This subcollection deals with JDC’s relationship and cooperation with the United States Government, its departments, agencies, and consular officials; with foreign governments and their embassies and consuls; and with JDC constituent member organizations and other private Jewish and nonsectarian humanitarian organizations and agencies to aid in the transfer and distribution of relief funds.
The materials are arranged into three record groups.
Record Group 2-1: Relations with U.S. Government
File 38: JDC Administration, Relations With U.S. Government, General, 1916-1919
Extent: 0.33 inch
Miscellaneous materials, correspondence, including effects on relief operations as U.S. diplomatic and military conditions change.
JDC Administration, Relations With U.S. Government, General, 1916-1919
File 39: JDC Administration, Relations With U.S. Government, Internal Revenue Service, 1918
Extent: 0.10 inch
Correspondence regarding tax exemptions for contributions to war relief.
JDC Administration, Relations With U.S. Government, Internal Revenue Service, 1918
File 40: JDC Administration, Relations With U.S. Government, Liberty Loan Committee, 1918
Extent: 0.15 inch
Correspondence regarding the fourth Liberty Loan campaign, including speaking invitation for Albert Lucas.
JDC Administration, Relations With U.S. Government, Liberty Loan Committee, 1918
Record Group 2-2: Relations with Foreign Governments
File 41: JDC Administration, Relations With Foreign Governments, Netherlands, 1918-1919
Extent: 0.25 inch
Correspondence regarding aid from Dutch government, embassies, consular officials on distributing relief.
JDC Administration, Relations With Foreign Governments, Netherlands, 1918-1919
File 42: JDC Administration, Relations With Foreign Governments, Spain, 1917-1918
Extent: 0.25 inch
Correspondence (English and Spanish) regarding aid from Spanish government, ambassadors on transferring relief funds.
JDC Administration, Relations With Foreign Governments, Spain, 1917-1918
File 43: JDC Administration, Relations With Foreign Governments, Sweden, 1917
Extent: 0.10 inch
Correspondence on Swedish investigation of Turkish treatment of Jews in Palestine.
JDC Administration, Relations With Foreign Governments, Sweden, 1917
Record Group 2-3: Relations with NGOs
File 44: American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, 1916-1919
Extent: 0.15 inch
Correspondence on fund-raising, coordinating campaign, work with American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief.
American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, 1916-1919
File 45: American Friends Service Committee, 1917, 1919
Extent: 0.10 inch
Wilbur Thomas letter (April 10, 1919) on plan for study commission to assess conditions in Russia.
File 46: American Jewish Relief Committee, 1915-1918
Extent: 0.50 inch
Miscellaneous fund-raising correspondence, pamphlets, membership lists. Financial audit (September 5, 1918).
File 47: American Red Cross, 1916-1919
Extent: 0.50 inch
Correspondence on cooperation with voluntary agencies; miscellaneous on relief, medical supplies, missions abroad.
File 48: American Red Cross, New York County Chapter, 1917
Extent: 0.20 inch
Correspondence on cooperation, fund-raising with New York Red Cross chapter.
File 49: American Red Cross, Canadian Jewish Committee, 1918
Extent: 0.10 inch
Query regarding forwarding relief funds abroad.
File 50: Central Relief Committee, 1914-1919
Extent: 0.33 inch
Miscellaneous minutes, accounts on Orthodox relief organization formed in October 1914. Financial statements. Miscellaneous pamphlets; proclamation by President Woodrow Wilson.
File 51: Central Committee for the Relief of the Lithuanian War Sufferers, 1916
Extent: 0.10 inch
Letter (undated, 1916) from V.K. Rackauskas, seeking common cause with American Jewish relief efforts.
Central Committee for the Relief of the Lithuanian War Sufferers, 1916
File 52: Central Relief Committee, Buenos Aires, 1918-1919
Extent: 0.10 inch
Correspondence (English, Yiddish) regarding division of funds collected by Central Relief Committee for War Sufferers, Buenos Aires.
File 53: Committee of Roumanian Jews, 1916-1917, 1919
Extent: 0.25 inch
Miscellaneous correspondence, reports from landsmanschaften on conditions of Romanian Jews.
File 54: East Prussian Relief Fund, 1916
Extent: 0.10 inch
Letter (June 23, 1916) advising of efforts to rebuild Ragnit, Goldap and Allenberg, proposing special aid for Jews in the district.
File 55: Federation of Bessarabian Jews of America, 1918
Extent: 0.10 inch
Query regarding aid to Bessarabian Jews.
File 56: Federation of Hungarian Jews in America, 1916-1917
Extent: 0.15 inch
Correspondence, reports on coordinating, centralizing fund-raising by landsmanschaften for Hungarian Jews.
File 57: Federation of Palestinian Jews in America, 1918
Extent: 0.10 inch
Letter regarding needs, of Jewish communities, seeks loan fund.
File 58: Hadassah, 1917-1919
Extent: 0.25 inch
Miscellaneous correspondence on coordinated fund-raising, aid, including Albert Lucas letter (February 11, 1917) on efforts to get medical supplies through a blockade to Palestine.
File 59: HIAS, 1918
Extent: 0.50 inch
Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS)-related correspondence on conditions in Japan, China; miscellaneous on family members stranded in Harbin. Miscellaneous financial reports; financial correspondence, transactions receipts. Confidential report (September 25, 1918) on local conditions, dangers in Far East.
File 60: Jewish People's Relief Committee, 1915-1920
Extent: 0.50 inch
Miscellaneous correspondence, financial reports (English, Yiddish); convention and committee meeting minutes. Report (Yiddish) on 1918 convention.
File 61: Mizrachi Bureau, 1917
Extent: 0.10 inch
Correspondence requesting larger subventions for aid to Jews in Palestine.
File 62: New England Bureau for Jewish War Relief, 1918
Extent: 0.15 inch
Miscellaneous correspondence. Report on conference regarding united fund-raising campaigns
File 63: North American Relief Society, 1916
Extent: 0.10 inch
Letter transmitting remittances (via U.S. consul in Hamburg) for food and clothing for Jewish institutions.
File 64: Poale Zion Palestine Committee of America, 1918
Extent: 0.15 inch
Correspondence on conditions, labor assistance for Jews in Palestine.
File 65: Provisional Executive Committee for General Zionist Affairs, 1916-1918
Extent: 0.25 inch
Correspondence on remittances, finances. Annual report (June 1917) on political, financial conditions.
Provisional Executive Committee for General Zionist Affairs, 1916-1918
File 66: Rockefeller Foundation, 1917
Extent: 0.10 inch
Foundation report on aid,logistical problems with supplies to Poland, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania.
File 67: Russian Information Bureau, 1918
Extent: 0.10 inch
A.J. Sackletter on anti-Semitism in Russia, despite Jewish patriotism, Bolshevism; recommends American Jews have special relief fund for Russia, not limited to Jews.
File 68: Sephardic Relief Committee of America, 1917-1918
Extent: 0.15 inch
Correspondence on relief supplies, funds raised for relief.