Blue cloth with embroidered Star of David in its center with the Hebrew word "Zion" in the center and around it in Hebrew "The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride." [Jeremiah 33:11]. In the lower left, embroidered in gold is "Joint A.J.D.C. made in Palestine" in Hebrew. metal loop attached to each corner in order to spread the canopy on p ...

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. ...

Includes title of the film and intertitles. From opening credits of the film (Foreword): "American Jews at the outbreak of the World War in 1914, organized the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) to aid the Jewish masses overseas suffering from war, pogroms, famine and pestilence. The following episodes depict the activities in Russia only." Brief shots of Felix Warburg and Julius Rosenwald, ...

Records of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC), Geneva Office, relating to global overseas operations in the immediate post-World War II (WWII) period: 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 ...

Records include: correspondence with Jewish communities throughout Turkey, Romania, and Palestine; extensive documentation regarding shipments of food packages and other supplies to concentration camps such as Theresienstadt and Bergen-Belsen (including a postcard sent by Rabbi Leo Baeck, the renowned German scholar, from Theresienstadt acknowledging receipt of a AJJDC care package); cables and news ...

Po II wojnie AJDC w Polsce reaktywowano z dniem 19.07.1945 r. Działał do końca 1949 r. , kiedy też uległa likwidacji cała pluralistyczna mozaika ugrupowań i instytucji żydowskich w Polsce. Pomoc materialną (żywność, lekarstwa, odzież, surowce, maszyny) i finansową kierował do organizacji i stowarzyszeń społecznych, politycznych, oświatowych, kulturalnych, związanych z produktywizacją społeczności żydowskiej ...

This collection consists of records relating to relief initiatives overseen by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Jerusalem Office (JDC) in the aftermath of World War II in the Yishuv/Israel and internationally. Includes records of the JDC’s partnerships with Jewish communities worldwide, such as those in Australia and South Africa, to send essential supplies to recipients in Palestine, ...

Records of AJJDC’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. Included are records of the AJJDC’s collaborations with other organizations to assist survivors, such as its work with the Red Cross on the White Buses. This project, headed by Count Folke Bernadotte, a ...

The collection consists of contracts signed by the Agro-Joint with the Soviet government for 1924, 1927, 1933, minutes of meetings of the main and field offices, correspondence with agencies, organizations and foreign firms on the purchase and delivery to the USSR of agricultural equipment and supplies; various reports on the work of agronomists in the Jewish settlers' villages, financial plans and ...

This collection was processed by Ayala Levin-Kruss in 2011. Its finding aid was produced by Tamar Zeffren in 2015.

A finding aid to the collection was created by Robin Eaton in the mid-1980s and updated by Sarah Lemann in 2011.

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, ...

Selected records from the collection are available online at the JDC Archives database.

Pp. 17-170 recount the experiences of the author (b. 1914) under the Ustasha regime in his hometown Zagreb, and in Sarajevo and a succession of small towns and villages in Bosnia-Herzegovina. He survived thanks to a government program employing Jewish physicians; in 1944 he joined the partisans. Describes the fate of friends and relatives, many of whom perished in Jasenovac and other Ustasha concentration ...

The collection contains miscellaneous documents of the Joint Magyarországi Bizottsága (the Hungarian Committee of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee) and the Országos Zsidó Segítő Bizottság (the National Jewish Aid Organization) between 1945 and 1950. The documents include the agenda and minutes of meetings of the Hungarian Committee of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee ...

M.28 - Documentation of the American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) in Krakow, Poland regarding the organization activities in Poland, 1939-1942
 
 The documentation includes the welfare and assistance activities of the AJDC to the Jews of Poland; it consists of four main parts:
 
 1. AJDC correspondence with the German administration authorities in occupied Poland;
 
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Description of the files are available on IDEA ALM system at Yad Vashem Archives reading room

Rolling titles describe development of Agro-Joint by JDC in 1924 and of assistance given to Jews with the cooperation of the Russian government. MS of Dr. Joseph Rosen, Director of Agro-Joint, Dr. Grower, Dr. Yefim Lubarsky, Vice-President of the Agro-Joint, and Morris C. Troper, European Director of the JDC. More titles state that the Agro-Joint acted as the operating agent of the American Society ...

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The collection has also been microfilmed on 444 reels, which are available at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

The records in this collection have been digitized and are searchable online through the textual collections portal of the JDC Archives database.

Collection of documents, correspondence, clippings, articles, invitations, fundraising solicitations, memorandum, lists, petitions, pamphlets, broadsides and other material from multiple aid organizations in the United States to assist Jewish refugees including the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, American League for a Free Palestine, Italian Jewish Emergency Committee, United ...

Includes title of the film and intertitles. From opening credits of the film (Foreword): "American Jews at the outbreak of the World War in 1914, organized the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) to aid the Jewish masses overseas suffering from war, pogroms, famine and pestilence. The following episodes depict the activities in Russia only." Brief shots of Felix Warburg and Julius Rosenwald, ...

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