Refugees, Relief, and Resettlement
Explore the history of refugees and forced migration before, during and after World War II across 3 continents through this new collection of primary sources.
Refugees, Relief, and Resettlement: Forced Migration and World War II chronicles the plight of refugees and displaced persons across Europe, North Africa, and Asia from 1935 to 1950 through correspondence, reports, studies, organisational and administrative files, and much more. It is the first multi-sourced digital collection to consider the global scope of the refugee crisis leading up to, during, and after World War II.
Gathered together from key sources that include The U.K. National Archives, the British Library, the National Archives Records Administration in the United States, and World Jewish Relief, this archive documents the history of forced migration to uncover the hidden history of those displaced from their homes and the relief, resettlement, and repatriation efforts that followed.
The archive chronicles not only the plight of those made to resettle inside and outside national borders owing to war and ethnic and political persecution, it also addresses the unique factors to give rise to the many kinds of refugees, from evacuees and displaced persons, to population transferees and forced labourers.
Search each of these collections independently or across other archives in Gale Primary Sources.
- Refugee Records from the General Correspondence Files of Political Departments of the Foreign Office,1938-1950
- Refugee Files from the Records of the Foreign Office, 1938-1950
- Refugee Records from the War Cabinet, the Colonial Office, the Home Office and the War Office, 1935-1949
- Refugee Records from the Public and Judicial Department Collections of the British India Office, 1939-1952
- Archives of the Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief, 1933-1960
