The territory of what is today the State of Israel was part of British-ruled Palestine between 1933 and 1945. When Hitler rose to power in Germany, some 60,000 Jews emigrated from the Third Reich to 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 Palestine, like its neighbors, would be invaded by the German forces advancing from North Africa in an eastern direction. During 1942, news of t...

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...