisation. Series III (“Correspondence between ...

Welfare organization conceived in 1935 in response to persecution of Jews in Europe, which launched an appeal to save German Jewry through migration on the first day of Passover, 7 April 1936. In subsequent decades the organisation became a major welfare service provider to the Jewish community, in aged care, family services, mental health and other areas.

"The Making of the Modern Refugee is a comprehensive history of global population displacement in the twentieth century. It takes a new approach to the subject, exploring its causes, consequences, and meanings. History, the author shows, provides important clues to understanding how the idea of refugees as a "problem" embedded itself in the minds of policy-makers and the public, and poses a series ...

The Ministry of Economic Reconstruction, which operated within the framework of the provisional Czechoslovak establishment in London, was established by a decree of the President of the Republic of 13 November 1941, but its competences were formulated in general terms. On 3 July 1942 a decree was issued on the scope of the Ministry. In addition to the transport department, which also carried out the ...