Jewish refugees who were fleeing the Nazi regime in Germany. These refugees were crossing the border from Germany into the Netherlands. The committee...
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that would allow for the country to take in refugees. The Jewish community said that they would provide assistance to Jewish refugees and thus provided...
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UNRWA (redirect from United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees)
"Palestine refugees". The descendants of Palestine refugee males, including adopted children, are also eligible for registration as refugees. UNRWA is...
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American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, also known as Joint or JDC, is a Jewish relief organization based in New York City. Since 1914 the organisation...
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Emigration of Jews from Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe (redirect from Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany)
were more Jewish refugees. In October 1943, 7000 Danish Jews, and 700 of their relatives who were not Jewish, escaped Nazi-occupied Denmark for neutral...
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Kindertransport (redirect from Refugee Children's Movement)
Wijsmuller-Meijer arranged for 1,500 children to be admitted to the Netherlands; the children were supported by the Dutch Committee for Jewish Refugees, which was paid...
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organisation and the main Jewish overseas aid organisation in the United Kingdom. From 1933 the organisation helped Jewish refugees from Europe emigrate and...
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Birobidzhan idea after the war as a potential home for Jewish refugees. During that time, the Jewish population of the region peaked at almost one-third...
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MS St. Louis (category Refugees in Canada)
Louis carried more than 900 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany intending to escape antisemitic persecution. The refugees first tried to disembark in Cuba...
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Portugal and the Holocaust (redirect from Jewish refugees in Portugal)
providing crucial support to Jewish refugees. Initially, they established the "Portuguese Commission for Assistance to Refugee-Jews in Portugal" (COMASSIS)...
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the Comité d’Assistance aux Réfugiés Juifs (CARJ) (Committee for the Assistance of Jewish Refugees) in Brussels in 1938 and the Comité d’Aide et d’Assistance...
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Évian Conference (category Jewish emigration from Nazi Germany)
Évian-les-Bains, France, to address the problem of German and Austrian Jewish refugees wishing to flee persecution by Nazi Germany. It was the initiative...
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300 refugees who resettled, while UNHCR documented 116,500 refugees relocated to states for resettlement. According to the UN Refugee Agency, refugees are...
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German-controlled areas. That year, the Committee for Jewish Refugees established the Westerbork transit camp to process incoming refugees—the German occupiers would...
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1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight (redirect from Palestinian refugees from 1948)
Palestinian refugees from returning. Other sites were subject to Hebraization of Palestinian place names. The precise number of Palestinian refugees, many of...
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German-controlled areas. That year, the Committee for Jewish Refugees established the Westerbork transit camp to process incoming refugees; in 1942 the German occupiers...
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HIAS (category Jewish refugee aid organizations)
Immigrant Aid Society) is a Jewish American nonprofit organization that provides humanitarian aid and assistance to refugees. It was established on November...
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to reverse an earlier decision[which?]. The committee decided to hear the testimony of the Jewish refugees in British detention camps in Palestine and...
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History of the Jews in Ukraine (redirect from Jewish Committee of Ukraine)
the Jewish Agency for Israel reported that hundreds of Jewish war refugees sheltering in Poland, Romania and Moldova were scheduled to leave for Israel...
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1938–1939 evacuating refugees who were fleeing from oppression by Nazi Germany. Rowntree is known for escorting trainloads of refugees through German controlled...
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Displaced persons camps in post–World War II Europe (section Establishing a system for resolving displacement)
non-Jewish and Jewish concentration-camp survivors. The Allies categorized the refugees as “displaced persons” (DPs) and assigned the responsibility for their...
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The Holocaust (redirect from Jewish Holocaust)
pp. 74–75, 81. Messenger 2020, p. 393. "American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and Refugee Aid". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Archived...
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ethnic Dutch people. There are about 30,000 Jews in the Netherlands, though the Institute for Jewish Policy Research estimates range from 30,000 to 63,000...
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Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry. In April 1946, the Committee reached a unanimous decision for the immediate admission of 100,000 Jewish refugees from Europe...
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Abraham Asscher (category Jewish Dutch politicians)
Belangen [nl] (Committee for Special Jewish Affairs - CBJB). An offshoot of the CBJB, the Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen (Committee for Jewish Refugees - CJV)...
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on security for Jewish refugees and victims of the war. In 1939, the World Jewish Congress set up a relief committee for Jewish war refugees (RELICO) and...
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30,000 refugee families on Mindanao, and 40,000-50,000 refugees on Polillo. Quezon gave, as a 10-year loan to Manila's Jewish Refugee Committee, land beside...
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An ongoing refugee crisis began in Europe in late February 2022 after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Over 6 million refugees fleeing Ukraine are recorded...
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emigration for Soviet Jews, the American Jewish community agreed to a quota on Soviet Jewish refugees in the U.S., which resulted in most Soviet Jewish émigrés...
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Holocaust survivors (section Refugees)
returning them to Europe. Britain's treatment of Jewish refugees, such as the handling of the refugee ship Exodus, shocked public opinion around the world...
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