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  1. Συλλογή Ανέστη Μακριδάκη, Δ/ντη Γραφείου Τύπου

    • Collection of Anestis Makridakis, Director of the Press Office
    • Syllogí Anésti Makridáki, D/nti Grafeíou Týpou

  2. Αρχείο Saul and Gladys Weinberg

    • Fond of Saul and Gladys Weinberg

    The Saul and Gladys Weinberg Papers encompass manuscripts and printed materials dating from 1930 to 1980. This collection offers insights into the Weinbergs' archaeological endeavors in Greece, particularly in Corinth and Elateia. It includes correspondence, notes, and photographs documenting their research, as well as images capturing Greek archaeological sites and activities of friends and locals during the 1930s. The photographic portion has been digitized and is accessible through the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) Photographic Collections. The Saul and Gladys We...

  3. Αρχείο Νίκου Νικολάου

    • Archive of Nikos Nikolaou
    • Archeio Nikou Nikolaou

    It contains unpublished and published sources about the Jews of Serres. The most important source is the “Old Municipal Registries of Jews” which constitutes the official book of the municipal archive and which ended in the possession of Nikolaou.

  4. Αρχείο Δαυίδ Πεσάχ

    • David Pesach Archive
    • Archeío Davíd Pesách

    Photos of the Pesach family, biographical information, photo of the Jewish Community, publications.

  5. Οπτικοακουστική Συλλογή Ισραηλιτικής Κοινότητας Βόλου (έμποροι)

    • Audiovisual Collection of the Jewish Community of Volos (merchants)
    • Optikoakoustikí Syllogí Israilitikís Koinótitas Vólou (émporoi)

    PowerPoint file with 10 slides about the merchants of the Jewish Community of Volos.

  6. Συλλογή δικηγόρων Σαμουήλ και Φρατέλη Ναχμία

    • Collection of attorneys Samuel and Frateli Nahmia
    • Syllogí dikigóron Samouíl kai Fratéli Nachmía

    Claims for compensation by Jews, residents of Greece or abroad, as victims of Nazism under Legislative Decree 4178/61. The association "Union of Jewish Hostages of Greece," based in Thessaloniki (1945–1970). Legislation on German reparations (Brueg and Beg Laws). Nominal lists of hostages from the Jewish Communities of Athens and Thessaloniki. Declarations of census data for those protected under tenancy laws. Cases of recognition of National Resistance fighters.

  7. Susan Warsinger papers

    The Susan Warsinger (Hilsenrath) papers comprise documents and photographs related to Susan Warsinger’s Holocaust experiences as a Jewish child from Bad Kreuznach, Germany who took refuge in France from 1939 until she immigrated to the United States in 1941. Much of the collection pertains to Susan’s life while living in the OSE home Chateau les Morelles in Broût-Vernet, France, which she describes in a diary and through a series of correspondence to her parents and little brother in the United States. Also comprised is correspondence with the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and American Frien...

  8. Records of the Geneva office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1933-1944

    In neutral Portugal, JDC staff were well placed to purchase, receive, and send supplies to wartime Europe. The Geneva 1933-1944 collection chronicles JDC’s rescue work during this period as well as its cooperation with other organizations, such as the JDC-International Red Cross efforts to provide packages to concentration camp internees. JDC also worked with the Preparatory Commission of the International Refugee Organization (PCIRO); this contribution is documented by numerous PCIRO case files from Spain and Portugal. A significant subgroup of these transmigrants originated in the Netherl...

  9. Records of the Czechoslovakia Offices of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1945-1950

    The files of the JDC offices in Czechoslovakia, located in Prague and Bratislava, constitute the record of JDC’s activity in that country from the end of World War II until the Czech government ordered JDC to leave the country in 1950. During this postwar period, JDC sustained Jewish survivors by providing financial assistance, distributing relief parcels, maintaining soup kitchens, and supporting orphanages, homes for the elderly, and Jewish education. Especially noteworthy is the work of the JDC Emigration Service, which assisted thousands of Jews to leave for countries in North and South...

  10. Records of the Geneva office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1945-1954

    The Geneva files of 1945-1954 constitute the documentary record of JDC’s global overseas operations in the immediate post-World War II (WWII) period. These files testify to the complex and multi-faceted nature of JDC’s global rescue and relief efforts, primarily focused on: resettling Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors around the world; facilitating the renewal of Jewish life in Europe; rebuilding Jewish communal institutions; and providing sustaining aid to the remnants of Jewish communities worldwide. The collection documents JDC’s work in over 70 countries. These records provide num...

  11. Records of the Warsaw Office of the American Joint Distribution Committee, 1939-1941

    The files of JDC’s Warsaw Office from 1939-1941 constitute the record of JDC’s activity in Poland, principally in the area of the General Government, from the Nazi invasion in September 1939 until the United States entered World War II in 1941. After the U.S. entered the war, JDC’s Warsaw Office could no longer operate. The documents testify to the increasingly desperate situation of Polish Jewish communities and JDC’s efforts to provide humanitarian relief and coordinate the distribution of food aid. JDC’s operations in Poland in this period was organized into four regional branches: the m...

  12. Records of the Warsaw Office of the American Joint Distribution Committee, 1945-1949

    The American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC, as it was known in Poland) was active in Poland from the time of its founding. Immediately after the end of World War I, in early 1919, AJDC sent representatives to Poland. The outbreak of war in 1939 did not stop the AJDC relief efforts in Poland. During the first years of Nazi occupation, the Joint was able to continue its activity, although much diminished compared to the prewar period. The branches of AJDC in the area of the General Government worked until December 1941. When the United States entered the war, AJDC’s work continued underg...

  13. Records of the Istanbul Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

    The Istanbul Collection testifies to JDC’s efforts from 1942-1949 (with a few earlier materials dating from 1937) to oversee the planning of rescue and relief operations from its office in Turkey, a neutral country strategically located at the crossroads of war-torn Europe and the nascent Jewish state in Palestine. These records highlight the Istanbul office’s partnership with other relief organizations--such as the Jewish Agency, the U.S. War Refugee Board, and the International Red Cross--in rescue operations and in large-scale enterprises to identify and locate survivors during and after...

  14. Photo Collection.

    The Photo Collection of the JDC contains a couple of hundred of images relevant to the history of the Jewish communities of Belgium. Searching the Photographs database on keywords such as ‘Belgium’, ‘Brussels’ and ‘Antwerp’ nets over 370 results at the time of writing. These images especially depict scenes in the children’s homes, supported by the JDC, including many portraits of children and home personnel, children’s activities, etc. Apart from daily life in the homes (at the end of the 1940s), we also note some photos of refugees, of the MS St. Louis, of the refugee camp in Merksplas, …

  15. Records of the Dominican Republic Settlement Association (DORSA), 1939-1977

    In 1938, President Roosevelt invited 32 governments to consult with U.S. representatives at Evian, France, on refugee problems, and the participants created an Intergovernmental Committee for Refugees (IGCR). For IGCR Reports on Refugees 1938 - 1940, and on Refugee Settlement in the Dominican Republic, see Files 45a - 45b. At the first IGCR meeting, Generalissimo Trujillo offered to admit into his country as settlers up to 100,000 refugees from Europe. Promptly, the Refugee Economic Corporation and the President's Advisory Committee on Political Refugees—under Executive Secretary George L. ...

  16. Records of the Stockholm office of the American Joint Distribution Committee, 1941-1967

    The Stockholm Collection contains the records of JDC’s Stockholm office during the years 1941-1967. The majority of the materials focus on the Stockholm office’s activities during World War II and in the postwar period from 1944-1949. In wartime, JDC’s Stockholm office, strategically located in neutral Sweden, was well-placed to coordinate the delivery of supplies to survivors and refugees in Europe, collaborate in wartime rescue operations, and to establish contact with and coordinate searches for survivors after the war ended. These records also chronicle JDC’s collaborations with other o...

  17. Records of the New York office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1933-1944.

    Files nr. 117 and 118 (ca. 1944-1947) contain minutes of the meetings of the Executive Committee of the JDC Advisory and Consultative Group and minutes of its Sub-committee on Reconstruction. This organ was established in early 1944, to deal with the needs of the devastated Jewish communities of Europe. Jewish leaders from twelve nations – including Belgium – were asked to organise national groups; collectively they formed the JDC group. The file “Belgium: Administration, General 1933-1940” (nr. 450) contains correspondence and various reports on the assistance to and status of Jewish refug...

  18. Records of the New York office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1945-1954.

    This fonds is of crucial importance for the history of the reconstruction of the Jewish community in Belgium after the Second World War. In Subcollection Countries & Regions, Record Group: Belgium we firstly note the files (containing correspondence, memos, reports etc.) on the financial administration of JDC aid, fundraising and the transfer of funds to Belgium; see the files nrs. 152, 153, 154, 155 and 160 for the period 1945-1954. Nr. 149 (years 1944-1954) contains general correspondence and reports on JDC aid to Belgium, the treatment and legal status of Jewish refugees in Belgium, ...

  19. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Cyprus Operation, 1945-1949

    The Cyprus Collection of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJJDC) offers a unique window into a pivotal period of 20th-century history by documenting the dramatic events in Cyprus against the backdrop of the birth of the State of Israel. Beginning in August 1946, the British government began deporting Jews who came to Palestine in violation of the White Paper of 1939 to the island of Cyprus. From August 1946 to February 1949, the deportees--primarily Holocaust survivors--lived behind barbed wire in 12 detention camps. During this period, approximately 53,000 Jews passed thro...

  20. Historical materials of the Kalynivske region (author's title by Zavodianyi Volodymyr Dmytrovych)

    There is no description log, the collection needs to be analyzed and organized. Zavodianyi cannot quantify his collection, but mentioned 27 folders with documents of local organizations, an unknown number of typewritten documents and handwritten notes, photos, and letters from Israel from former residents of Kalynivske. He also provided for copying the memoirs of the head of the local military commissariat, Borys Lvovych Zeldin (Peklo), on 6 typewritten sheets regarding the events of World War II. Zavodianyi mentioned that he has letters from Lummar Volodymyr (Volka) Zusevych (Zakharovych),...