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  1. Office Files

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Political Department/Department of International Affairs

    A major component of this subseries is correspondence with the WJC's British section and its Political Department director, Alexander L. Easterman. This subseries also contains a large section of files on the American Jewish Congress, the bulk of which covers the years 1950-1960. Box B47. Folder 1. Correspondence, 1947 Box B47. Folder 2. Correspondence, 1952, 1957-1958 Box B47. Folder 3. Correspondence, 1960-1967 Box B47. Folder 4. Correspondence, 1970-1975 Box B47. Folder 5. Advisory Council, Bronfman, Samuel, Germany, 1966 Box B47. Folder 6. Executive Committee, American branch, minutes, ...

  2. Location Service

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Relief and Rescue Departments

    The Location Service files include lists of survivors, known dead, and inmates of concentration and refugee camps. The subseries also contains correspondence, reports, and other materials pertaining to displaced persons camps and survivors after the war. Box D46. Folder 1. Displaced persons location index, lists, memos, releases, 1942-1946 Box D46. Folder 2. Location service activity reports by Finkelstein, Chaim, 1943-1948 Box D46. Folder 3. Central roster, central registration, 1943-1945 Box D46. Folder 4. Central Location Index, 1944-1946 Box D46. Folder 5. American Red Cross, Washington...

  3. Publications

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Alphabetical Files

    Consists of publications (Jewish and non-Jewish, WJC and non- WJC), from various countries and organizations. There are also one or two subject files. Additional publications are scattered throughout the other subseries, but these publications were maintained as a separate subseries to preserve their provenance, as they were kept in that manner by WJC staff. Box H372. Folder 28. Great Britain, 1942, 1953 Box H372. Folder 29. Israel, Gesher, 1962 Box H372. Folder 30. Israel, World Conference on Jewish Education; An Interim Report, 1962 Box H373. Folder 1. Japan, The Seventh World Conference ...

  4. Correspondence with Bonn, Moritz Julius

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Comprising handwritten and typewritten letters the correspondence concerns an article Bonn had authored for The Wiener Library Bulletin, and the approach of influential individuals in West Germany, including its president Theodor Heuss.

  5. Correspondence with Brandt, Walter A.

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding an enquiry on Walter Auerbach, and especially his activities during his exile in the UK.

  6. Correspondence with Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischer Glaubens (C.V.)

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence centres on two major subjects. One concerns The Wiener Library’s claim for the recently detected library of the C.V. (1947-1952) and includes background information on the library’s confiscation by the Nazis, its rediscovery on Czechoslovakian soil after the Second World War, and individuals and body’s involved in the process of negotiating its future ownership. Besides, a meeting of former members in London on occasion of the 60th anniversary of the C.V. is arranged. Triggered by a research enquiry on anti-Nazi resistance in Berlin from 1933-45, a second major subject co...

  7. Correspondence with Council for the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Jews from Germany

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence documents the everyday business between The Wiener Library and the London based Council including birthday wishes, the lending of books, the purchase of images, and primarily the exchange of published and unpublished material. Beside letters it contains á copy of the Council’s internal newsletters and a printed, not dated image of Sigmund Freud.

  8. Correspondence with Eisemann, Heinrich

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence about Eisemann’s advice for the Wiener Library regarding the receipt or purchase of Judaica. This includes among others a collection of items and papers related to the Mendelssohn family. Contained is also an enquiry by Eisemann for background information on an undated typescript of an Albert Einstein speech, which he had recently acquired.

  9. Correspondence with Ainsztein, Reuben

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence documents Ainsztein’s long-term freelance work for The Wiener Library, primarily by contributing numerous pieces - articles, reviews, summaries - to its Bulletin. Moreover, work related fees are subject of some letters.

  10. Correspondence with Anglo-German Educational Reconstruction (G.E.R.)

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    Correspondence concerning the dissolution of G. E. R. and the options of providing The Wiener Library with parts of the remaining archival material.

  11. Correspondence with Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR)

    1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence

    The correspondence - with AJR chairman Werner Rosenstock almost exclusively - comprises a wide variety of issues including amongst others: an AJR Information editorial on the work of the Jewish Restitution Successor Organisation; an obituary on Ludwig Foerder; publishing the memoirs of Gustav Schröder, captain of the MS St. Louis, in England; the visit of The Wiener Library by a group of young German unionists; and an appreciation of Leonard Montefiore in the AJR Information on occasion of his 70th birthday.

  12. Československý úřad pro hospodářskou pomoc a obnovu, Praha

    • Czechoslovak Office for Relief and Rehabilitation, Prague
    • UNRRA
    • Národní archiv
    • 313
    • English
    • 1943-1951
    • 28,5 linear metres from which 28,5 linear metres of documents are processed and inventoried and accessible.

    In the fonds there can be found lists and summaries of delivered suplies, reports about the economic situation in the Czechoslovak Republic, various reports from the proceedings of committees. There are also files related to the transport of supllies, another draft plans for relief and rehabilitation of the country (also for the Slovak part of the republic), bills or photographs. The Holocaust or Jewish related documents are in several boxes concerning the matter of repatriation of citizens from the Great Britain. There are lists of persons authorized for the repatriation in April and July ...

  13. Documentation regarding the Hechalutz movement's activities on behalf of the Jews in Europe, including a Hechalutz booklet about its activities in France, a booklet about the Hechalutz aliya training in England, correspondence between Saly Mayer and Natha

    1. P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

    Documentation regarding the Hechalutz movement's activities on behalf of the Jews in Europe, including a Hechalutz booklet about its activities in France, a booklet about the Hechalutz aliya training in England, correspondence between Saly Mayer and Nathan Schwalb regarding the transfer of relief, and other matters, 1934-1945 - Booklet (in French) by the Hechalutz movement about its activities in France, in the context of aliya training, October 1934; the booklet includes a summary in English; - Booklet about the [Hechalutz movement's] aliya training in England, 1940 [?]; - Documentation re...

  14. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with Dr. Kopecky, Czechoslovakian representative to the League of Nations in Geneva and Czechoslovakia’s first ambassador to Switzerland

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with Dr. Kopecky, Czechoslovakian representative to the League of Nations in Geneva and Czechoslovakia’s first ambassador to Switzerland Correspondence with Dr. Kopecky, Czechoslovakian representative to the League of Nations in Geneva and Czechoslovakia’s first ambassador to Switzerland regarding the issuing of passports to Czechoslovakian refugees in Italy, the sending of help to survivors of the ship, "Pentcho" in the Ferramonti Di Tarsia camp and the transfer of mail to England, Spain and Portugal, from March 1945.

  15. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archives: Various lists of survivors

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archives: Various lists of survivors In the file: - Children's Aid Society (OSE) lists of children in camps for survivors of the Holocaust in Europe after World War II (She'erith Hapletah) camps in Germany as part of the illegal immigration to Eretz Israel (Aliya Bet), and of sick children transferred for treatment in Switzerland and England; - Lists of survivors whose names were broadcast on Radio Lublin; - Lists of Dutch Jews who survived in Theresienstadt and other camps compiled by the Joodse Coordinatie Commissie - Jewish Coordination Committee of Dutch Jewry (...

  16. Rabbi Munk Personal Archive: Correspondence with prominent people and various relief organizations regarding assistance to refugees and appropriate representation of Agudat Israel in refugee organizations, 1940-1944

    1. P.15 - Rabbi Eli Munk Archives: Correspondence regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees in Germany during the early post-Holocaust years

    Rabbi Munk Personal Archive: Correspondence with prominent people and various relief organizations regarding assistance to refugees and appropriate representation of Agudat Israel in refugee organizations, 1940-1944 Also in the file: Lists of names of refugees some of whom are in camps and some of whom have emigrated including the country to which they emigrated.

  17. Rabbi Munk Personal Archive: Correspondence with various relief organizations in England regarding assistance to refugees and displaced persons in camps in Germany, 1945

    1. P.15 - Rabbi Eli Munk Archives: Correspondence regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees in Germany during the early post-Holocaust years

    Rabbi Munk Personal Archive: Correspondence with various relief organizations in England regarding assistance to refugees and displaced persons in camps in Germany, 1945 Also in the file: - Reports regarding Agudat Israel activities; - Reports regarding the situation in various communities in Germany, including Assen, Duesseldorf, Berlin and Cologne.

  18. Rabbi Munk Personal Archive: Correspondence with the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and additional organizations regarding assistance to Jewish communities in the British Occupied Zone in Germany and in Berlin and activities for restoring cultural pro

    1. P.15 - Rabbi Eli Munk Archives: Correspondence regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees in Germany during the early post-Holocaust years

    Rabbi Munk Personal Archive: Correspondence with the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and additional organizations regarding assistance to Jewish communities in the British Occupied Zone in Germany and in Berlin and activities for restoring cultural property belonging to the communities, 1947-1950 Also in the file: - Letters from 10, 16, 26 and 29 October 1948 pertaining to Dr. Baeck's visit to Germany; - Report regarding Berlin, 10 February 1949; - Letter from A. Scheyer regarding Jewish refugees from Germany who returned to Berlin from the Soviet Union, 05 March 1947; - Letter from Ms. ...

  19. Rabbi Munk Personal Archive: Reports of Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad meetings and reports regarding the visit of the heads of the Committee in DP camps in Germany and Austria

    1. P.15 - Rabbi Eli Munk Archives: Correspondence regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees in Germany during the early post-Holocaust years

    Rabbi Munk Personal Archive: Reports of Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad meetings and reports regarding the visit of the heads of the Committee in DP camps in Germany and Austria Also in the file: - Reports regarding Committee activities in the Netherlands; - Various surveys regarding the Bergen-Belsen DP camp; - Survey prepared by Jane Leverson regarding Jews in Belgium; - Survey regarding Morris Feinmann, of Blessed Memory, a Committee activist; - Reports regarding the condition of the Jews in Italy, Austria and Greece; - Excerpts from a report sent by Earl Harrison, the US representati...

  20. Rabbi Munk Personal Archive: Reports from Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad meetings regarding assistance to Jewish communities in Germany and to Jews in the DP camps, including reports regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees in various countries,

    1. P.15 - Rabbi Eli Munk Archives: Correspondence regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees in Germany during the early post-Holocaust years

    Rabbi Munk Personal Archive: Reports from Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad meetings regarding assistance to Jewish communities in Germany and to Jews in the DP camps, including reports regarding the situation of the Jewish refugees in various countries, 1947-1950 Also in the file: - Statistical report regarding the Jewish population in the American Occupied Zone in Germany,as of 28 February 1947.