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Subcollection: Organizations

Extent: 24 files

Scope and Content: This subcollection covers the years 1937-1949 (the majority of the materials date from 1942-1946) and details the relationships and collaborations among JDC Istanbul’s office and other Jewish organizations, NGOs, and governmental agencies and personnel. The files contain correspondence, cables, invoices, names lists, and expenditure statements.

Prominent correspondents include: the Jewish Agency for Palestine, whose rescue efforts were JDC-financed; the International Red Cross, under whose auspices JDC sent care packages to Jewish communities in Romania and Slovakia and to prisoners in the Theresienstadt concentration camp; and the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey. During World War II, mail from JDC’s Istanbul office traveled via diplomatic pouch of the US Consulate in Istanbul. After the establishment of the U.S. War Refugee Board, of which JDC was the primary funder, in 1944 (learn more here), JDC staff worked even more closely with the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, Laurence Steinhardt.

Arrangement
This Organizations subcollection contains three Record Groups:
Government
Jewish Organizations
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)

Record Group: Government

File IS.85: British Passport Central Office Aug-Nov 1944
File IS.86: U.S. Embassy, Ankara (Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt), 1944-1945
File IS.87: American Consulate, Algiers 1944

Old Folder Number: 21

American Consulate, Algiers 1944

File IS.88: U.S. Government: Foreign Exchange Occupied Territories 1944
File IS.88.1: U.S. Embassy in Ankara 1944-1945

Old Folder Number: 10

U.S. Embassy in Ankara 1944-1945

File IS.89: U.S. Trading with the Enemy Act 1944
File IS.90: U.S. War Refugee Board 1944

Old Folder Number: 6

U.S. War Refugee Board 1944

Record Group: Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)

This record group contains three series:
International Red Cross
National Refugee Service
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA)

Series 1: International Red Cross

File IS.102: International Red Cross 1944

Old Folder Number: 9

International Red Cross 1944

File IS.103: International Red Cross--Rumania 1944
File IS.104: International Red Cross 1944-1946

Series 2: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA)

File IS.105: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) 1944-1945

Series 3: National Refugee Service

File IS.106: National Refugee Service 1945-1946

Series 1: Agudath Israel

File IS.91: Agudat Israel 1942-1945

Old Folder Number: 9

Agudat Israel 1942-1945

Series 2: Alliance Israelite Universelle

File IS.92: Alliance Israelite 1943-1944, 1946

Series 3: Bombay Jewish Relief Association

File IS.93: Bombay Jewish Relief Board 1945-1946

Series 4: HICEM

File IS.94: HICEM 1944-1946

Old Folder Number: 3

HICEM 1944-1946

Series 5: Jewish Agency for Palestine

File IS.95: Jewish Agency 1944-1946

Old Folder Number: 7

Jewish Agency 1944-1946

File IS.96: Jewish Agency Accounts 1943-1945

Old Folder Number: 7

Jewish Agency Accounts 1943-1945

File IS.97: Jewish Agency Accounts 1944-1945 (1 of 2)
File IS.98: Jewish Agency Accounts 1944-1945 (2 of 2)
File IS.99: Jewish Agency Accounts 1944

Old Folder Number: 23

Jewish Agency Accounts 1944

File IS.99.1: Jewish Agency Accounts 1945

Old Folder Number: 23

Jewish Agency Accounts 1945

File IS.100: Jewish Agency Accounts 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 6

Jewish Agency Accounts 1945-1946

Series 6: United Jewish Appeal

File IS.101: United Jewish Appeal 1945

Old Folder Number: 7

United Jewish Appeal 1945

The cataloguing of this collection was made possible through a grant from Marshall M. Weinberg.

Digitization of this collection was made possible with funding from the Polonsky Foundation.

Archives of The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Inc.

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