Founded:

November 27, 1881

Homepage:

hias.org

HIAS, founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, is a Jewish American nonprofit that provides humanitarian aid and assistance to refugees. It was established on in 1881 to help Russian Jewish immigrants to the United States escaping antisemitic persecution and violence.

Mentioned in

• A Photographic Record of German-Jewish Refugees in Kobe, 1940: The Escape Journey of the Katzenstein Family (Megumi Ishiida)
• Free and Unfree in a Faraway Place: German-speaking Refugees in China’s Foreign Concessions and the Shanghai Ghetto (Meredith Oyen)
• Uruguay: A New Home in South America? (Sonja Wegner)