Old Folder Number: 2

Staff memos and reports on relief, medical aid, and education to resident Jews and Yemenite refugees in British Protectorate of Aden. Aid to residents follows December 1947 “pogrom” in Aden.

Aden, 1949

Old Folder Number: 3

Correspondence, reports on Yemenite Jewish refugees in Aden, and conditions for local resident Jewish population.

Aden, 1948

Old Folder Number: 4

Appeals for on-going aid for some 1,500 refugee Yemenite Jews in Aden who had faced starvation and epidemics.

Aden, 1945-1947

Old Folder Number: 33

Monthly financial and statistical reports from JDC Algeria (incomplete for period covered in this file).

Algeria, Financial, 1945-1950

Old Folder Number: 29

Press release on nonsectarian relief, and emergency relief and reconstruction loan for Jewish community after 1955 earthquake in Orleansville. Report by American Consul General Lewis Clark on field visit to Orleansville. Report on 1966 flood, not in a Jewish area.

Old Folder Number: 1096

Financial statements, including summaries of budgets, expenditures of Asociacion Filantropica Israelita (ASOFIS). Accountings correspondence, memos on expenses, bank accounts, currency exchanges.

Argentina, Financial, 1945-1949

Old Folder Number: 1099

Correspondence regarding the organization and problems with fund-raising, including income, allocations, division of funds.

Argentina, Fund-Raising, 1948-1949

Old Folder Number: 1100

Reports, correspondence on efforts to initiate a united fund-raising campaign, establishment of the Organizacion Central de Ayuda a las Victimas Israelitas de le Guerra. Miscellaneous newspaper accounts of Rabbi Joshua Goldberg’s fund-raising trip.

Argentina, Fund-Raising, 1947

Old Folder Number: 1100

Correspondence on fund-raising, remittances. Correspondence, news accounts (English, Spanish, and Yiddish) on H.M. Caiserman’s mission.

Argentina, Fund-Raising, VIII-XII 1946

Old Folder Number: 1100

Correspondence of fund-raising, remittances. Correspondence, news accounts (Yiddish) on H.M. Caiserman’s mission.

Argentina, Fund-Raising, I-VII 1946

Old Folder Number: 1101

Correspondence on fund-raising, remittances, communal conflicts. Reports, news accounts of mission of Rabbi Joseph Lookstein. Summary of activities of Junta de Ayuda Judia a las Victimas Israelitas de le Guerra.

Argentina, Fund-Raising, VIII-XII 1945

Old Folder Number: 1101

Correspondence on fund-raising, remittances, purchase of relief supplies. Reports, news accounts of mission of Rabbi Joseph Lookstein.

Argentina, Fund-Raising, I-VII 1945

Old Folder Number: 1094

Correspondence, miscellaneous news accounts on local conditions, including August 1947 correspondence on bombing of Libertad Temple. Weekly summaries of Yiddish press.

Argentina, General, 1947-1948

Old Folder Number: 1094

Miscellaneous correspondence, reports, including reports (1946) on government decree on control of religious activities.

Argentina, General, 1944, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 1102, 1103

Argentina, Immigration, 1946-1947

Old Folder Number: 142

Accounting memos regarding payments for passage/transit, expenses for hostels for immigrants. Memos, correspondence on migration financing, forms of assistance, and expenditures of Australian Immigration Societies. Passenger names may be noted on bills for transport fares.

Australia, Financial, 1945-1950

Old Folder Number: 151

Correspondence, memos on remittances to/from individuals, financial transactions, currency conversions.

Australia, Transfer of Funds, 1946-1955

Old Folder Number: 138

“Report of Mr. Leslie B. Prince on his visit to Australia on behalf of Jewish Colonization Association and the American Joint Distribution Committee” (1954), includes material on demographics, socioeconomic conditions, administration and other aspects of immigration. Guidebook for new immigrants from Europe, “Your introduction to Australia: Hints and Help on Knowing Your New Homeland,” a primer including broad range of material, from how to identify a taxi and public telephone, to understanding Australian humor, tax system, government and geography. Report (1949-1951) of the Australian Council for International Social Service, the successor organization to the International Migration Service.

Australia, General, Printed Matter, 1948-1954

Old Folder Number: 150

Monthly statistical reports (1950-1953) on number of immigration applications, visas, permits, arrivals (occasionally includes name of ship). Financial statements on JDC funds held in trust (1954); correspondence on financial transfers, expenditures.

Australia, Australian Jewish Welfare and Relief Society, Sydney, 1947-1954

Old Folder Number: 153

Correspondence, memos on efforts of Bialystoker Center to provide permits, aid and accommodation to refugees from Bialystok.

Australia, Bialystoker Center, 1947-1951

Old Folder Number: 154

Correspondence about the use of $2,000 collected by the Lowitcher association (Lovitcher verein) of Detroit, and whether it was counted against JDC expenses, or as passage paid by others. Lists the names of migrants from Lowicz, Poland, whose passage to Australia was aided by contributions from the Lovitcher verein of Detroit.

Australia, Committee of Lowitcher Friends, 1948-1949

Old Folder Number: 155

Annual reports of United Jewish Overseas Relief Fund (incomplete). Accounting correspondence on remittances, financial transfers. Correspondence regarding efforts to locate and ship Yiddish-English typewriter.

Australia, United Jewish Overseas Relief Fund, 1944-1952

Old Folder Number: 145

Memos and analyses of Australia’s Jewish immigration quotas, including lower expectation of number of immigrants to Australia since the recognition of the State of Israel. Correspondence, memos, transcripts of meetings of Emery Komlos’s 1949 trip to Australia. Contains list of names of some immigrants coming from Shanghai, sponsored by Federation of Australian Jewish Welfare Societies.

Australia, Immigration, 1948-1949

Old Folder Number: 146

Memos, reports and correspondence on initiation, organization and obstacles regarding Jewish immigration to Australia from Europe and Shanghai.

Australia, Immigration, 1946-1947

Old Folder Number: 147

Correspondence – some hostile – from Australian Jewish organizations regarding futile efforts (possibly since 1942) to bring in 300-400 children. Constitution of Jewish Welfare Guardian Society of Australia. Contains lsit of children leaving Haifa for Freemantle, 1947, on SS Partizanka.

Australia, Immigration of Children, 1945-1949

Old Folder Number: 166

Accounting letters, memos on financial transactions, including payments, deposits, currency purchases, banks transfers, loan arrangements, letters of credit, bank guarantees, signatories on bank accounts.

Austria, Financial, 1951-1953

Old Folder Number: 167

Accounting letters, memos on financial transactions, including currency purchases, banks transfers, loans. Correspondence on difficulty on obtaining Austrian shillings. Periodic monthly financial reports.

Austria, Financial, 1946-1950

Old Folder Number: 185

Accounting letters, correspondence on currency purchases, remittances, recovering funds from blocked accounts.

Austria, Transfer of Funds, A-Z, 1942-1954

Old Folder Number: 194

Memos, reports on influx of refugees from Eastern Europe and the strain on food, housing, clothing and other relief supplies; JDC’s increasing responsibility following U.S. military’s “freeze order” barring refugees/infiltratees from entering DP camps in Austria after April 21, 1947. JTA special report (May 15, 1948) on Jewish situation in Austria. List of 1949 “International Employees.”

Austria, General, 1947-1950

Old Folder Number: 195

Correspondence, cables on preliminary assessments of survivors, situation, efforts to bring in teams from JDC, urgent requests for supplies.

Austria, General, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 183

Statistical reports on JDC operations in Austria, including demographics on population, welfare, emigration; vital statistics on births, deaths, disease.

Austria, Statistical Reports, 1948-1949

Old Folder Number: 186

Correspondence on eligibility of voluntary relief agencies for aid and benefits under the Economic Cooperation Act (ECA, Marshall Plan, 1948).

Austria, Voluntary Agencies, 1948-1954

Old Folder Number: 189

Correspondence on arrangements for private contribution to Chevra Kadisha, via JDC. Unsigned, undated (1945?) report on Chevra Kadisha; indicates that, with aid of a benefactor, Chevra Kadisha provides limited social welfare support to needy individuals.

Austria, Chevra Kadisha, 1945(?)-1952

Old Folder Number: 190

Extracts from JDC meeting minutes indicating financial assistance to the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (IKG), cash relief to individuals, and reports of number of returnees from Israel. Monthly financial reports from Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (incomplete). See 45/54 # 119, Austria, Jewish Proselytes, 1946-1947; 45/54 # 304, Germany, Baptized Jews, 1946-1947

Austria, Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, Wein, 1945-1954

Old Folder Number: 191

Correspondence between JDC and Jewish Daily Forward (New York newspaper) about the reliability of Simon Wiesenthal, who was seeking to publish a letter sent to International Refugee Organization (IRO) complaining bitterly that Nazis and their collaborators are being cleared for immigration to the U.S.

Austria, Jewish Documentation Center, Simon Wiesenthal, 1948-1953

Old Folder Number: 192

Accounting correspondence about Austrian shilling-dollar exchange rate paid by ORT-Austria.

Austria, ORT, 1952

Old Folder Number: 160

Correspondence regarding allegations by Bund representative Mr. Kupper of discrimination against Bund members.

Austria, Displaced Persons, Discrimination Against Bundist Group, 1947

Old Folder Number: 161

Memos, correspondence on administration, financing, conditions, population, operations and consolidations of camps for displaced persons and refugees.

Austria, Displaced Persons, 1948-1956

Old Folder Number: 161

Memos, correspondence on administration, financing, grave need for supplies; on conditions of camps and other accommodations for displaced persons.

Austria, Displaced Persons, 1945-1947

Old Folder Number: 162

Press release (October 3, 1947) on refugees, primarily from Romania, crowded into Rothschild Hospital, a multi-building site used as accommodation for refugees.

Austria, Displaced Persons in Rothschild Hospital, 1946-1954

Old Folder Number: 187

Periodic reports on work projects, statistics on employees, purchase requests for materials, production of goods (including clothing and carpentry).

Austria, Work Projects, 1947-1949

Old Folder Number: 198

Correspondence about the fate of Hungarian immigrants recommended by Rabbi Leo Jung to the Canadian Jewish Congress; not clear if migrants reached preferred destinations. Contains list of names of potential immigrants and preferred destinations.

Austria, Refugees from Hungary, 1951

Old Folder Number: 177

Correspondence, memos on providing books to displaced persons and refugees in Austria.

Austria, Relief Supplies: Books, 1946-1949

Old Folder Number: 184

Correspondence regarding rubble removal, renovation and maintenance of Zeremonienhalle of Central Cemetery.

Austria, Synagogues, 1946-1952

Old Folder Number: 181

Memos, correspondence, minutes of the Committee for Jewish Claims on Austria, an affiliate of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), which was pursuing restitution and compensation for Nazi-era damages. Memos on Jewish claims against Austria, Austrian measures on behalf of former Austrian Nazis. News accounts on negotiations.

Austria, Restitution, VII-XII 1953

Old Folder Number: 181

Memos, correspondence, minutes following the creation of the Committee for Jewish Claims on Austria, an affiliate of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), which was pursuing restitution and compensation for Nazi-era damages.

Austria, Restitution, I-VI 1953

Old Folder Number: 182

Memos and correspondence on Austria’s post-war laws dealing with the restitution of properties confiscated during the Nazi-era.

Austria, Restitution, 1948-1952

Old Folder Number: 157

Correspondence regarding care of Jewish graves in Austrian cemeteries, and JDC policy on maintenance of mass graves. Correspondence regarding payment of ad in newspaper Aufbau by Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (IKG) about care of graves of relatives of those by then living in the U.S. (Ad not in file).

Austria, Cemeteries, 1947-1954

Old Folder Number: 169

Correspondence regarding aid to non-Jewish family members of Nazi victims.

Old Folder Number: 173

Comments (September 10, 1947) from a consortium of Jewish groups to the Council of Foreign Ministers (representing the Allied Occupation authorities) on the terms of a treaty to restore Austrian sovereignty. Objections to terms for compensation and restitution; comments and recommendations submitted in English, French and Russian.

Austria, Peace [State] Treaty, 1947

Old Folder Number: 205

Accounting letters and memos regarding fund transfers, remittances, cash, currency exchange. Financial reports (January and March 1948) for Union des Etudiants. Revised budget, including commentary, for operations in Belgium (March 1948). Contains list of names on September 1948 list of disbursements for emigration.

Belgium, Financial, 1947-1948

Old Folder Number: 206

Accounting letters and memos regarding fund transfers, remittances, currency exchange.

Belgium, Financial, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 214

Correspondence on transfers, payments, remittances.

Belgium, Transfer of Funds, A-Z, 1946-1947

Old Folder Number: 218

Statistics on aid for October and November 1947.

Belgium, Aide aux Israelites Victimes de la Guerre (AIVG), 1945-1958

Old Folder Number: 213

Correspondence on political, legal and practical problems of hundreds of returnees in Belgium from Israel.

Belgium, Refugees, Returnees, 1954

Old Folder Number: 219

Financial and statistical report for Ecole-Israelite Yeshiva Ets Chajim. Correspondence (primarily 1954) on requests for financing.

Belgium, Ecole Israelite, 1947-1954

Old Folder Number: 220

Materials on religious school serving boys (Jesode Hatora) and girls (Beth Jacob).

Belgium, Jesode Hatora-Beth Jacob, 1946-1954

Old Folder Number: 222

Materials on religious school that, in 1947, also is known as Yeshiva of Szombathely, which was transplanted from Hungary, without local support from Antwerp community. Financial and statistical report (January 1948).

Belgium, Yeshiva Kehillat Yaakov, 1947-1950

Old Folder Number: 216

Individual survivors’ brief accounts (in French) of internment. Accounts taken/provided by search/location service Service d’Evacuation et Regroupement, Brussels (SER). French spelling of Eastern European names.

Belgium, Survivors (Individuals), 1945

Old Folder Number: 1114

Miscellaneous financial, shareholder correspondence. Correspondence on status of farm, operations in light of August 1953 national law on land reform.

Bolivia, Sociedad Colonizadora de Bolivia (SOCOBO), 1949-1953

Old Folder Number: 1115

Correspondence on budgets, finances, leases, potential property sales and liquidation, and change in nature of operations from colonization and resettlement to commercial project. Miscellaneous correspondence on agriculture, property damage.

Bolivia, Sociedad Colonizadora de Bolivia (SOCOBO), 1946-1948

Old Folder Number: 1115

Reports on prospects for refugees’ resettlement. Miscellaneous on continued financing, operations at Cochabamba.

Bolivia, Sociedad Colonizadora de Bolivia (SOCOBO), 1940, 1944, 1945

Old Folder Number: 1116

Correspondence, accounting memos, primarily regarding SOPRO’s debts to JDC, including mortgage on children’s home in Miraflores. Contains list of names on correspondence regarding emigration deposits.

Bolivia, Sociedad de Proteccion a los Immigrantes Israelitas (SOPRO), 1950-1953

Old Folder Number: 1117

Correspondence regarding migration; discontinuance and reinstatement of JDC subventions. Miscellaneous financial reports, accounting memos, including payments from Sociedad Colonizadora de Bolivia (SOCOBO).

Bolivia, Sociedad de Proteccion a los Immigrantes Israelitas (SOPRO), 1947-1949

Old Folder Number: 1118

Primarily financial materials, including correspondence on financing SOPRO’s operations, currency transfers, subventions. Memo (August 14, 1946) transmits miscellaneous materials on SOPRO reorganization.

Bolivia, Sociedad de Proteccion a los Immigrantes Israelitas (SOPRO), 1946

Old Folder Number: 1118

Reports on SOPRO financing, operations; correspondence regarding mortgage for children’s home (La Paz).

Bolivia, Sociedad de Proteccion a los Immigrantes Israelitas (SOPRO), 1945

Old Folder Number: 1121

Correspondence regarding Comite Auxiliar administrative expenses, activities in Sao Paulo, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro.

Brazil, Financial, 1948-1950

Old Folder Number: 1121

Correspondence on currency transactions, fund-raising, remittances, services for migrants.

Brazil, Financial, 1945-1947

Old Folder Number: 1124

Miscellaneous correspondence on fund-raising campaigns, remittances, currency exchange.

Brazil, Fund-Raising, 1950

Old Folder Number: 1124

Correspondence on problems in united fund-raising campaigns; appeals to Sephardim. Correspondence on reductions in JDC offices.

Brazil, Fund-Raising, 1949

Old Folder Number: 1125

Correspondence on problems in united fund-raising campaigns.

Brazil, Fund-Raising, 1948

Old Folder Number: 1126

Correspondence on organization of local fund-raising, competition between fund-raisers. Correspondence on purchase by Sao Paulo Landsmanschaften of sewing machines for Poland.

Brazil, Fund-Raising, 1947

Old Folder Number: 1127

Miscellaneous on local communities, personalities, rivalries.

Brazil, Fund-Raising, 1946

Old Folder Number: 1127

Correspondence on creation of fund-raising committees. Accounting memos on remittances. Correspondence, inquiries regarding the shipment of relief supplies, food to Europe, purchase of sewing machines for Poland.

Brazil, Fund-Raising, 1945

Old Folder Number: 1141

Monthly financial-statistical reports on relief activities, sundry assistance (virtually complete).

Brazil, Congregacao Israelita Paulista, 1940-1944

Old Folder Number: 1140

Correspondence regarding requests by and contribution of Sociedad Mauricio Cardoso, a local federation of Polish Jews seeking to aid Polish Jews in Paris, Jerusalem.

Brazil, Sociedad Mauricio Cardoso, Associacao Israelita Brasileira, 1945, 1948-1949

Old Folder Number: 1143

Organizational bulletins (printed and stencils).

Brazil, Associacao Beneficente Israelita (UNIAO), 1941-1951

Old Folder Number: 1130

Correspondence on conditions governing immigration, including visas, financing, responsibility for expenses. Accounting materials regarding transportation deposits. Contains names listed on correspondence regarding transportation deposits.

Brazil, Immigration, 1948-1953

Old Folder Number: 1130

Correspondence on changes in immigration laws, problems with visas, disembarkation. Miscellaneous news accounts on immigration. Correspondence on expenses, responsibility of Associacao Beneficente Israelita (UNIAO).

Brazil, Immigration, 1945-1947

Old Folder Number: 225

Correspondence, reports on local conditions, economic hardships, emigration,communal rifts; correspondence includes references to communal political and “ethnic” divisions.

Bulgaria, General, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 229

Correspondence on shipments, customs duties and requests for supplies, primarily shoes, clothing and coats.

Bulgaria, Relief Supplies, 1945-1950

Old Folder Number: 233

Accounting letters on fund transfers, currency conversions, foreign exchange controls, remittances. Contains list of names of recipients of remittances.

Canada, Clearances of Funds, 1945-1950

Old Folder Number: 234

Miscellaneous correspondence regarding tax liabilities for bonds and tax status of donors’ contributions to JDC.

Canada, Department of National Revenue, 1936-1952

Old Folder Number: 243

Primarily financial materials, accounting memos, including emigration deposits. Telegram (April 18, 1957) to Samuel Bronfman, urgently seeking funds to aid Jews being evacuated from Egypt, and discussing the repatriation of Polish Jews from the Soviet Union. Contains names listed on emigration deposits.

Canada, United Jewish Relief Agencies, 1945-1950, 1957

Old Folder Number: 238

Miscellaneous correspondence, testimony, grievances on Canadian immigration policy, procedures. Names listed in “Outstanding war guest accounts,” January 28, 1947.

Canada, Immigration, 1946-1950

Old Folder Number: 239

Correspondence—some antagonistic—regarding Canadian Jewish Congress’s (CJC) War Orphans Project, following Canadian government’s willingness to admit 1,000 children from displaced persons camps. Statistical reports on migration; cables on transit costs.

Canada, Immigration of Children, 1946-1950

Old Folder Number: 240

No materials from 1949. Correspondence related to efforts to fill 2,000 slots (Canadian entry permits) for skilled needle workers from DP camps, including screening by Canadian officials.

Canada, Immigration of Needle Trade Workers, 1947-1951

Old Folder Number: 1149

Correspondence on fund-raising, remittances, united campaign, division of proceeds, rivalries among organizations.

Chile, Fund-Raising, 1945-1949

Old Folder Number: 1158

Accounting memos on loans, remittances, promissory notes. Financial reports on loans, delinquent debtors. Contains list of some names of borrowers.

Colombia, Loan Kassas, 1946-1950

Old Folder Number: 253

Materials related to detention of Jews; cables indicating number of people disembarking in Cyprus, as well as number sailing to Palestine/Israel. Materials on the Pan Crescent and Pan York.

Cyprus, General, 1948

Old Folder Number: 254

Materials regarding arrival, detention of Jews on island. Cables indicating number of people disembarking in Cyprus, as well as number sailing to Palestine; cables on evacuation of infants. Cables (March 1947) on internees’ altercations with British; cable (April 22, 1947) on demonstration and hunger strike by internees after British cut emigration quota; one Jew killed.

Cyprus, General, 1947

Old Folder Number: 255

Miscellaneous on conditions, treatment, fate of detainees. Cables on currency transactions.

Cyprus, General, 1943-1946

Old Folder Number: 267

Accounting memos, cables on expenses, remittances, currency exchanges, currency transfers. Occasional monthly financial reports.

Czechoslovakia, Financial, 1947

Old Folder Number: 267

Accounting memos, cables on expenses, remittances, currency exchanges, currency transfers. Financial reports and audits cover 1946 (all periods covered, occasionally pages are missing).

Czechoslovakia, Financial, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 280

Correspondence on claims by Czechs regarding war-era transactions with JDC.

Czechoslovakia, Transfer of Funds, General, 1946-1948

Old Folder Number: 281

Miscellaneous correspondence on claims, payments, remittances, currency exchange.

Czechoslovakia, Transfer of Funds, A-Z, 1948-1949, 1964

Old Folder Number: 261

Narrative and statistical reports on JDC activities (incomplete) indicate improved economic conditions and communities’ efforts to become self-sufficient.

Czechoslovakia, General, 1947

Old Folder Number: 262

Narrative and statistical reports on JDC activities, political conditions, refugees using Czechoslovakia as transit point.

Czechoslovakia, General, 1946

Old Folder Number: 262

Miscellaneous on postwar entry of JDC into Czechoslovakia. Correspondence on aid to survivors, miscellaneous regarding who has responsibility to aid Polish Jewish transients in Czechoslovakia.

Czechoslovakia, General, 1944-1945

Old Folder Number: 263

Correspondence, memos, news accounts of Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ order for JDC to cease operations in Czechoslovakia by end of January.

Czechoslovakia, General, 1949-1953

Old Folder Number: 279

Correspondence, accounting memos on textile cooperatives, role in individual rehabilitation and reconstruction.

Czechoslovakia, Textile Cooperatives, 1946-1949

Old Folder Number: 275

Cables, correspondence about sending food packages to individuals. Contains “JTA Czechoslovakian List.”

Czechoslovakia, Relief Supplies: Food Packages, 1945-1946, 1949

Old Folder Number: 276

Cables seeking supplies, medicines, equipment.

Czechoslovakia, Relief Supplies: Medical, 1945-1952

Old Folder Number: 282

Correspondence on subsidies for religious educational institutions, plans for emigration.

Czechoslovakia, Yeshivoth, 1946-1948

Old Folder Number: 278

Correspondence (1947) from university students in Brno, who object to inability to simultaneously qualify for JDC and government aid.

Old Folder Number: 289

Correspondence on relief work by Parroquia Israelita (de la Republica Dominicana) as JDC eliminates functional activities. Accounting memos on currency transfers, remittances. Miscellaneous financial and statistical reports.

Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, 1949

Old Folder Number: 290

Miscellaneous on conditions, needs in Sosua. Accounting memos on currency transfers, remittances, disbursements; financial and statistical reports.

Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, 1948

Old Folder Number: 291

Correspondence on emigration. Accounting memos on remittances; financial and statistical reports, including migration to/from Dominican Republic.

Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, 1946-1947

Old Folder Number: 292

Miscellaneous on efforts to save Sosua through immigration. Accounting memos on transfers, expenditures, audits; financial and statistical reports.

Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, 1945

Old Folder Number: 1161

Monthly reports on immigration activities, political conditions. Lists names in monthly activity reports.

Ecuador, Immigration, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 1163

Accounting correspondence on remittances.

Ecuador, Loan Kassas, Cooperativa de Credito para Agricultura, Industria y Comercio “Quito,” 1951-1952

Old Folder Number: 1164

Accounting correspondence on remittances, status of loans. Minutes of meetings, which include information on projects, loan applications and decisions on lending. Lists names on loan applications.

Ecuador, Loan Kassas, Cooperativa de Credito para Agricultura, Industria y Comercio “Quito,” 1949-1950

Old Folder Number: 1164

Accounting correspondence on remittances, reports on status of loans. Correspondence on collection of debt, requests for increase in loan capital. Minutes of meetings, which include information on projects, loan applications and decisions on lending. Lists names on loan applications.

Ecuador, Loan Kassas, Cooperativa de Credito para Agricultura, Industria y Comercio “Quito,” 1948

Old Folder Number: 1165

Accounting correspondence on remittances, reports on status of loans. Minutes of meetings, which include information on projects, loan applications and decisions on lending. Lists names on loan applications.

Ecuador, Loan Kassas, Cooperativa de Credito para Agricultura, Industria y Comercio “Quito,” 1947

Old Folder Number: 1166

Minutes of meetings, which include information on projects, loan applications and decisions on lending. Lists names on loan applications.

Ecuador, Loan Kassas, Cooperativa de Credito para Agricultura, Industria y Comercio “Quito,” VII.-XII.1946

Old Folder Number: 1166

Minutes of meetings, which include information on projects, loan applications and decisions on lending. Correspondence on national economic conditions, trade requirements. Lists names on loan applications.

Ecuador, Loan Kassas, Cooperativa de Credito para Agricultura, Industria y Comercio “Quito,” I.-VI. 1946

Old Folder Number: 1167

Minutes of meetings, which include information on projects, loan applications and decisions on lending. Lists names on loan applications.

Ecuador, Loan Kassas, Cooperativa de Credito para Agricultura, Industria y Comercio “Quito,” VII.-XII.1945

Old Folder Number: 1167

Correspondence, minutes of meetings. Max Weiser letter (April 27, 1945) regarding purchase of estate on Isabela island for Jewish colonization.

Ecuador, Loan Kassas, Cooperativa de Credito para Agricultura, Industria y Comercio “Quito,” I.-VI. 1945

Old Folder Number: 299

Minutes (1949-1951) of the Central British Fund for Jewish Relief and Rehabilitation, includes summary materials on grant applications and allocations.

England, Central British Fund, 1949-1954, 1956

Old Folder Number: 300

Minutes of meetings, including summary materials on grant applications, allocations, restitution, claims. Accounting memos on remittances.

England, Central British Fund, 1944-1948

Old Folder Number: 301

Annual reports (1948, 1950, 1952) of Central British Fund for Jewish Relief and Rehabilitation.

England, Central British Fund, Printed Matter, 1948-1952

Old Folder Number: 302

Queries, complaints about the fund-raising appeals of the Chief Rabbi’s Religious Emergency Council among U.S. synagogues and federations, including appeal (1944) for “synagogue ambulances.”

England, Chief Rabbi’s Religious Emergency Council, 1944-1949

Old Folder Number: 303

Newsletters (1945) for volunteers working in the field. Accounting letters, memos on remittances.

England, Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad, 1945-1949

Old Folder Number: 305

Materials on establishment, operations of Jewish Trust Corporation to operate in British Occupation Zone, Germany, to claim heirless property of Jewish Nazi victims.

England, Jewish Trust Corporation, 1950-1954

Old Folder Number: 306

Correspondence regarding requests of Alfred Wiener for funds for the Jewish Central Information Office (Wiener Library), London. Occasional “surveys” of British and German-Austrian press (mimeo).

England, Wiener Library, 1945-1953

Old Folder Number: 318

Accounting memos on receipts, remittances. Budget materials, including January 1948 memos from Laura Margolis on programs, operations, budget cuts.

France, Financial, 1948

Old Folder Number: 318

Accounting memos on currency transactions, remittances. Miscellaneous financial, statistical reports. See B.M. Joffe report (May 6, 1948) in 45/54 # 252.

France, Financial, 1945-1947

Old Folder Number: 332

Correspondence on financial transfers. Lists names of individuals with some transfers.

France, Transfer of Funds, 1945-1949, 1954, 1964

Old Folder Number: 334

Accounting memos, correspondence on financial transfers, payments.

France, Transfer of Funds, Bigar, Pierre, 1949-1954, 1957-1958

Old Folder Number: 335

Accounting memos, correspondence on financial transfers, payments, currency exchange.

France, Transfer of Funds, Craig Stanton & Co., 1948-1949, 1954-1955

Old Folder Number: 336

Correspondence on currency transactions.

France, Transfer of Funds, Ed Small Productions, 1954-1955

Old Folder Number: 337

Correspondence regarding prospects of currency transactions.

France, Transfer of Funds, Frankenbush, 1948-1949

Old Folder Number: 338

Accounting memos, correspondence on currency and commodities transactions.

France, Transfer of Funds, Leval & Co., Dreyfus & Co., 1950-1956

Old Folder Number: 339

Accounting memos, correspondence on currency exchange, relations with authorities.

France, Transfer of Funds, Motion Picture Export Association, 1948-1955

Old Folder Number: 340

Correspondence on prospect of currency exchange.

France, Transfer of Funds, Sternheimer, J., 1948-1949

Old Folder Number: 342

Correspondence on currency exchange, purchases.

France, Transfer of Funds, Universal International Films, 1944-1945

Old Folder Number: 343

Correspondence on currency exchange, purchases.

France, Transfer of Funds, Vernes & Co., 1948-1949

Old Folder Number: 344

Correspondence on currency purchases.

France, Transfer of Funds, Winkler, V., 1948-1952

Old Folder Number: 310

Correspondence, reports on relief, communal services for resident, refugee, and transient populations.

France, General, 1948-1949

Old Folder Number: 311

Detailed summaries of activities, operations, efforts to supervise, structure and coordinate multiplicity of agencies, including creation of a social service exchange to act as a clearinghouse. Occasional financial and statistical analyses on JDC-subventioned activities.

France, General, 1946-1947

Old Folder Number: 311

Summaries of activities, operations, personnel needs, efforts to reestablish Jewish communities, aid refugees and displaced persons, including miscellaneous financial and statistical reports.

France, General, 1944-1945

Old Folder Number: 348

Correspondence regarding demands, appeals for aid and related materials on financing Rabbi Zalman Schneersohn’s activities, including children’s home.

France, Association des Israelites Pratiquants de France, 1945-1949

Old Folder Number: 349

Correspondence regarding appeals for funds; notices of books published by archive/documentation center. Report on 10th anniversary of the center.

France, Center de Documentation Juive Contemporaine, 1943-1953

Old Folder Number: 350

Judah Shapiro memos on development, activities of the central clearing house for Jewish educational materials. Correspondence on book purchases.

France, Centre Educatif, 1951-1957

Old Folder Number: 351

Correspondence, descriptions, appeals for aid for children’s homes.

France, Cercle Amicale (Workmen’s Circle), 1946-1949

Old Folder Number: 352

Auditors’ report on accounting, bookkeeping problems and poor administrative procedures at Comite Juif d’Action Social et de Reconstruction (COJASOR, Jewish Committee for Social Action and Reconstruction).

France, Preliminary Report, Comite Juif d’Action Social et de Reconstruction (COJASOR), 1947

Old Folder Number: 353

Reports, correspondence on operations between 1945 and 1948, including aid to the needy among the settled population as well as relief to newcomers, refugees by Service Special des Immigrants (SSI).

France, Comite Juif d’Action Social et de Reconstruction (COJASOR), 1945-1951

Old Folder Number: 354

Correspondence, reports on activities of agency that was outgrowth of communist-inspired Union des Juifs pour la Resistance et l’Entr’Aide (UJRE, Union of Jews for Resistance and Mutual Aid).

France, Commission Centrale de L’Enfance, 1945-1950

Old Folder Number: 355

Correspondence regarding scouts, projects to train scout leaders and social workers for France and North Africa, fund-raising, recruitment. Miscellaneous correspondence regarding financing of the film “Hazak” (“A Time to Live”). May 1945 bulletin.

France, Eclaireurs Israelites Francaises, 1945-1949

Old Folder Number: 356

Correspondence, requests for funds.

France, Federation des Societes Juive de France, 1945-1952

Old Folder Number: 357

Correspondence, reports on efforts to organize a united French fund-raising organization.

France, Fonds Sociale Juif Unifie, 1946-1954

Old Folder Number: 360

Correspondence regarding aid to Russian professional, intellectual community.

France, Fund for Relief of Russian Men of Letters and Science, 1945-1947

Old Folder Number: 361

Reports on training immigrants for trade (children’s clothing). Bulletin du Comite Professionnelle pour les Immigres Juifs (1949).

France, Federation Interprofessionnelle et Interouvre l’Habillement des Enfants des Fusilles et Deportes (HEFUD), 1947-1950

Old Folder Number: 364

Correspondence on origins of home for girls, on prospect of selling the property.

France, National Council of Jewish Women Home for Girls, 1946-1955

Old Folder Number: 365

Correspondence, report (1952) on activities. Book from Centre Educatif on Sukkot, including text, songs, skit, holiday activities.

France, Oeuvre de Protection des Enfants Juifs, 1945-1952

Old Folder Number: 366

Correspondence on visas, emigration plans of rabbinical students and families.

France, Lubavitch, 1947-1953

Old Folder Number: 367

Correspondence on Oeuvre de Secours des Enfants (OSE) activities, including care of TB patients, transients.

France, OSE, 1945-1953

Old Folder Number: 369

Reports (narrative, 1947; statistical, January 1952) on youth services.

France, Service Social des Jeunes, 1947-1952

Old Folder Number: 370

Correspondence, endorsements, speeches on creation of the monument in Paris to the “unknown Jewish martyr.”

France, Tombeau du Martyr Juif Inconnu, 1951-1954

Old Folder Number: 371

Correspondence regarding the origin of aid, description of children’s homes of Union des Juifs pour la Resistance et l’Entr’Aide (UJRE, Union of Jews for Resistance and Mutual Aid).

France, Union des Juifs pour la Resistance et l’Entr’Aide, 1945-1954

Old Folder Number: 372

Correspondence regarding JDC effort to collect debt of Labor Zionist Committee, as guarantor of loan for 1946 Youth Aliya.

France, Union Populaire Juive, 1948-1951

Old Folder Number: 314

Correspondence on supportfor children, Youth Aliya homes; miscellaneous on welfare, emigration and adoption for children.

France, Children, 1945-1951

Old Folder Number: 325

Correspondence (1953-1954) regarding claim by French Health Ministry for reimbursement of medical/hospital expenses incurred by Jews in transit to Israel via Marseille. Correspondence (1949) regarding ship-a-box program of National Council of Jewish Women. See 45/64 # 325, 309, 3878 regarding Sante medical bill, Marseille.

France, Migration, 1948-1954

Old Folder Number: 326

Correspondence regarding property at Cambes de Pujols offered by a family in Argentina; and children’s home in La Vesinet, which owner wishes to sell.

France, Properties Offered, 1946-1950

Old Folder Number: 330

Correspondence, cables regarding availability, location, costs of material aid. Correspondence on logistical and financial arrangements for shipments, commercial credit for purchases.

France, Relief Supplies, 1945

Old Folder Number: 331

Correspondence on availability, shipment of food parcels. Contains list of names of individuals sending,seeking and receiving packages.

France, Relief Supplies: Food Packages, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 322

Correspondence on availability of kosher canteens.

France, Kosher Kitchens (Canteens), 1947-1948

Old Folder Number: 373

Correspondence on activities, appeals of Beth Jacob Seminary (Paris), Chachmey Tsorphat (Aix le Bains), Yeshivah Katanah (Bailly), Lublin Yeshiva (Paris).

France, Yeshivoth, 1945-1954

Old Folder Number: 374

Correspondence, reports about hygienic, safety conditions and related problems of yeshiva (of multiple names) that reneged on agreements for emigration to Israel.

France, Yeshiva Ohel Joseph, 1947-1954

Old Folder Number: 321

Correspondence, memos on aid, grants to Yiddish writers, artists; unfavorable media reports regarding aid. Lists names of Jewish artists in Paris, March 9, 1946.

Old Folder Number: 415

Accounting memos, reports regarding expenses, including welfare, administration, medical care, child care, supplies, vocational training and education. Memos on attempts to purchase local currency.

Germany, Financial, 1946-1953

Old Folder Number: 375

Reports, correspondence on JDC activities in Germany, displaced persons, political and economic conditions; problems with distribution of relief supplies; demographic distortions of communal conditions. Contains personnel rosters.

Germany, General, 1949-1953

Old Folder Number: 445

Reports on community demographics, relief supplies, emigration, works projects, communal conditions in sectors of Berlin. Information sheet (undated) about immigration to South Africa.

Germany, Berlin, 1947

Old Folder Number: 446

Correspondence, reports on condition of the Jews in Berlin. Cables on flood of infiltratees from Poland (beginning November 1945). International Committee of the Red Cross report (June 11, 1946) on public health problems in Berlin.

Germany, Berlin, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 447

Miscellaneous materials, including reports, correspondence, requests for aid (materials vary for each locale). Contains list with names of Jews in Weimar on May 8, 1945.

Germany, Localities: A-Z, 1945-1951

Old Folder Number: 448

List (April 24, 1945) of survivors found when Frankfurt liberated by Americans. Correspondence regarding appeals for aid; disputes over distribution of supplies. List of survivors in Frankfurt on April 24, 1945.

Germany, Frankfurt, 1940-1941, 1945-1949

Old Folder Number: 449

Accounts of riots, correspondence, reports related to transfer of JDC functions from Foehrenwald to Munich after “occupation-invasion” of JDC office (1954). Assorted monthly activity reports, occasional statistical reports on activities of Munich office. Contains list of names of survivors seeking relatives.

Germany, Munich, 1945-1954

Old Folder Number: 435

Correspondence related to appeals in 1947 and 1950 to Jewish organizations for aid to the Central Federation of Hungarian-Speaking Jews in U.S. Zone of Germany.

Germany, Central Federation of Hungarian Jews, 1947-1950

Old Folder Number: 436

Correspondence with Helene Braun regarding efforts to recover a family hotel that was sold under duress during Nazi era, which could be used by JDC as Jewish convalescent home. Correspondence regarding JDC aid to convalescent home.

Germany, Convalescent Home, Bad Harzburg Hotel, 1947

Old Folder Number: 437

Correspondence (1948) regarding formation of an organization of voluntary agencies in Bremen. Minutes of meetings (August, September 1949) of Resettlement and Welfare Committees of the Council of Voluntary Agencies in the U.S. Occupation Zone.

Germany, Council of Voluntary Agencies, 1948-1949

Old Folder Number: 438

Cables, correspondence about medical supplies, including pharmaceuticals; reports on treatment and rehabilitation of TB patients.

Germany, Gauting Sanatorium, 1947-1953

Old Folder Number: 439

Correspondence, memos regarding recruitment, pressure-coercion on displaced persons and refugees to join Haganah. Resolution (undated) by Executive Board of the Knitgoods Workers Union on mobilization.

Germany, Haganah, 1948

Old Folder Number: 440

Correspondence about efforts to recover Heineman Home for the Aged near Hanover, which JDC would use as a children’s vacation home. Correspondence indicates that agreement was reached with British authorities, but was superseded when British authorities cited military necessity for their continued use of property.

Germany, Heineman Home for the Aged, 1946-1948

Old Folder Number: 441

Correspondence, reports concerning a coordinating committee established to process cases for immigration to the U.S. under the Displaced Persons Act.

Germany, HIAS AID Coordinating Committee for Jewish DPs Immigrating to the USA, 1949-1952

Old Folder Number: 442

Correspondence, accounting memos on creation, mission, functions and prospects of the International Trust Corporation GMBH, which was intended as an instrument to transfer individual and institutional restitution proceeds outside of Germany.

Germany, International Trust Corporation, 1950-1952

Old Folder Number: 443

Correspondence, beginning with a private request for bed linens, regarding supplies for Jewish hospital in Hamburg, including discussion about whether it is practical to rehabilitate hospital.

Germany, Israelitische Krankenhaus Hamburg, 1948-1949

Old Folder Number: 451

Correspondence (1946) related to U.S. military government permission to borrow Nazi-looted Jewish books collected by Allies and stored at the Offenbach Depot. Statistics (1949) on books, education and religious supplies. List (1950?) of Jewish institutions that received samples of materials published by JDC in Germany.

Germany, Offenbach Archival Depot (Rothschild Library), 1946-1950

Old Folder Number: 453

Correspondence with Eric Warburg regarding rehabilitation, reconstruction, maintenance and use of Warburg property.

Germany, Warburg Children’s Home, Blankenese, 1945-1951

Old Folder Number: 382

Monthly narrative and statistical reports from the Operation, Welfare, Legal and Transportation Departments, mainly from the U.S. Occupation Zone, with limited number from the British and French zones, on services for displaced persons. Memos, correspondence regarding Foehrenwald.

Germany, Displaced Persons, 1951

Old Folder Number: 383

Narrative and statistical reports on activities, services for displaced persons mainly from the U.S. Occupation Zone, with limited number from the British and French Zones (monthly reports are incomplete; May and September are missing); reports indicate cuts, shifts in educational, vocational activities due to emigration of personnel, cuts in international relief funds, legal conditions affecting displaced persons.

Germany, Displaced Persons, 1950

Old Folder Number: 384

Monthly narrative and statistical reports from the Welfare, Legal Departments, as well as general summaries, from the U.S. Occupation Zone (incomplete); some reports from operations in British Zone on services for displaced persons. Materials on medical services, law enforcement.

Germany, Displaced Persons, VII-XII.1949

Old Folder Number: 385

Narrative and statistical reports on activities in the U.S. Occupation Zone (January, February, March-April 1949), including review of emigration, employment, education, supplies, transportation, legal services and medical care. Correspondence, reports on closing and consolidation of DP camps.

Germany, Displaced Persons, I-VI. 1949

Old Folder Number: 386

Monthly narrative and statistical reports on activities in U.S. Occupation Zone for displaced persons (incomplete). Correspondence, reports on emigration, problems with maintenance services at Jewish Agency transit points.

Germany, Displaced Persons, X-XII.1948

Old Folder Number: 386

Monthly narrative and statistical reports on services for displaced persons from Welfare, Legal and Transportation Departments (July report is limited). Correspondence, reports on order of International Refugee Organization (IRO) to impose deduction on DPs’ salaries as reimbursement for costs of care and maintenance.

Germany, Displaced Persons, VII-IX.1948

Old Folder Number: 387

Monthly narrative and statistical reports on welfare and legal services for displaced persons. Miscellaneous on impact of U.S. immigration law, impact of German currency reform. Correspondence on Czechoslovak refugees in U.S. Zone, who are primarily non-Jewish.

Germany, Displaced Persons, V-VI. 1948

Old Folder Number: 387

Reports, correspondence covering activities for displaced persons for the periods January-February and March-April 1948, including emigration, employment, medical, welfare, legal and religious services, supplies, transportation.

Germany, Displaced Persons, I-IV. 1948

Old Folder Number: 388

Narrative and statistical materials on emigration, medical, welfare, employment activities for displaced persons in U.S. Occupation Zone. Memo (November 1, 1947, unsigned) on JDC organizational structure in U.S. Occupation Zone; JDC “U.S. Zone Bulletin” (mimeo, November 5, 1947).

Germany, Displaced Persons, XI-XII.1947

Old Folder Number: 388

Monthly narrative and statistical reports on welfare, education, relief services for displaced persons; miscellaneous correspondence.

Germany, Displaced Persons, VII.-X.1947

Old Folder Number: 389

Monthly reports on JDC operations, services for displaced persons. Correspondence, memos and references in reports to JDC’s relations with Central Committee of Liberated Jews. Materials on organizing work force, nature of employment, salaries and payments.

Germany, Displaced Persons, I.-VI. 1947

Old Folder Number: 390

Reports, correspondence on different conditions, needs, legal status, political sentiments toward displaced persons, refugees, infiltratees in U.S. and British Occupation Zones. List (December 31, 1946) of communities, cities, camps in Germany and Austria serviced by JDC.

Germany, Displaced Persons, VII.-XII.1946

Old Folder Number: 391

Correspondence, minutes of meetings (of official and voluntary agencies) regarding varying conditions, needs, legal status of displaced persons, refugees in occupation zones. Miscellaneous on border closings in Germany and Austria. Press release (May 3, 1946) and transcript of radio interview (WNYC; May 6, 1946) with Lavy Becker review of needs and relief activities for 60,000 Jews in U.S. Occupation Zone.

Germany, Displaced Persons, IV.-VI. 1946

Old Folder Number: 391

Reports on displaced persons’ and infiltratees’ demographics; on food, relief, welfare, relief supplies, medical services, distribution, education. Materials on UNRRA activities.

Germany, Displaced Persons, I.-III. 1946

Old Folder Number: 392

Cables, correspondence on desperate situation of displaced persons and infiltratees, need to segregate Jews from other displaced persons; urgent need for supplies, personnel arrangements. Statistics/estimates throughout reports in file. Summary by Saul Elgart of JDC activities in 7th Army Area (August 1-October 15, 1945), including demographics, organization of structure, services. Detailed set of narrative reports on conditions in U.S. Occupation Zone, prepared for JDC staff conference in Germany (October 21, 1945); main report on Bavaria by Eli Rock summarizes conditions in camps (Feldafing, Landsburg, Foehrenwald, Deggendorf); includes establishment, scope and services of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews; role of and relations with U.S. military and UNRRA. Excerpt from “Protocol 16,” meeting (November 15, 1945) of Central Committee of Liberated Jews with representatives of American Jewish organizations (not including JDC); notes struggle to be recognized as “Jews” who are distinct from other DPs, desire to emigrate to Palestine. Reports by Dr. Joseph M. Shapiro (October 25-November 12, 1945, and December 22, 1945) on health of DPs, sanitation and medical conditions in camps, problems of lurking ailments as result of victims’ years of starvation; ailments and DPs’ conditions vary according to nature of persecution and whether they were in concentration camps, in hiding; reports note that flux in number of arrivals and internal migration of DPs creates problems in arranging services.

U.S. military order (November 30, 1945, signed by Lt. Col. H. Gorman) modifies policy on segregation of DPs, allowing Jews to have separate blocks within camps, but says that no special camps exclusively for Jews will be established. Lavy Becker memos (December 16 and 17, 1945) on efforts by U.S. military and UNRRA to move infiltratees to Bamburg (including problems of UNRRA and interference of Zionist groups). Becker correspondence (December 26, 1945) on accommodations for infiltratees (transient camps, scouted by military authorities); need to relieve severe overcrowding; problem with transport by U.S. military, army failed to take into account that individuals could not be ordered about as could soldiers and that refugees had a fear of the unfamiliar, as well as fleftening memories of transports. “Summary of recent reports from JDC representatives in Germany” (Paris Memo No. 1114, December 18, 1945) includes summary on emigration, DPs’ morale and disillusionment with aid from outside world; inadequacy of supplies; notes establishment of Central Committee of Liberated Jews; Foehrenwald set up as all-Jewish camp.

Germany, Displaced Persons, X.-XII. 1945

Old Folder Number: 392

Correspondence, cables on JDC status and ability to function in areas with displaced persons; on personnel, transit, relief supplies, clothing. Miscellaneous on establishment of new conditions for displaced persons; General Dwight D. Eisenhower speech. Contains list of survivors getting medical care at Neustadt, Holstein.

Germany, Displaced Persons, VIII.-IX.1945

Old Folder Number: 393

Correspondence, cables urgently seeking staff, recruitment, transportation after Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF) permits JDC to work with stateless people in Germany, under UNRRA “coordination.” Correspondence, personal letters from servicemen to families describing situation of Jews, appealing for help for victims. Correspondence concerning survivors seeking to locate relatives. Some names of survivors liberated from Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald who were seeking relatives are listed.

Germany, Displaced Persons, I.-VII. 1945

Old Folder Number: 394

Reports, limited correspondence concerning or from DP camps in Germany. Materials about camps include references to welfare, lefts, activities of displaced persons. Contains list of potential emigrants to Palestine from Garmisch-Partenkirchen; list of names from Vilseck.

Germany, Displaced Persons, Camps A-Z, 1945-1948, 1953

Old Folder Number: 395

Reports and correspondence on conditions and needs of Jews in Belsen, relations with Central Committee of Liberated Jews, newspaper Jews and non-Jews in camp, urgent need for personnel. Contains January 15, 1945, list of individuals interned in Belsen, Theresienstadt and Birkenau; also, names appear, between June and October 1945, in records of JDC “postal service” arranging mail to and from Belsen.

Germany, Displaced Persons Camps: Bergen-Belsen, 1945-1949

Old Folder Number: 397

Materials concerning the closing of Camp Foehrenwald, including German and JDC aid for resettlement, local integration or emigration; letters on procedures for emigration grants.

Germany, Displaced Persons Camps: Foehrenwald, VII.-XII.1954

Old Folder Number: 397

Materials concerning efforts to liquidate Camp Foehrenwald, German emigration grants, resistance of remaining displaced persons and antagonism of “Actions Committee” toward JDC.

Germany, Displaced Persons Camps: Foehrenwald, I.-VI. 1954

Old Folder Number: 398

Materials on origin of camp, the transition to an all-Jewish camp for displaced persons, activities and services within camp, including welfare and education programs. Miscellaneous on transfer of Foehrenwald from the auspices of the International Refugee Organization (IRO) to German authority, and liquidation plans, need to resettle remaining population.

Germany, Displaced Persons Camps: Foehrenwald, 1945-1953

Old Folder Number: 399

Miscellaneous correspondence from soldiers regarding aid to displaced persons.

Germany, Displaced Persons, Appeals for Aid to the DPs by Soldiers Stationed in Germany, 1945

Old Folder Number: 400

Statistical reports from installations, with wide range of data; limited space for narrative. Some comments on legal matters, problems matching individuals to camp jobs due to emigration. List of installations (by type: camp, Jewish community, sanatorium, children’s center) in U.S. Occupation Zone.

Germany, Displaced Persons, Quarterly Installation Reports, 1948

Old Folder Number: 401

92 page report in Yiddish.

Germany, Displaced Persons, Report by S.L.Haber, 1949

Old Folder Number: 402

Correspondence, memos and excerpts from JDC committee minutes and reports regarding the “returnees,” referring to European Jews who return to Europe, often illegally, from Israel in hopes of emigrating elsewhere in the West. Correspondence on extent of International Refugee Organization’s (IRO) legal protection for returnees, on Israel’s responsibility for returnees.

Germany, Displaced Persons, Returnees, 1950-1954

Old Folder Number: 404

Memos, correspondence, reports on development of vocational training, employment and other work projects for displaced persons, determining what was feasible (supplies, personnel, coordination and cooperation of agencies and camp committees), and how to compensate (or motivate) workers.

Germany, Displaced Persons, Workers Projects, 1947-1948

Old Folder Number: 409

Monthly reports (incomplete) on emigration; statistics on numbers of emigrants, method of transport, destinations; List of ships’ passengers. Correspondence about problem of resettling intermarried refugee families in U.S. Emigrants’ names appear in emigration reports.

Germany, Emigration, 1951

Old Folder Number: 409

Correspondence, reports on emigration, expenses, limited migration options for displaced persons. Statistics on numbers of emigrants, method of transport, destinations; lists of ships’ passengers. Cables on ships’ departures, flights. Emigrants’ names appear in monthly emigration reports.

Germany, Emigration, 1950

Old Folder Number: 410

Monthly narrative and statistical reports (incomplete), including numbers of emigrants, means of transport, destinations; some emigrants’ names. Cables on departures of ships, flights. Miscellaneous on prospects, problems of immigration to Israel. Press release (June 2, 1949) on first emigration of Jews from Berlin and Russian Zone of Germany. Some emigrants’ names are listed in monthly reports; however, ships’ names do not correlate to specific passengers.

Germany, Emigration, 1949

Old Folder Number: 411

Monthly narrative and statistical reports (incomplete), including numbers of emigrants, method of transport, destinations. Cables on ship departures. Miscellaneous on limits of immigration to Palestine/Israel. Miscellaneous on immigration to U.S., including correspondence (1946-1947) about purchase of educational materials, manuals regarding American citizenship.

Germany, Emigration, 1946-1948

Old Folder Number: 412

Materials regarding Otto Weiler, representative of the Reichsvereinigung, endeavoring to secure blocked deposits of German refugees; includes small list of depositors. Correspondence on liquidating the account. Lists names of depositors in the so-called Weiler-Simon Account.

Germany, Emigration, Deposits, Simon Weiler Account, Max Perlman Transportation Fund, 1939-1944, 1945-1950

Old Folder Number: 413

Correspondence regarding Rabbi Herman Meisels’ efforts to secure JDC aid for 150-600 yeshiva students emigrating from the British Occupation Zone.

Germany, Emigration: Yeshiva Students, 1947-1948

Old Folder Number: 417

Reports on health, medical needs and services, personnel, health education; impact on and prospects for emigration for the hard-core, including those who have TB, are aged, chronically ill, physically or mentally handicapped.

Germany, Medical, 1950

Old Folder Number: 418

Reports on health, medical needs and services; including personnel, administration, maternal and child care, medical facilities. Recurring reviews of needs, installations, capacity for care of the elderly, chronically ill, handicapped, mental patients; statistics on patients, services, staff. Medical Information Bulletins (in German).

Germany, Medical, 1949

Old Folder Number: 418

Materials on initial assessment of survivors’ and refugees’ medical conditions, JDC’s relationshipwith authorities and with Gusendheitsamt of Central Committee of Liberated Jews, and organization of health program. Reports on medical activities (incomplete) include statistics on illness, treatments, procedures, capacity, patients.

Germany, Medical, 1945-1948

Old Folder Number: 423

Cables, reports on relief supplies, warehouse inventories, distribution and logistics, including problems due to Berlin blockade. Memos, notices of military rules for voluntary agencies’ import of relief supplies. Miscellaneous complaints, grievances about distribution, allocations. Correspondence regarding individuals, congregations and organizations that wish to send relief supplies to displaced persons camps.

Germany, Relief Supplies: General, 1947-1948

Old Folder Number: 424

Cables, reports on requests, on shipments of relief supplies, shipping procedures and logistics, warehouse inventories and theft. Queries from individuals and organizations that wish to send relief supplies to DP camps; complaints about distribution.

Germany, Relief Supplies: General, 1946

Old Folder Number: 424

Urgent cables requesting food, funds, clothing, personnel. Cables on shipments, licenses, procedures.

Germany, Relief Supplies: General, 1944-1945

Old Folder Number: 425

Correspondence regarding the provision, production and distribution of general, technical and Hebrew and Yiddish literary and religious books, as well as scientific journals, dictionaries, textbooks, Jewish newspapers and Yiddish plays; special requests for books in Polish and textbooks for medical students.

Germany, Relief Supplies: Books, 1945-1950

Old Folder Number: 426

Cables, correspondence on myriad arrangements, beginning September 15, 1945, to borrow and screen Yiddish and American movies to displaced persons; list of films.

Germany, Relief Supplies: Films, 1945-1949

Old Folder Number: 427

Correspondence regarding groups’ and individuals’ eligibility for food packages; regarding individuals and organizations that wish to send food parcels to Germany. Contains list of names of some survivors of Belsen, Theresienstadt.

Germany, Relief Supplies: Food Packages, 1944, 1945-1948

Old Folder Number: 428

Publication issued by Supply Department (Munich) on allocations, items distributed, rations, procedures. (Incomplete, file includes bulletins 1-18, minus 5, 8, 11).

Germany, Relief Supplies: Information Bulletin, 1948-1950

Old Folder Number: 429

Reports on distribution of Passover supplies; press release (April 2, 1953) on Passover supplies for refugees who escaped from Soviet Occupation Zone to West Berlin.

Germany, Relief Supplies: Kosher Food and Passover Supplies, 1945-1953

Old Folder Number: 430

Cables, correspondence on requests, shipments of supplies; list of supplies. Correspondence (November 1945) regarding purchase of 10 ambulances. Contains list of children at Bad Aibling who were injected with Plasma Globulin.

Germany, Relief Supplies: Medical, 1945-1950

Old Folder Number: 431

Correspondence seeking supplies, including sheet music, (printing) paper, tennis balls, theater equipment, films, books and library materials. List (July 31, 1946) of supplies sent to Germany from the U.S. and Palestine (source of list is not indicated). Memo from S. Lewis Gaber (December 20, 1946) with list of recreational supplies/items needed for a six-month period.

Germany, Relief Supplies: Recreational, 1946-1948

Old Folder Number: 406

Correspondence, reports on the development and organization of educational, religious and cultural activities in U.S. Occupation Zone; correspondence on educational, religious and cultural needs of population and conditions in camps; urgent requests for supplies; statistics on students, books, schools, ORT schools, religious articles, supplies, teachers, including “nonpartisan” mix of religious personnel.

Germany, Educational, Religious & Vocational Activities, 1945-1947

Old Folder Number: 407

Press release (May 2, 1947) on JDC dispatch of German-born Rabbi Michael L. Munk (Adas Yisroel) as the first rabbi in Berlin since prewar days; ending June 1948. Correspondence regarding request by World Union of Progressive Judaism for grant for Reform rabbi in Germany.

Germany, Educational & Religious Activities, Rabbi Michael L. Munk, 1946-1949

Old Folder Number: 376

Correspondence, primarily from Irving Antell (December 23, 1948), on the need to move elderly out of Germany in light of worsening political and material situation.

Germany, Aged, 1948

Old Folder Number: 377

Correspondence, pamphlets on anti-Semitism. Harry Greenstein, adviser on Jewish affairs, correspondence with John McCloy on need for official West German repudiation of anti-Semitism.

Germany, Antisemitism, 1947-1950

Old Folder Number: 378

Correspondence on “classification” of Jews, who qualifies as Jewish, for purpose of receiving supplies and services; role of local community in determining eligibility for relief. See 45/54 # 139, Austria, Org., Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, Wein, 1945-1954

Germany, Baptized Jews, 1946-1947

Old Folder Number: 379

Correspondence on graves registrations, cemetery desecrations.

Germany, Cemeteries, 1947-1949, 1955

Old Folder Number: 420

Correspondence, memos on prisoners George Politzer, Roman Reich-Bogacki, Leo Ferleger and others at Ziegenheim and in the Allied National Prison at Werl, in the British Occupation Zone. (Materials on the prisoners are incomplete.)

Old Folder Number: 432

Cables, correspondence on Jewish population. Statistical reports (incomplete) through December 1950; usually include camp figures, include age and gender of DPs; occasional narrative analysis of the demographics, primarily in U.S. Occupation Zone and British Occupation Zone.

Germany, Statistics of Jewish Population, 1946-1950, 1954

Old Folder Number: 433

Report (June 13, 1949) from Max Leuchter, a DP lawyer who worked for JDC and assisted in prosecution of Bremen businessman Walter Toebbens, who was convicted of offenses in persecution of Jews as manufacturer in Warsaw Ghetto, whose workers were murdered in November 1943 in Poniatowa, Poland. Press accounts of Toebbens’ trial and subsequent charges against Rudolf Bauch, witness in the proceedings.

Germany, Trial of Toebbens and Bauch, 1949

Old Folder Number: 463

Accounting memos, correspondence regarding currency transactions, currency exchange and financial transfers. Miscellaneous monthly financial/statistical reports of Jewish organizations, including loan kassa and Central Board of Jewish Communities (Conseil Central des Communautes Juives de Grece).

Greece, Financial, 1949-1950

Old Folder Number: 464

Accounting memos on financial transfers; correspondence on currency transactions. Budgets, statistical and narrative budget estimates, including summaries of relief, medical and child care programs.

Greece, Financial, 1948

Old Folder Number: 465

Accounting memos on financial transfers, licenses, currency exchange. Budgets, statistical and narrative summaries of relief, medical and child care programs. Correspondence on fluctuation of currency, effect on operations.

Greece, Financial, 1945-1947

Old Folder Number: 455

Reports on programs, conditions in Greece and within Jewish communities, including relief, reconstruction, vocational training and rehabilitation of artisans, need for religious and cultural leadership. Correspondence includes appeals for aid, communal complaints, status of property restitution law.

Greece, General, 1946-1948

Old Folder Number: 456

Correspondence, reports on political, economic and communal conditions. Materials on extreme destitution, homelessness of returning Holocaust survivors. Report from Greek American Council of role of Greek Jews in war. Correspondence from Finance Ministry on property restitution.

Greece, General, VIII.-XII.1945

Old Folder Number: 457

Reports, correspondence on political, economic and communal conditions, including destitution, homelessness, medical needs, orphans.

Greece, General, I.-VII. 1945

Old Folder Number: 475

Correspondence regarding operations, expenses of home, supported by National Council of Jewish Women, for rehabilitation of girls who had been living in sheltered housing.

Greece, Girls Home and Training Center, Athens, 1945-1949

Old Folder Number: 467

Correspondence, reports on efforts to recover heirless Jewish individual and communal properties, including Greek restitution law and implementing decree; creation, organization and administration of “Heirless Property Foundation”; number of properties and use of proceeds.

Greece, Heirless Assets of Nazi Victims, 1946-1952

Old Folder Number: 472

Cables, correspondence on requests, payments and shipments of relief supplies. Correspondence on government import restrictions, customs delays.

Greece, Relief Supplies, 1945-1950

Old Folder Number: 458

Undated memo by Dr. Cecil Roth on Jewish cemetery in Saloniki (Salonika).

Greece, Cemeteries, 1946

Old Folder Number: 459

Correspondence, press release, minutes of meetings of voluntary agencies regarding aid to victims of earthquakes in Ionian Islands.

Greece, Disasters, 1953-1954

Old Folder Number: 473

List of Holocaust survivors (alphabetical, A-O), resident in Athens in April 1945. Contains list of survivors.

Old Folder Number: 481

Financial-statistical reports of Joint Relief Committee regarding aid to refugees.

Haiti, Financial, 1951-1952

Old Folder Number: 482

Financial-statistical reports of Joint Relief Committee regarding aid to refugees.

Haiti, Financial, 1949-1950

Old Folder Number: 482

Financial-statistical reports, correspondence with Joint Relief Committee regarding aid to refugees.

Haiti, Financial, 1945-1948

Old Folder Number: 493

Accounting memos, cash reports, correspondence on remittances, loan kassas, credit, miscellaneous subventions, budget (1948).

Holland, Financial, 1948-1954

Old Folder Number: 506

Miscellaneous accounting, financial correspondence on transfer of funds. Lists names throughout correspondence.

Holland, Transfer of Funds, 1945-1947

Old Folder Number: 485

Correspondence, reports regarding conditions at liberation, needs, rescue and care of children, commotion between pre- and postwar communal leadership. Miscellaneous on persecution by Nazis.

Holland, General, 1945

Old Folder Number: 508

Miscellaneous correspondence on religious supplies, loan to repair synagogue.

Holland, Rabbinaat der Nederlandsch-Israelietische Hoofdsynagoge te Amsterdam, 1945-1954

Old Folder Number: 490

Financial correspondence, accounting memos on remittances, payments for emigration. Lists names on correspondence, accounting memos.

Holland, Emigration Clearances, 1947-1949

Old Folder Number: 491

Financial correspondence, accounting memos on remittances, payments for emigration. Lists names on correspondence, accounting memos.

Holland, Emigration Clearances, 1946-1947

Old Folder Number: 504

Miscellaneous correspondence, including treatment of claims, for proceeds/income from German Jews’ lift vans, containers of properties that were liquidated in Holland during war. Contains list of names (dated June 8, 1948) of people whose lift vans came into Holland during war.

Holland, Restitution of Property and Heirless Assets, Lift Vans (Containers of Furniture), 1948-1949

Old Folder Number: 498

Correspondence on books, educational materials, religious supplies.

Holland, Relief Supplies: Books, 1946-1947

Old Folder Number: 500

Correspondence, cables on supplies, primarily on purchase of matzot. Gertrude Pinsky letter (October 26, 1945) regarding distribution of kosher food to the Jewish community in Utrecht.

Holland, Relief Supplies: Kosher Food, 1945-1951

Old Folder Number: 501

Cables, correspondence about medical supplies for Holland, primarily from Siegfried Kramarsky (New York).

Holland, Relief Supplies: Medical, 1945-1946