Israel Emigration and Immigration

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 * Jewish Pilgrims to Palestine from Mogilev Guberniya 1826-1832: 30 people from Mogilev guberniya traveling to Palestine as pilgrims from the towns and shtetls: Mogilev, Rogachev, Shklov, Chausy, Bykhov and Surazh. "The Jewish Heritage Group in Belarus"
 * List of Immigrants from January 17, 1882 to August 15, 1882: 328 immigrants, most of them coming as families."Historical Archive of the Zikhron Ya’akov Local Council"
 * Immigrants After World War I, 1918-1919: 507 persons,includes Jews entering through Egypt."Central Zionist Archives"
 * Ruslan Passenger List 19 Dec 1919: Approximately 670 passengers on the ship Ruslan, list of the heads of the families also contains the number of members of the family that were on the ship. Some of the passengers said they were returning to Eretz Israel. "Central Zionist Archives"
 * Third Aliyah: Dec 1919-Apr 1921: 4,000 names which is 2/3 of the list."Israel State Archives"
 * Exiled to Palestine: The Emigration of Zionist Convicts from the Soviet Union, 1924-1934: 1759 names of people of the many thousands of active Zionists in the Soviet Union. "Donated by Prof. Boris Morozov and Prof. Ziva Galili", built while compiling the data for their book Exiled to Palestine: The Emigration of Zionist Convicts from the Soviet Union, 1924-1934.
 * Jewish Lithuanians who came on aliyah to Palestine before the establishment of the State of Israel. 1931-1944: from "LitvakSIG"
 * List of Farmers from Galicia Requesting Aliyah 1935: 51 people requesting to make aliyah to Eretz Israel. "Pinhas Lavon Institute for Labour Movement Research."
 * Deportation Lists 1939: 6,282 people on 13 ships captured in 1939."British Police in the Israel State Archives"
 * Illegal Immigrants: "Israel State Archives"
 * Immigration to Palestine 1942-1943 Miscellaneous: 2,000 immigrants from various documents. "Central Zionist Archives"
 * HaHistadrut Hazionit Hahadasha Rescue Committee, Requests for Certificates 1943-44: Request certificates for aliyah from Austria, Bulgaria, Holland, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Soviet Russia "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.