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
File IS.108: Emigration 1946-1947
Old Folder Number: 19
File IS.108.1: Emigration 1947
Old Folder Number: 19
File IS.109: Emigration to US 1944
Old Folder Number: 16
File IS.110: Gilchrist, Walker: Steamship & Forwarding Agents 1945-1946
Old Folder Number: 21
File IS.111: Purchasing and Shipping Accounts 1945-1946
Old Folder Number: 11
File IS.112: Shipping Accounts 1945-1946
Old Folder Number: 3
File IS.113: Shipping Accounts 1946
Old Folder Number: 4
File IS.114: Transportation Costs Statements 1944-1945
Old Folder Number: 12
File IS.115: Transportation Facilities 1944-1946
Old Folder Number: 11
File IS.116: Transportation of Individuals
Old Folder Number: 2
Record Group: Individual Cases
File IS.119: Individual Cases no. 1-85
Old Folder Number: 6
File IS.121: Individual Cases 291-346 1944-1946
Old Folder Number: 3
File IS.126: Individual Cases 1229-1275
Old Folder Number: 19
File IS.127: Individual Cases 1365-1480
Old Folder Number: 1
File IS.128: Individual Cases no. 1482-1572
Old Folder Number: 1
File IS.129: Individual Cases no. 1573-1685
Old Folder Number: 2
File IS.132: Individual Cases no.1801-1860
Old Folder Number: 8
File IS.133: Individual Cases no. 1861-1948
Old Folder Number: 7
File IS.134: Individual Cases 1941-1986
Old Folder Number: 2
File IS.136: Individual Cases 1987-2050
Old Folder Number: 3
Record Group: Lists of Arrivals
File IS.138: List of Arrivals 1943-1944
Old Folder Number: 18
File IS.139: List of Arrivals 1944 (1 of 2)
Old Folder Number: 16
File IS.140: List of Arrivals 1944 (2 of 2)
Old Folder Number: 17
File IS.141: List of Arrivals 1944-1946
Old Folder Number: 19
Record Group: Location/Tracking Service
File IS.142: Central Location Index Inc. 699-1364 1944-1945
Old Folder Number: 7
File IS.143: Central Location Index Inc. 824-1527 1944-1945
Old Folder Number: 6
File IS.144: The Central Location Index Inc. 1945-1946
Old Folder Number: 8
File IS.145: Correspondence Regarding Locations Service 1945-1946
Old Folder Number: 20
File IS.146: Location Service 1945-1946
Old Folder Number: 9
File IS.148: Location Service 431-486 1944-1945
Old Folder Number: 6
File IS.149: Location Service 487-540 1945-1946
Old Folder Number: 7
File IS.150: Location Service 540-615 1945-1946
Old Folder Number: 3
File IS.151: Location Service 616-670 1945
Old Folder Number: 4
File IS.152: Location Service 670-769 1944-1945
Old Folder Number: 2
File IS.153: Location Service Files no. 770-856 1944
Old Folder Number: 24
File IS.154: Location Service Files nos. 857-940 1944-1945
Old Folder Number: 23
File IS.155: Location Service Files nos. 941-989 1944-1945
Old Folder Number: 22
File IS.156: Location Service Files nos. 990-1044 1944-1945
Old Folder Number: 4
File IS.159: Location Service 1945
Old Folder Number: 12
Record Group: Refugees
File IS.161: Bank Holantse 1944-1947
Old Folder Number: 2
File IS.162: Ezra Vocaational Guidance/Rescue and Assistance to Refugees 1944
Old Folder Number: 17
Ezra Vocaational Guidance/Rescue and Assistance to Refugees 1944
File IS.163: Refugees: Filderman Correspondence 1944 (1 of 2)
Old Folder Number: 10
File IS.163.1: Refugees: Filderman Correspondence 1944 (2 of 2)
Old Folder Number: 10
File IS.164: Miscellaneous 1942-1944, 1946-1947
Old Folder Number: 2
Record Group: Relief Supplies
File IS.165: Food Parcels Oct-Dec 1945
Old Folder Number: 1
File IS.166: Food Parcel Shipment Occupied Areas Dec. 1943-1944
Old Folder Number: 9
File IS.167: Food Parcel Shipment Occupied Areas 1944
Old Folder Number: 2
File IS.168: Teheran Food Parcel Service Individual Lists 1944
Old Folder Number: 13
Record Group: Repatriates
File IS.170: Repatriates 1945-1946
Old Folder Number: 15
Record Group: Rescue
File IS.171: Emergency Committee to Save Jewish People of Europe 1944
Old Folder Number: 14
File IS.172: Emergency Committee: Va'ad Hahatzala 1944
Old Folder Number: 15
File IS.173: Exchange Groups 1944
Old Folder Number: 18
Record Group: Sailings
File IS.174: SS Bulbul August 1944
Old Folder Number: 14
File IS.175: SS Drottningholm 1945 (1 of 2)
Old Folder Number: 25
File IS.176: SS Drottningholm 1945-1946 (1 of 2)
Old Folder Number: 8
File IS.176.1: SS Drottningholm 1945-1946 (2 of 2)
Old Folder Number: 8
File IS.177: Declarations Made to Government Pertaining to SS Drottningholm 1945
Old Folder Number: 14
Declarations Made to Government Pertaining to SS Drottningholm 1945
File IS.178: SS Drottningholm 1945
Old Folder Number: 15
File IS.179: SS Mefkure 1944
Old Folder Number: 8
File IS.180: SS Tari 1944
Old Folder Number: 6
Record Group: Survivors
File IS.181: List of Survivors 1945 (1 of 2)
Old Folder Number: 19
File IS.181.1: List of Survivors 1945 (2 of 2)
Old Folder Number: 19
File IS.182: Lists of Survivors 1945
Old Folder Number: 14
File IS.183: Lists of Survivors 1945 (1 of 2)
Old Folder Number: 15
File IS.183.1: Lists of Survivors 1945 (2 of 2)
Old Folder Number: 15
File IS.184: Lists of Survivors 1945-1946
Old Folder Number: 11
File IS.185: Lists 1946
Old Folder Number: 10
File IS.186: List of Names of Survivors and their Countries of Origin
Old Folder Number: 4
File IS.187: Austria Survivors 1945
Old Folder Number: 18
File IS.188: Lists France & Austria 1945-1946
Old Folder Number: 7
File IS.189: Lists of Survivors in Germany and Austria 1945-1946
Old Folder Number: 17
File IS.190: Lists of Survivors Germany 1945 (1 of 2)
Old Folder Number: 11
File IS.190.1: Lists of Survivors Germany 1945 (2 of 2)
Old Folder Number: 11
File IS.191: Lists of Survivors from Greece 1945
Old Folder Number: 11
File IS.192: Lists of Hungarian Survivors 1944-1945
Old Folder Number: 19
File IS.193: Lists of Italian Survivors 1943, 1945
Old Folder Number: 6
File IS.194: Lists of Yugoslavian Survivors 1945
Old Folder Number: 16
File IS.195: Lists of Yugoslavian Survivors 1946
Old Folder Number: 9
File IS.196: Lekarov uLerahok Publications 1945-1946
Old Folder Number: 12
File IS.197: Reshimat Nitzulim Publications 1945-1946
Old Folder Number: 13