The territory of what is today the State of Israel was part of Mandatory Palestine between 1917 and 1948. After Hitler rose to power in Germany, some 60,000 Jews emigrated from the Third Reich to Mandatory Palestine, while about 220,000 moved there from other countries. Before the British victory at El Alamein in Egypt in November 1942, the British feared that Mandatory Palestine, like its neighbors, would be invaded by the German forces advancing from North Africa in an eastern direction. Durin...

In this fonds we find important files concerning the emigration of Viennese Jews (particularly children) to Belgium, mostly during the years 1938-1939. We firstly note files and series of a general nature, such as correspondence and telegrams regarding individual refugees, notes and reports on general emigration matters, brochures, series of questionnaires (concerning financial aid to émigrés, or questionnaires filled in by candidates), statistics, lists and reports on emigration (often ordered...