Record Group: Madagascar
Series 1: Madagascar: Administration: General
File 699: Madagascar, General, 1947-1948
Old Folder Number: 906
Correspondence on conditions for Jews on island in Indian Ocean.
Record Group: Mexico
Series 1: Mexico: Administration: Fund-Raising
File 701: Mexico, Fund-Raising, 1949-1952
Old Folder Number: 909
Correspondence on funds raised, problems with united fund-raising campaign. Correspondence on coordination of activities with JDC Buenos Aires office, closure of Mexico City office.
File 702: Mexico, Fund-Raising, 1948
Old Folder Number: 909
Correspondence on commotion and conflicts with united fund-raising campaign, including “trials” for those who declined to donate, JDC rejection of participation in united campaign.
File 703: Mexico, Fund-Raising, 1947
Old Folder Number: 908
Correspondence, reports on opening JDC headquarters in region, organization of and problems with fund-raising.
File 704: Mexico, Fund-Raising, 1944-1946
Old Folder Number: 908
Correspondence, reports on opening JDC headquarters in region, organization of and problems with fund-raising.
Series 2: Mexico: Administration: General
File 700: Mexico, General, 1945-1953
Old Folder Number: 907
Correspondence, reports on the organization of JDC operations in Mexico, including personnel arrangements, fund-raising.
Series 3: Mexico: Subject Matter: Emigration and Immigration
File 705: Mexico, Immigration, 1946-1950
Old Folder Number: 910
Correspondence on stringency in Mexican immigration law, problems with visas; local appeals for funds.
Record Group: Middle East
Series 1: Middle East: Administration: General
File 706: Middle East, General, 1946-1950
Old Folder Number: 911
Miscellaneous correspondence, including materials on survey seeking data in “US interests” in the Middle East.
Record Group: Moslem Countries
Series 1: Moslem Countries: Administration: General
File 707: Moslem Countries, General, 1948-1953
Old Folder Number: 913
Correspondence with Congregational Christian Service Committee regarding funneling aid to Jews in Moslem countries. Survey on Jewish communities in Near East.
Record Group: Morocco
Series 1: Morocco: Administration: Financial
File 51: Morocco, Financial, 1948-1954
Old Folder Number: 72,73
Finance and accounting memos on transactions and disbursements; correspondence about errors in reports.
File 52: Morocco, Financial, 1945-1947
Old Folder Number: 72
Monthly financial statements; finance and accounting memos on transactions and disbursements.
File 58: Morocco, Transfer of Funds, Berger, Meyer and Jack, 1954
Old Folder Number: 84
Correspondence (primarily between JDC and Federation of Jewish Philanthropies in Pittsburgh, home of Meyer Berger) regarding transactions and transfer of funds in Morocco on behalf of Meyer and Jack Berger.
Series 2: Morocco: Administration: General
File 44: Morocco, General, 1954
Old Folder Number: 61
Reports on Jewish communities, communal, social and political conditions in Morocco, Spanish Morocco.
File 45: Morocco, General, 1947-1953
Old Folder Number: 62
Memos, extracts from JDC meetings’ minutes, Correspondence, press releases document JDC establishment of office in Morocco in 1949 for social welfare and organization/coordination activities to combat squalor, disease and hunger. American Jewish Committee staff report (1950) on social and political situation of Jews in Morocco.
Series 3: Morocco: Administration: Personnel
File 57: Morocco, Staff Meetings, 1954
Series 4: Morocco: Localities
File 61: Morocco, Sefrou, 1950
Old Folder Number: 89
Report and press release regarding emergency aid, evacuation and services for Jewish community after flood.
File 62: Morocco, Taroudant, 1954
Old Folder Number: 90
Correspondence about use of the isolated town of Taroudant as a “test case” for multi-service relief programs for towns in North Africa.
File 71: Morocco, Tangier, General, 1945-1954
Old Folder Number: 103
Correspondence regarding lefts of Comite Local d’Assistance aux Refugees to act as JDC representative vis-à-vis international administration of Tangier. Contains list of families seeking to emigrate.
File 72: Morocco, Tangier, Financial, 1948-1954
Old Folder Number: 105
Accounting memos on remittances, payments, financial transfers. Financial and statistical reports.
File 73: Morocco, Tangier, Financial, 1945-1947
Old Folder Number: 106
Accounting memos on remittances, payments, financial transfers; financial and statistical reports. Contains list of refugees who received cash relief.
File 74: Morocco, Tangier, Yeshiva Ets Hayim, 1953
Old Folder Number: 108
Correspondence in which JDC declines to be agent to transmit payments to Toledano Foundation Yeshiva in Tangier. Report on yeshiva. [NOTE: ALTHOUGH NAME “ETS HAYIM” APPEARS ON FILE NAME, IT IS NOT MENTIONED IN FILE.]
Series 5: Morocco: Organizations
File 63: Morocco, Aide Scolaire, Oeuvre d’Assistance aux Enfants Indigents des Ecoles de l’Alliance Israelite de Marrakech, 1945, 1961
Old Folder Number: 91
Summary (1945) of Aide Scolaire activities since 1927 to feed, clothe and aid poor children in Jewish schools; annual report (1959).
File 64: Morocco, Alliance Israelite Universelle, 1946-1954
Old Folder Number: 92
Memos, correspondence regarding Alliance Israelite Universelle (AIU) proposals for education.
File 66: Morocco, Orphelinat Murdoch-Bengio, 1945-1954
Old Folder Number: 96
Correspondence, JDC press release regarding home for orphaned and homeless children from the Casablanca mellah, organized in memory of Murdoch Bengio.
File 67: Morocco, OSE, 1950-1954
Old Folder Number: 98
Report on OSE-Maroc’s activities (1950-1951); survey of services, relations with communities and organizations.
Series 6: Morocco: Subject Matter: Emigration and Immigration
File 49: Morocco, Emigration, 1948-1954
Old Folder Number: 70
Correspondence, memos on JDC-Jewish Agency division and coordination of services for Moroccan emigration to Israel.
Series 7: Morocco: Subject Matter: Medical
File 59: Morocco, Tuberculosis (Centre Anti-Tuberculeux Israelites), 1945-1952
Old Folder Number: 85
Miscellaneous on incidence of TB, medical care available, requests for services.
Morocco, Tuberculosis (Centre Anti-Tuberculeux Israelites), 1945-1952
Series 8: Morocco: Subject Matter: Property
File 47: Morocco, Community Property, 1949-1954
Old Folder Number: 67
Correspondence regarding use and disposal of properties purchased by JDC for projects that did not materialize.
Series 9: Morocco: Subject Matter: Relief Supplies
File 55: Morocco, Relief Supplies, 1948-1954
Old Folder Number: 80
Memos on payments, shipments of relief supplies, duty-free certifications and problems with liability for customs charges.
File 56: Morocco, Relief Supplies: Medical, 1950-1952
Old Folder Number: 81
Memos on shipments of supplies of Aueromycin and Animal Protein Factor capsules.
Series 10: Morocco: Subject Matter: Religious, Cultural, and Educational
File 48: Morocco, Education, 1947-1954
Old Folder Number: 69
Reports, correspondence, press releases regarding the organization, limits on Jewish and secular education in Morocco.
File 65: Morocco, Lubavitch Yeshiva, 1951-1954
Old Folder Number: 94
JDC memos, correspondence regarding expansion of Lubavitch yeshivot in Morocco.
File 68: Morocco, Ozar Hatorah, 1952-1954
Old Folder Number: 101
Correspondence, reports, accounting letters on financial transfers, receipts of Ozar Hatorah religious schools.
File 69: Morocco, Ozar Hatorah, 1951
Old Folder Number: 102
Ozar Hatorah annual report (1951). Correspondence on negotiations between Ozar Hatorah, Alliance Israelite Universelle and community on Talmud Torah, under construction in Casablanca.
File 70: Morocco, Ozar Hatorah, 1947-1950
Old Folder Number: 102
Correspondence, memos regarding Ozar Hatorah’s efforts to establish religious education in Morocco; role and limits of JDC assistance to Ozar Hatorah. Ozar Hatorah report on the first year of its activities (1946-1947).
File 46: Morocco, Building Activities, 1953
Old Folder Number: 66
Correspondence regarding offer by the firm Craig-Stanton to participate in construction projects in North Africa.
File 50: Morocco, Feeding Program, 1948-1950
Old Folder Number: 71
orrespondence regarding the use of a special “food product” for extremely malnourished young children, provided by Lederle Laboratories.
File 54: Morocco, Nutrition, 1950-1952
Old Folder Number: 77
Correspondence on JDC arrangements for participation in an experimental nutrition program, using “Animal Protein Factor capsules” and “Aueromycin,” provided by Lederle Laboratories.
File 60: Morocco, Youth Program, 1945-1954
Old Folder Number: 87
Correspondence, bill for materials for youth program in Casablanca. Correspondence with Boy Scouts of America regarding materials, with Jewish Agency regarding teachers.
Record Group: Mozambique
Series 1: Mozambique: Administration: Financial
File 75: Mozambique, Transfer of Funds for Refugees in Lourenco Marques, 1949
Old Folder Number: 109
Memos on freight charges, relief supplies. Correspondence regarding South African Jewish Appeal’s problems with domestic currency conversion regulations.
Mozambique, Transfer of Funds for Refugees in Lourenco Marques, 1949
Record Group: New Zealand
Series 1: New Zealand: Administration: General
File 708: New Zealand, General, 1944, 1946-1953
Old Folder Number: 915
Miscellaneous on immigration, care of orphans, fund-raising and remittances.
Record Group: Nicaragua
Series 1: Nicaragua: Administration: General
File 709: Nicaragua, General, 1942, 1947-1948, 1950
Old Folder Number: 8
Miscellaneous correspondence, primarily on fund-raising.
Record Group: North Africa
Series 1: North Africa: Administration: Financial
File 7: North Africa, Bank Accounts, 1949-1950
Old Folder Number: 8
JDC resolutions, memos on authorized signatories for bank accounts in North Africa.
Series 2: North Africa: Administration: General
File 5: North Africa, General, 1950-1954
Old Folder Number: 6
Correspondence, reports on the deteriorating political, economic, socials conditions and impact on a half-million Jews in North Africa.
File 6: North Africa, General, 1945-1949
Old Folder Number: 7
Reports on Jews in Moslem lands; and on political, social and economic conditions of Jews in North Africa, where majority live in squalor, with high rate of disease.
Series 3: North Africa: Subject Matter: Emigration and Immigration
File 9: North Africa, Emigration, 1944-1954
Old Folder Number: 11
Reports on multinational origins and character of refugee problem in North Africa.
Series 4: North Africa: Subject Matter: Medical
File 11: North Africa, Medical, 1947-1952
Old Folder Number: 14
Field reports on poor medical and hygienic conditions in Morocco and Tunisia.
Series 5: North Africa: Subject Matter: Reconstruction
File 10: North Africa, Loan Kassas, 1951-1954
Old Folder Number: 13
Reports on economic aid to Jewish artisans in Morocco and Tunisia.
Series 6: North Africa: Subject Matter: Relief Supplies
File 12: North Africa, Relief Supplies, 1949-1954
Old Folder Number: 15
Reports, correspondence on shipments of relief supplies, as well as of donations of clothing.
Series 7: North Africa: Subject Matter: Religious, Cultural, and Educational
File 8: North Africa, Education, 1946-1954
Old Folder Number: 10
Reports on general, religious and vocational education and training.
Record Group: Norway
Series 1: Norway: Administration: Financial
File 712: Norway, Financial, 1945-1954
Old Folder Number: 918
Miscellaneous accounting memos, correspondence on payments, Norwegian loan; occasional monthly financial reports of Jodiske Sosialmend.
Series 2: Norway: Administration: General
File 710: Norway, General, 1946-1954
Old Folder Number: 916
Miscellaneous on Norwegian aid to refugees, displaced persons and the hard-core. Correspondence on the small size and solid organization of the local Jewish community.
Series 3: Norway: Subject Matter: Children
File 711: Norway, Children, 1946-1951
Old Folder Number: 917
Correspondence, cables on proposal to bring 2,000 children to Norway; miscellaneous on children’s home.
Series 4: Norway: Subject Matter: Refugees
File 713: Norway, Refugees, 1946-1950
Old Folder Number: 920
Narrative reports on displaced persons in Norway. Correspondence about Norway’s willingness to accept refugees and impact of severe housing shortage.
File 714: Norway, Refugees: TB Patients, 1952-1954
Old Folder Number: 921
Miscellaneous, primarily press releases on rehabilitation in Norway of TB and post-TB refugees.
Series 5: Norway: Subject Matter: Relief Supplies
File 715: Norway, Relief Supplies: General, 1947-1948
Old Folder Number: 922
Cables regarding relief supplies.
Record Group: Panama
Series 1: Panama: Administration: Fund-Raising
File 717: Panama, Fund-Raising, 1945-1954
Old Folder Number: 924
Fund-raising letters, possible contributors; descriptions of communal factions in Panama
Series 2: Panama: Administration: General
File 716: Panama, General, 1945-1950, 1956
Old Folder Number: 923
Miscellaneous correspondence on aid to individuals in/via the Canal Zone.
Series 3: Panama: Subject Matter: Emigration and Immigration
File 718: Panama, Immigration, 1948-1952
Old Folder Number: 925
Correspondence on Panama Canal as transit point.
Record Group: Paraguay
Series 1: Paraguay: Administration: Financial
File 954: Paraguay, Financial, 1947-1952
Old Folder Number: 1169
Accounting correspondence on migration expenses, including flights (primarily from Europe). Lists names on correspondence regarding migration expenses.
Series 2: Paraguay: Administration: General
File 953: Paraguay, General, 1945-1948, 1950-1951
Old Folder Number: 1168
Correspondence on conditions for refugees, fund-raising. Beatriz Pollack report (October 15, 1947) on migration, reception, fund-raising, kassas.
Series 3: Subject Matter: Emigration and Immigration
File 955: Paraguay, Immigration, 1946-1949, 1952
Old Folder Number: 1170
Correspondence on restrictions on and suspension of immigration, effects of revolution in Paraguay.
Record Group: Peru
Series 1: Peru: Administration: Financial
File 957: Peru, Financial, 1947-1955
Old Folder Number: 1173
Correspondence regarding aid to transmigrants, transportation deposits, debts of Comite de Proteccion a los Immigrantes del Peru. References to Comite’s financial statements (not included).
Series 2: Peru: Administration: Fund-Raising
File 958: Peru, Fund-Raising, 1941-1944, 1945-1954, 1959
Old Folder Number: 1174
Correspondence regarding the organization and results of fund-raising.
Series 3: Peru: Administration: General
File 956: Peru, General, 1941, 1945-1947, 1949-1952, 1956
Old Folder Number: 1171
Miscellaneous correspondence, including International Committee of the Red Cross fund-raising letter (May 9, 1947).
Series 4: Peru: Organizations
File 960: Peru, Organizations, Printed Matter, 1941, 1944-1946
Old Folder Number: 1172
Bulletins of Sociedad de Beneficencia Israelita, “Nostros” magazine (November 1944).
Series 5: Peru: Subject Matter: Emigration and Immigration
File 959: Peru, Immigration, 1945-1948
Old Folder Number: 1175
Correspondence, news accounts on government immigration policy. Miscellaneous financial reports.
Record Group: Philippines
Series 1: Philippines: Administration: General
File 719: Philippines, General, 1953-1954
Old Folder Number: 927
Financial reports, primarily on payments for medical care; correspondence regarding Jewish community’s claim to U.S. War Claims Commission for damage to community building.
File 720: Philippines, General, 1951-1952
Old Folder Number: 927
Financial reports, accounting letters; correspondence regarding Jewish community’s claim to U.S. War Claims Commission for damage to Temple Emil Congregation. “Information Bulletins” (assorted issues), mimeos produced by community, including reprints of speeches, articles.
File 721: Philippines, General, 1950
Old Folder Number: 928
Financial reports, accounting letters; materials regarding communal claim to U.S. War Claims Commission. Occasional “Information Bulletins,” mimeos produced by community, including reprints of speeches, articles.
File 722: Philippines, General, 1949
Old Folder Number: 928
Financial reports, accounting letters. Community “Information Bulletins”; January 1949 bulletin includes statistical data on Jewish community.
File 723: Philippines, General, 1948
Old Folder Number: 928
Financial reports, accounting letters, correspondence on migration. Community “Information Bulletins.”
File 724: Philippines, General, 1946-1947
Old Folder Number: 929
Miscellaneous financial reports, correspondence, including on Servicemen’s Trust Fund (contributions to local community from American Jewish troops stationed in Philippines), reopening of Temple Emil.
File 725: Philippines, General, IX.-XII.1945
Old Folder Number: 930
File 726: Philippines, General, II.-VIII.1945
Old Folder Number: 930
Correspondence on conditions of local Jewish community. Correspondence, cables regarding fund-raising by U.S. service members to rebuild Manila synagogue.
Record Group: Poland
Series 1: Poland: Administration: Financial
File 753: Poland, Financial: Advances, 1945-1949
Old Folder Number: 940
Cables, accounting memos on loans, claims, remittances.
File 754: Poland, Financial: Advances, 1939-1942
Old Folder Number: 940
War-era correspondence, cables, accounting memos on loans, claims, remittances.
File 755: Poland, Financial: Budget, 1948
File 756: Poland, Financial: Budget, 1945-1947
Old Folder Number: 946
Miscellaneous on JDC allocations, arrangements with Polish government and Central Jewish Committee.
File 757: Poland, Financial: Summary of Budgets, 1947
Old Folder Number: 947
Budgets of subventioned organizations for first half of 1947.
File 758: Poland, Financial: Commodity Remittance, 1948
Old Folder Number: 959
File 795: Poland, Transfer of Funds: General, 1945-1950
Old Folder Number: 998
File 796: Poland, Transfer of Funds: General, 1936-1941
Old Folder Number: 999
File 797: Poland, Transfer of Funds: A-Z, 1945-1949
Old Folder Number: 1000
Correspondence and releases on payments against individual claims.
File 798: Poland, Transfer of Funds: Agudath Israel, 1947-1948
Old Folder Number: 1001
File 799: Poland, Transfer of Funds: Adolf Berman, 1946-1950
Old Folder Number: 1002
File 800: Poland, Transfer of Funds: Efraim Birenbaum, 1948-1954
Old Folder Number: 1003
File 801: Poland, Transfer of Funds: Matys Checinski, 1945-1950
Old Folder Number: 1004
File 802: Poland, Transfer of Funds: Dr. Bogumil Endelman, 1947
Old Folder Number: 1005
File 803: Poland, Transfer of Funds: Hebrew University, 1939-1948
Old Folder Number: 1006
File 804: Poland, Transfer of Funds: Independent Zionists, 1947-1948, 1952
Old Folder Number: 1007
Poland, Transfer of Funds: Independent Zionists, 1947-1948, 1952
File 805: Poland, Transfer of Funds: Boleslav Kobryner, 1947-1951
Old Folder Number: 1008
File 806: Poland, Transfer of Funds: Marek Koenigstein, 1946-1948
Old Folder Number: 1009
File 807: Poland, Transfer of Funds: Ludwig Szenfeld Krakowski, 1946-1947
Old Folder Number: 1010
Poland, Transfer of Funds: Ludwig Szenfeld Krakowski, 1946-1947
File 808: Poland, Transfer of Funds: Jacob Kurtz, 1946-1947
Old Folder Number: 1011
File 809: Poland, Transfer of Funds: Leon Leslau, 1946-1949
Old Folder Number: 1012
File 810: Poland, Transfer of Funds: Motion Picture Export Association, 1947-1949
Old Folder Number: 1013
Correspondence on purchase, exchange of zlotys.
Poland, Transfer of Funds: Motion Picture Export Association, 1947-1949
File 812: Poland, Transfer of Funds: Judel and Estera Rozin, 1946-1947
Old Folder Number: 1016
Poland, Transfer of Funds: Judel and Estera Rozin, 1946-1947
File 813: Poland, Transfer of Funds: Tadeusz Plucer Sarna, 1947-1948
Old Folder Number: 1015
Correspondence regarding transfer of funds for rental of Children’s Home at Srodborow.
File 814: Poland, Transfer of Funds: Jacob Wulach (Walach), 1946
Old Folder Number: 1017
File 815: Poland, Transfer of Funds: Dr. Zorach Warhaftig, 1946-1948
Old Folder Number: 1018
File 816: Poland, Transfer of Funds: Warsaw Discount Bank, 1945-1950
Old Folder Number: 1025
Correspondence on JDC’s $40,000 claim.
Series 2: Poland: Administration: General
File 727: Poland, General, 1950
Old Folder Number: 935
Correspondence, reports on closure, liquidation of JDC operations, impact on services (as of December 31, 1949). “Jewish Life in Poland,” publication of Polish Research and Information Service (New York) on institutions, organizations, activities.
File 728: Poland, General, 1949
Old Folder Number: 935
Correspondence, reports, news accounts of JDC operations, activities, local conditions, “Jewish Life in Poland,” publication of Polish Research and Information Service (New York) on institutions, organizations, activities. Neue Zürcher Zeitung article (January 3, 1949) on “accelerated Sovietization in Poland.”
File 729: Poland, General, VII.-XII.1948
Old Folder Number: 936
Reports, correspondence on JDC activities, financial matters, local conditions. Publications of Polish Research and Information Service (New York): “Religious Life in Poland” and “Jewish Life in Poland,” including reference (December 1948) to possible creation of Central Archives and Museum of Polish Jewry and the Warsaw Ghetto archives of Emanuel Ringelbaum.
File 730: Poland, General, I.-VI.1948
Old Folder Number: 936
Correspondence and reports on JDC activities, local economic and political conditions, cooperatives, religious and Zionist activities. Polish Research and Information Service (New York) material on institutions, organizations, activities; Leon Shapiro essay on Poland from American Jewish Year Book, Vol. 49 (1947-1948).
File 731: Poland, General, VII.-XII.1947
Old Folder Number: 937
Correspondence, reports on JDC activities, communal and political conditions. World Jewish Congress report (October 17, 1947) on organizations and attitudes toward Jews in Poland. Report (October 7, 1947) by Mordecai Ezekiel (consultant, Council of Jewish Federations). “Jewish Life in Poland,” “Poland of Today,” publications of Polish Research and Information Service (New York).
File 732: Poland, General, I.-VI.1947
Old Folder Number: 937
Correspondence, reports from William Bein on JDC activities, communal and political conditions. Correspondence with Polish officials on mechanism for currency exchange.
File 733: Poland, General, X.-XII.1946
Old Folder Number: 933,938
Reports, correspondence on JDC activities, expenditures for welfare, rehabilitation, reconstruction.
File 734: Poland, General, VII.-IX.1946
Old Folder Number: 933,938
Correspondence on local conditions, welfare and maintenance for repatriates from Soviet Union, negotiations with Central Jewish Committee on aid. Financial correspondence on currency transactions, exchange rates, sales of supplies.
File 735: Poland, General, I.-VI.1946
Old Folder Number: 933,938
Correspondence regarding repatriates from Soviet Union, including welfare, relief, maintenance; negotiations with Central Jewish Committee on aid. Miscellaneous on criticism in Yiddish media.
File 736: Poland, General, VII.-XII.1945
Old Folder Number: 939
Miscellaneous correspondence from Joseph Schwartz on conditions, logistics of providing relief, operations. Douglas Steere report on Quaker visit to Poland (September 30-October 10).
File 737: Poland, General, I.-VI.1945
Old Folder Number: 939
Reports, correspondence on conditions, logistics, including report on emergency relief problem by “Polish Auxiliary Group.”
Series 3: Poland: Administration: Personnel
File 777: Poland, Personnel, 1949
Old Folder Number: 978
Series 4: Poland: Localities
File 763: Poland, Localities: A-K, 1939, 1945-1949
Old Folder Number: 1020
Cables, correspondence on relief, aid from landsmanschaften, attempts to locate survivors, determine size of surviving communities. [See 45/54 # 794, Poland, Survivors, Localities]
File 764: Poland, Localities: L-P, 1944-1954
Old Folder Number: 1021
Cables, correspondence on relief, aid from landsmanschaften, attempts to locate survivors, determine size of surviving communities. [See 45/54 # 794, Poland, Survivors, Localities]
File 765: Poland, Localities: R-Z, 1944-1953
Old Folder Number: 1023
Cables, correspondence on relief, aid from landsmanschaften, attempts to locate survivors, determine size of surviving communities. [See 45/54 # 794, Poland, Survivors, Localities]
Series 5: Poland: Organizations
File 739: Poland, AJDC Archives in Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw, 1939-1944, 1963-1967
Old Folder Number: 944
Material on project to microfilm JDC records, archives in Poland. List (January 4, 1964) of materials (1940-1941) microfilmed.
Poland, AJDC Archives in Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw, 1939-1944, 1963-1967
File 770: Poland, Organizations and Institutions A-Z, 1946-1949
Old Folder Number: 1027
Correspondence, cables on supplies, relief.
File 771: Poland, Agudath Israel Kibbutzim, 1946-1949
Old Folder Number: 1028
Correspondence on aid, supplies.
File 772: Poland, Central Committee of Jews in Poland, 1946-1949
Old Folder Number: 1029
Miscellaneous on delegation’s visit to U.S., relief work, Warsaw Ghetto commemoration, on committee’s relations with World Jewish Congress.
File 773: Poland, Central Committee of Jews in Poland, Delegation to USA and South America, 1946-1948
Old Folder Number: 1030
Correspondence on delegation, its agenda, meetings. Minutes of meeting (May 23, 1946) of delegation at JDC headquarters.
Poland, Central Committee of Jews in Poland, Delegation to USA and South America, 1946-1948
File 774: Poland, Jewish Historical Institute, 1947
Old Folder Number: 1032
Correspondence on purchase of materials, archives, photographs. [See 45/54 # 739, Poland, AJDC Archives in Jewish Historical Institute]
File 775: Poland, Towarzystwo Ochrony Zdrowia (TOZ), 1945-1949
Old Folder Number: 1033
Miscellaneous on JDC support. See 45/54 # 766, Poland, Medical: General
File 776: Poland, United Poale Zion Organization in Poland, 1947-1950, 1962-1963
Old Folder Number: 1034
Accounting memos.
Poland, United Poale Zion Organization in Poland, 1947-1950, 1962-1963
Series 6: Poland: Subject Matter: Property
File 778: Poland, Property, Donations, 1947-1949
Old Folder Number: 962
Correspondence regarding properties, inheritances in Poland that individuals wish to donate to JDC; memos on JDC policy against receiving such gifts.
File 779: Poland, Property, Restitution, 1946-1949, 1957
Old Folder Number: 991
Materials on property lefts, property claims in Poland, role of JDC in restitution.
Series 7: Poland: Subject Matter: Children
File 741: Poland, Children: General, 1942, 1944, 1946-1949, 1961, 1982
Old Folder Number: 953
Miscellaneous on care, maintenance, emigration, education and reclamation of Jewish children, including those in non-Jewish homes.
Poland, Children: General, 1942, 1944, 1946-1949, 1961, 1982
File 742: Poland, Children: Children’s Home, Bytom, 1947
Old Folder Number: 951
Miscellaneous regarding children’s home at Bytom.
File 743: Poland, Children: Children’s Home, Cracow, 1946-1949
Old Folder Number: 952
Miscellaneous regarding children’s home in Cracow, including correspondence on kashrut.
File 744: Poland, Children: Children’s Home, Srodborow, 1947-1948
Old Folder Number: 954
Miscellaneous correspondence on children’s home in Srodborow.
File 745: Poland, Children: Children’s Home, Warsaw, 1947
Old Folder Number: 955
Miscellaneous correspondence.
File 746: Poland, Children: Children’s Home, Zakopane, 1946
Old Folder Number: 956
Miscellaneous correspondence, including anticipation that the Galitzianer Farband in Buenos Aires will help care for orphans.
File 747: Poland, Children: Orphanage, Brzezany, 1940, 1947-1948
Old Folder Number: 957
Correspondence on effort to recover property that had been orphanage (now located in Soviet Union); history of Brzezany orphanage in Poland between 1920 and 1939.
File 748: Poland, Children: Children’s TB Sanatorium, Srodborow, 1948
Old Folder Number: 958
Correspondence regarding supplies, donations for children’s sanatorium in Srodborow.
Series 8: Poland: Subject Matter: Emigration and Immigration
File 752: Poland, Emigration, 1946-1951
Old Folder Number: 963
Correspondence, memos on frantic flight, Polish emigration restrictions, problems of Jewish refugees, orphans in France. Financial memos, cables on emigration payments.
Series 9: Poland: Subject Matter: Medical
File 766: Poland, Medical: General, 1945-1950
Old Folder Number: 976
Correspondence, reports on medical condition of population, needs, supplies, equipment and facilities; medical center in Lower Silesia named in memory of David Guzik.
File 767: Poland, Medical: Assistance to the Blind, 1947
Old Folder Number: 981
Correspondence on care, supplies for the blind.
File 768: Poland, Medical: “Maladie de Famine” (“Effects of Starvation on Health”), 1946-1953
Old Folder Number: 969
Correspondence on the 1946 publication of hand-written manuscript produced by physicians in the Warsaw Ghetto on “Maladie de Famine” (“Choroba Glodowa,” “Effects of Starvation on Health”), unique scientific study of effects of the slow starvation of the population.
Poland, Medical: “Maladie de Famine” (“Effects of Starvation on Health”), 1946-1953
File 769: Poland, Medical: Nurses’ Training Course, 1947-1948
Old Folder Number: 977
Correspondence regarding training course (curriculum, texts) for nurses in Walbrzych.
Series 10: Poland: Subject Matter: Reconstruction
File 750: Poland, Cooperatives and Loan Kassas, 1949-1950
Old Folder Number: 961
Reconstruction Department report on “Economic Rehabilitation of Polish Jewry, 1945-49.” Correspondence on supplies for needle trades, activities of the Jewish Bank for Rehabilitation and producers’ cooperatives.
File 751: Poland, Cooperatives and Loan Kassas, 1945-1948
Old Folder Number: 961
Miscellaneous on legal changes affecting the Jewish cooperatives. Correspondence on machinery, supplies.
Series 11: Poland: Subject Matter: Refugees
File 780: Poland, Refugees: General, 1946-1948
Old Folder Number: 980
Correspondence, cables about panic, flight of Jews out of Poland, needs of refugees in transit to UNRRA camps in Germany and Austria.
File 781: Poland, Refugees, Repatriation from USSR, 1945-1947
Old Folder Number: 988
Correspondence regarding massive influx of Jews from Soviet Union, their poor condition, urgent need for emergency aid.
Series 12: Poland: Subject Matter: Relief Supplies
File 782: Poland, Relief Supplies, 1948-1952
Old Folder Number: 982
Cables, correspondence on relief supplies, including food, Passover supplies, machinery, raw materials, clothing.
File 783: Poland, Relief Supplies, 1947
Old Folder Number: 928
Cables, correspondence on relief supplies, including food, Passover supplies, machinery, raw materials, clothing. Correspondence about unsuitability of sewing
File 784: Poland, Relief Supplies, 1946
Old Folder Number: 983
Cables, correspondence on relief supplies, including food, Passover supplies, machinery, raw materials, clothing, inventories.
File 785: Poland, Relief Supplies, VII.-XII.1945
Old Folder Number: 984
Reports, cables, correspondence on relief supplies, including food, medicines, machinery, raw materials, clothing.
File 786: Poland, Relief Supplies, I.-VI. 1945
Old Folder Number: 984
Correspondence, reports on relief supplies, including food, medicines, machinery, raw materials, clothing.
File 787: Poland, Relief Supplies: Books and Films, 1945-1950
Old Folder Number: 985
Correspondence requesting books (general, reference and texts), films.
File 788: Poland, Relief Supplies: Floods, 1947
Old Folder Number: 968
Correspondence regarding contributions of relief supplies to flood victims.
File 789: Poland, Relief Supplies: Food Packages, 1944-1948
Old Folder Number: 986
Correspondence on food packages, including requests from individuals and communities to arrange for food parcels in Poland, Ukraine, Vilna. Correspondence regarding disruption of parcel service from Tehran.
File 790: Poland, Relief Supplies: Medical, 1945-1951
Old Folder Number: 987
Correspondence regarding medical supplies, including extensive appeals seeking medicines on behalf of individuals.
File 791: Poland, Religious Supplies, 1945, 1949
Old Folder Number: 979
Correspondence regarding supplies, facilities for religious life, including ritual objects, education, mikvaot.
Series 13: Poland: Subject Matter: Religious, Cultural, and Educational
File 792: Poland, Schools, 1946-1949
Old Folder Number: 992
Correspondence, including war claim against JDC for payment against August 1939 check to Central Jewish School Organization.
File 738: Poland, Anti-Semitism, 1945
Old Folder Number: 941
News accounts from Polish newspaper Robotnik on anti-Jewish rioting in towns in which a number of Jews lost their lives and comment from a Polish priest warning against anti-Jewish excesses.
File 740: Poland, Bulletins, I.-II. 1947
Old Folder Number: 948
Miscellaneous announcements, short news items compiled into monthly “bulletins” (carbon copies).
File 749: Poland, Complaints, 1946
Old Folder Number: 960
Materials on arrangements for visit to Poland by delegation from landsmanschaften after criticism of the JDC in the Yiddish press; correspondence responding to criticism.
File 760: Poland, Inquiries, 1945-1954
Old Folder Number: 973
Miscellaneous inquiries about JDC activities and opportunities to provide relief to individuals, institutions and communities in Poland.
File 761: Poland, Jewish Writers, 1946-1948
Old Folder Number: 974
Correspondence regarding aid to Yiddish/Jewish writers, including appeal from Sholem Asch (June 12, 1946).
File 762: Poland, Lawyers, 1947-1948
Old Folder Number: 975
List of Jewish lawyers in Poland, presumably those available to render legal aid. Lists names of Jewish lawyers in Poland.
File 793: Poland, Survivors, Lists, 1945
Old Folder Number: 994
Names primarily of survivors from Lublin who have relatives in the U.S. Contains list of Holocaust Survivors.
File 794: Poland, Survivors, Localities A-Z, 1945-1948
Old Folder Number: 995
Correspondence regarding supplies, contributions from landsmanschaften. See 45/54 # 763-765, Poland, Localities
File 817: Poland, Warsaw Ghetto Commemorations and Monuments, 1944, 1945-1950, 1954
Old Folder Number: 1024,1026
Correspondence on financing monument; printed materials.
Poland, Warsaw Ghetto Commemorations and Monuments, 1944, 1945-1950, 1954
Record Group: Portugal
Series 1: Portugal: Administration: Financial
File 819: Portugal, Financial, 1945-1954
Old Folder Number: 1036
Accounting memos, correspondence on remittances, currency transfers for maintenance of refugees.
File 820: Portugal, Financial Reports: JDC, 1948-1949
Old Folder Number: 1036
Monthly financial reports on operations (incomplete); International Refugee Organization (IRO) statements. Lists names on International Refugee Organization (IRO) statements.
File 821: Portugal, Financial Reports: JDC, 1947
Old Folder Number: 1037
Monthly financial reports on operations (incomplete).
File 822: Portugal, Financial Reports: Comunidade Israelite de Lisboa, I.-VI. 1949
Old Folder Number: 1039
Financial and statistical reports.
Portugal, Financial Reports: Comunidade Israelite de Lisboa, I.-VI. 1949
File 823: Portugal, Financial Reports: Comunidade Israelite de Lisboa, 1948
Old Folder Number: 1038
Financial and statistical reports.
Portugal, Financial Reports: Comunidade Israelite de Lisboa, 1948
File 824: Portugal, Financial Reports: Comunidade Israelite de Lisboa, 1945-1947
Old Folder Number: 1038
Financial and statistical reports.
Portugal, Financial Reports: Comunidade Israelite de Lisboa, 1945-1947
Series 2: Portugal: Administration: General
File 818: Portugal, General, 1944, 1945-1952
Record Group: Romania
Series 1: Romania: Administration: Financial
File 838: Romania, Financial, 1945-1948
Old Folder Number: 1052
Accounting correspondence, memos on financial transfers, currency exchange, expenses. Contains names listed on relief lists.
Series 2: Romania: Administration: General
File 825: Romania, General, 1950-1953
File 826: Romania, General, 1949
Old Folder Number: 1043
Correspondence on government nationalizations, decree (March 8, 1949) closing JDC and ORT operations. Jewish Telegraphic Agency accounts (datelined Bucharest) on government seizures, communal organization, criminal prosecutions.
File 827: Romania, General, VII.-XII.1948
Old Folder Number: 1044
Correspondence on government nationalizations of banks, hospitals, schools. Jewish Telegraphic Agency accounts on purges. Accounting memos, correspondence on remittances.
File 828: Romania, General, I.-VI.1948
Old Folder Number: 1044
Correspondence, reports, including Elias Costiner report (April 1948) on JDC activities. Jewish Telegraphic Agency accounts on new constitution, legal rights. Miscellaneous accounting memos.
File 829: Romania, General, VII.-XII.1947
Old Folder Number: 1045
Correspondence, reports on situation of Jews in Romania. Miscellaneous complaints against JDC. Correspondence on exchange rates, currency stabilization, commodities.
File 830: Romania, General, I.-VI.1947
Old Folder Number: 1045
Summaries of activities, correspondence on operations. Correspondence regarding currency exchange, trade with government, grain purchases.
File 831: Romania, General, VII.-XII.1946
Old Folder Number: 1046
Memos, statistical reports on activities, repatriation.
File 832: Romania, General, I.-VI.1946
Old Folder Number: 1046
Reports on activities, miscellaneous on repatriation.
File 833: Romania, General, 1945
Old Folder Number: 1047
Correspondence, cables on arrangements for JDC operations, including personnel, financing, government approval for financial transactions.
Series 3: Romania: Localities
File 839: Romania, Localities: A-Z, 1944-1948
Old Folder Number: 1061
Correspondence on condition, appeals for aid, complaints. Memo (December 8, 1946) on Jews in Bukovina. Contains list of survivors in Botosani, 1944.
File 840: Romania, Jassy (Jasi), 1947
File 841: Romania, Transylvania, 1944-1948
Old Folder Number: 1062
Correspondence regarding requests for aid; competition and conflict between Jewish factions.
Series 4: Romania: Organizations
File 843: Romania, Agudat Israel, 1947-1948
Old Folder Number: 1063
Miscellaneous correspondence, including requests for aid.
File 844: Romania, Central Organization of Hapoel Hamizrachi, 1946-1947
Old Folder Number: 1067
Appeals for funds for orphanage, hachsharot for children. [See also 45/54 # 834, Romania, Children]
Romania, Central Organization of Hapoel Hamizrachi, 1946-1947
File 845: Romania, Cultura Agricola, 1945-1949
Old Folder Number: 1064
Correspondence, including discontinuation of JDC aid. Printed report on 1945-1949 activities.
File 846: Romania, International Red Cross, 1945-1946
Old Folder Number: 1066
Correspondence (French, German) regarding maternal and child care, medical, feeding assistance in Bucharest, Jassy.
Series 5: Romania: Subject Matter: Children
File 834: Romania, Children, 1945-1948
Old Folder Number: 1049
Correspondence on relief, maintenance and emigration of children.
Series 6: Romania: Subject Matter: Emigration and Immigration
File 837: Romania, Emigration, 1947-1951
Old Folder Number: 1051
Correspondence on arrangements, expenses of emigration; inconsistent government policy on emigration.
Series 7: Romania: Subject Matter: Medical
File 842: Romania, Medical, 1945-1949
Old Folder Number: 1054
Materials on requests for medical supplies, correspondence on government nationalizations of hospitals. [See also 45/54 # 852, Romania, Relief Supplies: Medical]
Series 8: Romania: Subject Matter: Property
File 847: Romania, Property: Lengyel Sanatorium, Cluj, 1946-1949
Old Folder Number: 1068
Correspondence regarding proposal to buy facility in Cluj.
Series 9: Romania: Subject Matter: Reconstruction
File 835: Romania, Cooperatives, 1945-1949
Old Folder Number: 1053
Correspondence, memos, minutes of meetings on development of loan kassas, cooperatives; miscellaneous on effects of government nationalizations on cooperatives.
Series 10: Romania: Subject Matter: Refugees
File 848: Romania, Refugees, 1945-1948
Old Folder Number: 1055
Materials on flight of Romanian Jews, refugees, obligation of JDC to provide relief, maintenance.
Series 11: Romania: Subject Matter: Relief Supplies
File 849: Romania, Relief Supplies: General, 1948-1950
Old Folder Number: 1056
Correspondence on supplies, including export permits, insurance, customs requirements.
File 850: Romania, Relief Supplies: General, 1945-1947
Old Folder Number: 1056
Cables, correspondence on supplies, including logistics of distribution, permits, insurance, customs requirements. Correspondence on currency exchange.
File 851: Romania, Relief Supplies: Food Packages, 1944-1950, 1954
Old Folder Number: 1057
Inquiries, correspondence about feasibility, value of sending parcels to Romania.
File 852: Romania, Relief Supplies: Medical, 1945-1949, 1951
Old Folder Number: 1058
Accounting memos on supplies, UNRRA financing, customs charges, theft.
Series 12: Romania: Subject Matter: Religious, Cultural, and Educational
File 836: Romania, Religious-Cultural Life, 1945-1950, 1955
Old Folder Number: 1048
Miscellaneous regarding religious education, religious supplies.
Series 13: Romania: Subject Matter: Restitution
File 853: Romania, Restitution, 1947-1949
Old Folder Number: 1059
Materials on government decree (June 29, 1948) on restoration of Jewish property.
Record Group: Singapore
Series 1: Singapore: Administration: General
File 854: Singapore, General, 1946, 1949
Old Folder Number: 1069
Correspondence about conditions in the local Jewish community.
Record Group: South Africa
Series 1: South Africa: Administration: General
File 13: South Africa, General, 1951-1954
Old Folder Number: 16
News accounts (South Africa Jewish Times) on JDC support to OSE (1954).
Series 2: South Africa: Organizations
File 14: South Africa, Jewish Board of Deputies, Remittances, 1947-1948
Old Folder Number: 17
Accounting memos and correspondence on remittances to and from individuals via the Board of Deputies. Contains list of names on individual remittances.
South Africa, Jewish Board of Deputies, Remittances, 1947-1948
File 15: South Africa, Jewish Board of Deputies, Remittances, 1946
Old Folder Number: 18
Accounting memos and correspondence on remittances to and from individuals via the Board of Deputies. Contains list of names on individual remittances.
File 16: South Africa, Jewish Board of Deputies, Remittances, 1945
Old Folder Number: 19
Accounting memos and correspondence on remittances to and from individuals via the Board of Deputies. Contains list of names on individual remittances.
File 17: South Africa, Jewish Appeal, 1948-1954
Old Folder Number: 20
Report on socio-economic conditions of Jews in continental Europe, additional burden on JDC to care for 250,000 displaced persons in Germany, Austria, Italy and Cyprus after the demise of the UNRRA; references to struggle of Jews in Eastern Europe to regain economic foothold as region changes to a controlled economy. Several issues of Reconstruction, the newspaper of the South African Jewish Appeal.
File 18: South Africa, Jewish Appeal, 1947
Old Folder Number: 21
Correspondence regarding communal pledges and South Africa’s “participation agreement” with JDC.
File 19: South Africa, Jewish Appeal, 1945-1946
Old Folder Number: 22
Correspondence on South Africa’s “participation agreement” with JDC; South Africa offers “welfare team” to work with JDC in Europe. Correspondence/cables regarding payments, export permits, relief shipments and requests for funds.
File 20: South Africa, ORT/OSE, 1951-1954
Old Folder Number: 23
Correspondence on financing ORT/OSE, use of funds.
Series 3: South Africa: Subject Matter: Refugees
File 21: South Africa, Refugees in Mauritius, 1944-1945, 1963
Old Folder Number: 24
Reports, correspondence on the conditions and needs of European Jewish detainees who were refused entrance to Palestine in 1940 and sent to Mauritius, an island under British control; reached Israel in August 1945.
File 22: South Africa, Refugees in Nyassaland, 1946
Old Folder Number: 25
Report by the “Council for Refugee Settlement” on conditions in Nyassaland, a “native protectorate,” where 98 Jewish evacuees from Cyprus had been for 30 months, as of January 1946.
Record Group: South America
Series 1: South America: Administration: Financial
File 865: South America, Financial, 1950-1954
Old Folder Number: 1075,1076
Accounting correspondence, memos on expenditures, emigration payments, remittances, exchange rates.
File 866: South America, Financial, 1949
Old Folder Number: 1077
Miscellaneous correspondence, financial statements, accounting memos.
File 867: South America, Financial, 1948
Old Folder Number: 1077
Miscellaneous correspondence, accounting memos, including currency exchange and allowances for cost of living. Lists names of passengers from Rio de Janeiro to Asuncion, 1948.
File 868: South America, Financial, 1945-1947
Old Folder Number: 1075,1077
Miscellaneous correspondence, accounting memos, efforts to centralize accounting control, bookkeeping.
Series 2: South America: Administration: Fund-Raising
File 869: South America, Fund-Raising, 1953-1954
Old Folder Number: 1079
Miscellaneous materials on unifying fund-raising campaign.
File 870: South America, Fund-Raising, 1951-1952
Old Folder Number: 1080
Correspondence on JDC fund-raising campaign.
File 871: South America, Fund-Raising, 1950
Old Folder Number: 1081
Miscellaneous correspondence on fund-raising.
File 872: South America, Fund-Raising, 1949
Old Folder Number: 1081
Materials on cessation of JDC functional activities in favor of fund-raising.
File 873: South America, Fund-Raising, 1948
Old Folder Number: 1082
Correspondence on united fund-raising campaign.
File 874: South America, Fund-Raising, 1947
Old Folder Number: 1083
Correspondence on united fund-raising campaigns and on fund-raising throughout South America, including Cuba, Mexico. Correspondence on legal requirements for transfers of funds, currency exchange. Miscellaneous newspaper accounts (Yiddish, Spanish).
File 875: South America, Fund-Raising, 1945-1946
Old Folder Number: 1084
Miscellaneous correspondence, reports, including visit of H.M. Caiserman.
Series 3: South America: Administration: General
File 855: South America, General, 1950-1954
Old Folder Number: 1070
Miscellaneous correspondence, news accounts.
File 856: South America, General, 1948-1949
Old Folder Number: 1071
Reports, correspondence, minutes of meetings of South American staff regarding fund-raising, competition and hostility of Zionists; problems with migration, including visas, accommodations, supplies, exports. Correspondence on reduction in JDC functional activities.
File 857: South America, General, 1947
Old Folder Number: 1071
Minutes of meetings of South American staff regarding immigration, fund-raising, need for personnel. Miscellaneous newspaper accounts.
File 858: South America, General, 1946
Old Folder Number: 1072
Jacob Lightman correspondence on JDC activities, operations through South America. Miscellaneous newspaper accounts, circulars on migration services.
File 859: South America, General, 1945
Old Folder Number: 1072
Correspondence on operations, fund-raising, refugee resettlement in South America. Miscellaneous correspondence on fund-raising, including commotion with World Jewish Congress.
Series 4: South America: Administration: Personnel
Series 5: South America: Administration: Publicity
File 860: South America, Printed Matter: Hechos y Cifras, 1944-1950
Old Folder Number: 1073
Copies of JDC bulletin in Spanish. [ARTIFACTS: JDC BULLETINS IN SPANISH; SOME DISPLAY QUALITY.]
File 861: South America, Printed Matter: Noit un Hilf, 1947-1949
Old Folder Number: 1073
Bulletins in Spanish on JDC activities.
File 862: South America, Printed Matter: Fatos e Numeros, 1947-1949
Old Folder Number: 1073
Pamphlets in Portuguese on JDC activities.
File 863: South America, Printed Matter: Various, 1945-1948, 1960
Old Folder Number: 1073
Miscellaneous materials, including reprints of essays from American Jewish Year Book
Series 6: South America: Organizations
File 864: South America, Advisory Council of Latin America, 1951
Old Folder Number: 1074
Correspondence with individual Jewish communities, communal leaders regarding formation of Advisory Council of Latin America, the Consejo Latino Americano del Joint (CONSEJO).
Series 7: South America: Subject Matter: Emigration and Immigration
File 876: South America, Immigration, 1949-1954
Old Folder Number: 1085
Miscellaneous correspondence, reports on transit, maintenance, visas. Contains list of individuals who had emigration deposits with Argentine consul in Italy; with memo of January 26, 1951.
File 877: South America, Immigration, 1946-1948
Old Folder Number: 1086
Memos, correspondence on immigration procedures, financing, immigrants’ expectations, adaptation. Names of individual immigrants assisted, monthly reports for August, September and October 1948.
Series 8: South America: Subject Matter: Reconstruction
File 878: South America, Loan Funds, 1945, 1946-1949
Old Folder Number: 1087
Series 9: South America: Subject Matter: Religious, Cultural, and Educational
File 880: South America, Religious Education: Scholarships, Yeshiva College (New York), 1944-1948
Old Folder Number: 1092
Correspondence on proposal, selection, financing and other arrangements for South American students who received scholarships to study at the rabbinical school of Yeshiva College in New York.
South America, Religious Education: Scholarships, Yeshiva College (New York), 1944-1948
Record Group: Spain
Series 1: Spain: Administration: Financial
File 973: Spain, Financial, 1945-1952
Old Folder Number: 1194b
Accounting memos, financial reports on expenses, remittances.
Series 2: Spain: Administration: General
File 970: Spain, General, 1945, 1948-1954
Old Folder Number: 1192
Miscellaneous correspondence, including materials on Spanish nationality of Sephardim, consternation over aid to communists. Diplomatic Information Office (Madrid) publication: “Spain and the Jews” (1949).
Series 3: Spain: Administration: Publicity
File 971: Spain, AJDC Weekly Reports, 1945
Old Folder Number: 1194a
Unsigned weekly reports (March-August 1945) summarizing emigration, welfare, refugee aid activities, news accounts.
Series 4: Spain: Subject Matter: Refugees
File 974: Spain, Refugees, 1943-1944-, 1945-1947, 1949-1950, 1952-1953, 1962
Old Folder Number: 1195
Miscellaneous reports on aid to refugees. Francisco Franco decree (December 29, 1948) regarding citizenship for Sephardim from Egypt, Greece. Names listed on memos regarding people who received aid January and March 1944, February 1945.
Spain, Refugees, 1943-1944-, 1945-1947, 1949-1950, 1952-1953, 1962
Series 5: Spain: Subject Matter: Religious, Cultural, and Educational
File 972: Spain, Education, Students, 1954
Old Folder Number: 1193
Correspondence on proposal for student center and kosher canteen in Madrid, for students from Spanish Morocco.
Record Group: Sweden
Series 1: Sweden: Administration: Financial
File 977: Sweden, Financial, 1945-1954
Old Folder Number: 1200
Financial reports, correspondence regarding remittances, expenses, currency exchange, bookkeeping.
Series 2: Sweden: Administration: General
File 975: Sweden, General, 1945-1951, 1954
Old Folder Number: 1197
Correspondence on communal conditions, including Judah Shapiro reports on community institutions, refugees. Correspondence on needs of the Orthodox.
Series 3: Sweden: Organizations
File 980: Sweden, Association of Polish Jews, 1945-1947
Old Folder Number: 1198
Correspondence, appeals for fund, aid.
File 981: Sweden, Mosaiska Forsamlingen, 1945-1948, 1950
Old Folder Number: 1204
Correspondence on acitivities, financing.
Series 4: Sweden: Subject Matter: Children
File 976: Sweden, Children, 1945-1948
Old Folder Number: 1199
Correspondence regarding needs of Orthodox children, including children’s homes, foster homes for orphans, adoption.
Series 5: Sweden: Subject Matter: Property
File 979: Sweden, Heirless Assets, 1949-1950
Old Folder Number: 1202
Correspondence regarding unsuccessful efforts to stimulate government interest in restitution
Series 6: Sweden: Subject Matter: Refugees
File 982: Sweden, Refugees, 1950, 1952-1954, 1955
Old Folder Number: 1205
Miscellaneous on Sweden’s acceptance, selection of refugees.
File 983: Sweden, Refugees, 1945-1949
Old Folder Number: 1205
Correspondence on demographics of refugees, relief and other assistance provided by Swedish government and Mosaiska Forsamlingen. Correspondence on needs of Orthodox refugees. Contains list of names of individuals (A-J) who wrote to relatives in U.S. in December 1945.
Series 7: Sweden: Subject Matter: Relief Supplies
File 984: Sweden, Relief Supplies, 1945-1947, 1949
Old Folder Number: 1203
Correspondence, cables on supplies, expenses.
Series 8: Sweden: Subject Matter: Vocational Training
File 978: Sweden, Hachscharah, 1945-1948
Old Folder Number: 1201
Miscellaneous financial and statistical reports on activities.
Record Group: Switzerland
Additional content from this period may be found in the Switzerland record group of the New York office 1933-1944 collection, item ID 515719.
Series 1: Switzerland: Subject Matter: Property
File 985: Switzerland, Heirless Assets of Nazi Victims, 1946-1950, 1953
Old Folder Number: 1207
File and documents are in 33/44 collection # 1025
Switzerland, Heirless Assets of Nazi Victims, 1946-1950, 1953
Series 2: Switzerland: Subject Matter: Restitution
File 986: Switzerland, Restitution: General, 1945-1953
Old Folder Number: 1208
File and documents are in 33/44 collection # 1027
Record Group: Syria
Series 1: Syria: Administration: General
File 987: Syria, General, 1945, 1947-1952
Old Folder Number: 1212
Correspondence, reports regarding means to aid to Jews in Syria.
Series 2: Syria: Subject Matter: Religious, Cultural, and Educational
File 988: Syria, Education: Alliance Israelite Universelle, Damascus, 1945-1946
Old Folder Number: 1213
Correspondence regarding remittances.
Syria, Education: Alliance Israelite Universelle, Damascus, 1945-1946
Record Group: Tanganyika
File 76: Tanganyika, Refugees, 1945-1949
Old Folder Number: 111
Correspondence regarding article in Jewish Morning Journal (March 12, 1948) about deportation of Jews from Tanganyika to French Occupation Zone of Germany; International Refugee Organization (IRO) says it does not forcibly deport people. (Article not in file.)
Record Group: Trinidad
Series 1: Trinidad: Administration: General
File 989: Trinidad, General, 1945-1951
Old Folder Number: 1215
Correspondence, including by George Greenspun, on communal conditions, fund-raising, loan fund.
Record Group: Tunisia
Series 1: Tunisia: Administration: Financial
File 81: Tunisia, Financial, 1945-1954
Old Folder Number: 120
Accounting memos regarding payments, disbursements. Monthly and quarterly financial reports (incomplete) from JDC office in Tunis.
Series 2: Tunisia: Administration: General
File 77: Tunisia, General, 1945-1954
Old Folder Number: 114
Extensive material on demographics, services, tensions and needs of Jewish community of Tunisia.
Series 3: Tunisia: Localities
File 82: Tunisia, Djerba, 1948-1953
Old Folder Number: 112
Reports on demographics, local services on isle of Djerba.
Series 4: Tunisia: Subject Matter: Emigration and Immigration
File 79: Tunisia, Emigration, 1949-1954
Old Folder Number: 117
Memos on possible emigration of Jews from Tunis to colony of Sosua, on political situation in 1954.
Series 5: Tunisia: Subject Matter: Medical
File 83: Tunisia, Medical, 1948-1954
Old Folder Number: 123
Reports on medical, public health and social problems in Tunisia. Press release on progress in TB control.
Series 6: Tunisia: Subject Matter: Relief Supplies
File 84: Tunisia, Relief Supplies, 1948-1954
Old Folder Number: 124
Accounting memos regarding payments for relief supplies. Correspondence, cables on insurance, shipments, supplies, duty-free receipts.
Series 7: Tunisia: Subject Matter: Religious, Cultural, and Educational
File 78: Tunisia, Education, 1949-1954
Old Folder Number: 116
Correspondence on agreement between Alliance Israelite Universelle and Jewish community on education. Field reports (1953) by Stanley Abramovitch.
File 85: Tunisia, Ozar Hatorah, 1952
Old Folder Number: 129
Correspondence on Ozar Hatorah projects, on books for teaching Hebrew.
File 80: Tunisia, Feeding Program, 1948-1954
Old Folder Number: 118
Review and statistics on operations of feeding programs. Press release with recipe on “powdered eggs a la Tunisienne.”
Record Group: Turkey
Series 1: Turkey: Administration: Financial
File 991: Turkey, Financial, 1945-1949
Old Folder Number: 1217
Correspondence on relief, transportation costs and remittances to “Grand Rabbinate” (Jewish community).
Series 2: Turkey: Administration: General
File 990: Turkey, General, 1944, 1945-1950, 1953–1954
Old Folder Number: 1216
Reports, correspondence on communal, political conditions, arrival of refugees.
Series 3: Turkey: Subject Matter: Reconstruction
File 992: Turkey, Loan Kassas, 1948-1949, 1951
Old Folder Number: 1218
Correspondence on debt, liquidation of loan kassas.
Record Group: Uruguay
Series 1: Uruguay: Administration: Financial
File 962: Uruguay, Financial, 1945-1954
Old Folder Number: 1178
Financial statements, reports, accounting memos on expenses, remittances, loans, bank accounts, transportation deposits.
Series 2: Uruguay: Administration: Fund-Raising
File 963: Uruguay, Fund-Raising, 1945-1954
Old Folder Number: 1180
Correspondence on fund-raising campaign organization, united campaigns.
Series 3: Uruguay: Administration: General
File 961: Uruguay, General, 1945-1950, 1952-1954
Old Folder Number: 1176
Miscellaneous letters on administration, fund-raising, migration, aid.
Series 4: Uruguay: Subject Matter: Emigration and Immigration
File 964: Uruguay, Immigration, 1946-1954
Old Folder Number: 1181
Correspondence regarding government immigration regulations, visas, communal responsibility to aid newcomers. Names listed on accounting correspondence regarding passage.
Series 5: Uruguay: Subject Matter: Reconstruction
File 965: Uruguay, Loan Funds, 1948-1954
Old Folder Number: 1186
Miscellaneous on immigration, prospects for loans, financial assistance.
Record Group: USSR
Series 1: USSR: Administration: General
File 993: USSR, General, 1945-1948
Old Folder Number: 1219
Correspondence, news accounts on suppression of Zionism, imprisonment of Zionists.
Series 2: USSR: Subject Matter: Emigration and Immigration
File 994: USSR, Emigration, 1947, 1949
Series 3: USSR: Subject Matter: Relief Supplies
File 997: USSR, Relief Supplies: Medical, 1945-1949
Old Folder Number: 1222
Cables, memos, purchase orders for medical supplies.
File 998: USSR, Relief Supplies: Religious, 1945
Old Folder Number: 1224
Inquiry from Kharkov about acquiring religious supplies.
File 995: USSR, Government Attacks JDC (Doctors’ Plot), 1953
Old Folder Number: 1120A
Newspaper accounts, attacks on JDC.
File 996: USSR, Government Attacks JDC (Doctors’ Plot): Printed Matter, 1953
Old Folder Number: 1120A
Additional printed material; some oversized. [See also 45/54 # 995, USSR, Government Attacks JDC (Doctors’ Plot)]
USSR, Government Attacks JDC (Doctors’ Plot): Printed Matter, 1953
Record Group: Venezuela
Series 1: Venezuela: Administration: General
File 966: Venezuela, General, 1945-1946, 1948,1951-1952, 1956
Old Folder Number: 1189
Miscellaneous correspondence.
Series 2: Venezuela: Administration: Fund-Raising
File 967: Venezuela, Fund-Raising, 1945-1952
Old Folder Number: 1190
Correspondence on fund-raising, remittances, campaign organization, united campaigns.
Series 3: Venezuela: Subject Matter: Emigration and Immigration
File 968: Venezuela, Immigration, 1948-1954
Old Folder Number: 1191
Financial correspondence, reports; accounting memos regarding appeals for funds, administrative expenses, settlement of transportation deposits with Comite Israelita pro Refugiados.
File 969: Venezuela, Immigration, 1945-1947
Old Folder Number: 1191
Correspondence on immigration-related expenses, validity of visas.Contains names on migration lists with financial correspondence.
Record Group: Yugoslavia
Series 1: Yugoslavia: Administration: Financial
File 1001: Yugoslavia, Financial, 1945-1954
Old Folder Number: 1229
Materials on budgets, budget estimates, relief, including relief for transients. Correspondence on supplies, credits, remittances, bookkeeping. Correspondence (1947) on property restitution.
File 1007: Yugoslavia, Transfer of Funds: General, 1946-1947
Old Folder Number: 1235
Correspondence regarding claims.
File 1008: Yugoslavia, Transfer of Funds, A-Z (Loose correspondence), 1941, 1945-1948
Old Folder Number: 1236
Loose correspondence regarding individual claims, financial matters.
Yugoslavia, Transfer of Funds, A-Z (Loose correspondence), 1941, 1945-1948
Series 2: Yugoslavia: Administration: General
File 999: Yugoslavia, General, 1947-1954
Old Folder Number: 1225
Correspondence, reports (1947-1949) on JDC-assisted programs, budgets. News accounts (Yiddish, English) on local communal conditions.
File 1000: Yugoslavia, General, 1945-1946
Old Folder Number: 1226
Correspondence, cables about fate of Yugoslav Jewry. Reports, correspondence on needs of surviving community, including supplies, cash relief, medical care, orphanages and old-age homes.
Series 3: Yugoslavia: Subject Matter: Medical
File 1002: Yugoslavia, Medical, 1946-1947, 1949
Old Folder Number: 1232
Correspondence regarding supplies, medical training, medical books.
Series 4: Yugoslavia: Subject Matter: Refugees
File 1004: Yugoslavia, Refugees, 1945
Old Folder Number: 1232
Miscellaneous correspondence, including appeal for aid from Yugoslav Jews in refugee camp in Egypt. Lists Yugoslav Jews in refugee camp in El Shatt, Egypt, 1945
Series 5: Yugoslavia: Subject Matter: Relief Supplies
File 1005: Yugoslavia, Relief Supplies: General, 1945-1953
Old Folder Number: 1234
Correspondence regarding shipments of supplies, remittances.
Series 6: Yugoslavia: Subject Matter: Religious, Cultural, and Educational
File 1006: Yugoslavia, Religious Life, 1947, 1952
Old Folder Number: 1237
Correspondence on community’s religious, cultural and educational needs.
File 1003: Yugoslavia, Memorial for Jewish Victims of the Holocaust, 1952
Old Folder Number: 1230
Correspondence regarding dedication of five monuments to Jewish victims.
Yugoslavia, Memorial for Jewish Victims of the Holocaust, 1952
Record Group: Zimbabwe
Series 1: Zimbabwe: Administration: Financial
File 86: Zimbabwe, Transfer of Funds, 1947-1951
Old Folder Number: 131
Accounting correspondence regarding location/fate of £20,000 (pounds) in “emigration” funds. Limited correspondence on currency conversions and transfers. Contains list of Rhodesian emigrants and sponsors.