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This subcollection treats the functional activities of JDC in this period and documents efforts to provide care and critical relief for the displaced and the vulnerable; to support children and orphans, rabbis, and prisoners of war; to distribute supplies and kosher provisions, and to respond to personal appeals for aid in locating and assisting family members.

Subject matter is divided into seven record groups.

Record Group 3-1: Relief Supplies

File 69: Relief Supplies, Kosher Food and Matzot, 1916-1919

Extent: 0.25 inch

Correspondence, memos, cables on appeals for, purchase, shipments of kosher food, matzot.

Relief Supplies, Kosher Food and Matzot, 1916-1919

Record Group 3-2: Children

File 70: Children, Orphans, 1916-1919

Extent: 0.15 inch

Correspondence, appeals for aid. Reports by Skandinaviske Central Komiteen (August 17, 1916), B’nai B’rith (January 31, 1919) on welfare, care of Jewish children, orphans in occupied territories in Russia and Galicia; Skandinaviske Central Komiteen calls for emigration/rescue of children.

Children, Orphans, 1916-1919

Record Group 3-3: Prisoners of War

File 71: Prisoners of War, General, 1916-1918

Extent: 0.20 inch

Correspondence, appeals for aid (English, German) for prisoners of war in various locations.

Prisoners of War, General, 1916-1918

File 72: Prisoners of War, Austria and Germany, 1916-1919

Extent: 0.33 inch

Correspondence, appeals for aid, distribution of relief supplies (English, German) for Russian Jews who are prisoners of war in Austria and Germany.

Prisoners of War, Austria and Germany, 1916-1919

File 73: Prisoners of War, Bulgaria, 1917

Extent: 0.10 inch

Cables seeking aid for prisoners of war, orphans in Bulgaria, from Bulgaria and Romania

Prisoners of War, Bulgaria, 1917

File 74: Prisoners of War, Isle of Man, 1916

Extent: 0.15 inch

Correspondence, appeals for aid, for Jewish prisoners of war from Austria and Germany interned at the Douglas Aliens’ Camp in Isle of Man, Britain.

Prisoners of War, Isle of Man, 1916

File 75: Prisoners of War, Siberia, 1916-1917

Extent: 0.15 inch

Correspondence on aid, condition of Jewish prisoners of war in Siberia from Austria and Germany.

Prisoners of War, Siberia, 1916-1917

File 76: Prisoners of War, Committee for the Relief of Prisoners of War, Romanian Section, 1916-1917

Extent: 0.15 inch

Appeals for aid from Romanian Jews in Switzerland.

Prisoners of War, Committee for the Relief of Prisoners of War, Romanian Section, 1916-1917

File 77: Prisoners of War, Committee for the Relief of Russian Jewish Prisoners, 1916-1918

Extent: 0.25 inch

Appeals for aid for Russian Jewish prisoners in Germany and Austria from Geneva group, Comite de Secours aux Prisonniers de Guerre Juifs Russes; report from group; effort to learn if prisoners need additional aid.

Prisoners of War, Committee for the Relief of Russian Jewish Prisoners, 1916-1918

File 78: Prisoners of War, Friends of Jewish Prisoners of War, 1916-1918

Extent: 0.25 inch

Appeals from, aid to Dutch committee organized to send food parcels to Russian Jewish prisoners of war in Germany and Austria.

Prisoners of War, Friends of Jewish Prisoners of War, 1916-1918

File 79: Prisoners of War, Jewish Committee for Relief of War Prisoners in Germany and Austria, 1916-1917

Extent: 0.15 inch

Appeals from Swiss committee seeking to aid Jewish prisoners of war in Germany and Austria. Printed report (in French) of committee’s activities, donors in 1916.

Prisoners of War, Jewish Committee for Relief of War Prisoners in Germany and Austria, 1916-1917

File 80: Prisoners of War, Red Magen David, 1916-1918

Extent: 0.20 inch

Correspondence regarding relief supplies and arrangements for shipping matzot flour.

Prisoners of War, Red Magen David, 1916-1918

Record Group 3-4: Cultural and Religious

File 81: Rabbis, General, 1916-1918

Extent: 0.20 inch

Correspondence, appeals regarding relief for rabbis in Europe and Palestine. Names of recipients of aid.

Rabbis, General, 1916-1918

Record Group 3-5: Refugees

File 82.1: Refugees, Americans Deported from Palestine, 1916

Extent: 0.50 inch

Correspondence regarding diplomatic and humanitarian efforts to transport American family members who had been deported from Palestine, and were stranded in Beirut.

Refugees, Americans Deported from Palestine, 1916

File 82.2: Refugees, Americans Deported from Palestine, 1917

Extent: 1 inch

Correspondence, increasingly frustrated, regarding diplomatic and humanitarian efforts to transport American family members who had been deported from Palestine, and were stranded; subsequent transit, delays, transit of small groups.

Refugees, Americans Deported from Palestine, 1917

File 82.3: Refugees, Americans Deported from Palestine, Affidavits, 1917

Extent: 0.50 inch

Correspondence, affidavits for stranded Americans for whom U.S. funds were advanced in Switzerland.

Refugees, Americans Deported from Palestine, Affidavits, 1917

File 82.4: Refugees, Americans Deported from Palestine, Financial, 1917

Extent: 0.33 inch

Miscellaneous accounting and financial correspondence regarding maintenance and care of American family members who had been deported from Palestine.

Refugees, Americans Deported from Palestine, Financial, 1917

File 82.5: Refugees, Americans Deported from Palestine, 1918-1919

Extent: 1 inch

Correspondence regarding diplomatic and humanitarian efforts to maintain, move American family members who had been deported from Palestine, and were stranded.

 Refugees, Americans Deported from Palestine, 1918-1919

File 83: Refugees in Angers, France, 1916-1917

Extent: 0.10 inch

Appeals, correspondence regarding refugees from Czechoslovakia and Poland in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France.

Refugees in Angers, France, 1916-1917

File 84: Refugees in Cyprus, 1916-1917

Extent: 0.15 inch

Correspondence, appeals regarding aid to refugees from Palestine in Cyprus.

Refugees in Cyprus, 1916-1917

File 85.1: Refugees in Egypt, 1915-1916

Extent: 0.50 inch

Correspondence, reports (English and French) on local needs, conditions, on remittances for refugees from Palestine in Egypt and Jews in Palestine.

 Refugees in Egypt, 1915-1916

File 85.2: Refugees in Egypt, 1917-1918

Extent: 1 inch

Correspondence, reports (English and French) on local needs, conditions, on remittances for refugees in Egypt, including additional refugees from Turkey after entente; participation of refugees in allocations decisions.

Refugees in Egypt, 1917-1918

File 86: Refugees in Egypt, Yeshibat Erez Israel, 1916-1917

Extent: 0.20 inch

Correspondence, appeals (Hebrew and English) regarding Yeshibat Erez Israel in Alexandria, refugee rabbis and families from Palestine.

Refugees in Egypt, Yeshibat Erez Israel, 1916-1917

File 87: Refugees in the Far East, 1916, 1918-1919

Extent: 0.40 inch

Correspondence, appeals for aid, miscellaneous on conditions, operations in Japan, China for refugees from Russia; miscellaneous on financial support to HIAS. Samuel Mason’s HIAS report (photocopy, August 12, 1918) “Our mission to the Far East.”

Refugees in the Far East, 1916, 1918-1919

File 88: Refugees in Turkey, 1917

Extent: 0.15 inch

Report (December 24, 1917, signed by “the charity inspector”) on conditions of, aid to Greek Jews, who were refugees from Palestine, stranded in Haskeuy, Constantinople.

Refugees in Turkey, 1917

File 89: Refugees in the Netherlands, 1915, 1917-1918

Extent: 0.10 inch

Letter, cable on refugees, primarily from Galicia, in the Netherlands. Report (1915, in Dutch) on relief to refugees.

Refugees in the Netherlands, 1915, 1917-1918

File 90: Refugees in Palestine, 1916-1918

Extent: 0.15 inch

Correspondence, cables, proclamation on Armenian refugees in Palestine.

Refugees in Palestine, 1916-1918

File 91: Refugees in Russia, 1915-1917

Extent: 0.15 inch

OZE report, miscellaneous newspaper accounts on conditions for refugees from Poland, Lithuania.

Refugees in Russia, 1915-1917

File 92: Refugees in Salonica, 1916-1917

Extent: 0.20 inch

Miscellaneous correspondence (English, French) on conditions of refugees from Monastir, Serbia, Yugoslavia; strain on communal resources, appeals for aid.

Refugees in Salonica, 1916-1917

File 93: Refugees in Spain, 1916-1919

Extent: 0.50 inch

Financial and general correspondence (English, French) on conditions in Spain of refugees from Turkey (also known as Ottoman refugees), appeals for aid.

Refugees in Spain, 1916-1919

File 94: Refugees in Switzerland, 1918-1919

Extent: 0.15 inch

Correspondence on conditions in Serbia, needs of refugees from Serbia, appeals for aid, remittances.

Refugees in Switzerland, 1918-1919

Record Group 3-6: Personal Services

File 95: Personal Services, Petrograd, 1915-1916

Extent: 0.50 inch

Formerly named “Relatives and Friends, Information.” Correspondence with Jewish Colonization Association, Petrograd, primarily queries (multiple languages) on locating, reunifying, assisting family members in Europe.

Personal Services, Petrograd, 1915-1916

File 96: Personal Services

Extent: 1 inch

Formerly named “Relatives and Friends, Information.” Correspondence, primarily queries (multiple languages) on locating, reunifying, assisting family members in Europe.

Personal Services

Record Group 3-7: Appeals

File 97: Students in Switzerland, 1915-1918

Extent: 0.25 inch

Correspondence regarding refugee medical students from Russia in Switzerland, appeals for aid, remittances.

Students in Switzerland, 1915-1918

File 98: Writers in Copenhagen, 1917

Extent: 0.10 inch

Correspondence regarding aid to refugee writers in Copenhagen, appeals for aid, remittances.

Writers in Copenhagen, 1917

File 99: Writers in Switzerland, 1917-1918

Extent: 0.25 inch

Correspondence regarding refugee writers in Switzerland, appeals for aid, remittances. Report on use of funds.

Writers in Switzerland, 1917-1918

Finding aid prepared by Rose Klepfisz and revised by Marilyn Henry with the assistance of a grant from Marshall Weinberg in Marilyn's honor.

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

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