Refugees standing outside the offices of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (most likely in New York City), ca. 1950s. An international Jewish immigrant and refugee service founded in 1909 in New York through the merger of the Hebrew Sheltering House and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. HIAS activities included financial and legal aid, transportation arrangements, educational and vocational programs, location of missing relatives, lobbying in the U.S. and other governments on behalf of individual cases.

ID: Adults and children with suitcases waiting outside a building.