HIAS ARCHIVE

Title: HIAS ARCHIVE

Inclusive Dates: ca.1900 - ca.1970

ID: RG 245

Extent Information

415' + 851 microfilm reels

Administrative/Biographical History

An international Jewish immigrant and refugee service founded in 1909 in New York through the merger of the Hebrew Sheltering House and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. HIAS activites included financial and legal aid, transportation arrangements, educational and vocational programs, location of missing relatives, lobbying in the United States and with other governments on behalf of individual cases. Until 1945, HIAS confined its activities to the United States. During World War I, HIAS helped refugees in Europe and the Far East. In the period 1920-1922, HIAS established offices in Europe to assist war and pogrom victims. In 1927, HIAS joined with the Jewish Colonization Association (JCA) of London and EMIGDIRECT of Berlin to form HICEM, whose headquarters were in France and which dealt with European operations. HICEM was dissolved in 1945. At the end of 1953, HIAS had offices in 50 countries. In 1954, HIAS merged with the United Service for New Americans to form United HIAS Service

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Description:

The records of HIAS reflect the activities of all its administrative offices in the United States and abroad. The collection is comprised of the records of HIAS, HICEM and the United HIAS Service, and is divided into several subgroups. These include;

HIAS Board of Directors and Steering Committees, RG 245.1

HIAS Ellis Island Bureau, RG 245.2

HIAS Foreign Relations Department, RG 245.3

HIAS and HICEM Main Officces, New York, RG 245.4

HICEM Main Office in Europe, RG 245.5

HICEM and HIAS Office in LIsbon, RG 245.6

HIAS European Office in Paris, RG 245.7

United HIAS Service, Main Office, New York, RG 245.8

United HIAS Service, Office in Chile, RG 245.9

HICEM Office in Prague, RG 245.10