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  1. Carl Landauer Papers

    Correspondence, printed matter, and sound recordings of interviews, relating to economics, world politics, and efforts to aid German Jewish refugees to the United States during the 1930s and World War II. Sound use copies of sound recordings available.

  2. Kurt Richard Grossmann Papers

    Writings, correspondence, clippings, and serial issues, relating to Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, postwar German and Austrian restitution payments to Jewish war victims, German-Israeli relations, the conditions of Jews throughout the world, and civil liberties in the United States and Germany.

  3. E. Thomas Wood Papers

    Writings, notes, correspondence, photocopies of government documents, books, other printed matter, photographs, and videotapes, relating to Jan Karski, the resistance movement and Jewish holocaust in Poland during World War II, and Jewish refugees in the Soviet Union. In part, used as research material for the book by E. T. Wood and Stanislaw M. Jankowski, Karski (New York, 1994).

  4. Margaret Eleanor Fait Papers

    Reports, dispatches, memoranda, correspondence, and printed matter, relating to relief aid to displaced persons in Germany at the end of World War II, and to Jewish refugees in transit to Palestine.

  5. 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...

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

    These records detail the scope of the relationships between JDC's Istanbul office and refugees and survivors in Europe in the immediate aftermath of WWII. The files contain extensive information on the shipment of relief supplies, including shipping over 250,000 packages for Jewish refugees in Russia via Tehran; eyewitness accounts; inquiries regarding wartime rescue; and reports on JDC relief activities in Balkans, Romania, and Turkey, among other localities.

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

    The bulk of this subcollection, which contains materials from 1942-1947, concerns the rescue and transportation of Jewish refugees during and after World War II from countries such as Bulgaria, Germany and Romania, as well as attempts to identify and locate survivors. The files contain lists of survivors, correspondence, shipping manifests, and cables. Additionally, these records contain substantial material on passengers on the SS Drottningholm, an exchange ship which carried Jews from concentration camps, including Buchenwald, and on the SS Mefkure, a rescue ship bombed and lost at sea in...

  8. Records of the Geneva office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

    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...

  9. 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...

  10. 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. ...

  11. 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...