HIAS ARCHIVE: HICEM Main Office in Europe

Title: HIAS ARCHIVE: HICEM Main Office in Europe

Inclusive Dates: 1935-1953

ID: RG 245.5

Extent Information

82'4" (plus France III in New Jersey); 197 5"lgl; 1 3"ovr; 174 microfilm reels

Arrangement

This collection is divided into 4 sections: France I-IV

Creators

Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS)

Administrative/Biographical History

On the eve of World War II this office was located in Paris. Closed on June 19, 1940, re-opened in October 1940 first in Bordeaux and finally in Marseilles. Incorporated in the UGIF (Union Generale des Israelites de France) in 1943. Re- established in Paris following the liberation of France, September 10, 1944. Discontinued in November 1945.

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Documents - Records

Finding Aid Information

In addition to the online EAD finding aid there are also the following in-house finding aids:English, 195 pp., typed; Inventory: Yiddish, 109 pp., typed

Administrative Information

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Other Formats: multiple: MKM 16.1-.34; MKM 17.1-.29; MKM 18.1-.51; MKM 19.1-.61

Description: The records are divided into the following series: *France I*: Records of the Paris HICEM office from 1935 to the closing of the office in 1940. Minutes of meetings of HICEM, 1939-1940. Records of the HICEM Marseilles Bureau. Correspondence and memoranda of HICEM directors. Correspondence with organizations: ICA (also known as JCA), AJDC, Comite Central d'Assistance aux Emigrants Juifs, 1938 - 1940. Correspondence of Dr. James Bernstein, Edouard Oungre, Max Gottschalk. Correspondence with HIAS and HICEM offices and with local Jewish organizations in 37 countries. Reports from and correspondence with: Magyar Izraelitak Partfogo Irodaja (Hungarian Jewish Aid Committee), 1935-1940; Aid Committee in Trieste, Italy; Kovno, Lithuania; Riga, Latvia; Amsterdam Committee for Jewish Refugees (Comite voor Joodsche Vluchtlingen); Central Council for German Jewry in London; Committee aiding refugees in Zagreb, Yugoslavia; aid committees for refugees in Portugal, Rumania,Switzerland, North Africa; SOPROTIMIS in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Chile; organizations in Mexico, Ecuador, Paraguay, Colombia. Records of BELHICEM (Belgian HICEM), set up in Brussels in October 1939 to maintain contacts inside Germany and the Czech Protectorates. Materials relating to internment camps in France, including camps: Argeles, Brens, Gurs, Rieucros, Recebedou. Correspondence with UGIF. Correspondence with government authorities in different localities, including Agde, Agen, Albi, Auch, Avignon, Beziers, Carcassonne, Clermont-Ferrand, Gap, Grenoble, Limoges, Marseilles, Nice, Perigueux, Perpignan, Oloron, Valence, Vichy, Montpellier, Annecy, Aulus-les-Bains, Pau. Correspondence with the Consistoire in Lyons. Correspondence with Rabbi Joseph Cohen, Chief Rabbi of Bordeaux. Correspondence with HICEM in Lisbon. Correspondence with Casablanca, Morocco. Fragmentary passenger lists for a handful of steamship voyages carrying refugees, from various countries. *France II*: Records of HICEM European office in Marseilles, 1940-1944. Correspondence and reports about internment camps for the Jews. Correspondence with the interned. Correspondence with the Vichy government; with HICEM in Lisbon, Bucharest and New York; with the Jewish Agency in Istanbul and Jerusalem. *France III*: Central files of individual cases processed by the office during the war years. Correspondence, memoranda, and reports relating to location of relatives and aid to refugees. *France IV*: Records of HICEM, later of HIAS, after the war. Correspondence with the Provisional Intergovernmental Committee for the Movement of Migrants from Europe (PICME); with Jewish relief organizations; with HIAS offices. Reports on activities. Materials on emigration from Austria, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Poland, Rumania, and Italy. Documentation on post-war search for survivors, relatives. Records of offices in Bordeaux, Toulouse, Lyons, Marseilles, Nice.