Mejer Ginzburg collection, 1933-1950.

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Mejer Ginzburg collection, 1933-1950.

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Letters, refugees' papers, post World War II refugee visas, timeline of wartime experience, and International Refugee forms.

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University of South Florida, USF Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8032972

University of South Florida, USF Library

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International Refugee Organization.

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The International Refugee Organisation (IRO) was a non-permanent specialised agency of the United Nations. It came into being on 20 Aug 1948. Its functions were previously carried out by a Preparatory Commission (PCIRO), which assumed on 1 Jul 1947 functions formerly exercised by its predecessor organisations: The League of Nations; the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees; the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and the allied armies. The IRO was ...

Ginzburg, Mejer.

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Doctor and Holocaust survivor. Mejer Ginzburg was born on December 13, 1906 in Varsovie, Poland. In 1938 He began practicing medicine in Lithuania. While living in Valkinikai, Lithuania, he continued to practice medicine while under Russian occupation from June 1940 to June 1941. Ginzburg concealed himself from the German occupation in Vilno, Lithuania from June 1941 to September 1941. Upon his discovery, the Germans interned him in the ghetto of Vilno. In September of 1...