Researchers are invited to explore the rich collections, which contain minutes, reports, correspondences, eye-witness accounts, speeches, press releases, news dispatches, telegrams, and passenger lists. Highlights include:

• Aid to the Jewish community in Palestine during World War I and thereafter

• Emergency relief efforts for Jewish refugees, war orphans, and prisoners of war after World War I

• Reports on conditions in the localities of Eastern Europe during and between the two world wars

• Transatlantic voyages during World War II, with some passenger lists; vessels include the St. Louis, the Navemar, and the Serpa Pinto

• Rescue activities and support for refugees in overseas havens during World War II

• JDC activities in the Displaced Persons (DP) camps of Germany, Austria, and Italy

• Registration cards of survivors aided by the JDC Emigration Service in Munich and Vienna in the postwar period

• Operation Magic Carpet (Yemen) and other mass rescue efforts

• Jewish life and JDC programs in North Africa and the Middle East

• Records of JDC-MALBEN institutions and services for elderly, handicapped, and chronically ill immigrants to Israel

• JDC activities in Eastern Europe in the Communist period