Resources

These websites can help you investigate wartime refugees

BELGIAN STATE ARCHIVES

w search.arch.be

If you’re looking for a Second World War refugee who escaped via Belgium or a Belgian who became displaced, search the country’s state archives.

CZECH REFUGEE TRUST FUND

w nationalarchives.gov.uk

The fund recorded the names of almost 20,000 wartime refugees, and these are held at The National Archives in Kew. If you want to order Czech relations’ birth, marriage or death records, try the National Archives of the Czech Republic ( nacr.cz).

KINDERTRANSPORT

w worldjewishrelief.org Contact World Jewish Relief to find out if an ancestor was one of the thousands of refugee children who were brought to safety by the Kindertransport.