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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
File 84: Refugees in Cyprus, 1916-1917
Extent: 0.15 inch
Correspondence, appeals regarding aid to refugees from Palestine in Cyprus.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
File 90: Refugees in Palestine, 1916-1918
Extent: 0.15 inch
Correspondence, cables, proclamation on Armenian refugees in Palestine.
File 91: Refugees in Russia, 1915-1917
Extent: 0.15 inch
OZE report, miscellaneous newspaper accounts on conditions for refugees from Poland, Lithuania.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
File 98: Writers in Copenhagen, 1917
Extent: 0.10 inch
Correspondence regarding aid to refugee writers in Copenhagen, appeals for aid, remittances.
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.