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  1. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (Amerykańsko-Żydowski Połączony Komitet Pomocy). 1939-1941

    • AJDC Joint
    • raporty, komunikaty i sprawozdania z działalności Centrali dotyczące rozmiaru pomocy i sposobu jej rozdziału; - sprawozdania z wizytacji w gminach i placówkach wspieranych przez AJDC; - dane inspektorów w poszczególnych dystryktach Generalnego Gubernatorstwa; - dokumenty finansowe; - korespondecja z delegaturami AJDC w Europie i placówkami dyplomatycznymi w Europie; - korespondencja delegatur AJDC w Warszawie i Krakowie z ok.. 400 gminami żydowskimi (gettami) w Generalnym Gubernatorstwie w sprawach pomocowych.
  2. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (Amerykańsko-Żydowski Połączony Komitet Pomocy). 1945-1949

    1. Sekretariat: - akta o charakterze prawnym i organizacyjnym (okólniki, zarządzenia, biuletyny i in.); -sprawozdania z działalności AJDC w Polsce, z pracy poszczególnych wydziałów i z pomocy otrzymanej od organizacji zagranicznych; - protokóły z konferencji dyrekcji AJDC z różnymi urzędami i instytucjami; - akta osobowe pracowników; - korespondencja ogólna, krajowa i zagraniczna. 2. Wydział Prawny: protokoły zebrań w sprawach organizacyjnych, sprawozdania, korespondencja ogólna. 3. Wydział Kontroli, sprawozdania z kontroli poszczególnych instytucji finansowanych przez Joint. 4. Wydział Pos...
  3. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (Sygn. 210)

    Contains mainly correspondence of the AJDC Committees in Warsaw and Krakow with Jewish communities across Polish territory during German occupation (approximately 500 communities). Includes information about the committee’s administration, budgets and finance, activities of Jewish Councils in particular regions, Warsaw ghetto, emigration, charities. Included are name indexes of Jews asking families in USA and other countries for emigration papers; as well other name lists of distribution of help.

  4. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee correspondence

    The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee correspondence contains monthly reports and biographical briefs on the residents of the displaced persons camps near Ulm and Heidenheim, Germany. The administration of these camps were run by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which was set up in 1913 in order to assist Jewish communities overseas. The collection centers around the documentation created by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee as it administered the camps near Ulm and Heidenheim, Germany. The camp names near Ulm were Sedan-Kaserne, Hindenburg-Kaserne...

  5. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee records

    The collection consists of a document prepared by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Paris between July 18 and Aug 2, 1939. The document is titled "Ms. St-Louis passengers and their distribution" containing a list of 907 passengers. The collection also consists of reports, memos, correspondence (letters and cables), news releases, minutes of meetings, summaries, and surveys related to assisting survivors; newly liberated displaced persons in camps in Germany (e.g. Landsberg, Bergen-Belsen, Heidelberg, Bremen, etc. ), and in Austria (e.g. Neustadt, Villach, Linz, etc.); movi...

  6. 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...

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

    Personal letters, petitions, and newspapers published by the deportees. Records contain accounts of the aid activities of the AJJDC in the British detainee camps, including correspondence with the British authorities, medical care, educational programs, welfare activity, immigration to Mandatory Palestine and Israel, and eyewitness accounts of conditions in the camps written by the AJJDC administration. It also consists of many documents related to activities of the British soldiers.

  8. American Joint Distribution Committee in Poland

    Contains 2,445 Polish- and English-language files of the American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) in Warsaw, including those of the Secretary’s Office and the Emigration, Individual Relief and Welfare, Tracing, Warehouses, Bookkeeping, Administration, and other departments or units. Contents reflect the AJDC’s main activities: rendering material assistance (e.g., food, medicine, clothing, tools) and funding organizations such as the Central Committee of Jews in Poland, the Bund, Zionist movements, youth associations, religious societies, and Hebrew schools.

  9. American Joint Distribution Committee in Teheran

    Contains three documents regarding the American Jewish Joint Distribution's work in Teheran in the 1940s. Includes a personal postcard sent to the Joint by a Jew from Poland; a registered document, notice about receipt of a parcel in the post office.; and post delivery confirmation.

  10. The American Joint Distribution Committee, Warsaw office, 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...

  11. American journalist interviewed re: propaganda

    Interview with the "well-known radio reporter" Doug Brinkley about "atrocity propaganda" (reaction against the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses) in the United States. Doug Brinkley traveled extensively in Germany from 1932-1934 and wrote a pro-Nazi book titled "An American Sees the New Germany." The interview takes place outside. The interviewer asks his questions in German and Brinkley responds in English. Brinkley proclaims his admiration for Hitler and the new Germany, and states that although the first reports of atrocities caused demonstrations in the US, Americans now realize that su...

  12. American League for Free Palestine letter

    Contains a mass-mailed, typed letter from Peter Bergson (Hillel Kook) and Samuel Merlin with an appeal for financial support of the American League for Free Palestine; in English. Verso is a full page of handwritten text in German; not dated.

  13. The American magazine collection

    The collection consists of twelve issues of American magazine, published 1942-1943.

  14. American Memoir [Book]

    Hard cover copy of the book, American Memoir, by Henry Seidel Canby published 1947. Henry Seidel Canby, the American delegate to the P.E.N. congress, recalled in his American Memoir the atmosphere surrounding the confrontation. Canby was involved with the book-battles of the twenties and thirties between antagonistic literary ideologies and against the censorship stranglers.

  15. American military at Nordhausen; Eisenhower lands in Frankfurt; soldiers on leave in England

    Reel 14: (1945) Concentration camp in Nordhausen, Germany; Ike, Frankfurt; Air trip to England; Cambridge American soldiers board military planes in a field. Sign, "Leave Flight Officers." Ansco (film) logo. At Nordhausen concentration camp, soldiers inspect rocket debris. [Fedeli reports visiting the contentration camp at 'Buchenwald' near Weimar, Germany in late April 1945.] Brief LS of camp buildings along road. Pan of liberated camp and environs from a moving vehicle. Dozens of large containers of ammunition stacked side by side in fields, behind a sign: "Tor II." Displaced families pus...

  16. American military at the St. James Cemetery and moving through Belgium and Germany

    Reel 10: (1945) Leaving Belgium by train through France; Paris; Army Hdqts. St. James Cemetery in Fougeres, where the QM buried troops. Sign reads "Entrance: US Military Cemetery, Pas de Visiteurs après 17 heures" [No visitors after 5pm]. Other signs point to "American Dead Only" and "Enemy Dead." American soldiers visit the cemetery. Pan, rows of white crosses. Three men stand at a grave covered with flowers. Group of soldiers drink out a bottle and smile for the camera. Soldiers pose next to "Merry Christmas" sign (probably December 1944). 3:07 Large group gathers at a train station, some...

  17. American military badge collection

    The collection consists of five American military badges.

  18. American military moves through Germany

    Reel 13: (1945) Germany; Air trip to England; Remagen Street scenes, soldiers marching, gathering in the road amongst crowds of civilians. Church. Planes landing in a field, soldiers conversing next to trucks in the airfield (possibly, the Frankfurt airstrip). Soldiers at leisure outside a home (temporary HQ?), play with a small dog, open a metal trunk, and wave to the camera from trucks. Nice CUs of men. Street scenes and views from moving vehicle. In town, soldiers talk with civilians and children, and hang a sign, "534 QM GP". They pose for the camera. Two soldiers in front of the home p...

  19. American military parade; seaside town; GIs swimming

    Military parade, men in summer uniforms with pith helmets. Band marching, apparently American troops. There is color guard with five American flags and a reviewing stand. Egyptian buildings with turrets, a mosque. Stevens walks from Fortress toward camera. Roadside shot- Stevens in summer helmet with local boys. Seaside shots of town, beautiful ruins on seaside. Hillside caves. Stevens and officer in FG in front of old buildings. Underexposed shot of Stevens, Mellor and two other men in bathing suits swimming.

  20. American National Socialist League postcard

    Consists of a single antisemitic postcard from the American National Socialist League urging gentiles to "fight Jewish Communism"