Old Folder Number: 4178

Correspondence, meeting minutes and news accounts regarding U.S. legislation on displaced persons; U.S. immigration eligibility requirements, interpretation of regulations, lefts of appeal.

General, 1951

Old Folder Number: 4179

Correspondence, reports on immigration to U.S., including analyses, grievances about administration of Displaced Persons Act.

General, VI.-XII. 1950

Old Folder Number: 4179

Correspondence, reports, congressional debate and proposed amendments to Displaced Persons Act, including remarks by Senator Herbert Lehman (April 3, 1950). Miscellaneous statistics on displaced persons, emigration. Minutes from National Community Relations Advisory Council’s Committee on Immigration Matters.

General, IV.-V. 1950

Old Folder Number: 4179

Correspondence, reports, congressional debate on Displaced Persons Act, including speech by Senator Herbert Lehman (March 1, 1950) calling for liberalization of immigration policies for DPs. Miscellaneous statistics on displaced persons, emigration.

General, I.-III. 1950

Old Folder Number: 4180

Correspondence concerning, reports on displaced persons, Jewish interests in the U.S. Occupation Zone from U.S. military’s adviser on Jewish affairs.

General, IX.-XII. 1949

Old Folder Number: 4180

Correspondence on emigration prospects and procedures; community assurances for displaced persons; international aid for hard-core. Correspondence (July 11, 1949 and June 14, 1949) regarding query by Alva Myrdal, Office of United Nations Secretary-General, on assistance to “indigent foreigners.” General W.A. Wood Jr. letter (transmitted March 28, 1949) on migration via U.S. Army DP transports.

General, III.-VIII. 1949

Old Folder Number: 4180

Correspondence, reports, press releases and news accounts regarding congressional debate and proposed amendments to Displaced Persons Act; materials concern eligibility, deadlines, as well as employment and housing guarantees.

General, I.-II. 1949

Old Folder Number: 4181

Reports, correspondence on U.S. immigration law, and on emigration, migration procedures, coordination of migration service of JDC, HIAS and United Service for New Americans.

General, VIII.-XII. 1948

Old Folder Number: 4181

Materials on Displaced Persons Act, including Congressional Record extracts of debates, correspondence and grievances about provisions, notably from refugees in Shanghai.

General, VI.-VII. 1948

Old Folder Number: 4182

Materials from office of U.S. military adviser on Jewish affairs; on International Refugee Organization (IRO) policy on assisting emigration to Israel. Miscellaneous references to pending U.S. immigration legislation. Correspondence on use of funds from European Recovery Program (ERP; Marshall Plan).

General, I.-V. 1948

Old Folder Number: 4182

Materials concerning legislative and other activities of House Foreign Affairs Committee, congressional survey and field trips regarding displaced persons in Europe; reference to (but no copy of) report by House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on DPs and International Refugee Organization (IRO). Correspondence on food rations, on billeting expenses in Germany for voluntary-agency personnel, press releases.

General, 1947

Old Folder Number: 4183

Correspondence, reports on needs, treatment of displaced persons. Report (August 15, 1946) of ad hoc UNRRA committee (Council V, Document 159) regarding policy on DPs in anticipation of creation of International Refugee Organization (IRO).

General, VIII.-XII. 1946

Old Folder Number: 4183

Correspondence on efforts to keep open the border into the U.S. Occupation Zone, on needs of DPs and refugees. American Jewish Committee memo (April 8, 1946), prepared for United Nations, on refugees and DPs.

General, I.-VII. 1946

Old Folder Number: 4183

Correspondence, reports about displaced persons, treatment by Occupation authorities, need for separate facilities and supplemental aid for Jews. Truman Directive of December 22, 1945, miscellaneous materials, information regarding DP immigration to U.S. under directive.

General, IX.-XII. 1945

Old Folder Number: 4183

Reports, correspondence about displaced persons, treatment by Occupation authorities, need for separate facilities and supplemental aid for Jews.

General, I.-VIII. 1945

Old Folder Number: 4151, 4334

Correspondence, inquiries, reports on children, child care, arrangements to transport, maintain and provide homes for refugee and displaced children, including orphans. Correspondence and cables regarding religious Jewish organizations’ plans to rescue children. Miscellaneous press releases. See also individual country files.

Children, IX.-XII. 1946

Old Folder Number: 4151, 4334

Correspondence, inquiries, reports on children, child care, arrangements to transport, maintain and provide homes for refugee and displaced children, including orphans. Minutes (June 6, 1946) of voluntary agencies’ child-welfare conference. See also individual country files.

Children, I.-VIII. 1946

Old Folder Number: 4334

Numerous inquiries from individuals and agencies regarding assistance, relocation and adoption of children. Printed matter: “Orphans of the Storm,” pamphlet of the U.S. Committee for the Care of European Children.

Children, VII.-XII. 1945

Old Folder Number: 4334

Correspondence, cables on transit of children; inquiries regarding assistance to displaced and surviving children, including relocation schemes. “Rescue and Refuge,” bulletins (January, April 1945) of the U.S. Committee for the Care of European Children. Contains names on list dated September 1944 of unaccompanied children who arrived in Spain, including place and date of birth, names of relatives abroad; some names also on correspondence.

Children, 1944, I.-VI. 1945

Old Folder Number: 4140

Correspondence, queries from individuals about possibilities for adopting orphans from Europe.

Adoptions, 1950-1954

Old Folder Number: 4139

Correspondence between organizations, queries from individuals about possibilities for adopting orphans from Europe; miscellaneous materials regarding legal aspects of adoption.

Adoptions, 1945-1949

Old Folder Number: 4336

Correspondence, news accounts and statements on the reclamation of European Jewish children from non-Jewish auspices.

Conversion, 1945-1954

Old Folder Number: 4155

Miscellaneous correspondence on needs of Orthodox children.

Orthodox Children, III.-VII. 1949

Old Folder Number: 4153, 4170

Reports on Jewish children in Europe.

Reports, 1946, 1949

Old Folder Number: 4152

Short biographies of nearly 100 children in JDC institutions, for use in UJA fund-raising materials.

UJA Appeals, 1945, 1948

Old Folder Number: 4236

Correspondence, press releases, on emigration, resettlement, rehabilitation of hard-core.

Hard-Core, 1951

Old Folder Number: 4236

Correspondence, memos on emigration, resettlement, rehabilitation of hard-core.

Hard-Core, 1949-1950

Old Folder Number: 4191

Correspondence, materials on organization, publications for orientation programs for displaced persons resettling in the U.S.

Orientation, 1949

Old Folder Number: 4192

Orientation, 1947-1948

Old Folder Number: 4187

Materials on development, draft, stencil of handbook “Guide for New Americans.”

Handbook for DPs, 1948-1949

Old Folder Number: 4189

Camps and Locations, Allach, 1945

Old Folder Number: 4189

Camps and Locations, Bad Godesberg, 1945

Old Folder Number: 4189

Camps and Locations, Belgium, 1945

Old Folder Number: 4189

Camps and Locations, Bergen-Belsen, 1945

Old Folder Number: 4189

Camps and Locations, Buchenwald, 1945

Old Folder Number: 4189

Camps and Locations, Celle, 1945

Old Folder Number: 4189

Camps and Locations, Dachau, 1945

Old Folder Number: 4189

Camps and Locations, Doessel, 1945

Old Folder Number: 4189

Camps and Locations, Ebensee, 1945

Old Folder Number: 4189

Camps and Locations, Eindhoven, 1945

Old Folder Number: 4189

Camps and Locations, Estonia, 1945

Old Folder Number: 4189

Camps and Locations, Kaunas, 1945

Old Folder Number: 4189

Camps and Locations, Mannheim, 1945

Old Folder Number: 4189

Camps and Locations, Munich, 1945

Old Folder Number: 4189

Camps and Locations, Netherlands, 1945

Old Folder Number: 4189

Camps and Locations, Poland, 1945

Old Folder Number: 4186

Camps and Locations, Theresienstadt, 1945, 1947

Old Folder Number: 4189

Camps and Locations, USSR, 1945

Old Folder Number: 4189

Camps and Locations, Westerbork, 1945

Old Folder Number: 4141

Correspondence regarding standards of institutional care.

Aged, VIII.-XI. 1954

Old Folder Number: 4253

Correspondence on services, relief supplies for blind in Europe. Contains list of names of some blind individuals.

Blind, 1947-1949

Old Folder Number: 4185

Correspondence regarding traveling exhibition of crafts to stimulate interest in immigration of skilled displaced persons.

Cultural, Art and Handicrafts Exhibits, 1947-1949

Old Folder Number: 4184

Miscellaneous on entertainers’ tours of DP camps.

Cultural, Entertainment and Morale Tours, 1947-1949

Old Folder Number: 4272

Correspondence regarding provision, limits of legal aid service.

Legal Aid, 1948-1950

Old Folder Number: 4147

Correspondence, newspaper accounts regarding prospects for relief for Arab refugees in Israel, Judea and Samaria.

Refugees, Arabs Refugees from Israel, 1948-1949

Old Folder Number: 4156

Letter to “Answer Man” (December 10, 1947) on UJA allocation in 1940 to aid Christian refugees.

Refugees, Christian Refugees, 1947

Old Folder Number: 4276

Training, Courses for Displaced Physicians, 1948

Old Folder Number: 4534

Correspondence, statistical reports, statements on vocational education, need to coordinate training with employment opportunities, relations with ORT. Undated, unsigned memo, describing of typical beginning jobs for immigrants to U.S.

Vocational Training, 1946-1949

Old Folder Number: 4193

Documents and news accounts (primarily from the Washington Post) on proposal by Frank Cohen (of New York) to train 100,000 DPs as factory workers at site in Passamaquoddy (Quoddy) Village, Maine, and to send them on to South America.

Vocational Training, Quoddy Project, VII.-IX. 1947

Old Folder Number: 4196

Monthly statistical reports (incomplete) on the number of emigrants, countries of origin, destinations. General correspondence, accounting letters, cables on expenses, remittances, reimbursements. Names are listed on departure lists.

General, 1953

Old Folder Number: 4196

Monthly statistical reports (incomplete) on the number of people assisted with emigration, countries of origin, destinations. General correspondence, press releases, accounting letters, cables on expenses, remittances, reimbursements. Names listed on some departure memos; also, for September-December 1951 sailings of SS Nea Hellas.

General, 1952

Old Folder Number: 4197

Monthly statistical reports on the number of people assisted with emigration, countries of origin, destinations; progress reports on movement of potential emigrants under the Displaced Persons Act; statistics on the number of people called forward, visas issued. General correspondence, accounting letters, cables on remittances, reimbursements, currency transactions. Names of emigrants on periodic emigration departure lists.

General, VII.-XII. 1951

Old Folder Number: 4197

Statistical reports on the number of people assisted with emigration, countries of origin, destinations; progress reports on movement of potential emigrants, the number of people called forward, visas issued. Accounting letters, cables on remittances, reimbursements, currency transactions. Names of emigrants on periodic emigration departure lists.

General, I.-VI. 1951

Old Folder Number: 4198

Statistical reports on number of people assisted with emigration, countries of origin, destinations. Accounting letters, cables on expenses, currency exchange, reimbursements, payments from International Refugee Organization (IRO). Names of emigrants listed on emigration departure memo, October 1, 1950.

General, IX.-XII. 1950

Old Folder Number: 4198

Statistical reports on the number of people assisted with emigration, countries of origin, destinations. Correspondence, extracts from JDC committee meetings, accounting letters, cables on expenses, currency exchange, reimbursements, including IRO payments.

General, I.-VIII. 1950

Old Folder Number: 4199

Miscellaneous statistical reports on emigration. Accounting letters on expenditures, currency transfers, reimbursements from International Refugee Organization (IRO).

General, IX.-XII. 1949

Old Folder Number: 4199

Correspondence, statistical reports on emigration (reports incomplete). Accounting letters on expenditures, reimbursements from International Refugee Organization (IRO). Names of passengers on some accounting correspondence; Cedoc (Prague) list of passengers, SS Caboto, July 7, 1949.

General, VI.-VIII. 1949

Old Folder Number: 4200

Statistical reports on the number of people assisted with emigration, countries of origin, destinations. Correspondence, accounting letters, cables on expenses, remittances. Press releases on displaced persons, reconstruction.

General, III.-V. 1949

Old Folder Number: 4200

Statistical reports on the number of people assisted with emigration, countries of origin, destinations. Correspondence, accounting letters, cables on expenses, remittances. Press releases on displaced persons, reconstruction.

General, I.-II. 1949

Old Folder Number: 4201

Miscellaneous emigration statistics in reports, correspondence, extracts of committee meeting minutes; cables on ships’ departures. Accounting letters, cables on expenses, remittances. Miscellaneous press releases.

General, VII.-XII. 1948

Old Folder Number: 4201

Miscellaneous emigration statistics in correspondence, reports, extracts of committee meeting minutes; cables on ships’ departures, transit arrangements. Accounting letters, cables on expenses, remittances, bookkeeping procedures.

General, I.-VI. 1948

Old Folder Number: 4202

Correspondence, accounting memos, cables on receipts, reparations, expenses, transfers, cash shortages. Miscellaneous statistics, emigration estimates, press releases. Contains names on lists of transport deposits, expenses.

General, VIII.-XII. 1947

Old Folder Number: 4202

Correspondence, accounting memos, cables on receipts, reparations, expenses, personnel requirements. Miscellaneous statistics, emigration estimates. Occasionally contains names in cables, correspondence.

General, VI.-VII. 1947

Old Folder Number: 4203

Correspondence, reports on emigration schemes, opportunities, policies, procedures. Lists names of orphaned Romanian children due to emigrate to Australia (transmitted by memo April 8, 1947); emigrants’ names on correspondence.

General, IV.-V. 1947

Old Folder Number: 4203

Narrative and statistical reports on emigration. Memos on emigration policies, procedures, collection of transportation costs; accounting memos on claims, payments, expenses. Lists names on some correspondence; names (from list, probably January 1947) regarding migration deposits.

General, I.-III. 1947

Old Folder Number: 4204

Miscellaneous on emigration; cables on ship sailings, including detention in Saigon of SS Monkay.

General, VII.-XII. 1946

Old Folder Number: 4204

General, financial, accounting correspondence on emigration issues. Contains names on a short list of emigres, February-April 1946, transmitted by memo May 13,1946.

General, I.-VI. 1946

Old Folder Number: 4335

Memos on various emigration schemes for numerous countries, including procedures, limitations. Correspondence and New York Times account on proposal for sanctuary for stateless children on Nevis, island in British West Indies. Cables on sailings, transport. Miscellaneous accounting letters. Reprint from “United Nations World” (December 1947) of Leo Lania article “Children’s Crusade,” on refugee children immigrating to Palestine. Contains list of students at Yeshiva Katana, Bailly, France, transmitted with memo September 9, 1947.

Children, VII.-XII. 1947

Old Folder Number: 4335

Memos on various emigration schemes for numerous countries, including procedures, limitations, including use of corporate affidavits. Cables on sailings, transport. Correspondence, draft agreement regarding support of U.S. Committee for the Care of European Children by sectarian agencies.

Children, I.-VI. 1947

Old Folder Number: 4281

Accounting correspondence on emigration costs, reimbursements.

Costs, VI.-VIII. 1950

Old Folder Number: 4285

Migration Accounts, General, 1946-1948

Old Folder Number: 4282

Contains list of names on correspondence.

Migration Deposits, 1950-1951, 1953-1954

Old Folder Number: 4283

Financial, accounting correspondence on processing, procedures for refunds of emigration deposits, confusion stemming from IRO reimbursement. Contains list of names on correspondence.

Migration Deposits, 1949

Old Folder Number: 4283

Financial, accounting correspondence on processing, procedures for refunds of emigration deposits. Contains list of names on correspondence.

Migration Deposits, 1948

Old Folder Number: 4284

Migration Deposits, VII.-XII. 1947

Old Folder Number: 4284

Migration Deposits, I.-VI. 1947

Old Folder Number: 4286

Contains list of names on correspondence.

Migration Deposits, IX.-XII. 1946

Old Folder Number: 4286

Contains list of names on correspondence.

Migration Deposits, IV.-VIII. 1946

Old Folder Number: 4287

Correspondence, lists regarding deposits, depositors. Names listed on promissory notes.

Migration Promissory Notes, 1950-1953

Old Folder Number: 4287

Contains list of names on promissory notes.

Migration Promissory Notes, 1949

Old Folder Number: 4290

Miscellaneous accounting, banking correspondence.

Migration Service Account, Austria, 1946-1948

Old Folder Number: 4291

Miscellaneous accounting, banking correspondence.

Migration Service Account, Belgium, 1947-1949

Old Folder Number: 4297

Miscellaneous correspondence regarding accounting, banking, sailings.

Migration Service Account, China, 1946-1951

Old Folder Number: 4288, 4293

Miscellaneous accounting, banking correspondence. Contains list of a limited number of names in correspondence.

Migration Service Account, France, 1951-1954

Old Folder Number: 4288, 4293

Miscellaneous accounting, banking correspondence. Contains list of a limited number of names in correspondence.

Migration Service Account, France, 1949-1950

Old Folder Number: 4289

Miscellaneous accounting, banking correspondence. Contains list of a limited number of names in correspondence.

Migration Service Account, France, 1947-1948

Old Folder Number: 4292, 4294

Miscellaneous correspondence regarding accounting, banking, sailings.

Migration Service Account, Germany, 1946-1950

Old Folder Number: 4295

Miscellaneous accounting, banking correspondence.

Migration Service Account, Italy, 1946-1949

Old Folder Number: 4241

Correspondence, memos, fact sheets, Congressional testimony on U.S. immigration legislation, regulations, visas. Materials on the Refugee Relief Act of 1953 (successor legislation to DP Act), from the “No Auspices Group of Agencies,” ad hoc group of member organizations of the National Community Relations Advisory Council, dealing with immigration matters.

Immigration to U.S., VIII.-XII. 1953

Old Folder Number: 4243

Correspondence, reports (from organizations and ad hoc committees), analysis of emergency U.S. immigration legislation. Materials include summaries of Congressional debates, tumult over “emergency” vs. basic immigration law, quota vs. non-quota visas, Congressional complaints about elimination of category of “distressed persons,” allegations of racism in reference to immigrants’ ethnic origins. Printed materials: American Friends Service Committee, pamphlet contains editorial opinion on McCarran Act; National Council of Churches of Christ leaflet (April 4, 1953) on immigration; Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Men and Women (Boston) on McCarran Act.

Immigration to U.S., V.-VII. 1953

Old Folder Number: 4243

See 45/54 # 1158

Immigration to U.S., I.-IV.- 1953

Old Folder Number: 4244

Correspondence on immigration; materials on the McCarran Act, including provisions of the law, opposition, efforts to revise immigration law, including conflicts with non-Jewish organizations, divergent approaches to liberal immigration legislation. Contains a list of names associated with transport expenses.

Immigration to U.S., X.-XII. 1952

Old Folder Number: 4244

Correspondence on immigration; materials on the McCarran Act, including provisions of the law, opposition, efforts to revise immigration law, including conflicts with non-Jewish organizations, divergent approaches to liberal immigration legislation. Contains a list of names associated with transport expenses.

Immigration to U.S., V.-IX. 1952

Old Folder Number: 4244

Correspondence on immigration; materials on the McCarran Act, including provisions of the law, opposition, efforts to revise immigration law, including conflicts with non-Jewish organizations, divergent approaches to liberal immigration legislation. Report of “Third Conference of NGOs Interested in Migration” (New York, April 16-22, 1952). Contains a list of names associated with transport expenses.

Immigration to U.S., I.-IV 1952

Old Folder Number: 4245

Legislative, administrative materials on immigration to U.S., including analysis (January 26, 1951) by “Joint Conference on Alien Legislation, Committee on Immigration Policy,” chaired by Sidney Liskofsky, on Senate Bill 3455, which would revise immigration law. Instructions and copy of application for immigration to the U.S. Accounting letters on IRO reimbursement, tax payments, include names of immigrants.

Immigration to U.S., VI.-XII. 1951

Old Folder Number: 4245

See 45/54 # 1163

Immigration to U.S., I.-V. 1951

Old Folder Number: 4247

Correspondence on organizing and coordinating immigration operations. Correspondence from voluntary agencies and state DP commissions to Displaced Persons Commission, with administrative recommendations about accelerating immigration. Materials from National Community Relations Advisory Council’s Committee on Immigration Matters. Names are listed on accounting memos regarding reimbursements for expenses.

Immigration to U.S., IX.-XII. 1950

Old Folder Number: 4247

Correspondence on organizing and coordinating immigration operations. Correspondence from voluntary agencies and state DP commissions to Displaced Persons Commission, with administrative recommendations about accelerating immigration. Materials from National Community Relations Advisory Council’s Committee on Immigration Matters. See 45/54 # 1165

Immigration to U.S., V.-VIII. 1950

Old Folder Number: 4247

Correspondence on organizing and coordinating immigration operations. Correspondence from voluntary agencies and state DP commissions to Displaced Persons Commission, with administrative recommendations about accelerating immigration. Materials from National Community Relations Advisory Council’s Committee on Immigration Matters. See 45/54 # 1165

Immigration to U.S., I.-IV. 1950

Old Folder Number: 4248

Extensive materials on governmental and communal matters related to U.S. immigration, including government regulations. Materials on medical issues affecting eligibility to enter U.S., including State Department regulations on “diagnosing TB” in aliens” and minutes of meeting (December 2, 1949) of American Council of Voluntary Agencies for Foreign Service, regarding resettlement of the hard-core. Miscellaneous statistics, including departures from Europe under Displaced Persons Act. Printed material: Newsweek magazine “Platform” (December 1949) on U.S. immigration laws. Contains list of mixed-marriage families,September 20,1949.

Immigration to U.S., IX.-XII. 1949

Old Folder Number: 4248

Extensive materials on governmental and communal matters related to U.S. immigration, including government regulations. Contains list of mixed-marriage families, September 20, 1949.

Immigration to U.S., V.-VIII. 1949

Old Folder Number: 4248

Extensive materials on governmental and communal matters related to U.S. immigration, including government regulations. Contains list of mixed-marriage families, September 20, 1949.

Immigration to U.S., I.-IV. 1949

Old Folder Number: 4249

Correspondence, reports on U.S. immigration legislation, regulations, legal decisions effecting individual immigration eligibility; backlog in processing cases. Materials on the status of U.S. immigration quotas. Contains list of orphans who were unable to get affidavits of support, April 22, 1947.

Immigration to U.S., 1948

Old Folder Number: 4249

Correspondence, reports on U.S. immigration legislation, regulations, legal decisions effecting individual immigration eligibility; backlog in processing cases. Materials on the status of U.S. immigration quotas. Contains list of orphans who were unable to get affidavits of support, April 22, 1947.

Immigration to U.S., 1947

Old Folder Number: 4205, 4249

Correspondence, reports regarding Truman Directive on immigration to the U.S.; pace and status of refugee movement since directive; problems with transportation, need to assign more ships to transport refugees, including letter (November 25, 1946) from UNRRA/Bremen to State Department, urgently seeking vessels.

Immigration to U.S., 1946

Old Folder Number: 4205, 4249

Correspondence, reports regarding Truman Directive on immigration to the U.S.; pace and status of refugee movement since directive; problems with transportation, need to assign more ships to transport refugees.

Immigration to U.S., 1940, 1944-1945

Old Folder Number: 4533

Correspondence regarding employment prospects in U.S. for displaced persons.

Immigration to U.S., Employment, 1947-1949

Old Folder Number: 4210

Queries from individuals seeking information on how to bring surviving relatives into U.S.

Immigration to U.S., Inquiries, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 4250

Correspondence on aid to students to complete advanced studies that had been disrupted by war. Contains list of names of students.

Immigration to U.S., Interrupted Education, VIII.-X. 1951

Old Folder Number: 4251

Analyses, critiques of McCarran-Walter immigration measures.

Immigration to U.S., U.S. Legislation, I.-III. 1951

Old Folder Number: 4279

Memos, reports, extracts of committee meetings and correspondence on emigration issues, including procedures, financing, opportunities for resettlement.

General, V.-XII. 1947

Old Folder Number: 4279

Memos, correspondence on emigration issues, including procedures, financing. Miscellaneous statistical reports.

General, I.-IV. 1947

Old Folder Number: 4279

Memos, correspondence on emigration issues, including procedures, financing.

General, IX.-XII 1946

Old Folder Number: 4278

Cables, correspondence on JDC’s entry into migration. Correspondence on procedures for DPs’ entry into U.S. under Truman Directive. Names are listed on corporate affidavits issued by JDC-Munich as of April 23, 1946.

General, V.-VIII. 1946

Old Folder Number: 4278

Cables, correspondence on JDC’s entry into migration. Correspondence on procedures for DPs’ entry into U.S. under Truman Directive. Names are listed on corporate affidavits issued by JDC-Munich as of April 23, 1946.

General, I.-IV. 1946

Old Folder Number: 4278

Correspondence, materials on coordinating migration services in Europe, establishing a Jewish migration agency.

General, 1945

Old Folder Number: 4302

Correspondence on resettlement prospects in Ecuador.

Ecuador, 1947-1949

Old Folder Number: 4304, 4307

Correspondence on resettlement prospects in Guianas.

Guianas, 1947-1948

Old Folder Number: 4212

Materials, primarily from Arthur Fishzohn in Istanbul, regarding fate, legal status and welfare of 137 undocumented Jews of Turkish nationality.

SS Drottingholm, 1942, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 4213

Miscellaneous cables on sailing. No passenger lists.

SS Ernie Pyle, 1946-1947

Old Folder Number: 4213

Materials, including British Foreign Office cable (December 10, 1947), on detention in U.S. of ship (formerly De Witt Clinton) on suspicion of being intended for Jewish illegal immigration.

SS (Col.) Frederick Johnson, 1947, 1982

Old Folder Number: 4214

Promissory notes of refugees who left Shanghai on SS General Gordon on March 4, 1948. Contains list of names on promissory notes.

SS General Gordon, 1948

Old Folder Number: 4215

Cables on sailings.

SS Johann Dewitt, 1947

Old Folder Number: 4216

Correspondence, cables on sailings. Contains list of names of anticipated passengers.

SS Lima, 1945

Old Folder Number: 4217

Cables, correspondence regarding sailings, finances. Contains list of names of passengers.

SS Marine Flasher, 1946-1948

Old Folder Number: 4218

Cables, correspondence regarding sailings, finances. NO PASSENGERS LIST.

SS Marine Marlin, 1946-1947

Old Folder Number: 4219

Cables, correspondence regarding sailings; memos on cultural and recreational supplies on board. NO PASSENGERS LIST.

SS Marine Perch, 1946-1947

Old Folder Number: 4220

Cables, correspondence regarding sailings, finances. Contains list of some passengers’ names.

SS Marine Phoenix, 1947

Old Folder Number: 4222

Cables regarding sailings, finances. No passengers lists.

SS Marine Tiger, 1947

Old Folder Number: 4223

Contains list of names of passengers who submitted claims for baggage damaged in 1940 shipboard fire.

SS Orazio, 1945-1949

Old Folder Number: 4224

Contains list of names of passengers who made payments in Switzerland for all or part of fare.

SS Plus Ultra, 1945-1947

Old Folder Number: 4225

Contains list of names, nationality, age of passengers from Lisbon, September 25, 1942; names of Polish and Czech refugees for whom payments were made, April-December 1949.

SS San Thome, 1942, 1946, 1950-1951

Old Folder Number: 4226

SS Saturnia, 1947

Old Folder Number: 4144

Submissions to Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry. Correspondence on visits by committee members to displaced persons. New York Times reprint of recommendations of Anglo-American Committee (May 1, 1946).

Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, I.-VI. 1946

Old Folder Number: 4145

Materials on origins of the Anglo-American Committee, including announcement of membership, goals.

Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, XI.-XII. 1945

Old Folder Number: 4208

Correspondence regarding refugees’ and emigrants’ baggage, including costs of excess baggage, luggage lost in emigrants’ flight from Nazis. U.S. military European Command directive (1949) regarding German customs’ inspection of DPs’ unaccompanied baggage.

Baggage, 1945-1949, 1952-1953

Old Folder Number: 4209

Miscellaneous correspondence on the status of U.S. immigration visas for individuals.

Clearances, III.-VII. 1945

Old Folder Number: 4227

European Emigration Department Memos, 1948-1952

Old Folder Number: 4207

Correspondence regarding new international migration agency, possible successor to International Refugee Organization (IRO). Arthur Greenleigh (United Service for New Americans) statement (October 8, 1951) to international migration conference on need for international agency to facilitate migration.

International Migration Authority, 1949, 1951-1952

Old Folder Number: 4532

Correspondence on emigration prospects for TB and post-TB patients.

Medical, TB, 1948, 1951-1954

Old Folder Number: 4474

Correspondence, memos on status, lefts and entitlements of returnees from Israel.

Repatriation, 1946-1948, 1950-1952

Old Folder Number: 1307

Correspondence on emigration, visas, transit, destination, maintenance of yeshiva students. Contains a list of students of Chofetz Chaim Yeshiva in Radun, Poland, subsequently in Lodz, June 24, 1946.

Yeshivot, 1946-1949

Old Folder Number: 4273

Correspondence, memos, primarily regarding limits of reimbursements for voluntary agencies. Miscellaneous correspondence on Belgium’s conditions, limits for Marshall Plan. Printed matter: Organization for European Economic Cooperation report on first annual program.

Marshall Plan (ECA), III.-XII. 1949

Old Folder Number: 4273

Correspondence, memos regarding Marshall Plan’s scope, agreements, reimbursements for voluntary agencies, relations and coordination with recipient European governments. Minutes of meetings of voluntary agencies, concerning Italy and ENDSI (Ente Nazionale Distribuzione Soccorsi all’Italia). Miscellaneous newspaper accounts.

Marshall Plan (ECA), I.-II. 1949

Old Folder Number: 4274

Correspondence, memos regarding Marshall Plan procedures, scope, funds for voluntary agencies. Materials on ECA agreements with France, Italy, Northern Ireland, Germany, Britain, and reimbursement for some expenses of voluntary agencies. Minutes of meetings of voluntary agencies. Printed matter: ECA pamphlet, “American Business and European Recovery,” Organization for European Economic Cooperation, “Report of the Manpower Committee”

Marshall Plan (ECA), IX.-XII. 1948

Old Folder Number: 4274

Correspondence, memos regarding Marshall Plan legislation, procedures, scope, prospects for funds for voluntary agencies.

Marshall Plan (ECA), I.-VIII. 1948

Old Folder Number: 4274

Harry White memo (November 5, 1947) on prospect of Marshall Plan funds to reduce JDC expenses for care of displaced persons. Reports by Thorsten Kalijarvi (Library of Congress, Legislative Reference Service) on Soviet-American foreign relations, and chronology of Marshall Plan. Printed matter: “Statistical Abstract of Activities of JDC During 1947.”

Marshall Plan (ECA), X.-XI. 1947

Old Folder Number: 4300

State Department reports, memos from American Council of Voluntary Agencies for Foreign Service on participation in U.S. reconstruction program for “world economic progress through cooperative technical assistance.”

Truman’s Point Four Program, 1949-1951

Old Folder Number: 4340

Correspondence, cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments of relief supplies. Accounting correspondence on payments, shipments, inventories, insurance payments and claims, distribution.

General, VI.-XII. 1950

Old Folder Number: 4340

Correspondence, cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies. Accounting correspondence on bookkeeping procedures, payments, shipments, inventories, insurance payments and claims.

General, I.-V. 1950

Old Folder Number: 4341

Correspondence, cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments of relief supplies. Accounting correspondence on payments, shipments, inventories, insurance payments and claims, distribution.

General, VII.-XII. 1949

Old Folder Number: 4342

Correspondence, cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies. Accounting correspondence on payments, shipments, inventories, insurance payments and claims.

General, IV.-VI. 1949

Old Folder Number: 4343

Correspondence, cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies. Accounting correspondence on payments, shipments, inventories, insurance payments and claims.

General, II.-III. 1949

Old Folder Number: 4343

Correspondence, cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies. Accounting correspondence on payments, shipments, inventories, insurance payments and claims.

General, I. 1949

Old Folder Number: 4308

Cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies. Accounting correspondence on payments, shipments, inventories, insurance payments and claims.

General, XII. 1948

Old Folder Number: 4308

Cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies. Accounting correspondence on payments, shipments, inventories, insurance payments and claims.

General, X.-XI. 1948

Old Folder Number: 4309

Cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies. Accounting correspondence on payments, shipments, inventories, insurance payments and claims.

General, VIII.-IX. 1948

Old Folder Number: 4309

Cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies. Accounting correspondence on payments, shipments, inventories, insurance payments and claims.

General, VI.-VII. 1948

Old Folder Number: 4311

Cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies. Correspondence, reports on procurement programs, inventories. Accounting correspondence on payments, shipments, inventories, insurance payments and claims.

General, VI. 1948

Old Folder Number: 4311

Cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies. Correspondence, reports on procurement programs, inventories. Accounting correspondence on payments, shipments, inventories, insurance payments and claims.

General, V. 1948

Old Folder Number: 4313

Cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies. Correspondence, reports on procurement programs, inventories. Accounting correspondence on payments, shipments, inventories, insurance payments and claims. Miscellaneous correspondence on relief-in-kind.

General, IV. 1948

Old Folder Number: 4313

Cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies. Correspondence, reports on procurement programs, inventories. Accounting correspondence on payments, shipments, inventories, insurance payments and claims. Miscellaneous correspondence on relief-in-kind.

General, III. 1948

Old Folder Number: 4314

Cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies. Accounting correspondence on payments, shipments, inventories, insurance payments and claims. Miscellaneous correspondence on relief-in-kind.

General, I.-II. 1948

Old Folder Number: 4315

Cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies. Accounting correspondence on payments, shipments, inventories, insurance payments and claims. Miscellaneous correspondence, statistical reports on relief-in-kind.

General, XII. 1947

Old Folder Number: 4315

Cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies. Accounting correspondence on payments, shipments, inventories, insurance payments and claims.

General, XI. 1947

Old Folder Number: 4316

Cables, reports on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies. Accounting correspondence on payments, shipments, inventories, insurance payments and claims.

General, IX.-X. 1947

Old Folder Number: 4317

Cables, reports on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies. Accounting correspondence on payments, shipments, inventories, insurance payments and claims. Summaries on commodities purchases, warehouse procedures. Correspondence regarding food parcels.

General, VIII. 1947

Old Folder Number: 4317

Cables, reports on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies. Accounting correspondence on payments, shipments, inventories, insurance payments and claims. Summaries on commodities purchases, warehouse procedures.

General, VII. 1947

Old Folder Number: 4318

Cables, reports on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies. Accounting correspondence on payments, shipments, inventories, insurance payments and claims.

General, VI. 1947

Old Folder Number: 4318

Cables, reports on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies. Accounting correspondence on payments, shipments, inventories, insurance payments and claims.

General, V. 1947

Old Folder Number: 4319

Correspondence, cables with requests for supplies, distribution. Accounting correspondence on payments, shipments, inventories, insurance payments and claims.

General, IV. 1947

Old Folder Number: 4319

Correspondence, cables with requests for supplies, distribution. Accounting correspondence on payments, shipments, inventories, insurance payments and claims.

General, III. 1947

Old Folder Number: 4320

Correspondence, cables with requests for supplies, distribution. Press releases on shipments.

General, II. 1947

Old Folder Number: 4320

Correspondence, cables with requests for supplies, distribution.

General, I. 1947

Old Folder Number: 4321

Correspondence, cables with requests for supplies, distribution.

General, XII. 1946

Old Folder Number: 4321

Correspondence, cables with requests for supplies, distribution.

General, XI. 1946

Old Folder Number: 4322

Cables, correspondence on availability, requests, purchases, distribution, shipments of relief supplies.

General, X. 1946

Old Folder Number: 4322

Cables, correspondence on availability, requests, purchases, distribution, shipments of relief supplies. Miscellaneous on insurance arrangements. Correspondence on “war assets” supplies.

General, IX. 1946

Old Folder Number: 4323

Cables, correspondence on availability, requests, purchases, distribution, shipments of relief supplies.

General, VIII. 1946

Old Folder Number: 4324

Cables, correspondence on availability, requests, purchases, distribution, shipments of relief supplies.

General, VII. 1946

Old Folder Number: 4324

Cables, correspondence on availability, requests, purchases, distribution, shipments of relief supplies.

General, VI. 1946

Old Folder Number: 4325

Cables, correspondence on availability, requests, purchases, distribution, shipments of relief supplies.

General, V. 1946

Old Folder Number: 4325

Cables, correspondence on availability, requests, purchases, distribution, shipments of relief supplies.

General, IV. 1946

Old Folder Number: 4326

Correspondence, cables on availability, requests, purchases, distribution, shipments of relief supplies.

General, III. 1946

Old Folder Number: 4326

Correspondence, cables on availability, requests, purchases, distribution, shipments of relief supplies. Miscellaneous on inspections, warehousing of supplies.

General, I.-II. 1946

Old Folder Number: 4327, 4328, 4329, 4330

Correspondence, cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies.

General, XII. 1945

Old Folder Number: 4327, 4328, 4329, 4330

Correspondence, cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies.

General, XI. 1945

Old Folder Number: 4327, 4328, 4329, 4330

Correspondence, cables on availability, requests, shipments of relief supplies, including itemized lists of purchases, distribution. Miscellaneous on bookkeeping/accounting procedures, administration. Pamphlet on “Pickwick Brand Multi-Purpose Meals.”

General, X. 1945

Old Folder Number: 4327, 4328, 4329, 4330

Correspondence, cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies.

General, VIII.-IX. 1945

Old Folder Number: 4327, 4328, 4329, 4330

Correspondence, cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies.

General, VII. 1945

Old Folder Number: 4327, 4328, 4329

Correspondence, cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies.

General, VI. 1945

Old Folder Number: 4327, 4328, 4329

Correspondence, cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies.

General, IV.-V. 1945

Old Folder Number: 4327, 4328, 4329

Correspondence, cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies. [ARTIFACT: Bank checks drawn on “shoe rationing account.”]

General, I.-III. 1945

Old Folder Number: 4327, 4328, 4329

Cables, correspondence on availability, purchase of commodities.

General, XI.-XII. 1944

Old Folder Number: 4344

Correspondence, accounting memos on requests, shipments of books, newspapers, magazines for training teachers, instruction/education/entertainment of displaced persons.

Books, 1947

Old Folder Number: 4344

Correspondence, accounting memos on requests, shipments of books, newspapers, magazines for training teachers, instruction/education/entertainment of displaced persons.

Books, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 4345

Correspondence on requests, shipments of medical books, journals on disease, treatment, medical procedures.

Medical Books, 1946-1950

Old Folder Number: 4380

Miscellaneous correspondence.

Books, 1946-1949

Old Folder Number: 4381

Miscellaneous correspondence on donations.

Clothing, 1945-1950

Old Folder Number: 4382

Correspondence, including materials on U.S. government surplus supplies, kosher meat from Ireland, including label from Irish project.

Food, 1945-1950, 1953, 1957

Old Folder Number: 4383

Correspondence regarding possible donations of machinery for use in European cooperatives.

Machinery, 1947-1948, 1961

Old Folder Number: 4385

Miscellaneous correspondence.

Medical, 1946-1949

Old Folder Number: 4347

Correspondence on public health, medical training films from public and private sources.

Medical Films, 1946-1948

Old Folder Number: 4368

Correspondence to and regarding Economic Cooperation Administration and Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid/Foreign Operations Administration for reimbursement of ocean and inland transport/freight expenses for commodities, relief supplies shipped worldwide.

Reimbursement of Shipping Expenses, 1949

Old Folder Number: 4368

Correspondence regarding JDC eligibility for financial benefits under the Economic Cooperation Act. Correspondence to and regarding Economic Cooperation Administration for reimbursement of ocean and inland transport/freight expenses for commodities, relief supplies shipped worldwide.

Reimbursement of Shipping Expenses, 1948

Old Folder Number: 4368

Correspondence regarding JDC eligibility for financial benefits under the Economic Cooperation Act. Correspondence to and regarding Economic Cooperation Administration for reimbursement of ocean and inland transport/freight expenses for commodities, relief supplies shipped worldwide.

Reimbursement of Shipping Expenses, VI.-XII. 1947

Old Folder Number: 4143

Reimbursement of Shipping Expenses, U.S. Public Law 84, 1947-1948

Old Folder Number: 4350

Correspondence, cables on orders, remittances. Miscellaneous on package service from South America, especially Brazil. Contains list of some names on correspondence.

Food Packages, VII.-XII. 1947

Old Folder Number: 4350

Correspondence, cables on orders, remittances. Miscellaneous on package service from South America, especially Brazil. Contains list of some names on correspondence.

Food Packages, I.-VI. 1947

Old Folder Number: 4350

Cables, correspondence on orders, remittances. Contains list of some names on correspondence.

Food Packages, VII.-XII. 1946

Old Folder Number: 4351

Correspondence, cables regarding Tehran food project, including arrangements, alternatives for parcel service to Baltics, Bessarabia. Contains names throughout listed on correspondence.

Food Packages, I.-VI. 1946

Old Folder Number: 4351

Correspondence, cables regarding Tehran food project, including extensions of parcel service. Contains names throughout listed on correspondence.

Food Packages, V.-XII. 1945

Old Folder Number: 4354

Cables, accounting correspondence on requests, purchases and distribution of medical supplies.

Medical, 1949-1954

Old Folder Number: 4354

Miscellaneous correspondence, including individual requests for streptomycin, penicillin.

Medical, 1948

Old Folder Number: 4355

Correspondence, memos on activities, medical protocols, treatment options.

Medical, 1947

Old Folder Number: 4355

Cables, correspondence, accounting memos on medical supply requests, payments. Cables, correspondence on acquiring American Red Cross stockpiles (via UNRRA).

Medical, 1946

Old Folder Number: 4355

Cables, correspondence, accounting memos on medical supply requests, payments. Cables, correspondence on acquiring American Red Cross stockpiles (via UNRRA).

Medical, 1945

Old Folder Number: 4353

Correspondence with requests, complaints about kosher food supplies. Accounting correspondence regarding Irish meat project, including reimbursements, payments for schochtim, supplies. Cables regarding kosher meat for Israeli yeshivot, availability of kosher food on transports of International Refugee Organization (IRO).

Kosher Food, 1945-1947

Old Folder Number: 1296

Packing lists indicating distribution of religious articles, books, Sifrei Torah to Jewish communities abroad.

Packing Lists, 1949

Old Folder Number: 1296

Packing lists indicating distribution of religious articles, books, Sifrei Torah to Jewish communities abroad.

Packing Lists, 1948

Old Folder Number: 4358

Correspondence on orders, remittances, shipments of Passover supplies, primarily matzot; mainly for shipments to Greece. Press releases, memo (April 20, 1953) includes statistics on distribution.

Passover, 1952-1954

Old Folder Number: 4358

Correspondence on orders, remittances, shipments of Passover supplies, primarily matzot; much of the correspondence concerns Comunidad Israelita de Bolivia.

Passover, 1950-1951

Old Folder Number: 4359

Correspondence, orders, remittances, shipments of Passover supplies, primarily matzot. Memos regarding matzot bakers in Holland.

Passover, 1949

Old Folder Number: 4359

Cables, correspondence on orders, distribution, duties, delays in shipments of Passover supplies, primarily matzot.

Passover, 1948

Old Folder Number: 4360

Cables, correspondence on requests, distribution, complaints, delays in shipments of Passover supplies, primarily matzot.

Passover, V.-XII. 1947

Old Folder Number: 4360

Cables, correspondence on requests, distribution, complaints, delays in shipments of Passover supplies, primarily matzot.

Passover, I.-IV. 1947

Old Folder Number: 4360

Cables, correspondence on requests, distribution, complaints, delays in shipments of Passover supplies, primarily matzot.

Passover, V.-XII. 1946

Old Folder Number: 4361

Cables, correspondence on requests, distribution, complaints, delays in shipments of Passover supplies, primarily matzot.

Passover, III.-IV. 1946

Old Folder Number: 4361

Cables, correspondence on requests, distribution, complaints, delays in shipments of Passover supplies, primarily matzot.

Passover, I.-II. 1946

Old Folder Number: 4361

Cables, correspondence on requests, distribution, shipments of Passover supplies, primarily matzot.

Passover, 1945

Old Folder Number: 4362

Miscellaneous correspondence (remittances, acknowledgements) on fund-raising campaign to provide Passover supplies.

Passover, Maot Chitim, 1945-1954

Old Folder Number: 4363

Correspondence regarding shipments and distribution as gifts of ceramic Passover seder plates, made by DPs in Marktredwitz.

Passover Plates, 1948-1949, 1951

Old Folder Number: 1297

Correspondence on donations, repairs, distributions of religious books, Sifrei Torah from U.S. to Jewish communities abroad.

Sefer Torah, 1950-1954

Old Folder Number: 1298

Correspondence on donations, repairs, distributions of religious books, Sifrei Torah from U.S. to Jewish communities abroad.

Sefer Torah, VII-.XII. 1949

Old Folder Number: 1298

Correspondence on donations, repairs, distributions of religious books, Sifrei Torah from U.S. to Jewish communities abroad.

Sefer Torah, I.-VI. 1949

Old Folder Number: 1299

Correspondence on donations, repairs, distributions of religious books, Sifrei Torah from U.S. to Jewish communities abroad.

Sefer Torah, VII.-XII. 1948

Old Folder Number: 1299

Correspondence on donations, repairs, distributions of religious books, Sifrei Torah from U.S. to Jewish communities abroad.

Sefer Torah, I.-VI. 1948

Old Folder Number: 1300

Correspondence on donations, repairs, distributions of Sifrei Torah from U.S. to Jewish communities abroad.

Sefer Torah, VII.-XII. 1947

Old Folder Number: 1300

Correspondence on donations, repairs, distributions of Sifrei Torah from U.S. to Jewish communities abroad.

Sefer Torah, I.-VI. 1947

Old Folder Number: 1301

Correspondence on donations, repairs, distributions of Sifrei Torah from U.S. to Jewish communities abroad.

Sefer Torah, VII.-XII. 1946

Old Folder Number: 1301

Correspondence on donations, repairs, distributions of Sifrei Torah from U.S. to Jewish communities abroad.

Sefer Torah, I.-VI. 1946

Old Folder Number: 1302

Correspondence on donations, repairs, distributions of Sifrei Torah from U.S. to Jewish communities abroad.

Sefer Torah, XI.-XII. 1945

Old Folder Number: 1302

Correspondence on donations, repairs, distributions of Sifrei Torah from U.S. to Jewish communities abroad.

Sefer Torah, X. 1945

Old Folder Number: 1302

Correspondence on donations, repairs, distributions of Sifrei Torah from U.S. to Jewish communities abroad.

Sefer Torah, VIII.-IX. 1945

Old Folder Number: 1303

Correspondence on organization of campaign to collect Sifrei Torah, religious books and articles from U.S. Jewish communities for distribution abroad; minutes of first meeting (October 23, 1944), original solicitation letters.

Sefer Torah, V.-VII 1945

Old Folder Number: 1303

Correspondence on organization of campaign to collect Sifrei Torah, religious books and articles from U.S. Jewish communities for distribution abroad.

Sefer Torah, I.-IV. 1945

Old Folder Number: 1303

Correspondence on organization of campaign to collect Sifrei Torah, religious books and articles from U.S. Jewish communities for distribution abroad; minutes of first meeting (October 23, 1944), original solicitation letters.

Sefer Torah, VI.-XII. 1944

Old Folder Number: 1304

Central Relief Committee correspondence regarding donations, repairs, distribution of Sifrei Torah; includes lists of donors linked to numbered scrolls, condition of scrolls.

Sefer Torah, Distribution, 1945-1949

Old Folder Number: 1304

Central Relief Committee correspondence regarding donations, repairs, distribution of Sifrei Torah; includes lists of donors linked to numbered scrolls, condition of scrolls.

Sefer Torah, Donors, 1944

Old Folder Number: 1304

Central Relief Committee correspondence regarding donations, repairs, distribution of Sifrei Torah; includes lists of donors linked to numbered scrolls, condition of scrolls.

Sefer Torah, Donors, 1945-1949

Old Folder Number: 4369

Correspondence on collections, procedures, administration, budget, and campaigns in various American cities. Minutes of S.O.S. Executive Committee meetings.

S.O.S., IX.-XII. 1948

Old Folder Number: 4371

Correspondence on collections, shipments, administration and local campaigns. Correspondence on cessation of shipments to Austria and Germany.

S.O.S., IV.-VIII. 1948

Old Folder Number: 4371

Correspondence on collections, shipments, administration and local campaigns.

S.O.S., I.-III. 1948

Old Folder Number: 4371

Miscellaneous correspondence.

S.O.S., X.-XII. 1947

Old Folder Number: 4372

Correspondence on collection of religious objects, books.

S.O.S., Books and Religious Articles, 1948-1949

Old Folder Number: 4373

Correspondence, acknowledgement letters for donations, packing slips, freight bills.

S.O.S., Clothing, 1948-1949

Old Folder Number: 4373

Correspondence, acknowledgement letters for donations, packing slips, freight bills.

S.O.S., Clothing, VI.-XII. 1947

Old Folder Number: 4373

Shipping-notification postcards.

S.O.S., Clothing, Shipping Notices, 1947-1948

Old Folder Number: 4374

Correspondence regarding toys and educational supplies for children.

S.O.S., Education and Recreation, 1947-1948

Old Folder Number: 4375

Correspondence on shipping arrangements, coordination of combined JDC and Zionist Organization of America food drive in Chicago. Letters of thanks for contributions.

S.O.S., Food, I.-IV. 1949

Old Folder Number: 4375

Correspondence on collection, shipping of food commodities. Correspondence on Zionist Organization of America food drive for Israel. Letters of thanks for contributions.

S.O.S., Food, 1947-1948

Old Folder Number: 4376

Miscellaneous correspondence on medical supplies, needs.

S.O.S., Medical, 1947-1949

Old Folder Number: 4370

Transcripts: Annual meeting (January 3, 1948); meeting of Northeast Region (June 15, 1948).

S.O.S., Meetings, 1948

Old Folder Number: 4377

Publicity kits/manuals, sample press releases,, radio scripts, news clips.[ARTIFACTS: S.O.S. button; S.O.S. “Captain” armbands]

S.O.S., Publicity, 1948-1949

Old Folder Number: 4377

Printed materials: S.O.S. bulletins, flyers, press releases.

S.O.S., Publicity, Printed Materials, 1947-1949

Old Folder Number: 4365

Correspondence regarding requests for sheet music, records of Yiddish, Hebrew and synagogue music. Memo regarding suggestion by Herman Yablokoff to record American Yiddish actors to entertain in DP camps.

Musical Supplies, 1946-1949

Photographic and Theatrical Supplies, 1946-1948

Old Folder Number: 4378

Correspondence on obtaining Yiddish printing press, parts for use by displaced persons in Bavaria.

Printing Press, Yiddish, 1946

Old Folder Number: 4312

Report on procedures for handling relief supplies.

Supply Division Report, IV. 1948

Old Folder Number: 1255, 1259

Correspondence regarding role, functions, continuation, direction of Education Department; correspondence on Jewish Agency’s Department for Education and Culture in the Diaspora.

General, 1951

Old Folder Number: 1255

Correspondence on education and cultural programs, personnel, book orders, purchases, shipments.

General, 1950

Old Folder Number: 1256

Narrative and statistical reports on education activities; materials on book orders, shipments.

General, 1948-1949

Old Folder Number: 1256, 3495

Correspondence, narrative and statistical reports on education activities.

General, 1946-1947

Old Folder Number: 1238

Correspondence on educational, religious and cultural programs, organizations, financing.

General, 1951-1954

Old Folder Number: 1239

Materials on Cultural Committee, including allocations, change in committee role, organization of Cultural Committee in Israel.

General, 1950

Old Folder Number: 1239

Materials on Cultural Committee, including allocations, change in committee role, organization of Cultural Committee in Israel.

General, 1949

Old Folder Number: 1240

Materials on Cultural Committee, including monthly memos on allocations, change in committee function from autonomous allocations body to advisory role. Correspondence, reports on religious-cultural activities in various locations.

General, 1947-1948

Old Folder Number: 1240

Materials on Cultural Committee, including memos on allocations, recommendations, expansion of committee role beyond institutions in Palestine.

General, 1942, 1944, 1945-1946

Old Folder Number: 1267

Correspondence regarding requests for Talmud, newspaper clippings, correspondence on distribution of Talmud.

European Shas, VIII.-XII. 1951

Old Folder Number: 1267

Correspondence regarding requests for, distribution of Talmud.

European Shas, VI.-VII. 1951

Old Folder Number: 1266

Correspondence regarding requests for, distribution of Talmud.

European Shas, IV.-V. 1951

Old Folder Number: 1266

Correspondence regarding distribution of Talmud, including Hannah Arendt letter (February 6, 1951) on Jewish Cultural Reconstruction distribution of materials to university libraries.

European Shas, I.-III. 1951

Old Folder Number: 1268

Correspondence, including Judah Shapiro memo (December 15, 1950), on distribution of Talmud to libraries, Jewish institutions and refugee rabbis.

European Shas, 1950

Old Folder Number: 1268

Correspondence regarding Shas project, including printing, distribution. Press releases on publication.

European Shas, 1947-1949

Old Folder Number: 1283

Correspondence regarding requests, distribution of religious supplies, books.

Religious Articles and Books, 1951

Old Folder Number: 1284

Correspondence regarding requests, distribution of religious supplies, books.

Religious Articles and Books, VII.-XII. 1950

Old Folder Number: 1284

Correspondence regarding requests, purchase, distribution of religious supplies, books.

Religious Articles and Books, I.-VI. 1950

Old Folder Number: 1285

Religious Articles and Books, X.-XII. 1949

Old Folder Number: 1285

Religious Articles and Books, VII.-IX. 1949

Old Folder Number: 1286

Religious Articles and Books, IV.-VI. 1949

Old Folder Number: 1286

Religious Articles and Books, I.-III. 1949

Old Folder Number: 1287

Religious Articles and Books, IX.-XII. 1948

Old Folder Number: 1287

Religious Articles and Books, VII.-VIII. 1948

Old Folder Number: 1288

Religious Articles and Books, V.-VI. 1948

Old Folder Number: 1288

Religious Articles and Books, I.-IV. 1948

Old Folder Number: 1289

Religious Articles and Books, X.-XII. 1947

Old Folder Number: 1289

Religious Articles and Books, VII.-IX. 1947

Old Folder Number: 1290

Religious Articles and Books, IV.-VI. 1947

Old Folder Number: 1290

Religious Articles and Books, I.-III. 1947

Old Folder Number: 1291

Religious Articles and Books, X.-XII. 1946

Old Folder Number: 1291

Religious Articles and Books, VIII.-IX. 1946

Old Folder Number: 1291

Religious Articles and Books, VII. 1946

Old Folder Number: 1292

Religious Articles and Books, IV.-VI. 1946

Old Folder Number: 1292

Religious Articles and Books, I.-III. 1946

Old Folder Number: 1293

Religious Articles and Books, XI.-XII. 1945

Old Folder Number: 1293

Religious Articles and Books, VI.-X. 1945

Old Folder Number: 1294

South America, 1945-1948

Old Folder Number: 1260

Miscellaneous materials on “United Jewish Educational and Cultural Organization,” European roof organization created for the purpose of assisting the spiritual and educational reconstruction of European Jewry.

Conference on European Jewish Education, VIII.-XII. 1946

Old Folder Number: 4150

Cemeteries, 1945

Old Folder Number: 1239

Carbon copy “Not By Bread Alone: The Story of the Cultural and Religious Activities of the JDC.”

Report, Not By Bread Alone, 1950

Old Folder Number: 4388

Correspondence, accounting memos on claims, recovery of reparations, prospects for aid from International Refugee Organization (IRO).

General, 1950-1951

Old Folder Number: 4389

Correspondence, accounting memos on claims, recovery of reparations, government relations.

General, VII.-XII. 1949

Old Folder Number: 4389

Correspondence, accounting memos on claims, recovery of reparations, government relations.

General, I.-VI. 1949

Old Folder Number: 4390

Correspondence, accounting memos on claims, recovery of reparations, government relations.

General, V.-XII. 1948

Old Folder Number: 4390

Correspondence, accounting memos on claims, recovery of reparations, government relations.

General, I.-IV. 1948

Old Folder Number: 4391

Correspondence on the collection of reparations funds, proposals for use of funds. Correspondence on war-era Jewish assets in neutral countries.

General, 1947

Old Folder Number: 4392

Correspondence on negotiations for reparations funds, division of assets; miscellaneous correspondence, proposals on use of funds.

General, VII.-XII. 1946

Old Folder Number: 4392

Extracts, press release (January 14, 1946) on Paris Reparations Agreement, possible uses of reparations funds.

General, I.-VI. 1946

Old Folder Number: 4392, 532

Correspondence on the recovery, liquidation and allocations of “non-monetary gold” heirless assets, made available through international reparations agreements.

Non-Monetary Gold, 1947-1954

Old Folder Number: 4391, 4392

RECONSTITUTED FILE OF MATERIALS on assets controlled by SS Standartenfuhrer Kurt Becher, including affidavits by Rudolf Kasztner, Nicholas Schweiger. Materials on Jewish assets, gold train, claims, including correspondence with Secretary of State James Byrnes, “property register” prepared by U.S. Military Government-Austria.

Non-Monetary Gold, Hungary, Gold Train and Becher Deposit, 1945-1947

Old Folder Number: 4480

Correspondence regarding Jewish claims against Germany, strategies for coordinating and presenting Jewish and Israeli claims; correspondence, memos on effect on restitution of withdrawal of Allied powers in Germany.

General, 1951

Old Folder Number: 4480

Correspondence, memos, proposals regarding restitution, prospects for a successor organization to recover heirless Jewish assets in French Occupation Zone, Germany. Correspondence regarding claims law for Berlin, disposition of assets recovered in Italy. Correspondence regarding late claimants for properties recovered by Jewish Restitution Successor Organization, equity claims.

General, 1950

Old Folder Number: 4480

Research Department report (October 9, 1946) on status of restitution of Jewish properties in Europe. Correspondence regarding disposition of assets recovered in Italy. Rabbi Philip Bernstein general report (October 1, 1946) by U.S. military adviser on relations with U.S. Army, displaced persons, infiltration of refugees into U.S. Occupation Zone. Miscellaneous news accounts on looted art, Hungarian gold train.

General, 1945-1949

Old Folder Number: 4477, 4478

Materials reviewing circumstances for which the declarations of death are required, difficulty in obtaining declarations. Miscellaneous materials on UN Economic and Social Council efforts to draft a convention on death declarations.

Declaration of Death, 1949

Old Folder Number: 4477, 4478

Materials reviewing circumstances for which the declarations of death are required, difficulty in obtaining declarations. Miscellaneous materials on UN Economic and Social Council efforts to draft a convention on death declarations.

Declaration of Death, 1947-1948

Old Folder Number: 1243

Materials on organization, role, tasks of Commission on European Jewish Cultural Reconstruction. Mark Uveeler (YIVO) letter (June 13, 1946) on recovery, preservation of Jewish archives in Europe. Correspondence regarding Judaica at Offenbach depot, on distribution of Offenbach books to displaced persons. Report by Lucy Schildkret on activities at Offenbach (transmitted with memo August 8, 1947).

Archives and Cultural Properties, 1946-1949

Old Folder Number: 4391

Materials on property restitution, property laws in Hungary, Austria.

Countries, 1947

Old Folder Number: 4484

Miscellaneous correspondence on individual restitution claims.

Individuals, A-Z, 1950-1951

Old Folder Number: 4331

Holocaust, Publications, 1948-1949

Old Folder Number: 4257

Reports, correspondence, statistics on Jewish population in various locations, programs; materials from sundry sources.

Population Statistics, 1945-1950

Old Folder Number: 4252

Miscellaneous correspondence.

Queries, 1946-1950, 1952-1954

Old Folder Number: 4252

Miscellaneous correspondence.

Queries, 1944, 1945

Old Folder Number: 4524

Miscellaneous correspondence on Sephardi refugees (primarily Greek Jews), aid to Sephardim. List of Saloniki Jews who arrived in Barcelona, February 22, 1944; Athens deportees in Spain, May 11, 1944.

Sephardim, 1943-1948