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Refugees

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:

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1939-1940 Diary, 1939-08-25 - 1940-02-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HMTN 1/3
Scope and Contents Subjects include Mary Agnes Hamilton's help for Ilse Hellmann before her tribunal, and Hellmann's work as a psychoanalyst; discussions with George Ridley over Labour Party internal politics and the possibility of Mary Agnes Hamilton standing for re-election as an MP; the mood in London before and after war was declared; air-raid warnings and the closing of theatres and cinemas; her writing, including beginning work on her memoirs; her work as an interviewer for the Women's Employment...
Dates: 1939-08-25 - 1940-02-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Balkan exiles, 1941-05 - 1953-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/7/64
Scope and Contents Correspondence, mainly on individual cases of Yugoslav refugees looking for employment, with correspondents including: 1st Lord Alexander of Tunis [Governor-General of Canada, and earlier Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theatre] on handing over Yugoslav generals accused of collaboration to the current Government of Yugoslavia, and the repatriation of Yugoslavs who had fought for Germany; Christopher Mayhew, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on the Yugoslav...
Dates: 1941-05 - 1953-03
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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British Friendship to Greece Society, 1948-01 - 1948-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 3/66
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Papers and correspondence about the British Friendship to Greece Society, and aid sent to Greece, including a memorandum on the refugee situation in Greece. Correspondents include Francis Noel-Baker on the formation of a committee to help Greek refugees (2) and Irene Noel-Baker.

Dates: 1948-01 - 1948-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Cambridge Refugee Committee: Minutes and papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7974
Dates: 1938-1959 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Readers must complete a Data Protection Act undertaking prior to consulting this collection.
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Correspondence, 1942-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 1/36
Scope and Contents Mainly correspondence between HL, Rachel and Elihu Lauterpacht on subjects including: Elihu's school life; HL's paper for the Grotius Society ["The Law of Nations, the Law of Nature and the Rights of Man"]; a sketch of HL painted by a refugee artist [see LAUT 6/1]; the delay to Rachel's return to Britain; the effect on Elihu of seeing the film 'Mrs Miniver'; the day of mourning for the Jews in Poland, and HL's distress about his family; the slow progress of his book on International Human...
Dates: 1942-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence, 1943-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 1/45
Scope and Contents Mainly correspondence between HL and Rachel Lauterpacht with Elihu Lauterpacht, on subjects including: Elihu's life at school; Rachel's work for the Refugee Children's Movement in Cambridge; the closing stages of work on HL's book on International Human Rights ["An International Bill of the Rights of Man"]; the progress of the war, particularly the surrender of Italy; the publication of HL's ["Recognition in International Law"]; going to see Donald Wolfit in As You Like It and The Merchant...
Dates: 1943-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence, 1943-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 1/46
Scope and Contents Mainly correspondence between HL and Rachel Lauterpacht with Elihu Lauterpacht, on subjects including: Elihu's life at school; a holiday in the Lake District; arrangements for Elihu's return to Britain; the entrance scholarship for Trinity College [University of Cambridge]; HL's ["An International Bill of the Rights of Man"] being sent to the United States, work on his draft report on post-war international organisation, an article on Recognition, restarting work on ["Recognition in...
Dates: 1943-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence, 1943-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 1/47
Scope and Contents Mainly correspondence between HL and Rachel Lauterpacht with Elihu Lauterpacht, on subjects including: Elihu's life at school; Rachel's work on the Refugee Children's Committee; arrangements for Elihu's return to Britain; food rationing; HL's report on post-war international organisation, his work on the Annual Digest for 1941-42 and the British Yearbook of International Law, his book "Recognition in International Law" and a paper for the Cambridge Jewish Students Society on "Some Problems...
Dates: 1943-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence, 1944-01, 2009

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 1/49
Scope and Contents Mainly correspondence between HL and Rachel Lauterpacht with Elihu Lauterpacht, on subjects including: HL's revision of the sixth edition of Oppenheim's war volume and the pressure of his other writing work; Elihu's school life; plans to meet Lawrence Preuss, a member of the American delegation on war crimes, and E H Carr, and HL's planned article on Implied Recognition, taken from his unpublished book ["Recognition in International Law"]; Rachel's work with Jewish refugee children....
Dates: 1944-01; 2009
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence, 1944-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 1/50
Scope and Contents Mainly correspondence between HL and Rachel Lauterpacht with Elihu Lauterpacht, on subjects including: Rachel's work with refugee children and her plan for a youth hostel or club; Elihu's school life; HL's work on revising part of his book ["Recognition in International Law"] for the Yale Law Journal, as an article on Recognition of States; meetings with Philip Noel-Baker and Lawrence Preuss, the American assistant commissioner on the Inter-Allied Committee for the investigation of war...
Dates: 1944-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence, 1944-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 1/52
Scope and Contents Mainly correspondence between HL and Rachel Lauterpacht with Elihu Lauterpacht, on subjects including: the death of Major-General Orde Wingate; Elihu's school life and preparations for his return to Britain; a meeting of the committee of international lawyers on the future of international organisations and HL's visit to see representatives of the Jewish World Congress in connection with the Inter-Allied Commission on war crimes against the Jews; Rachel's work with refugee children; HL's...
Dates: 1944-04
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence, 1946, 2003

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 1/61
Scope and Contents Includes correspondence between HL, Elihu and Rachel Lauterpacht, on subjects including: Rachel's visit to her family in Palestine; possible news of HL's brother's family in Poland; HL's election to the Athenaeum; problems with domestic staff; Sir Arnold McNair's nomination to the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague; HL's holiday in Hunstanton [Norfolk]; Elihu's progress at Trinity College, University of Cambridge; concerns about HL's health; Elihu's visit to Switzerland....
Dates: 1946; 2003
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence about individual Spanish refugees, 1936 - 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SMVL 5/6
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Papers comprising diaries, correspondence, official papers, lectures, articles, broadcasts and photographs
Also including papers of Commander John Somerville about his father, 1950-91

Dates: 1936 - 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence: Katz, 1946 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 1/62
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Correspondence on HL taking in his niece Inka Gelbard [his only surviving relative from Poland, later Inka Katz] as a refugee.

Dates: 1946 - 1949
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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For Intellectual Liberty: Correspondence and papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9369
Scope and Contents Comprises: minutes of meetings of the F.I.L. committee, 1935-1940; scrpabook of press cuttings, chiefly letters written by F.I.L. members to the press on a range of subjects in the lead-up to the Second World War; printed publications and statements; papers of the British Section of the International Association of Writers for the Defence of Culture, 1938-40, including letters of Hugh Walpole, Compton Mackenzie and Sylvia Townsend Warner; papers relating to refugees; publications; index of...
Dates: 1936-1940
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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International Law Commission: addendum to the draft conventions on the elimination and reduction of future statelessness, 1954-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 4/100
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Addendum from the Government of Canada.

Dates: 1954-06
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Opinion on the present nationality of Jews who left Germany for residence abroad, 1946-01 - 1946-04, 1935-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 4/39
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Opinion by Charles Fahy [Legal Adviser of the Office of Military Government, United States in Germany] with additional notes, sent to HL by the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees.

Dates: 1946-01 - 1946-04; 1935-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Opinion on the status of refugees deprived of German nationality , 1946-02 - 1946-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/LAUT 4/38
Scope and Contents

Opinion by HL for the Intergovernmental Committee for Refugees, with copies of correspondence from 1945-46 on the status of refugees who had fled Germany and Austria before the war and had lost their nationality. Correspondents include Sir Herbert Emerson [High Commissioner for Refugees, League of Nations].

Dates: 1946-02 - 1946-03
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Papers of Margareta (Greta) Burkill

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8433
Scope and Contents

Papers concerning Margareta Burkill’s work with German and Austrian refugee children before, during and after the Second World War. The collection includes Burkill’s memoir and some correspondence. There are also notes on the children, including details of their accommodation during the war and their later careers. Also included is material relating to the Cambridge Refugee Committee.

Dates: 1938 - 1984
Conditions Governing Access: Readers must complete a data release form prior to consulting this collection.
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Photographs of buildings, people and bomb damage in Germany, 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CNDN 15
Scope and Contents

Possibly Frankfurt.
Including photographs of refugees.

Dates: 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Refugees Defence Committee, 1949-12 - 1950-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/2/32
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Correspondence with Sir Clifford Heathcote-Smith, Vice-Chairman of the committee, on an article by JA about Greek children taken to communist countries and on speeches by Leo Amery and 1st Lord Layton on settling refugees in Commonwealth countries.

Also includes a proposal from the committee on solutions to the European refugee problem, and minutes of a committee meeting on a mission by American congressmen to report on the refugees in Germany, Austria and Italy.

Dates: 1949-12 - 1950-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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The Papers of Professor Robert S. Hutton

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HUTT
Scope and Contents The papers relate to the work done by Professor and Mrs Hutton in caring for Jewish, Polish, Czech and other children who were brought to Cambridge from Europe in 1939 as refugees from Nazi persecution and also in attempting to secure release from internment, jobs and educational openings for adult refugees. As well as the case-histories, which comprise the bulk of the collection, are pamphlets, reports and cuttings about the Nazi regime across Europe. There are also first-hand accounts of...
Dates: 1931 - 1958
Conditions Governing Access: Parts of this collection are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Closures are clearly marked.
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Yugoslav generals, 1950-06 - 1955-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/7/63
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Correspondence on bringing 38 senior Yugoslav generals exiled in Germany to Britain, with correspondents including: Katharine, Duchess of Atholl, President of the Yugoslav Aid Committee; Fanny Copeland; Sir Clifford Heathcote-Smith, Vice-Chairman and Secretary, Refugees Defence Committee, and Vice-Chairman of the Council for New Era of Emigration (3); Sir [James] Arthur Salter.

Dates: 1950-06 - 1955-06
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Yugoslav Society of Great Britain, 1941-12 - 1952-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/7/60
Scope and Contents Correspondence, mainly between LSA and Leonard Green, Chairman of the society, on subjects including LSA becoming President of the society, meetings, funds, criticism by Green of King Peter II of Yugoslavia's dictatorial actions, and winding up the society. Other correspondents include: Katharine, Duchess of Atholl [President of the Yugoslav Aid Committee]; Vane Ivanovic, Chairman of the Benevolent Association of Free Citizens of Yugoslavia (4); [Edward] Hugh Dalton, President of the Board...
Dates: 1941-12 - 1952-04
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.