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• Jewish Pilgrims to Palestine from Mogilev Guberniya 1826-1832

The Jewish Heritage Group in Belarus found a file with copies of identification documents of 30 people from Mogilev guberniya traveling to Palestine as pilgrims from the towns and shtetls: Mogilev, Rogachev, Shklov, Chausy, Bykhov and Surazh . They have graciously agreed to share this file with us.

• List of Immigrants from January 17, 1882 to August 15, 1882

The original document is in French and was found in the Historical Archive of the Zikhron Ya’akov Local Council. This was the language that the clerks kept the records in at the beginning of the settlement of Zikhron Ya’akov. The list includes 328 immigrants, most of them coming as families.

• Immigrants After World War I

A small collection of documents from the archives of the Central Zionist Archives. It is for the period on 1918-1919 and includes Jews entering through Egypt. The database includes 507 persons.

• Ruslan Passenger List 19 Dec 1919

Some consider the Ruslan the first ship to bring immigrants to Eretz Israel after World War One, and the beginning of the third aliyah, but it is one of many ships that brought immigrants in 1919. This list of the heads of the families also contains the number of members of the family that were on the ship. There were approximately 670 passengers on board. Not all of the passengers are listed as immigrants in the file found in the Israel State Archives. Some of the passengers said they were returning to Eretz Israel. This document is from the Central Zionist Archives.

• Third Aliyah: Dec 1919-Apr 1921

This is a database of a list of immigrants to Eretz Israel from December 1919 through the end of April 1921 found on the website of the Israel State Archives. The list was compiled from a card catalog of immigrants. The source of this typed list is listed as unknown and there is a comment at the top of page 227 that page 226 is missing. Pages 246 and 254 are also missing thought there is no note, as is the entire letter “taf” ת. The scans from which this database was built were of poor quality which made the transcription difficult. There may be mistakes in the transcription of the family name in addition to the original typographical errors made when preparing the list. It is suggested that this database be searched by first name. At the present, this database contains almost 4,000 names which is 2/3 of the list. There are a number of instances when the first given name is male and the second given name is female. It is assumed that this was a ticket for husband and wife. By sorting the file according to card number, some of the dates of arrival were corrected to match those of the card numbers next to them. The name of the same ship was spelled many different ways, and an English equivalent of the ship name was not always found. Some people made Aliyah by train from El Kantara/Egypt.

• Exiled to Palestine: The Emigration of Zionist Convicts from the Soviet Union, 1924-1934

This database was donated by Prof. Boris Morozov and Prof. Ziva Galili. The database was built while compiling the data for their book Exiled to Palestine: *The Emigration of Zionist Convicts from the Soviet Union, 1924-1934.

It contains 1759 names of people of the many thousands of active Zionists in the Soviet Union who were allowed to emigrated during the period of the Fourth Aliyah to Eretz Israel. This database is built from the compilation of many sources and therefore the information available varies from person to person. For many of the people listed in the database there is information about the date of the arrest, their sentencing and their immigration. The original file was in a software no longer available. When it was transposed to Excel some of the longer sentences were lost.

• Jewish Lithuanians who came on aliyah to Palestine before the establishment of the State of Israel. 1931-1944

This list includes individuals who were registered from 1931 until 1944. Whether the Palestine Office compiled this data or this list was compiled by a central office is not clear. Suffice it to say that in this period offices existed in most European capitals and ports to Palestine such as Trieste. IGRA has received this file with gratitude from LitvakSIG. All requests for details, photographs on files, etc must be made directly from the LCVA Lithuanian Central State Archives in Vilnius.

• List of Farmers from Galicia Requesting Aliyah 1935

This list is of 51 people requesting to make aliyah to Eretz Israel. The document was found in the Pinhas Lavon Institute for Labour Movement Research.

• Deportation Lists 1939

This database is composed of “duplicate” lists found in a file of the British Police in the Israel State Archives. It contains lists of people who were on 13 ships that were captured in 1939. The database includes the names of 6,282.

• Illegal Immigrants

This database is composed of “prohibited immigrants” lists found in a files in the Israel State Archives.

• Immigration to Palestine 1942-1943 Miscellaneous

A list of 2,000 immigrants from various documents from the Central Zionist Archives.

• HaHistadrut Hazionit Hahadasha Rescue Committee, Requests for Certificates 1943-44

A partial list of the forms filled out requesting certificates for aliyah from Austria, Bulgaria, Holland, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Soviet Russia and correspondence found at the Jabotinsky Institute in Tel-Aviv.

• Illegal Immigrants Deported to Mauritius 1944

A list of 443 people composed from three separate lists sent from Palestine to Britain. The three lists were: persons with Free State Danzig passports, persons with Free State Danzig Alien passports, and persons with German State Aliens’ passports issued at Danzig. These lists were found on microfilm at the National Archives (UK) in London.

• Refugees in Mauritius 1944-45

A list of 330 people interned on Mauritius. It contains those who consider themselves Polish Nationals and those who consider themselves as citizens of the Free City of Danzig. This material was found at the National Archives (UK) in London.

• Swiss Aliyah Requests 1945

A list of 213 names of people requesting permission for aliyah to Eretz Israel, based on the microfilm found at the National Archives (UK) in London.

• The Illegal Immigrants 1939 -1948

The lists come from a variety of places – most are Jewish Agency offices, some elsewhere. All are currently in the Central Zionist Archives. Some lists are in English and some lists are in Hebrew, therefore there will be two databases depending on the language of the original documents. This will be an ongoing project over many years, with updates of additional names to the database.

• Atlit Database Index

In cooperation with “Bintivey Ha’apala” Clandestine Jewish Immigration Information and Research Center in Memory of Admiral Mordechai (Moka) Limon we are posting a partial index of their database. Their databases spans from the late 1930’s through a few years after the recognition of the State of Israel.

• Lists of Immigrants from Hungary 1947

There are four different files of approximately 35,000 names. All are currently in the Central Zionist Archives.

• Miscellaneous Lists Dealing with Immigration from Europe 1942-43

All are currently in the Central Zionist Archives.