Tallit given to Leo [Leib] Recht upon liberation of an unknown concentration camp in 1945 by the Joint Distribution Committee upon his return to his home town Kielce, Poland, and worn by him until his death in 1992.

History of the career of Dutch cinema owner and film distributor Jean Desmet (1875-1956), offers insight into the development of early film distribution and cinema culture in the Netherlands. Between 1907 and 1916, the world of cinema experienced radical structural change, which Desmet not only witnessed but also helped to bring about. Given the insufficiencies of Dutch film production, Desmet became ...

Ferenc Nagy, ed. Külügyminisztérium levéltára. Vols 1. Budapest. MOL, 2003.

A comprehensive inventory is available online at http://archives.jdc.org/our-collections/finding-aids/geneva-office/1945-1954/ . The database available online at http://search.archives.jdc.org/ also serves as a more detailed finding aid.

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Excerpt of "Founding a New Life: A Story of Rehabilitation." Tractors. "Harvesting the Fruits of Their Labor" Working in fruit trees. Sorting vegetables/potatoes. Wheat. Harvesting melons. Boys eating melons.

A comprehensive finding aid is available online at http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=2010287 .

Selma Bendremer used the raincoat while working for the Joint Distribution Committee in Germany and France after World War II.

USHMM RG 31.059M

Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of Holocaust in Romania http://www.inshr-ew.ro/ro/

Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of Holocaust in Romania http://www.inshr-ew.ro/ro/

War coverage in French addressing the Jew in the Soviet Union to illustrate that the war is about the Jews or was fomented by Jews. Bertrand Nicole, the war reporter/correspondent, speaking in French with a German accent, talks to a Russian woman who escaped the Soviet Union with her daughter with just the clothes on their backs, finding refuge in a camp run by the Waffen-SS. The Russian woman barely ...

Collectie 181b: Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen > Contacten met hulporganisaties en overheidsinstanties > Hulporganisaties > Correspondentie met the American Joint Distribution Committee in Parijs over diverse onderwerpen, 1934-1937.

Collectie 181b: Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen > Contacten met hulporganisaties en overheidsinstanties > Hulporganisaties > Correspondentie met the American Joint Distribution Committee in Parijs over diverse onderwerpen, 1934-1937.

Title: Polens Heer ersteht neu in Persien. [Poland's multitudes rise again in Persia]. Long line of people (look like refugees) moving across a desert landscape. They carry bundles. Some are barefoot. A group sitting, resting. A woman rocks her baby in her arms. Brief fade-out then title: Poland 1939. Refugees on the road on foot and by horse-drawn cart. Food distribution. Bedraggled woman waiting ...

The Arthur Greenleigh papers contains correspondence, reports, and various other records created by Arthur Greenleigh from the period of 1943 to 1956. From 1943-1946, Greenleigh served with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), and from 1946-1956, Greenleigh served with the United Service for New Americans (USNA) and the United Hias Service (HIAS). The reports and correspondence from ...

Reports and correspondence from American attorney Alfred Jaretzki, Jr., reporting on visits to Vienna and efforts to work with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee to assist Austrian Jews with emigration, 1938. Includes one report, undated, 11 pages, describing his trip to Vienna in June 1938, including meetings with American diplomats, journalists, members of the Viennese Jewish community, ...

Documentation of the Minsk City Governor, 1941-1944
 
 The Collection includes correspondence with the Regional Commissioner (Generalkommissariat) in Belorussia and the German Military Command including regarding the ghetto and regarding Jewish physicians and a request to place them in a local hospital in Minsk; receipts for the distribution to Germans and local residents of clothing and ...

Tevens correspondentie met the American Jewish Joint Agricultural Corporation, juni 1935-dec. 1936

Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of Holocaust in Romania http://www.inshr-ew.ro/ro/

Contains an air mail envelope written while Kaunas was under occupation; five original Vilna Ghetto arrest documents; and an original signed receipt for 18,837 Litai received from the American Joint Distribution Committee, Vilnius, intended for "the Jewish Section for War-Sufferers, Lithuanian Red Cross."

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Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of Holocaust in Romania http://www.inshr-ew.ro/ro/