IX, 265 p. : portr. ; 23 cm

Looks at the causes of mass dislocations of people, the hardships they face, and the role of the IRC in alleviating those hardships. Covers the period of the Hitler years, postwar conflicts and hurricanes on every continent. "A Freedom House book." xvi, 338 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.

The Emergency Rescue Committee collection documents the efforts of Varian Fry in assisting three of the more than 1,500 refugees he helped escape while living in France from 1940-1941. As a member of the Emergency Rescue Committee, Fry was sent to Marseille, France, to assist in the escape of prominent intellectuals and artists who were living in recently German-occupied France. The correspondence ...

A portfolio of original art prints, limited edition 73 of 250, published in 1971 by the International Rescue Committee to raise funds for the organization's mission to aid and rescue refugees. In 1964, Varian Fry, IRC's founder, began to assemble a portfolio of works from artists whom he had helped bring to the United States during the Holocaust. The project, themed to reflect the plight of refugees, ...

Copyright Holder: Unitarian Universalist Service Committee

The Betty Drury collection regarding the Emergency Committee consists of documentation on individuals who successfully or unsuccessfully sought the Committee’s aid. In all, some 6,000 displaced scholars and professional persons from Europe appealed to the Committee. Of that number 335 were granted assistance through the Committee. Series 3 is particularly notable and contains biographical information ...

Carel Sternberg was a Czech law student in France when the Germans took over the country. He fled Paris on a bicycle just ahead of the German Army. He was already a part of the International Relief Association when he partnered with Varian Fry and became a central player in the Marseille, France, operation of the Emergency Rescue Committee. Carel Sternberg continued a life-long association with what ...

Fonds consist of series of administration documents, minutes of meetings, correspondence, standing committees (including United Jewish Appeal), ad hoc committees and agencies and institutions. BOX 1 - Series: Minutes Organizational Meeting Minutes - 1934: Documents pertaining to the creation of an Ottawa Vaad Ha'Ir, as favoured unanimously by the Vaad Hakashruth. Minutes - Quarterly, General, Special ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-135). 140 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

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 ...

The Istanbul Collection testifies to JDC’s efforts from 1942-1949 (with a few earlier materials dating from 1937) to oversee the planning of rescue and relief operations from its office in Turkey, a neutral country strategically located at the crossroads of war-torn Europe and the nascent Jewish state in Palestine. These records highlight the Istanbul office’s partnership with other relief organizations--such ...

Collection includes a hatbox, which Miriam Davenport Ebel (the donor) took to France with her in June 1938. At one point, she lived for five months using only what was packed in the box. Steamer sticker on box is that of the Companie Generale Transatlantique's SS Champlain. In addition, the collection includes a musical score written by Hans Sahl, 1938, Zurich, Switzerland and purchased by Miriam Davenport ...

Description of the files are available on IDEA ALM system at Yad Vashem Archives reading room

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

Contains six documents that include a letter of "representation of Polish Jews," regarding Dr. Emil Reich of Oświęcim, a Hapoel Hamizrahi rescue letter for a Czech Jewess refugee in Hungary, a small broadside to donate funds to 150 rabbinic refugee families who escaped from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia, a letter to a committee for Polish affairs from a Polish war invalid in Israel, an International ...

Contains twelve photographs, eight legal documents, two copies of newspaper articles, a biographical statement, and a program titled, "Ninth Annual Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Nazi Holocaust. These materials contain information pertaining to Martin Wasserman's experiences in Warsaw, Auschwitz, and Dachau, his employment at St. Ottilien for the World ORT Union DP hospital police department, ...

This collection was processed by multiple staff at the JDC Archives branch in Jerusalem, including Pinchas Aronin, Shalom Bronstein, Martine Cohen, Sam Englander, Rosemary Eshel, Sarah Lemann, Ayala Levin-Kruss, Israel Marcus, and Victoria Raun. This finding aid was produced by Mary Haberle and Tamar Zeffren in 2013.

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

Timely and controversial, A Bed for the Night reveals how humanitarian organizations trying to bring relief in an ever more violent and dangerous world are often betrayed and misused, and have increasingly lost sight of their purpose. Humanitarian relief workers, writes David Rieff, are the last of the just. And in the Bosnias, the Rwandas, and the Afghanistans of this world, humanitarianism remains ...

Ottó Komoly (Hebrew name: Natan-Zeev Kahan) was born in Budapest in 1892; by profession he was an engineer. In 1940 he was elected Deputy Chairman of the Magyar Cionista Szövetség, and in 1941, he was elected as its Chairman. In 1943, the Budapesti Mentőbizottság (Budapest Relief and Rescue Committee) was established in Budapest and Komoly served as its chairman. In this capacity, he was involved with ...

Copyright Holder: Bibliothèque de Documentation International Contemporaine

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-223) and index. 232 pages ; 24 cm.

Varian Fry (1907-1967) was born in New York City, obtained a degree in classics from Harvard University, and married Eileen Hughes, an editor at Atlantic Monthly. Fry worked as a researcher and editor at several magazines in the early 1930s, traveling to and reporting on Nazi Germany. After Germany invaded France, Fry helped found the Emergency Rescue Committee (ERC) in June 1940. The private American ...