Hello moewenzahn,
yes field: „Religion“ is correct.
Please enter as in the information text on page 3: https://storage.googleapis.com/diesdas_bilder2_hilfetexte/Auswandererkartei_Bremen/Bremen_Religion.pdf
Religion
Field 1:
jew
open field 2 with + and enter
usna
Kind regards,
Gabriela
ev lsr = ?
jew jias = Jewish immigrant aid services
https://jiastoronto.org/who-we-are/
IRC / irc (in religion/sponsoring agencies) - found in this card
maybe „International Rescue Committee“ ? - according to the ITS Glossary page 124 [quote] " a refugee relief organization originally known as the International Relief and Rescue Committee (IRRC), which was formed in 1942 by a merger of the International Relief Association (IRA) and Emergency Rescue Committee (ERC))"
still active today? see https://www.rescue.org/
Card with „irc“ found today: Every Name Counts
https://collab.arolsen-archives.org/de/classifications/cl_rXPBf83wEcCUeNKubSoid
babtist (sic!) ACCR could be „Advisory Committee for Church Relations“
see > source
https://collab.arolsen-archives.org/de/classifications/cl_y9pzbVhcQGnGRGoQYgmWd
orth afii: probably „AFII American Federation of International Institutes“
source p. 15:
„The International Institute movement began in 1910 under sponsorship of the Young Women’s Christian Association. […] For several decades the i nstitutes remained tied to the YWCA but, for reasons to be discussed later, in the 1930’s most severed this connection and merged to create a new national organization - the National Institute of Immigrant Welfare. In 1943 the agency changed its name to the American Federation of International Institutes (AFII). Another merger took place in 1959, as the AFII joined with the Common Council for American Unity to create the American Council for Nationalities Service, which still exists today.“
https://collab.arolsen-archives.org/de/classifications/cl_99JtQsB7uhMPqkRMijuzb
https://collab.arolsen-archives.org/de/classifications/cl_QJcBRq4AkrP2VyEo6iwRi
ev lwf = most likely „Lutheran World Federation“
https://collab.arolsen-archives.org/de/classifications/cl_sk5RCz3v1E63HqchPXUw8
luth fws = ??? couldn´t find anything that matches
Could „fws“ be a part of the religious affiliation?
Or maybe a typo (and should read „lws/LWS“) or a slipped line (or a similar other mistake) ?
The sponsor entry in his shipping list reads „CWS - BWA“…
CWS (Church World Service; in the Helptext-list)
BWA ? maybe „Baptist World Alliance“ or " Baptist World Aid", also abbreviated „BWAid“ (a section/part of Baptist World Alliance) ?
Once again I’m wondering in which order these emigration documents were created.
Which was first: the Bremen camp cards or the passenger lists?
Who was copying from whom and perhaps making a mistake?
Who used to record the passengers’ statements and perhaps noted down misheard information?
Perhaps the Laufzettel/docket? (the Bremen card) with the personal data was created first?
Next the ship lists (passenger lists) ?
And just before leaving, the final stamp on the Bremen card with the ship name and the date of departure?
Some emigrants are on the passenger list of a specific ship with a specific departure date, but the stamped Bremen information then shows that they left on a different ship (usually just a few days) later.
(But maybe in these cases a second, later list got lost or is not in the archive?)
Abbreviation „ind“ (in the fields „Religion“ or „Mother’s Maiden Name“
„[…] information such as “private” or “IND” (for independent) is noted in this space. This identifies the people known as individual emigrants who were not DPs and who were emigrating without IRO support. The IRO sold spaces on its ships to such people. If these individual emigrants were sponsored by relatives or an aid organization, then even Germans such as Adelheid Meyer could board a ship – although there is no indication that she had been persecuted during the war and thus had DP status.“ (quoted from Arolsen e-guide: Bremen cards „Emigrant-Staging-Area“ – after click on card field „Full maiden name of mother“ )
(I admit that I should study these e-guides far more often. A lot of details can be found there. And I like the function of clicking on card fields to get more information on the entries made there.)
@moewenzahn (Stay independent!)
Thank you very much for this hint. I also neglected this e-guide so far…
a nice weekend everyone!
To you too! - 
is shining!
Abbreviation „7 ad“ in Religion is most like „seventh day adventist“ (Siebenter -Tags - Adventist):
AJDC (in religion/sponsoring agency) - in shipping lists also „joint“
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
(see this card and corresponding name list)
I just posted a compilation of all abbreviations here:
Please keep on entering all unknown abbreviations and your explanations/sources/ comments either here or in the other thread, so I will continue compilating the shorts in that entry.
Danke für diese übersichtliche Liste, Möwenzahn!
Grüße an alle fleißigen Sammler/innen!
Kleiner Buchtabendreher:
Abk. sollte lauten „7 da“ (nicht ad), siehe diese Kommentare
Abbreviation in religion:
„armg. g.“ (Bremen card) - „Arm. Grig“ (other documents of this emigrant)
(?) maybe refers to the Armenian Apostolic Church, also named „Armenian Gregorian Church“ (after its founder Saint Gregory the Illuminator)
wikipedia - Armenian Apostolic Church
armenianchurch–org
I just realized that I posted the compilation in the wrong thread, the „stamps“ thread. So I decided to change my first entry in this thread and put the compilation here. Sorry for confusing … Please keep on posting any new shorts here and I will add them to the entry then.
