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Refugees

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 15 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 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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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
Scope and Contents

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.