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Notice warning to prospective emigrants not to travel to Warsaw to arrange for emigration.
Notice warning prospective emigrants not to travel to Warsaw to arrange for emigration, which was forbidden by the Polish government. Instead, they are encouraged to turn to local HIAS committees for emigration/immigration. services.
Profile Book of Oppressed German Jews
In 1939, Virginia Dorsey Lightfoot of Takoma Park, Maryland became involved in an effort to rescue a group of about 328 Jews in Breslau, Germany and bring them to the United States. Profile book, with photographs and data about individual refugees…
Families Outside of HIAS Office
Recently arrived Jewish immigrants at the entrance of the HIAS office in New York City.
Street in Zabludow, Poland
Children near wooden houses on an unpaved street, in Zabludow, Poland, a town famous for its 17th-century wooden synagogue.
Committee in Charge of Relief and Migrations Activities
Portrait of the Committee in Charge of Relief and Migration Activities, Brody: Dr. H. Schafier, Charles Netter of the Alliance Israelite Universelle, Paris, and Dr M. Friedlander of Vienna. In 1881-1882, thousands of Jews fled pogroms in the Pale…
HIAS Staff Assisting Jewish Emigrants in Warsaw
HIAS staff assisting Jewish emigrants in Warsaw, Poland.
HIAS Staff Assisting Jewish Emigrants in Warsaw
HIAS staff assisting Jewish emigrants in Warsaw, Poland.
Emigrants Living at HIAS Headquarters Iin Warsaw
Jewish emigrants living at HIAS headquarters in Warsaw, Poland, waiting for permission to continue their travels.
HIAS Staff Workers Processing emigrants
HIAS staff workers in Warsaw processing emigrants
Invitation to the Grand Opening of a Restaurant
Invitation to the grand opening of Shulem's Cafe on Forsyth Street, owned by Sam Altschiller. (Someone has inscribed a love poem on on the printed advertisement.)
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