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
Old Folder Number: 18
File IS.86: U.S. Embassy, Ankara (Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt), 1944-1945
Old Folder Number: 11
U.S. Embassy, Ankara (Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt), 1944-1945
File IS.87: American Consulate, Algiers 1944
Old Folder Number: 21
File IS.88: U.S. Government: Foreign Exchange Occupied Territories 1944
Old Folder Number: 3
File IS.88.1: U.S. Embassy in Ankara 1944-1945
Old Folder Number: 10
File IS.89: U.S. Trading with the Enemy Act 1944
Old Folder Number: 21
File IS.90: U.S. War Refugee Board 1944
Old Folder Number: 6
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
File IS.103: International Red Cross--Rumania 1944
Old Folder Number: 1
File IS.104: International Red Cross 1944-1946
Old Folder Number: 4
Series 2: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA)
File IS.105: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) 1944-1945
Old Folder Number: 20
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) 1944-1945
Series 3: National Refugee Service
File IS.106: National Refugee Service 1945-1946
Old Folder Number: 10
Record Group: Jewish Organizations
This record group contains six series:
Agudath Israel
Alliance Israelite Universelle
Bombay Jewish Relief Association
HICEM
Jewish Agency for Palestine
United Jewish Appeal
Series 1: Agudath Israel
File IS.91: Agudat Israel 1942-1945
Old Folder Number: 9
Series 2: Alliance Israelite Universelle
File IS.92: Alliance Israelite 1943-1944, 1946
Old Folder Number: 10
Series 3: Bombay Jewish Relief Association
File IS.93: Bombay Jewish Relief Board 1945-1946
Old Folder Number: 13
Series 4: HICEM
File IS.94: HICEM 1944-1946
Old Folder Number: 3
Series 5: Jewish Agency for Palestine
File IS.95: Jewish Agency 1944-1946
Old Folder Number: 7
File IS.96: Jewish Agency Accounts 1943-1945
Old Folder Number: 7
File IS.97: Jewish Agency Accounts 1944-1945 (1 of 2)
Old Folder Number: 5
File IS.98: Jewish Agency Accounts 1944-1945 (2 of 2)
Old Folder Number: 4
File IS.99: Jewish Agency Accounts 1944
Old Folder Number: 23
File IS.99.1: Jewish Agency Accounts 1945
Old Folder Number: 23
File IS.100: Jewish Agency Accounts 1945-1946
Old Folder Number: 6
Series 6: United Jewish Appeal
File IS.101: United Jewish Appeal 1945
Old Folder Number: 7