Consists of eight black and white photographs of street scenes and one black and white photograph of a group of men and women in Shanghai, China; a document, issued in Shanghai on 26 June 1946, "DENTAL TREATMENT CARE No 08927," authorizing dental treatment for the donor’s father in Shanghai; and one “Ausweis,” which the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) issued to Zymunt Hausmann, the ...

This collection consists of seven photographs of Robert Wilonsky who worked for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and his family in Munich, Germany after World War II. One photograph depicts Sam Moseson, Robert's brother, Dorothy and Robert Wilonsky, and their daughter, Mona, on the eve of their immigration to the United States in 1949.

Collection of documents, newspapers and correspondence concerning the Union Générale des Israélites de France [UGIF], for whom Leon Buchholz (donor's great uncle) worked during World War II. Included in the collection is almost a complete weekly newspaper series issued by the UGIF entitled "Bulletin," as well as correspondence received by the UGIF, unused stationary for the American Joint Distribution ...

The Selma Wideroff papers consist of correspondence, reports, and photographs documenting Selma Wideroff’s work for the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in Germany from 1945‐1946 in the Bergen‐Belsen displaced persons camp and later at the Blankenese children's center on the Warburg Estate near Hamburg. Correspondence and reports include descriptions of Wideroff’s work in Europe, the use of the Warburg ...

Copyright Holder: Genika Archeia tou Kratous (Greece)

Copyright Holder: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma

Consists of correspondence, passports, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other documentation of the Nussbaum and Koch families of Luxembourg. Includes papers and photographs related to Albert Nussbaum, who had worked with refugees in Luxembourg before working for the Transmigration Bureay of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Lisbon, then emigrating to the Dominican Republic; and ...

Introduced and narrated by Cedric Hardwicke. UJA appeal for relief for new refugees, immigrants to Israel. This segment of the Adventures in Freedom series focuses on daily life in Jerusalem, both religious and secular. Screen credits at end: "Support the United Jewish Appeal on behalf of the United Israel Appeal, Joint Distribution Commi​t​tee United Service for New Americans ​Through Your Local ...

Copyright Holder: Mr. Donato Grosser

Contina two photographs. One is an image of Daisy Seror wearing traditional dress of Jewish women in Gabès, Tunisia, dated c. 1951; "STUDIO D ART" and "Jean Cordero GABES" embossed on photo; housed in photo holder inscribed "Ida" on back, probably sent to donor's sister Ida in Israel. The second photograph is a black-and-white image of Daisy Seror wearing a nurse's uniform, tending to a little girl. ...

A significant part of the Photo Collection is made accessible via the Photograph database, available online at https://search.archives.jdc.org/ .

Contains correspondence of Va'ad Ha'Hatzala for a visa to the United States for Yitzchak Singer, a Holocaust survivor and yeshiva student who was found in Bergen-Belsen. Among the documents is a letter signed by Rosalie Stive of the immgiration department of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; and letters from rabbis in the United States to immigration authorities about accepting the ...

Consists of five photographs and three documents: 1) image of group of men standing in front of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) building;; 2) image of crowd of men and women gathered on a plaza, some in the background holding flags; 3) image of a building; 4) image of women helping children walk down stairs located outdoors; 5) image of two men and one woman posing in front ...

The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence files of the Community Council as well as documentation related to the restitution of Jewish property after the Holocaust. Among the records are the minutes of the Community Council’s meetings; notes, memoranda, reports, correspondence with other Greek Jewish Communities, the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece, institutions inside and ...

Joseph Leib Tenenbaum (1887-1961) was born on 22 May 1887 in Sasów, Poland, (now Sasiv, Ukraine). He had at least one brother, Samuel. During his years as a student, he became involved in the Hashahar student youth organization. He studied at the University of Vienna, graduating in 1911; and the University of Lviv, graduating in 1914 with a degree in medicine. He served as a military doctor with the ...

The collection contains correspondence, reports and photographas related to the situation and fate of Jews in Europe during the Second World War and the rescue activities of the Hechalutz movement. Mainly includes correspondence with Hechalutz members in the Nazi-occupied territories and the JOINT; reports about the situation of Jews in various countries; reports about the concentration camps Auschwitz-Birkenau, ...

Das Simon Wiesenthal Archiv am Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien (VWI-SWA) beherbergt die Archivbestände des 1963 vom Holocaust-Überlebenden Simon Wiesenthal in Wien gegründeten und geleiteten Dokumentationszentrums des Bundes Jüdischer Verfolgter des Naziregimes (BJVN) und seiner Vorgängerorganisationen. Es enthält Originaldokumente aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, Korrespondenz mit Einzelpersonen ...

667 J (01:00:12): At the "Comite Francais d'Assistance aux Refugees," branch of the American Joint Distribution Committee in Paris. The Committee provides legal and juridicial advice, to help the refugees stay in France and prepare their definitive settlement in some country. LS, relief (money) provided to Austrian refugee. CU, refugee signing receipt. LS, crowd refugees waiting in line. LS, refugees ...

Hungarian refugee registration cards, created in the outbreak of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. More than 18,000 Jews fled to Austria. The AJJDC helped emigrants for resettlement, also supported two kosher kitchens in Vienna and furnished medical and religious supplies. While some emigrants stayed in Europe, other group of refugees emigrated to the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Israel and ...

Russian intertitles. Excerpt from a film about the Jewish settlements in Crimea and in Ukraine, funded by the Agro-Joint (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee). Children in Larinow, a settlement in the Ukraine, run up the steps to a school. Children studying at their desks in a classroom and playing outside in the yard. Men ride horses down a dirt track. A woman carrying a child puts a letter ...

The records of the Institute of Jewish Affairs have been divided into five main sections, as MSS 237-41, maintaining the subject arrangement that the Institute used for its documentation collections. The records of the London office and British section of the World Jewish Congress are distributed in several places in this arrangement. The archive contains: MS 237: information from the press and other ...

<p>This collection of copy documents deals with every aspect of the expropriation of Europe's Jewish population by the Nazis, in what was described as the <em>Möbelaktion</em></p><p><em><span style="font-style: normal;">United Restitution Organisation report outlining the Nazi confiscation of Jewish property between 1940 and 1944 in France, Belgium and Holland, 22 July 1958</span><br style="font-style: ...

Scenes of Jewish farmers, carpenters, lumbering in the remote Carpathian village of Vysni Apsa. Interior of cheder. CUs of people. Basket making. Various pople pose/work in fields. CUs of orthodox men. Interiors of girls in school. Exteriors of houses. Crossing river. Cattle. Scenes are scattered. Chaim Simcha Mechlowitz, an Orthodox Jewish farmer, tanner, and father of eleven children appears from ...

Born in Russia in 1897, Roman Vishniac was a biologist by training, having earned a doctorate in zoology and a medical degree from Moscow universities and a doctorate in Oriental art from the University of Berlin. For many years he was prevented from working in any of those fields because of war, revolution and political persecution. He instead pursued a career in microphotography, the photographing ...