Copyright Holder: United Nations Archives and Records Management Section

Contains records of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL) relating to assistance to academics fleeing the Fascist regimes in Europe between 1933-1955. Contains also administrative and financial files, reports, minutes of meetings, correspondence with international and local refugee organizations, records assisting interned refugees, as well as a sample of personal files of scholars ...

Copyright Holder: Unitarian Universalist Service Committee

Scrip, valued at 5 kronen, issued in 1943 in Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp acquired by Mordecai E. Schwart. Schwartz, a soldier in the United States Army, was recruited after the war ended in May 1945 to serve as Area Director for UNRRA. He worked for UNRRA until 1948, when the organization was deactivated. He then became Area Director for the International Refugee Organization (IRO), ...

Copyright Holder: United Nations Archives and Records Management Section

Copyright Holder: United Nations Archives and Records Management Section

Born in Czernowitz, Bukovina; studied in a secular high school; graduated from a four-year course in optics and mechanics. In 1913 he moved to Vienna. In 1917 he began to publish articles concerned with Labor Zionism in "Der yidisher arbiter"(The Jewish worker). He contributed to "Undzer bavegung" (Our movement), "Virtshaft un lebn" (Economy and life), "Der veg" (The way), and a number of Jewish-German ...

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

Selected files of the Philippine Mission: Correspondence, telegrams, UNRA registration cards, questionnaires, interviews, affidavits for refugees, and UNRRA agreements and polices related to displaced persons desiring repatriation: Displaced Persons-Chinese in Rabaul 1944-1949, as well as Displaced Persons, European, 1944-1949. Some files relate to Jewish refugees after the war, and the repatriation ...

The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was an international relief agency representing 44 nations, but largely dominated by the United States. Founded in 1943, it became part of the United Nations (UN) in 1945, and it largely shut down operations in 1947. Its purpose was to "plan, co-ordinate, administer or arrange for the administration of measures for the relief of victims ...

The World Jewish Congress, an international Jewish representative organization, was formed in 1936. In July 1940 the headquarters of the World Jewish Congress was moved from Geneva, Switzerland, to New York City, N.Y., due to World War II. Instrumental in its founding were the American Jewish Congress (AJC), established in 1918, and the Comité des Délégations Juives (Committee of Jewish Delegations), ...

Copyright Holder: United Nations Archives and Records Management Section

Saul Sorrin (1919-1995) was recruited to work for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). Sorrin initially worked as a supply officer based at the Neu Freimann camp outside of Munich before becoming area director of the Munich region in 1946. He oversaw the closing of the Neu Freimann camp when UNRRA transferred its operation to the International Refugee Organization (IRO) ...

Copyright Holder: United Nations Archives and Records Management Section

Copyright Holder: United Nations Archives and Records Management Section

Copyright Holder: United Nations Archives and Records Management Section

Copyright Holder: United Nations Archives and Records Management Section

Copyright Holder: United Nations Archives and Records Management Section

Copyright Holder: United Nations Archives and Records Management Section

Copyright Holder: United Nations Archives and Records Management Section

The World Jewish Congress (WJC), an international Jewish representative organization, was formed in 1936. The Organization Department of WJC was originally established in Paris, ca. 1937, under Baruch Zuckerman to increase membership, strengthen relations with and between affiliates, maintain contacts with branch offices, and improve the image of the WJC with its affiliates. When rescue activities ...

Copyright Holder: United Nations Archives and Records Management Section

Paul Bojko (born Pawlo Bojko) was born on 31 July 1937 in Stawok (Kremenchuk), Ukraine to Gregorie (1903-1947?) and Charytina (1909-1964). He has one brother, Victor. His family was Orthodox, and owned a small farm. In 1943, even though the family was not Jewish, the Nazis looted and destroyed the farm, and deported the family and Paul’s grandparents to several concentration camps, including the Auschwitz ...

Copyright Holder: United Nations Archives and Records Management Section