Old Folder Number: 2974

Internal and external correspondence, telegrams, telegram reporting Joseph Schwartz experience in Europe immediately after World War II.

Correspondence, 1945

Old Folder Number: 2973

Internal and external correspondence, telegrams, updates on country activities, press clippings.

Correspondence, 1946

Old Folder Number: 2972

Internal and external correspondence, several telegrams from European Headquarters to New York Headquarters, updates on country activities, several letters and replies regarding donor concerns over political situation in DP camps.

Correspondence, 1947

Old Folder Number: 2971

Internal and external correspondence, telegrams, updates on country activities, press clippings.

Correspondence, 1948

Old Folder Number: 2970

Internal and external correspondence, telegrams, many updates on country activities, press clippings.

Correspondence, 1949

Old Folder Number: 2969

Internal and external correspondence, telegrams, updates on country activities, press clippings.

Correspondence, 1950-1951

Old Folder Number: 3303

Meeting minutes and agendas for meetings with the European Director General, Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz. Updates on programs, briefings on countries, staff, shipments, finance.

European Director Meetings, 1946-1948

Old Folder Number: 3422

Bi-weekly bulletin published by the European Executive Council. Reports by country, program, partner organization, information on direct JDC activity and other relevant information from other organizations and governments.

European Headquarters, Bulletin, 1947

Old Folder Number: 3422

Bi-weekly bulletin published by the European Executive Council. Reports by country, program, partner organization, information on direct JDC activity and other relevant information from other organizations and governments. Primarily 1948.

European Headquarters, Bulletin, 1948-1949

Old Folder Number: 3452 3453 3454

Index to department head meeting files, 1952-1954. Indexes arranged by subject, with reference to meeting/minutes number and page number.

European Headquarters, Department Head Meetings, Index, 1952-1954

Old Folder Number: 3454

Minutes of department head meetings. Minutes include attendance, announcements, suggestions, updates by country and region, local staff matters, planning.

European Headquarters, Department Head Meetings, 1951

Old Folder Number: 3453

Minutes of department head meetings. Minutes include attendance, announcements, suggestions, updates by country and region, local staff matters, planning.

European Headquarters, Department Head Meetings, 1952

Old Folder Number: 3453

Minutes of department head meetings. Minutes include attendance, announcements, suggestions, updates by country and region, local staff matters, planning.

European Headquarters, Department Head Meetings, 1953

Old Folder Number: 3452

Minutes of department head meetings. Minutes include attendance, announcements, suggestions, updates by country and region, local staff matters, planning.

European Headquarters, Department Head Meetings, 1954

Old Folder Number: 3421

Correspondence, memoranda, cables incoming and outgoing. Supplies, negotiations with U.S. government. Letter from European staff to NY staff on receipt of warm winter goods for staff use.

European Headquarters, General, January 1945-May 1946

Old Folder Number: 3420

Correspondence, memoranda, cables incoming and outgoing. Supplies, negotiations with U.S. government, list of personnel, APO mailing information.

European Headquarters, General, June 1946-December 1946

Old Folder Number: 3419

Correspondence, memoranda, cables incoming and outgoing between European Headquarters, NY headquarters and external individuals and agencies. Supplies, negotiations with U.S. government, internal policies, staffing requests, lists of offices and personnel.

European Headquarters, General, 1947

Old Folder Number: 3418

Correspondence, memoranda, cables incoming and outgoing. Supplies, list of personnel, financial, office address information.

European Headquarters, General, 1948

Old Folder Number: 3417

Correspondence, memoranda, cables incoming and outgoing. Supplies, list of personnel, financial, policies and practices, office address information. Memorandum on death of Moses Beckelman, 1955.

European Headquarters, General, 1949-1955

Old Folder Number: 3455

Minutes of European headquarters staff meetings. Minutes include attendance, announcements, suggestions, updates by country and region, local staff matters, planning of country directors’ conferences.

European Headquarters, Staff Meetings, 1945-1948

Old Folder Number: 2977

Contains memoranda of telephone conversations between European staff and several members of the New York staff, primarily Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz and Moses Leavitt.

European Headquarters, Telephone Conversations, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 2977

Contains memoranda of telephone conversations between European staff and several members of the New York staff, primarily Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz and Moses Leavitt.

European Headquarters, Telephone Conversations, 1947-1948

Old Folder Number: 2977

Contains memoranda of telephone conversations between European staff and several members of the New York staff, primarily Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz and Moses Leavitt.

European Headquarters, Telephone Conversations, 1949-1951, 1954

Old Folder Number: 2997

Lists of office holidays, memoranda, correspondence on holiday schedules.

Holidays, 1946-1954

Old Folder Number: 2998 2999

Correspondence, memoranda and cables regarding personal and property insurance for JDC personnel and materials.

Insurance, Domestic, 1945-1954

Old Folder Number: 3004 3005

Correspondence, memoranda and cables regarding personal and property insurance for JDC personnel and materials.

Insurance, Foreign, 1945-1947

Old Folder Number: 3001 3002 3003

Correspondence, memoranda and cables regarding personal and property insurance for JDC personnel and materials.

Insurance, Foreign, 1948-1954

Correspondence on design of JDC and AJDC insignia for labeling of goods, clothing, and food sent overseas. Includes AJDC stencil image. Artifacts removed 9/16/1987, rehoused in location ART987.1, file includes separation sheet.

JDC Insignia, 1947-1948

Old Folder Number: 2974

Primer produced by the research department, containing descriptions and statistical information on JDC programs and countries of operation up to 1945.

JDC Primer, 1945

Old Folder Number: 3275

Letters of appreciation and thanks for JDC services, domestic and foreign. Thanks from individuals and groups addressed to individual JDC staff and the organization for food donations, Sifrei Torah, travel assistance, aid to DP camps. Many letters appear in translation only.

Letters of Thanks, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 3275

Letters of appreciation and thanks for JDC services, domestic and foreign. Thanks from individuals and groups addressed to individual JDC staff and the organization for food donations, Sifrei Torah, travel assistance, aid to DP camps. Many letters appear in translation only. Letters from recipients as well as from American donors and travelers.

Letters of Thanks, 1947-1961

Old Folder Number: 2974

Memoranda containing statistical information on JDC programs, updates on relief activities, reports on specific meetings, and administrative and internal policy matters.

Memoranda, 1945

Old Folder Number: 2973

Memoranda containing statistical information on JDC programs, updates on relief activities, reports on specific meetings, and administrative and internal policy matters. Includes set of country reports prepared for Moses Leavitt.

Memoranda, 1946

Old Folder Number: 2090

Memoranda containing statistical information on JDC programs, budgets, updates on relief activities, reports on specific meetings, and administrative and internal policy matters. Contains memoranda regarding correspondence with donors concerned about political situation in DP camps.

Memoranda, 1947

Old Folder Number: 2088 2089

Memoranda containing statistical information on JDC programs, updates on relief activities, reports on specific meetings, and administrative and internal policy matters. Includes drafts of memoranda prepared for Henry Morgenthau.

Memoranda, 1948-1949

Old Folder Number: 3278

Documentation of memorial plaque to JDC staff killed in Europe in service to JDC. Correspondence with plaque manufacturer, internal correspondence on wording of plaque and names of those to be honored, schedule of plaque dedication, press release, cable announcing dedication.

Memorial Plaque, 1947

Old Folder Number: 3423 3424

Inventories, correspondence, shipping information, cables regarding motor vehicles purchased, owned and operated by JDC in Europe.

Motor Vehicles, 1946-1951

Old Folder Number: 3431 3430

Ordering information and correspondence for New York and overseas offices, primarily newspaper subscriptions for offices and DP camps. Also book and typewriter orders.

Orders, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 3426 3427 3428 3429

Ordering information and correspondence for New York and overseas offices, primarily newspaper subscriptions for offices and DP camps. Also book and typewriter orders.

Orders, 1947-1953

Old Folder Number: 3284

Monthly reports of the Personal Service department, including statistical reports on incoming and outgoing mail, telephone calls, cables, numbers of JDC and Jewish passengers and specific ships.

Personal Service, 1945-1948

Old Folder Number: 3283

Monthly reports of the Personal Service department, including statistical reports on incoming and outgoing mail, telephone calls, cables, numbers of JDC and Jewish passengers and specific ships.

Personal Service, 1949-1954

Old Folder Number: 3443

Correspondence and memoranda regarding JDC real estate holdings in Europe, tenant liability, loans.

Real Estate, 1948-1951

Old Folder Number: 2974

Internal reports on budget, organizational structure and programs.

Reports, 1945

Old Folder Number: 2973

Internal reports on budget, organizational structure and programs. Includes report from Iran office and address to Council of Federations and Welfare Funds.

Reports, 1946

Old Folder Number: 2972

Internal reports on budget, organizational structure and programs. Includes reports of European staff returning to New York and New York staff after overseas travel.

Reports, 1947

Old Folder Number: 2971

Internal reports on budget, organizational structure and programs. Includes reports of European Executive Council.

Reports, 1948

Old Folder Number: 2970

Internal reports on budget, organizational structure and programs. Weekly and bi-weekly reports on programs around the world, confidential and public reports. Moses Leavitt year-end summary of activities, “The Year of Deliverance.” “Highlights and Developments in JDC” reports.

Reports, 1949

Old Folder Number: 2969

Internal reports on budget, organizational structure and programs. Includes reports delivered to New York Headquarters staff as well as to communities and fundraisers.

Reports, 1950-1951

Old Folder Number: 3249

Agendas, minutes, memoranda related to weekly meetings of the general and executive staff. Minutes include reports on worldwide programs, fundraising, internal protocol. Primarily 1945-1947.

Staff Meetings, 1940, 1945-1947

Old Folder Number: 3249

Agendas, minutes, memoranda related to weekly meetings of the general and executive staff. Minutes include reports on worldwide programs, fundraising, internal protocol, reports of department heads.

Staff Meetings, 1948-1949

Old Folder Number: 3274

Correspondence, meeting minutes, reports of JDC Youth Division. Play entitles “It Did Happen There,” written for Youth Division by Marjorie Marks. Contains correspondence on the dissolution of the Youth Division in 1949.

Youth Division, 1945-1949

Old Folder Number: 3377

Agendas and minutes of Emergency Administration Committee (later “Administration Committee”), including reports and resolutions on budget, banking, purchasing, fundraising, relations with other organizations; discussion of structure and composition of Board of Directors and the Cultural Committee; discussion of receipt and reply to cable from the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (USSR) in light of nature of JDC aid to the USSR during this period; mention of passports provided by Swedish and Portuguese governments for Jews in Hungary; discussion of challenges and failure in coming to an agreement with UPA and others for a joint 1945 UJA campaign; establishment of JDC Claims Committee, establishment of JDC Campaign, Inc; supplies shipments to USSR.

Administration Committee, Meetings, January to March 1945

Old Folder Number: 3377

Agendas and minutes of Emergency Administration Committee (later “Administration Committee”), including reports and resolutions on budget, banking, purchasing, fundraising, relations with other organizations, financial actions; reports of JDC agents and directors returned from Europe, South America and Africa; some inter-meeting reviews of office activities after August; discussion of structure and composition of Board of Directors; discussion of challenges, failure in coming to an agreement with UPA and others for a joint 1945 UJA campaign, and eventual agreement to resume 1945 UJA; negotiations with Federation of Polish Jews for collaborative work; the Chairman reflects on surrender of Germany in May and Japan in August; reports on attempts to resume resettlement and aid in Crimea, including correspondence with Russian consul; planning for post-war relief work in Europe; initial plans to aid Yemenite Jews in Aden; Report of Rabbi Lookstein on travels in South America; implementation of multi-agency package-remittance program

Administration Committee, Meetings, April to December 1945

Old Folder Number: 3376

Agendas and minutes of the Emergency Administration Committee (later “Administration Committee”) meetings, including early development of responses to post-war challenges, resolutions on banking, general remarks on overseas and domestic supply activities and staffing, annual budgets, reports from visiting and returning staff and committee members. Overseas activities include food and clothing aid, emigration, and the purchase of a complete surplus army hospital from the US government. File also includes correspondence.

Administration Committee, Meetings, January to April 1946

Old Folder Number: 3376

Agendas and minutes of the Emergency Administration Committee (later “Administration Committee”) meetings, including responses to post-war challenges, resolutions on banking, general remarks on fundraising, overseas and domestic supply activities, staffing, annual budgets and reports from visiting and returning staff and committee members. Overseas activities include food and clothing aid, emigration, parcel shipments, liquidation of Socobo colony in Bolivia. Includes report on chairman’s and secretary’s meetings with various members of the Truman administration. Includes weekly reports of the secretary, including ongoing discussions with Fiorello LaGuardia in his role as director general of UNRRA.

Administration Committee, Meetings, May to December 1946

Old Folder Number: 3375

Agendas and minutes of the Emergency Administration Committee (later “Administration Committee”) meetings, including resolutions on banking, general remarks on overseas and domestic activities, staffing, budgets, appropriations, reports from visiting and returning staff and committee members. Overseas activities include food and clothing aid, emigration, purchasing. Minutes include establishment of Finance Committee, to include Governor Herbert Lehman, to review need for further borrowing. Minutes of April 8 include letter of complaint from National Committee of Hebrew Liberation. JDC involvement in claims, reconstruction and restitution processes and organizations develops throughout the year.

Administration Committee, Meetings, January to June 1947

Old Folder Number: 3375

Agendas and minutes of the Emergency Administration Committee (later “Administration Committee”) meetings, including resolutions on banking, general remarks on overseas and domestic activities, staffing, budgets, appropriations, reports from visiting and returning staff and committee members. Overseas activities include food and clothing aid, emigration, purchasing. JDC involvement in claims, reconstruction and restitution processes and organizations develops throughout the year.

Administration Committee, Meetings, July to December 1947

Old Folder Number: 3374

Agendas and minutes of Administration Committee meetings, including extensive reporting on budget and finance, resolutions on banking, general remarks on overseas and domestic activities, staffing, appropriations, reports from visiting and returning staff and committee members. Overseas activities include food and clothing aid, emigration, purchasing. The establishment of the state of Israel is marked with a resolution in the minutes of May 18th.

Administration Committee, Meetings, January to May 1948

Old Folder Number: 3374

Agendas and minutes of Administration Committee meetings, including extensive reporting on budget and finance, resolutions on banking, general remarks on overseas and domestic activities, staffing, appropriations, reports from visiting and returning staff and committee members. Overseas activities include food and clothing aid, emigration. Minutes include reports on negotiations with employee union. Minutes of October 26th include memorandum of understanding between HIAS, JDC and USNA.

Administration Committee, Meetings, June to December 1948

Old Folder Number: 3373

Agendas and minutes of Administration Committee meetings, including extensive reporting on budget and finance, resolutions on banking, general remarks on overseas and domestic activities, staffing, appropriations, reports from visiting and returning staff and committee members. Overseas activities include food and clothing aid, emigration, purchasing.

Administration Committee, Meetings, 1949

Old Folder Number: 3372

Agendas, minutes and some transcripts of Administration Committee meetings, including resolutions on banking, loans and grants to relief organizations and to the government of Israel, development of MALBEN, general remarks on overseas activities, annual budgets, reports from visiting and returning staff and committee members; correspondence.

Administration Committee, Meetings, January to May 1950

Old Folder Number: 3372

Agendas, minutes and some transcripts of Administration Committee meetings, including resolutions on banking, loans and grants to relief organizations and to the government of Israel, general remarks on overseas activities, annual budgets, report on liquidation of JDC activities and resources in Poland, report of the Secretary on meeting with the American Council for Judaism, reports from visiting and returning country directors; correspondence on budget matters; memoranda; minutes of subcommittee meetings on budget and emigration.

Administration Committee, Meetings, June to December 1950

Agendas, minutes and some transcripts of Administration Committee meetings, including resolutions on banking, loans to the government of Israel and other aid organizations, general remarks on overseas activities, annual budgets, reports.

Administration Committee, Meetings, 1951

Old Folder Number: 3370

Agendas and minutes of Administration Committee meetings, including resolutions on banking and signatories to international accounts, general remarks on overseas activities, annual budgets; typescript of resolutions; motions to dissolve Agro-Joint corporation.

Administration Committee, Meetings, 1952

Old Folder Number: 3369

Agendas and minutes of Administration Committee meetings, including resolutions on banking and signatories to international accounts, general remarks on overseas activities; typescript of resolutions.

Administration Committee, Meetings, 1953

Old Folder Number: 3368

Agendas and minutes of Administration Committee meetings, including resolutions on banking and signatories to international accounts, general remarks on overseas activities; typescript of Chairman’s remarks; transcript for meeting of July 20th, 1954. Includes discussion of Foehrenwald camp demonstrations, direct financial aid to the government of Israel.

Administration Committee, Meetings, 1954

Old Folder Number: 3378

Contains membership lists and contact information for Administration Committee; memorandum and Executive Committee meeting minutes regarding change in appointment procedures.

Administration Committee, Membership, 1945-1954

Old Folder Number: 3362

Membership lists, correspondence and memoranda on the subject of retaining and replacing members.

Board of Directors, Membership, 1945-1951

Old Folder Number: 3409

Correspondence and memoranda of the Claims Committee.

Claims Committee, General, 1945-1955

Old Folder Number: 3411

Minutes, agendas, and reports. Primarily 1946-1954.

Claims Committee, Meetings, 1946-1954, 1957

Old Folder Number: 3414

Meeting minutes for meetings throughout 1945 and 1946.

Committee on Poland, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 3391

Agendas, minutes, transcripts of Committee on Cultural and Religious Affairs meetings throughout 1945. Minutes include discussion of the role of the committee, reports on funding, committee membership, appropriations, applications for funding, collaboration with other organizations and committees on distribution of Sifre Torahs and other materials. Additional materials include draft statement of Rabbi Leo Jung to the Committee. A brief history of the committee and allocations process, from 1922 to 1945, appears in the minutes of the May 22, 1945 meeting.

Cultural Committee, Meetings, 1945

Old Folder Number: 3391

Agendas, minutes, transcripts of Committee on Cultural and Religious Affairs meetings throughout 1946. Minutes include reports on funding and allocations, establishment of subcommittee on allocations, recommendations for continuation and discontinuation of support for various organizations and schools, applications for funding from Yeshivot and other organizations, collection and distribution of Sifre Torahs and other materials. Additional materials include minutes of some subcommitte meetings, report of the Educational Director for Germany.

Cultural Committee, Meetings, 1946

Old Folder Number: 3391

Agendas, minutes, transcripts of Committee on Cultural and Religious Affairs meetings throughout 1947. Minutes include reports on funding and allocations, establishment of subcommittee on allocations, applications for funding from Yeshivas and other organizations, regular reports on committee work in Palestine and Iran, collection and distribution of Sifre Torahs and other materials. Additional materials include lists of allocations, correspondence between the committee and overseas JDC offices, reports submitted by overseas offices.

Cultural Committee, Meetings, 1947

Old Folder Number: 3390

Agendas, minutes and accompanying materials of Committee on Cultural and Religious Affairs meetings throughout 1948. Minutes include reports from the Subcommittee on Allocations and Subcommittee on Books, reports on religious and secular activities in Europe and Palestine, hiring of JDC field personnel, Sifrei Torah collection and distribution, financial documents and a list of publications in Hebrew. Also includes minutes of Subcommittee on Role and Scope of the Committee on Cultural-Religious Affairs.

Cultural Committee, Meetings, 1948

Old Folder Number: 3390

Agendas, minutes, some transcripts, correspondence and accompanying materials of Committee on Cultural and Religious Affairs meetings throughout 1949. Minutes include reports from the Subcommittee on Allocations, Subcommittee on Role and Scope of the committee; report from Director of Education; report on plans for the Paul Baerwald School; allocation of holiday grants. Discussion includes expansion of Cultural Committee allocations to Europe and North Africa, enlarged membership of committee, greater accountability of JDC foreign offices to Cultural Committee on cultural and religious matters, delegation of Israel appropriations process to Committee in Israel. Further materials include summary of European JDC education activities for 1949.

Cultural Committee, Meetings, 1949

Old Folder Number: 3390

Agendas, minutes, transcripts, correspondence and accompanying materials of Committee on Cultural and Religious Affairs meetings throughout 1950. Minutes include reports of overseas activities, lists of approved loans, budget concerns, Additional materials include draft pamphlet on JDC cultural and religious activities.

Cultural Committee, Meetings, 1950

Old Folder Number: 3389

Agendas, minutes, transcripts, correspondence and accompanying materials of Committee on Cultural and Religious Affairs meetings throughout 1951. Minutes include reports of Subcommittee on Study of Israeli Yeshivoth, reports of Director of Education, report of directors of Morocco and Iran operations, discussion of lack of opportunities for yeshiva graduates. Distribution lists of religious literature by country are included in both meeting minutes and correspondence.

Cultural Committee, Meetings, 1951

Old Folder Number: 3389

Agendas, minutes, transcripts, correspondence and accompanying materials of Committee on Cultural and Religious Affairs meetings throughout 1952. Minutes include reports of Subcommittee on Study of Israeli Yeshivoth, reports of Director of Education, report of directors of Morocco and Iran operations, discussion of lack of opportunities for yeshiva graduates.

Cultural Committee, Meetings, 1952

Old Folder Number: 3389

Agendas, minutes, transcripts, correspondence and accompanying materials of Committee on Cultural and Religious Affairs meetings throughout 1953. Minutes include reports on overseas activities, especially in Israel and Western Europe, discussion of limiting aid to yeshiva students above 25 years of age, review of implementation of aid projects, elimination of JDC education department, resignation of Director of Education.

Cultural Committee, Meetings, 1953

Old Folder Number: 3389

Agendas, minutes, transcripts, correspondence and accompanying materials of Committee on Cultural and Religious Affairs meetings throughout 1954. Minutes include final report of outgoing Director of Education, extensive discussion of failure of yeshivas in Israel to adopt JDC policies and recommendations, discussion of overseas personnel requirements. Additional documents include minutes of Liason Subcommittee.

Cultural Committee, Meetings, 1954

Old Folder Number: 3394

Correspondence between the chairman of the committee and invited members, membership lists for 1946 and 1947, attendance record, name plate orders.

Cultural Committee, Membership, 1945-1953

Old Folder Number: 3392

Correspondence, draft reports, reports and recommendations of unnamed subcommittee on review of funding applications submitted to the Cultural Committee.

Cultural Committee, Sub-Committees, General, 1946-1948

Old Folder Number: 3392

Minutes, agendas, summaries, correspondence of Subcommittee on Allocations of the Cultural Committee. Includes new, continued and renewed applications for funding. Minutes offer reasoning behind decisions on allocatinos and grants. Correspondence include letter from the Chairman of the subcommittee to the Chairman of the Cultural Committee on participation of members and rotation of subcommittee chairmanship. Additional materials include draft of questionnaire to be distributed to Yeshivas in Israel.

Cultural Committee, Sub-Committee on Allocations, 1946-1950

Old Folder Number: 3392

Agendas, minutes, correspondence of Sub-Committee on Books of the Cultural Committee. Includes committee evaluation of applications for aid in the form of religious texts, lists of books purchased and distributed, correspondence from local representatives of overseas applicants.

Cultural Committee, Sub-Committee on Books, 1946-1948

Old Folder Number: 3392

Minutes and correspondence of Sub-Committee on Scope of the Cultural Committee. Includes recommendations and correspondence on draft recommendations to the Cultural Committee.

Cultural Committee, Sub-Committee on Scope, 1946-1948

Old Folder Number: 3392

Minutes, agendas, summaries, memoranda, correspondence of Subcommittee on Yeshivas of the Cultural Committee. Additional materials include concerning study of Yeshivas carried out in 1951.

Cultural Committee, Sub-Committee on Yeshivas, 1951-1954

Old Folder Number: 3406

General correspondence and documents, discussion of resolutions and meeting structure.

Executive Committee, General, 1945-1949

Old Folder Number: 3405

Agendas, minutes, supporting documents and reports delivered. Chairman’s remarks, reports of Executive Vice-Chairman, reports of the Secretary, Treasurer’s reports, campaign reports. Reports include general updates on worldwide programs, internal affairs and domestic fundraising.

Executive Committee, Meetings, January to March 1945

Old Folder Number: 3405

Agendas, minutes, supporting documents and reports delivered. Chairman’s remarks, reports of Executive Vice-Chairman, Treasurer’s reports, campaign reports. Reports include general updates on worldwide programs, internal affairs and domestic fundraising.

Executive Committee, Meetings, April to December 1945

Old Folder Number: 3404

Agendas, minutes, supporting documents and reports delivered. Chairman’s remarks, reports of Executive Vice-Chairman, Treasurer’s reports, campaign reports. Reports include general updates on worldwide programs, internal affairs and domestic fundraising.

Executive Committee, Meetings, January to June 1946

Old Folder Number: 3404

Agendas, minutes, supporting documents and reports delivered. Chairman’s remarks, reports of Executive Vice-Chairman, Treasurer’s reports, campaign reports. Reports include general updates on worldwide programs, internal affairs and domestic fundraising.

Executive Committee, Meetings, September to December 1946

Old Folder Number: 3403

Agendas, minutes, supporting documents and reports delivered. Chairman’s remarks, reports of Executive Vice-Chairman, Treasurer’s reports, campaign reports. Reports include general updates on worldwide programs, internal affairs and domestic fundraising.

Executive Committee, Meetings, 1947

Old Folder Number: 3402

Agendas, minutes, supporting documents and reports delivered. Chairman’s remarks, reports of Executive Vice-Chairman, Treasurer’s reports, campaign reports. Reports include general updates on worldwide programs, internal affairs and domestic fundraising.

Executive Committee, Meetings, 1948

Old Folder Number: 3401

Agendas, minutes, supporting documents and reports delivered. Chairman’s remarks, reports of Executive Vice-Chairman, Treasurer’s reports, campaign reports. Reports include general updates on worldwide programs, internal affairs and domestic fundraising.

Executive Committee, Meetings, 1949

Old Folder Number: 3400

Agendas, minutes, reports and supplementary materials of Executive Committee for 1950. Includes regular reports of the Executive Vice-Chairman and Treasurer. Includes approval of monthly budgets and bank resolutions, UJA campaign reports, excerpt of by-laws, resolutions in honor of retirees and the deceased, birthday commemorations for committee members. Also present are draft reports and correspondence on the content of the minutes. Major topics include emigration of European, Middle Eastern and North African Jews to Israel and elsewhere, challenges of providing services in Hungary.

Executive Committee, Meetings, 1950

Old Folder Number: 3399

Agendas, minutes, reports and supplementary materials of Executive Committee for 1951. Includes regular reports of the Executive Vice-Chairman and Treasurer. Includes appointment of Morris Laub as Assistant Secretary, April 11, loan of funds to the government of Israel, approval of monthly budgets and bank resolutions, UJA campaign reports, birthday commemorations for committee members. Agenda and minutes of meeting of September 26th missing.

Executive Committee, Meetings, 1951

Old Folder Number: 3398

Agendas, minutes, reports and supplementary materials of Executive Committee for 1952. Includes regular reports of the Executive Vice-Chairman.

Executive Committee, Meetings, 1952

Old Folder Number: 3398

Agendas, minutes, reports and supplementary materials of Executive Committee for 1953. Includes regular reports of the Executive Vice-Chairman, Treasurer and on the UJA campaign. Report of the Executive Vice-Chairman of February 17 includes report on cessation of JDC activities in Hungary and on the Chairman’s response to accusations that JDC carried out political activity and espionage in Europe. Additional materials include banking documents.

Executive Committee, Meetings, 1953

Old Folder Number: 3398

Agendas, minutes, reports and supplementary materials of Executive Committee for 1954. Includes regular reports of the Executive Vice-Chairman, Treasurer and on the UJA campaign. Report of the Executive Vice-Chairman of February 17 includes report on cessation of JDC activities in Hungary and on the Chairman’s response to accusations that JDC carried out political activity and espionage in Europe. Throughout the year, mention is made of the closing of the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work at Versailles and the potential establishment of the school in Israel and of the merger of HIAS and other migration services agencies. The death of Dr. Jacob J. Golub and the dissolution of the Health Committee which he chaired are noted. Additional materials include banking documents.

Executive Committee, Meetings, 1954

Old Folder Number: 3407

Membership lists and correspondence on membership.

Executive Committee, Membership, 1945-1954

Old Folder Number: 3412

Minutes, correspondence, primarily with committee chairman Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein.

Latin America Committee, 1946-1951

Old Folder Number: 3380

Agendas, draft minutes, minutes and correspondence from the inaugural Committee on Health meeting (December, 1944) onwards through the dissolution of the original committee and the formation of the Medical Advisory Committee (1954). Subjects of correspondence and memoranda include medical supplies, assignment of JDC personnel to overseas posts, reports on local and international travel and conferences. Minutes include report of Dr. William Schmidt on initial visit to Europe for JDC, further reports and recommendations of committee members, documenting mental and physical health needs of adults and children, staff requirements and status of Jewish doctors and dentists resuming practice in Europe after the war.

Medical Advisory Committee, General and Meetings, 1945-1954

Old Folder Number: 3379

Membership lists, correspondence and memoranda on membership of the Advisory Committee on Health and Welfare, referred to as the Health Committee prior to 1954 and as the Medical Advisory Committee thereafter. Includes nomination letters and responses from nominated individuals, documentation of termination of committee in 1954 pending assignment of new director.

Medical Advisory Committee, Membership, 1945-1954

Old Folder Number: 3386

Transcription of Medical Advisory Committee meetings of December 22, 1952 and October 5, 1954.

Medical Advisory Committee, Verbatim Meeting Transcripts, 1952-1954

Old Folder Number: 3413

Memorandum, agenda, correspondence.

Organization Committee, 1946-1948

Old Folder Number: 3415

Minutes, correspondence and memoranda of the committee, planning of public relations and publication activities.

Public Relations Committee, 1945-1949

Old Folder Number: 3410

Agendas, meeting minutes, memoranda, correspondence, membership lists.

Reconstruction Committee, May 1945-June 1948

Old Folder Number: 3410

Agendas, meeting minutes, memoranda, correspondence, membership lists. Verbatim transcript of October 28, 1948 meeting.

Reconstruction Committee, October 1948-June 1949

Old Folder Number: 3333 3359

Workbook, program, and program materials for 1945 Annual Meeting, held December 8 and 9, 1945 at the Hotel Commodore, New York; reports; resolutions and draft resolutions; correspondence; publicity materials and press releases.

Annual Meeting, 1945

Old Folder Number: 3332

Press releases, clippings, draft reports, financial statements, correspondence on annual meeting held January 11, 1947 at the Waldorf Astoria, New York.

Annual Meeting, 1947

Old Folder Number: 3357

Transcript of annual meeting held January 11, 1947 at the Waldorf Astoria, New York, including speeches by executive staff and leaders, resolutions.

Annual Meeting, Transcript, 1947

Old Folder Number: 3355 3331 3356

Workbook containing program and prepared statements; text of reports on emigration, funding and JDC activities given at the 33rd Annual Meeting; correspondence on attendence of Latin American delegates; printed program of annual meeting; invitation; cables and letters of congratulation, including from Governor Herbert Lehman and President Harry Truman. Two annual meetings were held in 1948, one in January and the other in October.

Annual Meeting, January 1948

Old Folder Number: 3355 3274

Transcripts of outgoing 1947 and incoming 1948 Board of Directors meetings and National Council session; Youth Advisory Council sessions. Two annual meetings were held in 1948, one in January and the other in October.

Annual Meeting, Transcript, January 1948

Old Folder Number: 3330 3354

Texts of addresses, pamphlets, invitation and official documents of 34th Annual Meeting, held October 30 and 31, 1948, in Chicago, Illinois; resolutions, draft documents; related meeting minutes; press and publicity materials. File separated into sections by document type, chronology restarts with each section.

Annual Meeting, October 1948

Old Folder Number: 3354

Transcripts of Saturday and Sunday sessions of October 1948 annual meeting of the Board of Directors, including resolutions, tributes, motions, addresses, reports.

Annual Meeting, Transcript, October 1948

Old Folder Number: 3328 3329 3352

Workbook; draft speeches and notes; press releases; cable and correspondence; clippings of meeting coverage. Clippings and press releases separated and arranged in separate chronological order from remaining materials.

Annual Meeting, 1950

Old Folder Number: 3327 3353

Transcript of annual meeting held January 7, 1950; sessions of 1949 and 1950 board of directors, national council, general session.

Annual Meeting, Transcript, 1950

Old Folder Number: 3351 3326

Transcript, work book, press releases, resolutions. Transcription contains meetings of the outgoing 1950 and incoming 1951 Board of Directors, National Council and plenary session, including addresses and resolutions. File also contains copy of statement by Moses Leavitt; press release announcing annual meeting; copy of resolution on bank borrowing.

Annual Meeting, 1951

Old Folder Number: 3350

Transcript of 37th annual meeting, work book, summary, press releases. Transcription contains meetings of the outgoing 1951 and incoming 1952 Board of Directors, National Council and plenary session, including addresses and resolutions.

Annual Meeting, 1952

Old Folder Number: 3324 3347

Work book; transcripts of remarks by speakers; transcript of board, national council and plenary sessions; press releases; resolutions. The first of two annual meetings held in 1953. This present meeting, held in January, was effectively the 1952 meeting. The second was held in December. Meeting featured speech from Senator Herbert H. Lehman.

Annual Meeting, January 1953

Old Folder Number: 3323

Workbook containing annual report and meeting materials; transcript of board, national council and plenary sessions; press releases; cable and correspondence. The second of two annual meetings held in 1953. The first, held in January, was effectively the 1952 meeting. Meeting featured speech from New York Mayor Robert F. Wagner.

Annual Meeting, December 1953

Old Folder Number: 3322

Work book containing annual report and accompanying documents, correspondence preceeding and following meeting, press releases, cables. Annual meeting held on December 9, 1954, celebrating 40th anniversary of JDC. Accompanying events held in Israel. Folder divided into four groups by document type (work book, correspondence, press releases, cables) with chronology restarting for each category. Meeting featured speech from Governor-elect of New York Averell Harriman.

Annual Meeting, 1954

Old Folder Number: 3348

Transcript of 1954 annual meeting, containing sessions of the 1954 board, national council, 1955 board, and founders’ dinner.

Annual Meeting, Transcript, 1954

Old Folder Number: 3360

Minutes of special meeting of the Board of Directors in New York City, 10/22/1945; transcript of the meeting.

Board of Directors Meeting, October 1945

Old Folder Number: 3358

Tentative schedule for meeting, report of the Treasurers, report of Director of Health Committee; memoranda on attendance and subject matter for annual meeting.

Board of Directors Meeting, June 1946

Old Folder Number: 3334

Annual correspondence between the Secretary and several banks re: Board resolution on borrowing; text of resolution on borrowing composed by the Vice-Chairman; partial minutes of Board meeting of 10/30/48 containing resolutions on recognizing service of Paul Baerwald, adopting fundraising goals and recognizing other aid organizations; letter from General Counsel advising on legality of certain resolutions confirming all previous acts by preceeding years’ Board and National Council; a draft resolution on powers of attorney; a letter from the Chairman delivering a copy of a resolution on the death of Harry Fischel to the Harry Fischel Institute, Jerusalem.

Board of Directors, Resolutions, 1948-1955

Old Folder Number: 3335

Statistics on and lists of National Counil members; correspondence between the Assistant Secretary and a reporter for the Daily Home News of New Brunswick, NJ and a clipping from the paper; memorandum between executive staff on the date of the annual meeting; memoranda documenting procedures on inviting delegates to the annual meeting.

National Council, 1948-1952

Old Folder Number: 3400

Agendas, minutes, reports and supplementary materials of Executive Committee for 1950. Includes regular reports of the Executive Vice-Chairman and Treasurer. Includes approval of monthly budgets and bank resolutions, UJA campaign reports, excerpt of by-laws, resolutions in honor of retirees and the deceased, birthday commemorations for committee members. Also present are draft reports and correspondence on the content of the minutes. Major topics include emigration of European, Middle Eastern and North African Jews to Israel and elsewhere, challenges of providing services in Hungary

Executive Committee, Meetings, 1950

Old Folder Number: 3348

Transcription of 40th Annual Meeting. Contains meetings of the outgoing 1954 and incoming 1955 Board of Directors, National Council meeting and Founders’ Dinner, including addresses and resolutions.

Annual Meeting Transcripts, 1954

Extent: 0.75 inch

Transcription of 35th Annual Meeting, with corrections. Contains meetings of the outgoing 1949 and incoming 1950 Board of Directors, National Council and general session, including addresses and resolutions; memoranda from the Executive Vice-Chairman on scheduling.

Annual Meeting Transcripts, 1950

Old Folder Number: 3261

Transcript of community leaders conference held September 20, 1945, in two sessions, at the Hotel Biltmore, New York City.

Community Leaders Conference, 1945

Old Folder Number: 3462 3911

Clippings, correspondence, cue cards, transcripts and speeches separated into daily sub-folders for conference held November 14-16, Paris, France.

Conference on Jewish Relief and Rehabilitation, 1948

Old Folder Number: 3466

Correspondence, memoranda, bulletins, press releases, cables about country directors conference held April, 1948, Paris, France.

Country Directors Conference, 1948

Old Folder Number: 3464

Correspondence, memoranda, bulletins, press releases, cables about country directors conference held October 10-14, 1949, Paris, France.

Country Directors Conference, 1949

Old Folder Number: 3470

Press releases, correspondence, attendee lists, program for Country Directors conferences, 1952-1954.

European Conferences, 1952-1954

Old Folder Number: 3465

Correspondence, memoranda, clippings, cables concerning planning and reporting on conferences held in 1948.

European Conferences, June to September 1948

Old Folder Number: 3465

Correspondence, memoranda, clippings, cables concerning planning and reporting on conferences held in 1948 and 1949.

European Conferences, October 1948 to August 1949

Old Folder Number: 1551

Financial correspondence on banking, bank transactions and securities. Extracts of committee meeting minutes on business matters.

Bank Accounts, 1945-1949

Old Folder Number: 1550

Financial correspondence on banking, bank transactions and securities. Extracts of committee meeting minutes on business matters.

Bank Accounts, 1950-1954

Old Folder Number: 2993

Extracts of meeting minutes, documents authorizing officers to transact JDC banking in the US and overseas.

Banking, 1945-1948

Old Folder Number: 2989 2990

Extracts of meeting minutes, documents authorizing officers to transact JDC banking in the US and overseas.

Banking, 1949-1950

Old Folder Number: 2994 2995

Extracts of meeting minutes, documents authorizing officers to transact JDC banking in the US and overseas.

Banking, 1951-1954

Old Folder Number: 1586

Miscellaneous materials on finances, budget, budget estimates based on evolving information about Jewish survivors in liberated and neutral Europe. Joseph Schwartz notes on budget (December 18, 1945). Background paper on JDC financial situation (November 1, 1945, unsigned) on conditions of Jews worldwide, insufficiency of UNRRA aid. Extracts of committee meeting minutes on financial matters.

Budget, 1945

Old Folder Number: 1584

Miscellaneous materials on finances, budget, budget estimates. JDC budget for 1947 (transmitted by Joseph Schwartz, November 8, 1946). Extracts of committee meeting minutes on financial matters.

Budget, 1946

Old Folder Number: 1583

Miscellaneous materials on finances, cash flow, preparation of budget. Budget Department narrative/financial report (October 13, 1947) on 1948 budget, JDC budget report (November 21, 1947) to UJA. Booklet on JDC country-by-country review of 1946 expenses and forecast of 1947 needs (transmitted by Edward M.M. Warburg memo, January 7, 1947). Extracts of committee meeting minutes on financial matters.

Budget, 1947

Old Folder Number: 1581

Miscellaneous materials on finances, budget; including Budget Department report (September 4, 1948) on 1949 budget and preliminary statement (December 31, 1948) on 1949 budget requirements. Extracts of committee meeting minutes on financial matters, recommendations for appropriations.

Budget, 1948

Old Folder Number: 1582 1616

Correspondence, materials on budgets, including Moses Leavitt statement (January 7, 1949) on budget; Budget Department narrative/financial report (September 26, 1949) on 1950 budget. Extracts of committee meeting minutes on financial matters, recommendations for appropriations.

Budget, 1949

Old Folder Number: 1580 1614

Miscellaneous correspondence, statements on budget, needs by country. Extracts of committee meeting minutes on financial matters. Draft agreement (unsigned, undated) with the Israeli government and Jewish Agency regarding a special agency for institutional care and rehabilitation of the hard-core in Israel.

Budget, 1950

Old Folder Number: 1578 1589

Miscellaneous materials on finances, budget, including Moses Beckelman report to Executive Committee (December 18, 1951). Extracts of committee meeting minutes on financial matters, recommendations for appropriations.

Budget, 1951

Old Folder Number: 1577

Miscellaneous materials on finances, budget, including Moses Beckelman budget requests. Budget Department report (October 6, 1952) on preliminary estimate of global requirements for 1953, includes narrative of JDC activities. Extracts of committee meeting minutes on financial matters, recommendations for appropriations.

Budget, 1952

Old Folder Number: 1575 1576

Miscellaneous materials on finances, budget, including Moses Beckelman budget requests. Budget Department report (September 1, 1953) on preliminary estimate of global requirements for 1954; includes narrative of JDC activities. Extracts of committee meeting minutes on financial matters, recommendations for appropriations.

Budget, 1953

Old Folder Number: 1574

Miscellaneous materials on budget, including Moses Beckelman monthly and quarterly budget requests and report (undated) on 1954 budget; press release on 1954 expenditures. Extracts of committee meeting minutes on financial matters, recommendations for appropriations.

Budget, 1954

Old Folder Number: 1831 1832

Correspondence on design of JDC and AJDC insignia for labeling of goods, clothing, and food sent overseas. Includes AJDC stencil image. Artifacts removed 9/16/1987, rehoused in location ART987.1, file includes separation sheet.

Contributions, January-April 1945

Old Folder Number: 1830

Correspondence on contributions, designated donations, contributors.

Contributions, May-July 1945

Old Folder Number: 1829

Correspondence on contributions, designated donations, contributors.

Contributions, August-October 1945

Old Folder Number: 1828

Correspondence on contributions, designated donations, contributors.

Contributions, November-December 1945

Old Folder Number: 1827

Correspondence on contributions, designated donations, contributors.

Contributions, January-March 1946

Old Folder Number: 1827

Correspondence on contributions, designated donations, contributors.

Contributions, April-June 1946

Old Folder Number: 1826

Correspondence on contributions, designated donations, contributors.

Contributions, July-December 1946

Old Folder Number: 1825

Correspondence on contributions, designated donations, contributors, including donors’ confusion, vexation about UJA fund-raising rules.

Contributions, 1947

Old Folder Number: 1824

Correspondence on contributions, designated donations, contributors, including advocates and opponents of spending in Israel. Correspondence regarding donors’ confusion, vexation about UJA fund-raising rules.

Contributions, 1948

Old Folder Number: 1822 1823

Correspondence on contributions, designated donations, contributors, including John Hersey letter (May 9, 1950; poor photocopy) on donation of cash from book award.

Contributions, 1949-1950

Old Folder Number: 1820 1821

Correspondence on contributions, contributors, including staff contributions for UJA campaign, designated donations.

Contributions, 1951-1954

Old Folder Number: 3246 3248

Memoranda, correspondence and minutes excerpts on discretionary funds.

Discretionary Funds, 1946-1954

Old Folder Number: 4654 4655 4656

Correspondence, clippings, memoranda on taxation, tax law, and filing procedures.

Federal Taxes, 1944-1965

Old Folder Number: 1547

Correspondence on accounting, cash crises, loans, coordination of bookkeeping procedures, including correspondence on frozen accounts; analysis of Saly Mayer transactions (March 11, 1946), “Snyder Plan” funds (June 11, 1948), Joseph Schwartz memo (September 29, 1950) on JDC’s critical financial situation, in part because of unexpected emigration from Romania and Iraq. Miscellaneous financial statements. Extracts of committee meeting minutes on business matters.

General, 1945-1950

Old Folder Number: 1546

Correspondence on accounting, income, bookkeeping procedures; extracts of committee meeting minutes on business matters.

General, 1951-1954

Old Folder Number: 1591

Memos (1950) on JDC interest payments on bank loans and to U.S. government agencies.

Interest Payments, 1950

Old Folder Number: 1553 1554 1555 1556 1557 1558 1559 1560

Financial correspondence on contributions, remittances, in Israeli currency (pounds) from individuals and companies, including United Artists, Columbia Pictures, Paramount International Films, Loews, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Universal Pictures, Warner Brothers, Samuel Goldwyn Productions, 20th Century Fox Film Corporation.

Israeli Pound Remittances, 1950-1954

Old Folder Number: 1811

Correspondence, extracts of meeting minutes on bank loans, interest rates, repayments. Memo (probably to file from Dorothy Speiser, February 2, 1945) on JDC’s first significant bank borrowing. Miscellaneous on discussions with banks about financial situation.Correspondence, extracts of meeting minutes on bank loans, interest rates, repayments. Memo (probably to file from Dorothy Speiser, February 2, 1945) on JDC’s first significant bank borrowing. Miscellaneous on discussions with banks about financial situation.

Loans, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 1811

Correspondence, extracts of meeting minutes on bank loans, interest rates, repayments. Miscellaneous on discussions with banks about financial situation.

Loans, 1947

Old Folder Number: 1810

Correspondence, extracts of meeting minutes on bank loans, interest rates, repayments. Miscellaneous on discussions with banks about financial situation.

Loans, 1948-1949

Old Folder Number: 1809

Correspondence, extracts of meeting minutes on bank loans, interest rates, repayments. Memos (March 9, 1950 and September 1950) on borrowing.

Loans, 1950-1953

Old Folder Number: 1808

Correspondence, extracts of meeting minutes on bank loans, loans from Legacy Fund.

Loans, 1954

Old Folder Number: 1812

Correspondence, primarily from Paul Baerwald, about plan to borrow securities to raise cash to provide relief in Europe.

Loans, Securities, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 1815

Correspondence, extracts of meeting minutes on overseas audits, procedures, expenses.

Overseas Audits, 1946-1954

Old Folder Number: 1590

Miscellaneous correspondence responding to sundry queries from donors, agencies on operations, expenses.

Queries, 1945-1950, 1953-1954

Old Folder Number: 1598

Narrative/financial report (unsigned, November 1, 1945) on financial situation. Memo (March 11, 1946) with Saly Mayer statement of income, expenses for 1945. Miscellaneous on financial reporting forms, income estimates. Correspondence regarding payments from special reserve accounts.

Reports, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 1597

Miscellaneous memos on financial situation, income, cash status. Miscellaneous on bookkeeping procedures, financial reporting forms.

Reports, 1947

Old Folder Number: 1596

Accounting bulletin; miscellaneous on bookkeeping procedures, financial reporting forms. Memo on meeting (April 9, 1948) on audits of JDC European operations includes Joseph Schwartz introducing and reminiscing about Morris Troper.

Reports, 1948

Old Folder Number: 1595

Accounting bulletin; miscellaneous financial reports, memos on accounting, bookkeeping procedures.

Reports, 1949

Old Folder Number: 1594

Miscellaneous financial reports, memos on accounting, bookkeeping procedures.

Reports, 1950-1951

Old Folder Number: 1593

Miscellaneous financial reports, memos on accounting, bookkeeping procedures.

Reports, 1952-1954

Old Folder Number: 1599

Correspondence regarding payments from special reserve accounts.

Special Reserve Accounts, 1944, 1946-1947, 1950, 1952-1954

Old Folder Number: 1601 1602

Correspondence on debtors, creditors, remittances.

Sundry Debtors and Creditors, 1947, 1952-1954

Old Folder Number: 3253

Excerpts of minutes, memoranda on expense funds.

Supplementary Expense Funds, 1943-1954

Old Folder Number: 2981 3012 3013 3014 3015

General documentation of personnel practices. Correspondence, regulations, legal documents.

General, 1947-1948

Old Folder Number: 3011

General documentation of personnel practices. Correspondence, regulations, legal documents.

General, 1949-1954

Old Folder Number: 3434

General documentation of European personnel practices. Correspondence, regulations, forms.

European Personnel, 1945-1949

Old Folder Number: 3442

General documentation of European personnel practices. Correspondence, regulations, forms.

European Personnel, 1950-1955

Old Folder Number: 3442

Staff manual for European employees, additional materials.

European Staff Manual, 1947-1952

Old Folder Number: 3008 3009

Pension plan information, booklets, correspondence.

Pensions, 1947-1954

Extent: 0.30 inch

Policy manuals, drafts, additional documentation.

Policy Manual, 1948-1953

Old Folder Number: 3016 3020 3021 3033 3036 3045

General file for personnel with last names beginning with A through C.

A-C, 1945-1954

Old Folder Number: 3050 3051 3056 3061

General file for personnel with last names beginning with D through F.

D-F, 1945-1954

Old Folder Number: 3069 3070 3097

General file for personnel with last names beginning with G through J.

G-J, 1945-1954

Old Folder Number: 3109 3110

General file for personnel with last names beginning with K.

K, 1945-1954

Old Folder Number: 3119 3120

General file for personnel with last names beginning with L.

L, 1945-1954

Old Folder Number: 3153

General file for personnel with last names beginning with K.

M, 1945-1954

Old Folder Number: 3161 3165 3167 3175 3176 3192

General file for personnel with last names beginning with L through R.

L-R, 1945-1954

Old Folder Number: 3193 3194 3195 3196 3199

General file for personnel with last names beginning with S.

S, 1945-1954

Old Folder Number: 3221 3226 3227 3229

General file for personnel with last names beginning with T through Z.

T-Z, 1945-1954

Old Folder Number: 3018

Collected work documentation.

Aronovici, Noel, 1945-1962

Old Folder Number: 3019

Collected work documentation.

Ast, Dr. David, 1946-1948

Old Folder Number: 3022

Collected work documentation of JDC founder, treasurer, chairman and honorary chairman.

Baerwald, Paul, 1942-1978

Old Folder Number: 3027

Collected work documentation.

Barash, Solomon, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 3024

Collected work documentation.

Basheim, Meyer D., 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 3026

Collected work documentation of Beckelman’s service to JDC in Europe and South America.

Beckelman, Moses, 1946-1955

Old Folder Number: 3025

Correspondence of Moses Beckelman.

Beckelman, Moses, Correspondence, 1951-1955

Old Folder Number: 3028

Collected working documents.

Becker, Lavy, 1945-1964

Old Folder Number: 3030

Collected working documents.

Bein, William, 1945-1954

Old Folder Number: 3031

Collected working documents.

Berkowitz, Aaron, 1946-1950

Old Folder Number: 3035

Collected working documents.

Berman, Dorothy, 1945

Old Folder Number: 3037

Collected working documents.

Bertheim, Sidney C., 1936-1950

Old Folder Number: 3038

Collected working documents.

Biele, Harry, 1945

Old Folder Number: 3039

Collected working documents.

Borenstein, Emanual, 1947-1949

Old Folder Number: 3042

Collected working documents.

Brook, Benjamin, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 3044

Collected working documents.

Burkhard, Fred, 1945

Old Folder Number: 3277

Collected working documents.

Cohen, Richard, 1949-1958

Old Folder Number: 3435

Collected working documents.

Cudzynowska, Laura, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 3052

Collected working documents.

Deutsch, Etta, 1936-1948

Old Folder Number: 3058

Collected working documents.

Eigen, Maurice, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 3059

Collected working documents.

Elgart, Saul, 1945

Old Folder Number: 3064

Collected working documents.

Fink, Helen, 1949-1957

Old Folder Number: 3065

Collected working documents.

Fishbein, Dora, 1944-1946

Old Folder Number: 3066

Collected working documents.

Fisher, Joel, 1947-1950

Old Folder Number: 3067

Collected working documents.

Fishzohn, Arthur, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 3072

Collected working documents.

Gitler-Barski, Joseph, 1945-1957

Old Folder Number: 3073

Collected working documents.

Goldman, Benjamin B., 1944-1960

Old Folder Number: 3078

Collected working documents.

Goldsmith, Herman, 1958-1962

Old Folder Number: 3077

Collected working documents.

Goldstein, Melvin, 1941-1949

Old Folder Number: 3081

Collected working documents.

Greenleigh, Arthur, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 3082

Collected working documents.

Greenspun, George, 1945-1948

Old Folder Number: 3083

Collected working documents.

Grodsky, Aaron, 1946-1948

Old Folder Number: 3085

Collected working documents.

Grubel, Frederick, 1946-1951

Old Folder Number: 3093

Collected working documents.

Hurwitz, Donald B., 1943-1950

Old Folder Number: 3095

Collected working documents. Audio recording of Igel describing JDC aid to children exists in audio collection.

Igel, Amelia, 1947

Old Folder Number: 3096

Collected working documents.

Itkan, Moses G., 1931-1949

Old Folder Number: 3100

Collected working documents.

Jacobson, Bertrand, 1945-1953

Old Folder Number: 3098

Collected working documents.

Jacobson, Israel G., 1944-1954

Extent: 0.15 inch

Collected working documents.

Janis, Lee, 1946-1952

Old Folder Number: 3103

Collected working documents.

Jarblum-Margolis, Laura, 1939-1963

Old Folder Number: 3104

Collected working documents.

Joffe, Boris, 1947-1948

Old Folder Number: 3107

Collected working documents.

Jordan, Charles, 1945-1950

Old Folder Number: 3111

Collected working documents.

Kahn, Bernhard, 1946

Old Folder Number: 3114

Collected working documents of long-time staffer and later associate director-general.

Katzki, Herbert, 1945-1947

Old Folder Number: 3122

Collected working documents.

Laub, Morris, 1944-1956

Old Folder Number: 3139

Collected working documents.

Leavitt, Moses, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 3137

Collected working documents.

Leavitt, Moses, 1946-1947

Old Folder Number: 3137

Collected working documents.

Leavitt, Moses, 1948-1949

Old Folder Number: 3136

Collected working documents.

Leavitt, Moses, 1950-1952

Old Folder Number: 3136

Collected working documents.

Leavitt, Moses, 1953-1954

Old Folder Number: 3136

Collected working documents.

Leavitt, Moses, 1955-1956

Old Folder Number: 3138

Collected professional correspondence.

Leavitt, Moses, Correspondence, 1947

Old Folder Number: 3140

Collected professional correspondence.

Leavitt, Moses, Correspondence, 1954-1955

Old Folder Number: 3141

Collected working documents.

Levin, Marcus, 1946-1960

Old Folder Number: 3142

Collected working documents.

Levine, Flora, 1946-1963

Old Folder Number: 3144

Collected working documents.

Levine, Rae, 1947-1955

Old Folder Number: 3146

Collected working documents.

Levy, Raphael, 1945-1964

Old Folder Number: 3147

Collected working documents.

Lightman, Jacob, 1945-1952

Old Folder Number: 3149

Collected working documents.

Lomnitz, Julius, 1948-1955

Old Folder Number: 3154

Collected working documents.

Malamuth, Charles, 1947-1951

Old Folder Number: 3155

Collected working documents.

Mazur, Belle, 1944-1950

Old Folder Number: 3157

Collected working documents.

Mendel, Kate, 1946-1956

Old Folder Number: 3160

Collected working documents.

Morrissey, Evelyn, 1946-1961

Old Folder Number: 3163

Collected working documents.

Neustadt, Leon, 1939-1950

Old Folder Number: 3164

Collected working documents.

Neuwirth, Dr. Abraham A., 1947-1949

Old Folder Number: 3171

Collected working documents.

Pilpel, Robert, 1945-1952

Old Folder Number: 3173

Condolences received after the deaths of Gertrude Pinsky and David Guzik.

Pinsky, Gertrude and David Guzik Condolence Messages, 1946-1948

Old Folder Number: 3174

Collected working documents.

Plaut, Richard, 1945-1947

Old Folder Number: 3177

Collected working documents.

Reich, Nathan, 1945-1950

Old Folder Number: 3178

Collected working documents.

Resnik, Ruben, 1945-1949

Old Folder Number: 3179

Collected working documents.

Rice, James P., 1944-1956

Old Folder Number: 3181

Collected working documents.

Rock, Eli, 1945-1951

Old Folder Number: 3184

Collected working documents.

Rosen, Emanuel, 1947-1954

Old Folder Number: 3185

Collected working documents.

Rosen, Harry, 1947-1952

Old Folder Number: 3186

Collected working documents.

Rosen, Irwin, 1941-1949

Old Folder Number: 3188

Collected working documents.

Rosen, Dr. Joseph, 1945-1962

Old Folder Number: 3190

Collected working documents.

Rosenberg, Rabbi Alexander S., 1945-1947

Extent: 1.00 inch

Collected working documents.

Sapir, Boris, 1950-1951

Extent: 1.00 inch

Collected working documents.

Sapir, Boris, 1952-1955

Extent: 0.20 inch

Collected working documents.

Sapir, Boris, Correspondence, 1951-1954

Old Folder Number: 3209

Collected working documents.

Schargo, Simon, 1940-1948

Old Folder Number: 3198

Collected working documents.

Schechter, Henry, 1948-1951

Old Folder Number: 3202

Collected working documents of Joseph J. Schwartz, served as Director of Overseas Operations, 1942-1950.

Schwartz, Dr. Joseph J., 1942-1945

Old Folder Number: 3203

Collected working documents of Joseph J. Schwartz, served as Director of Overseas Operations, 1942-1950.

Schwartz, Dr. Joseph J., 1946

Old Folder Number: 3202

Collected working documents of Joseph J. Schwartz, served as Director of Overseas Operations, 1942-1950.

Schwartz, Dr. Joseph J., 1947

Old Folder Number: 3201

Collected working documents of Joseph J. Schwartz, served as Director of Overseas Operations, 1942-1950.

Schwartz, Dr. Joseph J., 1948

Old Folder Number: 3201

Collected working documents of Joseph J. Schwartz, served as Director of Overseas Operations, 1942-1950.

Schwartz, Dr. Joseph J., 1949

Old Folder Number: 3201

Collected working documents of Joseph J. Schwartz, served as Director of Overseas Operations, 1942-1950.

Schwartz, Dr. Joseph J., 1950

Old Folder Number: 3201

Collected working documents of Joseph J. Schwartz, served as Director of Overseas Operations, 1942-1950.

Schwartz, Dr. Joseph J., 1951-1964

Old Folder Number: 3204

Collected working documents.

Segalman, Ralph, 1945-1947

Old Folder Number: 3205

Collected working documents.

Seidenman, Leonard, 1947-1964

Old Folder Number: 3206

Collected working documents.

Shakow, Rebecca, 1944-1947

Old Folder Number: 3207

Collected working documents.

Shapiro, Dr. Joseph M., 1926-1949

Old Folder Number: 3211

Collected working documents.

Siegel, Manuel, 1946-1949

Old Folder Number: 3212

Collected working documents.

Skorneck, Phillip, 1945-1953

Old Folder Number: 3214

Collected working documents.

Sobel, Louis H., 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 3213

Collected working documents.

Sobel, Louis H., 1947-1956

Old Folder Number: 3219

Collected correspondence of Dorothy Speiser, October to November 1954.

Speiser, Dorothy, Correspondence, Oct-Nov 1954

Old Folder Number: 3220

Collected working documents.

Tarshansky, Solomon, 1946-1953

Old Folder Number: 3222

Collected working documents.

Travin, Saul, 1945-1951

Old Folder Number: 3223

Collected working documents.

Trobe, Harlod, 1945-1961

Old Folder Number: 3225

Collected working documents.

Troper, Morris, 1945-1962

Old Folder Number: 3228

Collected working documents.

Vulcan, Beatrice, 1945-1960

Old Folder Number: 3235

Collected working documents.

Wagner, Bela, 1946-1951

Old Folder Number: 3234

Limited number of collected documents of JDC Chairman.

Warburg, Edward M. M., 1945-1948

Old Folder Number: 3236

Collected working documents.

Weingard, David, 1947-1963

Old Folder Number: 3238

Collected working documents.

Wise, Rabbi Jonah B., 1945-1959

Old Folder Number: 2974

Informational leaflets on JDC programs in Europe, with information by country and topic, covering relief work, food aid, cultural programs.

Facts and Figures, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 2090

Informational leaflets on JDC programs in Europe, with information by country and topic, covering relief work, food aid, cultural programs.

Facts and Figures, 1947

Old Folder Number: 3269

Correspondence, cables, memoranda on films, film trafficking, distribution of JDC films for screening to local communities.

Films, 1940-1947

Old Folder Number: 3269

Correspondence, cables, memoranda on films, film trafficking, distribution of JDC films for screening to local communities.

Films, 1948

Old Folder Number: 3268 3250

Correspondence, cables, memoranda on films, film trafficking, distribution of JDC films for screening to local communities.

Films, 1949

Old Folder Number: 3268

Correspondence, cables, memoranda on films, film trafficking, distribution of JDC films for screening to local communities.

Films, 1950-1954

Old Folder Number: 3272

Correspondence and documents on commission of history of JDC, to be completed for 40th anniversary in 1954 by author Marvin Lowenthal. Also includes documentation of commission of earlier histories, 1928 and 1937.

History of JDC, 1945-1954

Old Folder Number: 3293

Newsletter published by the Lisbon office of JDC for internal use, covers programs worldwide in brief updates.

Lisbon Newsletter, 1944-1945

Old Folder Number: 3422

Monthly staff newsletter, includes issue of JDC Bulletin, preceding name change to Out of Joint.

Out of Joint, 1951

Old Folder Number: 2974

Press releases issued by New York headquarters, under heading of JDC Reports. Releases include information on JDC programs, staffing announcements and general Jewish relief issues in Europe.

Press Releases, 1945

Old Folder Number: 2974

Press releases issued by New York headquarters, under heading of JDC Reports. Releases include information on JDC programs, staffing announcements and general Jewish relief issues in Europe.

Press Releases, 1945

Old Folder Number: 2973

Press releases issued by New York headquarters, under heading of JDC News. Releases include information on JDC programs, staffing announcements and general Jewish relief issues in Europe.

Press Releases, 1946

Old Folder Number: 2972

Press releases issued by New York headquarters, under heading of JDC News. Releases include information on JDC programs, staffing announcements and general Jewish relief issues in Europe.

Press Releases, 1947

Old Folder Number: 2971

Press release issued by New York headquarters, clippings from Congress Weekly, the Jewish Forum. Clippings include criticisms of JDC overseas activities.

Press Releases, 1948

Old Folder Number: 3257

Press release, draft letter, list of recipients for letter on celebration of 33rd anniversary of JDC.

Press Releases, 33rd Anniversary, 1948

Old Folder Number: 3299

Requests and responses for publications and printed matter by communities, organizations in the US and overseas.

Requests for Printed Matter, 1945-1949

Old Folder Number: 3297

Correspondence, memoranda, clipping, reports on public relations and publicity.

Public Relations, 1945-1954

Old Folder Number: 3295

Press releases, correspondence and memoranda on statistical information, primarily for publication and dissemination.

Statistical Abstracts, 1946-1954