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Subcollection: Subject Matter

Extent: 99 files

Scope and Content: The bulk of this subcollection, which contains materials from 1942-1947, concerns the rescue and transportation of Jewish refugees during and after World War II from countries such as Bulgaria, Germany and Romania, as well as attempts to identify and locate survivors. The files contain lists of survivors, correspondence, shipping manifests, and cables.

Additionally, these records contain substantial material on passengers on the SS Drottningholm, an exchange ship which carried Jews from concentration camps, including Buchenwald, and on the SS Mefkure, a rescue ship bombed and lost at sea in 1944.

Arrangement
The Subject Matter subcollection is divided into 10 Record Groups:

Emigration
Individual Cases
Lists of Arrivals
Location/Tracking Service
Refugees
Relief Supplies
Repatriates
Rescue
Sailings
Survivors

Record Group: Emigration

File IS.107: Antalya Forwarding Company 1944-1945

Old Folder Number: 20

Antalya Forwarding Company 1944-1945

File IS.108: Emigration 1946-1947

Old Folder Number: 19

Emigration 1946-1947

File IS.108.1: Emigration 1947

Old Folder Number: 19

Emigration 1947

File IS.109: Emigration to US 1944

Old Folder Number: 16

Emigration to US 1944

File IS.110: Gilchrist, Walker: Steamship & Forwarding Agents 1945-1946
File IS.111: Purchasing and Shipping Accounts 1945-1946
File IS.112: Shipping Accounts 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 3

Shipping Accounts 1945-1946

File IS.113: Shipping Accounts 1946

Old Folder Number: 4

Shipping Accounts 1946

File IS.114: Transportation Costs Statements 1944-1945
File IS.115: Transportation Facilities 1944-1946

Old Folder Number: 11

Transportation Facilities 1944-1946

File IS.116: Transportation of Individuals

Old Folder Number: 2

Transportation of Individuals

Record Group: Individual Cases

File IS.119: Individual Cases no. 1-85

Old Folder Number: 6

Individual Cases no. 1-85

File IS.121: Individual Cases 291-346 1944-1946

Old Folder Number: 3

Individual Cases 291-346 1944-1946

File IS.126: Individual Cases 1229-1275

Old Folder Number: 19

Individual Cases 1229-1275

File IS.127: Individual Cases 1365-1480

Old Folder Number: 1

Individual Cases 1365-1480

File IS.128: Individual Cases no. 1482-1572

Old Folder Number: 1

Individual Cases no. 1482-1572

File IS.129: Individual Cases no. 1573-1685

Old Folder Number: 2

Individual Cases no. 1573-1685

File IS.132: Individual Cases no.1801-1860

Old Folder Number: 8

Individual Cases no.1801-1860

File IS.133: Individual Cases no. 1861-1948

Old Folder Number: 7

Individual Cases no. 1861-1948

File IS.134: Individual Cases 1941-1986

Old Folder Number: 2

Individual Cases 1941-1986

File IS.136: Individual Cases 1987-2050

Old Folder Number: 3

Individual Cases 1987-2050

Record Group: Lists of Arrivals

File IS.138: List of Arrivals 1943-1944

Old Folder Number: 18

List of Arrivals 1943-1944

File IS.139: List of Arrivals 1944 (1 of 2)

Old Folder Number: 16

List of Arrivals 1944 (1 of 2)

File IS.140: List of Arrivals 1944 (2 of 2)

Old Folder Number: 17

List of Arrivals 1944 (2 of 2)

File IS.141: List of Arrivals 1944-1946

Old Folder Number: 19

List of Arrivals 1944-1946

Record Group: Location/Tracking Service

File IS.142: Central Location Index Inc. 699-1364 1944-1945
File IS.143: Central Location Index Inc. 824-1527 1944-1945
File IS.144: The Central Location Index Inc. 1945-1946
File IS.145: Correspondence Regarding Locations Service 1945-1946
File IS.146: Location Service 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 9

Location Service 1945-1946

File IS.148: Location Service 431-486 1944-1945

Old Folder Number: 6

Location Service 431-486 1944-1945

File IS.149: Location Service 487-540 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 7

Location Service 487-540 1945-1946

File IS.150: Location Service 540-615 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 3

Location Service 540-615 1945-1946

File IS.151: Location Service 616-670 1945

Old Folder Number: 4

Location Service 616-670 1945

File IS.152: Location Service 670-769 1944-1945

Old Folder Number: 2

Location Service 670-769 1944-1945

File IS.153: Location Service Files no. 770-856 1944
File IS.154: Location Service Files nos. 857-940 1944-1945
File IS.155: Location Service Files nos. 941-989 1944-1945
File IS.156: Location Service Files nos. 990-1044 1944-1945
File IS.159: Location Service 1945

Old Folder Number: 12

Location Service 1945

Record Group: Refugees

File IS.161: Bank Holantse 1944-1947

Old Folder Number: 2

Bank Holantse 1944-1947

File IS.162: Ezra Vocaational Guidance/Rescue and Assistance to Refugees 1944
File IS.163: Refugees: Filderman Correspondence 1944 (1 of 2)
File IS.163.1: Refugees: Filderman Correspondence 1944 (2 of 2)
File IS.164: Miscellaneous 1942-1944, 1946-1947

Old Folder Number: 2

Miscellaneous 1942-1944, 1946-1947

Record Group: Relief Supplies

File IS.165: Food Parcels Oct-Dec 1945

Old Folder Number: 1

Food Parcels Oct-Dec 1945

File IS.166: Food Parcel Shipment Occupied Areas Dec. 1943-1944
File IS.167: Food Parcel Shipment Occupied Areas 1944
File IS.168: Teheran Food Parcel Service Individual Lists 1944

Record Group: Repatriates

File IS.170: Repatriates 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 15

Repatriates 1945-1946

Record Group: Rescue

File IS.171: Emergency Committee to Save Jewish People of Europe 1944
File IS.172: Emergency Committee: Va'ad Hahatzala 1944
File IS.173: Exchange Groups 1944

Old Folder Number: 18

Exchange Groups 1944

Record Group: Sailings

File IS.174: SS Bulbul August 1944

Old Folder Number: 14

SS Bulbul August 1944

File IS.175: SS Drottningholm 1945 (1 of 2)

Old Folder Number: 25

SS Drottningholm 1945 (1 of 2)

File IS.176: SS Drottningholm 1945-1946 (1 of 2)
File IS.176.1: SS Drottningholm 1945-1946 (2 of 2)
File IS.177: Declarations Made to Government Pertaining to SS Drottningholm 1945
File IS.178: SS Drottningholm 1945

Old Folder Number: 15

SS Drottningholm 1945

File IS.179: SS Mefkure 1944

Old Folder Number: 8

SS Mefkure 1944

File IS.180: SS Tari 1944

Old Folder Number: 6

SS Tari 1944

Record Group: Survivors

File IS.181: List of Survivors 1945 (1 of 2)

Old Folder Number: 19

List of Survivors 1945 (1 of 2)

File IS.181.1: List of Survivors 1945 (2 of 2)

Old Folder Number: 19

List of Survivors 1945 (2 of 2)

File IS.182: Lists of Survivors 1945

Old Folder Number: 14

Lists of Survivors 1945

File IS.183: Lists of Survivors 1945 (1 of 2)

Old Folder Number: 15

Lists of Survivors 1945 (1 of 2)

File IS.183.1: Lists of Survivors 1945 (2 of 2)

Old Folder Number: 15

Lists of Survivors 1945 (2 of 2)

File IS.184: Lists of Survivors 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 11

Lists of Survivors 1945-1946

File IS.185: Lists 1946

Old Folder Number: 10

Lists 1946

File IS.186: List of Names of Survivors and their Countries of Origin
File IS.187: Austria Survivors 1945

Old Folder Number: 18

Austria Survivors 1945

File IS.188: Lists France & Austria 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 7

Lists France & Austria 1945-1946

File IS.189: Lists of Survivors in Germany and Austria 1945-1946
File IS.190: Lists of Survivors Germany 1945 (1 of 2)
File IS.190.1: Lists of Survivors Germany 1945 (2 of 2)
File IS.191: Lists of Survivors from Greece 1945

Old Folder Number: 11

Lists of Survivors from Greece 1945

File IS.192: Lists of Hungarian Survivors 1944-1945
File IS.193: Lists of Italian Survivors 1943, 1945
File IS.194: Lists of Yugoslavian Survivors 1945

Old Folder Number: 16

Lists of Yugoslavian Survivors 1945

File IS.195: Lists of Yugoslavian Survivors 1946
File IS.196: Lekarov uLerahok Publications 1945-1946
File IS.197: Reshimat Nitzulim Publications 1945-1946

The cataloguing of this collection was made possible through a grant from Marshall M. Weinberg.

Digitization of this collection was made possible with funding from the Polonsky Foundation.

Archives of The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Inc.

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