JDC Archives partners with Google Cultural Institute
January 24, 2017 The JDC Archives has partnered with Google Cultural Institute to bring archival treasures online to the visionary digital platform, Google Arts & Culture. On the site, the JDC Archives page will highlight close to 70 treasures from our...
Russian Children’s Art
Artworks illustrate a cultural reawakening. Exactly half a century after its exile from the Soviet Union in 1938 with the liquidation of Agro-Joint, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) once again set foot on Soviet soil in 1989, amid the prevailing...
Rescue through Emigration in the Nazi Era
Family historian traces his roots from Germany to Ecuador and Colombia. Seventy-eight years have passed since my great-grandparents, my grandparents, and their children left Nazi Germany to find refuge in South America. Now I am working on documenting my family’s...