Extent: 403 files
The Subject Matter subcollection documents the range of JDC’s global programmatic operations in the immediate aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust. These initiatives include, most notably, its large-scale relief and reconstruction efforts to reconstitute European Jewish life; its response to the myriad legal complications regarding missing persons and heirless property which developed in the wake of the Holocaust; and its organization and implementation of a vast array of resources, including medical care, community health resources, loans and scholarships, emigration assistance, and educational resources—including early childhood services in Iran, Europe and North Africa, and support for yeshivot in Palestine and, after 1948, the State of Israel—for Jewish communities around the world.
Arrangement
The subcollection is organized into 9 record groups, each of which focuses on a large-scale policy or program implemented by JDC in the various regions and countries where it operated:
Record Group: Children
File 1009: Children: Summer Camps and Colonies, 1946-1953
Old Folder Number: 4529
Miscellaneous materials on appropriations; press releases on summer colonies programs in Europe and North Africa.
Record Group: Displaced Persons/Refugees
Series 1: General
File 1010: General, 1952-1954
Old Folder Number: 4178
Materials on termination of Occupation status, effect on displaced persons camps; efforts of voluntary agencies to retain logistical support from U.S. authorities.
File 1011: General, 1951
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.
File 1012: General, VI.-XII. 1950
Old Folder Number: 4179
Correspondence, reports on immigration to U.S., including analyses, grievances about administration of Displaced Persons Act.
File 1013: General, IV.-V. 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.
File 1014: General, I.-III. 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.
File 1015: General, IX.-XII. 1949
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.
File 1016: General, III.-VIII. 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.
File 1017: General, I.-II. 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.
File 1018: General, VIII.-XII. 1948
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.
File 1019: General, VI.-VII. 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.
File 1020: General, I.-V. 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).
File 1021: General, 1947
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.
File 1022: General, VIII.-XII. 1946
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).
File 1023: General, I.-VII. 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.
File 1024: General, IX.-XII. 1945
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.
File 1025: General, I.-VIII. 1945
Old Folder Number: 4183
Reports, correspondence about displaced persons, treatment by Occupation authorities, need for separate facilities and supplemental aid for Jews.
Series 2: Children
File 1028: Children, 1947-1949, 1952
Old Folder Number: 4151
Correspondence, inquiries, reports on children, child care.
File 1029: 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. Correspondence and cables regarding religious Jewish organizations’ plans to rescue children. Miscellaneous press releases. See also individual country files.
File 1030: Children, I.-VIII. 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.
File 1031: Children, VII.-XII. 1945
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.
File 1032: Children, 1944, I.-VI. 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.
File 1033: Adoptions, 1950-1954
Old Folder Number: 4140
Correspondence, queries from individuals about possibilities for adopting orphans from Europe.
File 1034: Adoptions, 1945-1949
Old Folder Number: 4139
Correspondence between organizations, queries from individuals about possibilities for adopting orphans from Europe; miscellaneous materials regarding legal aspects of adoption.
File 1035: Conversion, 1945-1954
Old Folder Number: 4336
Correspondence, news accounts and statements on the reclamation of European Jewish children from non-Jewish auspices.
File 1036: Orthodox Children, III.-VII. 1949
Old Folder Number: 4155
Miscellaneous correspondence on needs of Orthodox children.
File 1037: Reports, 1946, 1949
File 1038: UJA Appeals, 1945, 1948
Old Folder Number: 4152
Short biographies of nearly 100 children in JDC institutions, for use in UJA fund-raising materials.
Series 3: Hard-Core
File 1041: Hard-Core, 1952-1953
Old Folder Number: 4236
Correspondence, press releases, on emigration, resettlement, rehabilitation of hard-core in Malben, Norway, Sweden. Copy of poem on the hard-core by “Sagittarius,” from Nation and New Statesman magazines (August 30, 1952).
File 1042: Hard-Core, 1951
Old Folder Number: 4236
Correspondence, press releases, on emigration, resettlement, rehabilitation of hard-core.
File 1043: Hard-Core, 1949-1950
Old Folder Number: 4236
Correspondence, memos on emigration, resettlement, rehabilitation of hard-core.
Series 4: Orientation
File 1045: Orientation, I.-IV. 1950
Old Folder Number: 4191
Materials regarding orientation for displaced persons before migration to, resettlement in U.S.
File 1046: Orientation, 1949
Old Folder Number: 4191
Correspondence, materials on organization, publications for orientation programs for displaced persons resettling in the U.S.
File 1047: Orientation, 1947-1948
Old Folder Number: 4192
File 1048: Handbook for DPs, 1948-1949
Old Folder Number: 4187
Materials on development, draft, stencil of handbook “Guide for New Americans.”
Series 5: Survivor Lists
File 1051: General, 1944-1945
Old Folder Number: 4188
Materials regarding orientation for displaced persons before migration to, resettlement in U.S.
File 1052: Camps and Locations, Allach, 1945
Old Folder Number: 4189
File 1053: Camps and Locations, Bad Godesberg, 1945
Old Folder Number: 4189
File 1054: Camps and Locations, Belgium, 1945
Old Folder Number: 4189
File 1055: Camps and Locations, Bergen-Belsen, 1945
Old Folder Number: 4189
File 1056: Camps and Locations, Buchenwald, 1945
Old Folder Number: 4189
File 1057: Camps and Locations, Celle, 1945
Old Folder Number: 4189
File 1058: Camps and Locations, Dachau, 1945
Old Folder Number: 4189
File 1059: Camps and Locations, Doessel, 1945
Old Folder Number: 4189
File 1060: Camps and Locations, Ebensee, 1945
Old Folder Number: 4189
File 1061: Camps and Locations, Eindhoven, 1945
Old Folder Number: 4189
File 1062: Camps and Locations, Estonia, 1945
Old Folder Number: 4189
File 1063: Camps and Locations, Kaunas, 1945
Old Folder Number: 4189
File 1064: Camps and Locations, Mannheim, 1945
Old Folder Number: 4189
File 1065: Camps and Locations, Munich, 1945
Old Folder Number: 4189
File 1066: Camps and Locations, Netherlands, 1945
Old Folder Number: 4189
File 1067: Camps and Locations, Poland, 1945
Old Folder Number: 4189
File 1068: Camps and Locations, Theresienstadt, 1945, 1947
Old Folder Number: 4186
File 1069: Camps and Locations, USSR, 1945
Old Folder Number: 4189
File 1070: Camps and Locations, Westerbork, 1945
Old Folder Number: 4189
File 1026: Aged, VIII.-XI. 1954
Old Folder Number: 4141
Correspondence regarding standards of institutional care.
File 1027: Blind, 1947-1949
Old Folder Number: 4253
Correspondence on services, relief supplies for blind in Europe. Contains list of names of some blind individuals.
File 1039: Cultural, Art and Handicrafts Exhibits, 1947-1949
Old Folder Number: 4185
Correspondence regarding traveling exhibition of crafts to stimulate interest in immigration of skilled displaced persons.
File 1040: Cultural, Entertainment and Morale Tours, 1947-1949
Old Folder Number: 4184
Miscellaneous on entertainers’ tours of DP camps.
File 1044: Legal Aid, 1948-1950
Old Folder Number: 4272
Correspondence regarding provision, limits of legal aid service.
File 1049: Refugees, Arabs Refugees from Israel, 1948-1949
Old Folder Number: 4147
Correspondence, newspaper accounts regarding prospects for relief for Arab refugees in Israel, Judea and Samaria.
File 1050: Refugees, Christian Refugees, 1947
Old Folder Number: 4156
Letter to “Answer Man” (December 10, 1947) on UJA allocation in 1940 to aid Christian refugees.
File 1071: Training, Courses for Displaced Physicians, 1948
Old Folder Number: 4276
File 1072: Vocational Training, 1946-1949
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.
File 1073: Vocational Training, Quoddy Project, VII.-IX. 1947
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.
Record Group: Emigration/Immigration
Series 1: General
File 1109: General, 1954
Old Folder Number: 4195
Monthly statistical reports (incomplete) on the number of people assisted with emigration, countries of origin, destinations. General correspondence, accounting letters, cables on expenses, remittances. Names of emigrants appear on memos of “open transportation deposits.”
File 1110: General, 1953
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.
File 1111: General, 1952
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.
File 1112: General, VII.-XII. 1951
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.
File 1113: General, I.-VI. 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.
File 1114: General, IX.-XII. 1950
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.
File 1115: General, I.-VIII. 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.
File 1116: General, IX.-XII. 1949
Old Folder Number: 4199
Miscellaneous statistical reports on emigration. Accounting letters on expenditures, currency transfers, reimbursements from International Refugee Organization (IRO).
File 1117: General, VI.-VIII. 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.
File 1118: 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.
File 1119: General, I.-II. 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.
File 1120: General, VII.-XII. 1948
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.
File 1121: General, I.-VI. 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.
File 1122: General, VIII.-XII. 1947
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.
File 1123: General, VI.-VII. 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.
File 1124: General, IV.-V. 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.
File 1125: General, I.-III. 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.
File 1126: General, VII.-XII. 1946
Old Folder Number: 4204
Miscellaneous on emigration; cables on ship sailings, including detention in Saigon of SS Monkay.
File 1127: General, I.-VI. 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.
Series 2: Children
File 1131: Children, 1948-1950
Old Folder Number: 4335
Memos on various emigration schemes, adoption, orphanages. Cables on sailings, transport. Press releases (May, December 1949) on JDC Europahjelpen medical program to transport North African children to Norway; subsequent plane crash.PRINTED ARTIFACT: JDC pamphlet (March 1948), “Facts and figures about Jewish children in Europe assisted by American Joint Distribution Committee” [DISPLAY QUALITY].
File 1132: Children, VII.-XII. 1947
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.
File 1133: Children, I.-VI. 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.
Series 3: Financial
File 1136: American Express Travelers Checks, 1946-1948
File 1137: Costs, VI.-VIII. 1950
Old Folder Number: 4281
Accounting correspondence on emigration costs, reimbursements.
File 1138: Migration Accounts, General, 1946-1948
Old Folder Number: 4285
File 1139: Migration Deposits, 1950-1951, 1953-1954
Old Folder Number: 4282
Contains list of names on correspondence.
File 1140: Migration Deposits, 1949
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.
File 1141: Migration Deposits, 1948
Old Folder Number: 4283
Financial, accounting correspondence on processing, procedures for refunds of emigration deposits. Contains list of names on correspondence.
File 1142: Migration Deposits, VII.-XII. 1947
Old Folder Number: 4284
File 1143: Migration Deposits, I.-VI. 1947
Old Folder Number: 4284
File 1144: Migration Deposits, IX.-XII. 1946
File 1145: Migration Deposits, IV.-VIII. 1946
Old Folder Number: 4286
Contains list of names on correspondence.
File 1146: Migration Promissory Notes, 1950-1953
Old Folder Number: 4287
Correspondence, lists regarding deposits, depositors. Names listed on promissory notes.
File 1147: Migration Promissory Notes, 1949
Old Folder Number: 4287
Contains list of names on promissory notes.
File 1148: Migration Service Account, Austria, 1946-1948
Old Folder Number: 4290
Miscellaneous accounting, banking correspondence.
File 1149: Migration Service Account, Belgium, 1947-1949
Old Folder Number: 4291
Miscellaneous accounting, banking correspondence.
File 1150: Migration Service Account, China, 1946-1951
Old Folder Number: 4297
Miscellaneous correspondence regarding accounting, banking, sailings.
File 1151: 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.
File 1152: Migration Service Account, France, 1949-1950
Old Folder Number: 4288, 4293
Miscellaneous accounting, banking correspondence. Contains list of a limited number of names in correspondence.
File 1153: Migration Service Account, France, 1947-1948
Old Folder Number: 4289
Miscellaneous accounting, banking correspondence. Contains list of a limited number of names in correspondence.
File 1154: Migration Service Account, Germany, 1946-1950
Old Folder Number: 4292, 4294
Miscellaneous correspondence regarding accounting, banking, sailings.
File 1155: Migration Service Account, Italy, 1946-1949
Old Folder Number: 4295
Miscellaneous accounting, banking correspondence.
Series 4: Immigration to U.S.
File 1156: Immigration to U.S., 1954
Old Folder Number: 4240
Materials on the Refugee Relief Act, including amendments, regulations, and State Department pamphlet: “The Refugee Relief Act of 1953, What It Is, How It Works.” Memo (January 29, 1954) from National Community Relations Advisory Council regarding proposed national association of agencies interested in immigration. Correspondence on the closure of the Ellis Island Detention Center.
File 1157: Immigration to U.S., VIII.-XII. 1953
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.
File 1158: Immigration to U.S., V.-VII. 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.
File 1159: Immigration to U.S., I.-IV.- 1953
File 1160: 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.
File 1161: 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. Contains a list of names associated with transport expenses.
File 1162: Immigration to U.S., I.-IV 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.
File 1163: Immigration to U.S., VI.-XII. 1951
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.
File 1164: Immigration to U.S., I.-V. 1951
File 1165: 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. Names are listed on accounting memos regarding reimbursements for expenses.
File 1166: 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
File 1167: Immigration to U.S., I.-IV. 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
File 1168: 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. 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.
File 1169: 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.
File 1170: Immigration to U.S., I.-IV. 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.
File 1171: 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.
File 1172: Immigration to U.S., 1947
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.
File 1173: 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, including letter (November 25, 1946) from UNRRA/Bremen to State Department, urgently seeking vessels.
File 1174: Immigration to U.S., 1940, 1944-1945
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.
File 1175: Immigration to U.S., Employment, 1947-1949
Old Folder Number: 4533
Correspondence regarding employment prospects in U.S. for displaced persons.
File 1176: Immigration to U.S., Inquiries, 1945-1946
Old Folder Number: 4210
Queries from individuals seeking information on how to bring surviving relatives into U.S.
File 1177: Immigration to U.S., Interrupted Education, VIII.-X. 1951
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.
File 1178: Immigration to U.S., U.S. Legislation, I.-III. 1951
Old Folder Number: 4251
Analyses, critiques of McCarran-Walter immigration measures.
Series 5: Migration
File 1181: General, 1948-1954
Old Folder Number: 4277
Extracts from JDC committee meetings and correspondence on prospects for new Jewish migration association, JDC-HIAS consolidation of migration services abroad. Occasional monthly reports and statistics on transports/migration.
File 1182: General, V.-XII. 1947
Old Folder Number: 4279
Memos, reports, extracts of committee meetings and correspondence on emigration issues, including procedures, financing, opportunities for resettlement.
File 1183: General, I.-IV. 1947
Old Folder Number: 4279
Memos, correspondence on emigration issues, including procedures, financing. Miscellaneous statistical reports.
File 1184: General, IX.-XII 1946
Old Folder Number: 4279
Memos, correspondence on emigration issues, including procedures, financing.
File 1185: 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.
File 1186: General, I.-IV. 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.
File 1187: General, 1945
Old Folder Number: 4278
Correspondence, materials on coordinating migration services in Europe, establishing a Jewish migration agency.
Series 6: Resettlement Proposals
File 1189: General, 1939, 1946-1949
Old Folder Number: 4301, 4303, 4305, 4306
Miscellaneous correspondence on proposals for refugee resettlement in Guatemala, New Guinea, Mexico.
File 1190: Ecuador, 1947-1949
File 1191: Guianas, 1947-1948
Old Folder Number: 4304, 4307
Correspondence on resettlement prospects in Guianas.
Series 7: Sailings
File 1192: SS Columbie, 1946
Old Folder Number: 4211
Memo regarding transit expenses. Contains list of passengers named on expense memo.
File 1193: SS Drottingholm, 1942, 1945-1946
Old Folder Number: 4212
Materials, primarily from Arthur Fishzohn in Istanbul, regarding fate, legal status and welfare of 137 undocumented Jews of Turkish nationality.
File 1194: SS Ernie Pyle, 1946-1947
Old Folder Number: 4213
Miscellaneous cables on sailing. No passenger lists.
File 1195: SS (Col.) Frederick Johnson, 1947, 1982
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.
File 1196: SS General Gordon, 1948
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.
File 1197: SS Johann Dewitt, 1947
File 1198: SS Lima, 1945
Old Folder Number: 4216
Correspondence, cables on sailings. Contains list of names of anticipated passengers.
File 1199: SS Marine Flasher, 1946-1948
Old Folder Number: 4217
Cables, correspondence regarding sailings, finances. Contains list of names of passengers.
File 1200: SS Marine Marlin, 1946-1947
Old Folder Number: 4218
Cables, correspondence regarding sailings, finances. NO PASSENGERS LIST.
File 1201: SS Marine Perch, 1946-1947
Old Folder Number: 4219
Cables, correspondence regarding sailings; memos on cultural and recreational supplies on board. NO PASSENGERS LIST.
File 1202: SS Marine Phoenix, 1947
Old Folder Number: 4220
Cables, correspondence regarding sailings, finances. Contains list of some passengers’ names.
File 1203: SS Marine Tiger, 1947
Old Folder Number: 4222
Cables regarding sailings, finances. No passengers lists.
File 1204: SS Orazio, 1945-1949
Old Folder Number: 4223
Contains list of names of passengers who submitted claims for baggage damaged in 1940 shipboard fire.
File 1205: SS Plus Ultra, 1945-1947
Old Folder Number: 4224
Contains list of names of passengers who made payments in Switzerland for all or part of fare.
File 1206: SS San Thome, 1942, 1946, 1950-1951
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.
File 1207: SS Saturnia, 1947
Old Folder Number: 4226
File 1128: Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, I.-VI. 1946
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).
File 1129: Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, XI.-XII. 1945
Old Folder Number: 4145
Materials on origins of the Anglo-American Committee, including announcement of membership, goals.
File 1130: Baggage, 1945-1949, 1952-1953
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.
File 1134: Clearances, III.-VII. 1945
Old Folder Number: 4209
Miscellaneous correspondence on the status of U.S. immigration visas for individuals.
File 1135: European Emigration Department Memos, 1948-1952
Old Folder Number: 4227
File 1179: International Migration Authority, 1949, 1951-1952
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.
File 1180: Medical, TB, 1948, 1951-1954
Old Folder Number: 4532
Correspondence on emigration prospects for TB and post-TB patients.
File 1188: Repatriation, 1946-1948, 1950-1952
Old Folder Number: 4474
Correspondence, memos on status, lefts and entitlements of returnees from Israel.
File 1208: Yeshivot, 1946-1949
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.
Record Group: Reconstruction
Series 1: Marshall Plan (Economic Cooperation Administration)
File 1209: Marshall Plan (ECA), 1950-1952
Old Folder Number: 4273
Correspondence, memos, primarily financial correspondence regarding claims. Printed matter: Organization for European Economic Cooperation report (1950), “A European Payments Union.”
File 1210: Marshall Plan (ECA), III.-XII. 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.
File 1211: Marshall Plan (ECA), I.-II. 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.
File 1212: Marshall Plan (ECA), IX.-XII. 1948
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”
File 1213: Marshall Plan (ECA), I.-VIII. 1948
Old Folder Number: 4274
Correspondence, memos regarding Marshall Plan legislation, procedures, scope, prospects for funds for voluntary agencies.
File 1214: Marshall Plan (ECA), X.-XI. 1947
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.”
File 1215: Truman’s Point Four Program, 1949-1951
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.”
Record Group: Relief Supplies
Series 1: General
File 1217: General, 1951-1954
Old Folder Number: 4339
Correspondence, cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments of relief supplies. Accounting correspondence on payments, shipments, inventories, insurance payments and claims, distribution. Statistical reports from supply division.
File 1218: General, VI.-XII. 1950
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.
File 1219: General, I.-V. 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.
File 1220: General, VII.-XII. 1949
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.
File 1221: General, IV.-VI. 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.
File 1222: 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.
File 1223: General, I. 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.
File 1224: 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.
File 1225: General, X.-XI. 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.
File 1226: 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.
File 1227: General, VI.-VII. 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.
File 1228: 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.
File 1229: General, V. 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.
File 1230: 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.
File 1231: General, III. 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.
File 1232: General, I.-II. 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.
File 1233: 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. Miscellaneous correspondence, statistical reports on relief-in-kind.
File 1234: General, XI. 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.
File 1235: General, IX.-X. 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.
File 1236: 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. Correspondence regarding food parcels.
File 1237: General, VII. 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.
File 1238: 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.
File 1239: General, V. 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.
File 1240: General, IV. 1947
Old Folder Number: 4319
Correspondence, cables with requests for supplies, distribution. Accounting correspondence on payments, shipments, inventories, insurance payments and claims.
File 1241: General, III. 1947
Old Folder Number: 4319
Correspondence, cables with requests for supplies, distribution. Accounting correspondence on payments, shipments, inventories, insurance payments and claims.
File 1242: General, II. 1947
Old Folder Number: 4320
Correspondence, cables with requests for supplies, distribution. Press releases on shipments.
File 1243: General, I. 1947
Old Folder Number: 4320
Correspondence, cables with requests for supplies, distribution.
File 1244: General, XII. 1946
Old Folder Number: 4321
Correspondence, cables with requests for supplies, distribution.
File 1245: General, XI. 1946
Old Folder Number: 4321
Correspondence, cables with requests for supplies, distribution.
File 1246: General, X. 1946
Old Folder Number: 4322
Cables, correspondence on availability, requests, purchases, distribution, shipments of relief supplies.
File 1247: General, IX. 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.
File 1248: General, VIII. 1946
Old Folder Number: 4323
Cables, correspondence on availability, requests, purchases, distribution, shipments of relief supplies.
File 1249: General, VII. 1946
Old Folder Number: 4324
Cables, correspondence on availability, requests, purchases, distribution, shipments of relief supplies.
File 1250: General, VI. 1946
Old Folder Number: 4324
Cables, correspondence on availability, requests, purchases, distribution, shipments of relief supplies.
File 1251: General, V. 1946
Old Folder Number: 4325
Cables, correspondence on availability, requests, purchases, distribution, shipments of relief supplies.
File 1252: General, IV. 1946
Old Folder Number: 4325
Cables, correspondence on availability, requests, purchases, distribution, shipments of relief supplies.
File 1253: General, III. 1946
Old Folder Number: 4326
Correspondence, cables on availability, requests, purchases, distribution, shipments of relief supplies.
File 1254: General, I.-II. 1946
Old Folder Number: 4326
Correspondence, cables on availability, requests, purchases, distribution, shipments of relief supplies. Miscellaneous on inspections, warehousing of supplies.
File 1255: General, XII. 1945
Old Folder Number: 4327, 4328, 4329, 4330
Correspondence, cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies.
File 1256: General, XI. 1945
Old Folder Number: 4327, 4328, 4329, 4330
Correspondence, cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies.
File 1257: General, X. 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.”
File 1258: General, VIII.-IX. 1945
Old Folder Number: 4327, 4328, 4329, 4330
Correspondence, cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies.
File 1259: General, VII. 1945
Old Folder Number: 4327, 4328, 4329, 4330
Correspondence, cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies.
File 1260: General, VI. 1945
Old Folder Number: 4327, 4328, 4329
Correspondence, cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies.
File 1261: General, IV.-V. 1945
Old Folder Number: 4327, 4328, 4329
Correspondence, cables on availability, requests, purchases, shipments, distribution of relief supplies.
File 1262: General, I.-III. 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.”]
File 1263: General, XI.-XII. 1944
Old Folder Number: 4327, 4328, 4329
Cables, correspondence on availability, purchase of commodities.
Series 2: Books
File 1264: Books, 1948-1949
Old Folder Number: 4344
Correspondence, accounting memos on requests, shipments of books, newspapers, magazines for training teachers, instruction/education/entertainment of displaced persons.
File 1265: 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.
File 1266: Books, 1945-1946
Old Folder Number: 4344
Correspondence, accounting memos on requests, shipments of books, newspapers, magazines for training teachers, instruction/education/entertainment of displaced persons.
File 1267: Medical Books, 1946-1950
Old Folder Number: 4345
Correspondence on requests, shipments of medical books, journals on disease, treatment, medical procedures.
Series 3: Donations
File 1268: Donations, 1945-1948
Old Folder Number: 4379
Correspondence regarding donations to aid displaced persons, organization of relief-in-kind collections through Jewish women’s organizations in the U.S.
File 1269: Books, 1946-1949
File 1270: Clothing, 1945-1950
File 1271: Food, 1945-1950, 1953, 1957
Old Folder Number: 4382
Correspondence, including materials on U.S. government surplus supplies, kosher meat from Ireland, including label from Irish project.
File 1272: Machinery, 1947-1948, 1961
Old Folder Number: 4383
Correspondence regarding possible donations of machinery for use in European cooperatives.
File 1273: Medical, 1946-1949
Series 4: Films
File 1274: Films, 1945-1951, 1953-1954
Old Folder Number: 4346
Correspondence regarding orders, shipments, exhibition lefts in Europe for American, Yiddish and Israeli films; miscellaneous lists of “Jewish films” suitable for education, entertainment of displaced persons.
File 1275: Medical Films, 1946-1948
Old Folder Number: 4347
Correspondence on public health, medical training films from public and private sources.
Series 5: Financial
File 1276: Reimbursement of Shipping Expenses, 1950-1954
Old Folder Number: 4367
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.
File 1277: Reimbursement of Shipping Expenses, 1949
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.
File 1278: 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.
File 1279: Reimbursement of Shipping Expenses, VI.-XII. 1947
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.
File 1280: Reimbursement of Shipping Expenses, U.S. Public Law 84, 1947-1948
Old Folder Number: 4143
Reimbursement of Shipping Expenses, U.S. Public Law 84, 1947-1948
Series 6: Food Packages
File 1281: Food Packages, 1948-1951
Old Folder Number: 4349
Correspondence on orders, remittances, discontinuation of service for food packages. Contains list of some names on correspondence.
File 1282: 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.
File 1283: Food Packages, I.-VI. 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.
File 1284: Food Packages, VII.-XII. 1946
Old Folder Number: 4350
Cables, correspondence on orders, remittances. Contains list of some names on correspondence.
File 1285: Food Packages, I.-VI. 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.
File 1286: Food Packages, V.-XII. 1945
Old Folder Number: 4351
Correspondence, cables regarding Tehran food project, including extensions of parcel service. Contains names throughout listed on correspondence.
Series 7: Medical
File 1287: Friendship Train, 1947-1948
Old Folder Number: 4352
Correspondence, cables regarding food supplies and nonsectarian distribution of commodities on Friendship Train in France, Italy.
File 1288: Medical, 1949-1954
Old Folder Number: 4354
Cables, accounting correspondence on requests, purchases and distribution of medical supplies.
File 1289: Medical, 1948
Old Folder Number: 4354
Miscellaneous correspondence, including individual requests for streptomycin, penicillin.
File 1290: Medical, 1947
Old Folder Number: 4355
Correspondence, memos on activities, medical protocols, treatment options.
File 1291: 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).
File 1292: Medical, 1945
Old Folder Number: 4355
Cables, correspondence, accounting memos on medical supply requests, payments. Cables, correspondence on acquiring American Red Cross stockpiles (via UNRRA).
Series 8: Religious Supplies
File 1296: Kosher Food, 1948-1950
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).
File 1297: Kosher Food, 1945-1947
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).
File 1298: Packing Lists, 1949
Old Folder Number: 1296
Packing lists indicating distribution of religious articles, books, Sifrei Torah to Jewish communities abroad.
File 1299: Packing Lists, 1948
Old Folder Number: 1296
Packing lists indicating distribution of religious articles, books, Sifrei Torah to Jewish communities abroad.
File 1300: Passover, 1952-1954
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.
File 1301: Passover, 1950-1951
Old Folder Number: 4358
Correspondence on orders, remittances, shipments of Passover supplies, primarily matzot; much of the correspondence concerns Comunidad Israelita de Bolivia.
File 1302: Passover, 1949
Old Folder Number: 4359
Correspondence, orders, remittances, shipments of Passover supplies, primarily matzot. Memos regarding matzot bakers in Holland.
File 1303: Passover, 1948
Old Folder Number: 4359
Cables, correspondence on orders, distribution, duties, delays in shipments of Passover supplies, primarily matzot.
File 1304: Passover, V.-XII. 1947
Old Folder Number: 4360
Cables, correspondence on requests, distribution, complaints, delays in shipments of Passover supplies, primarily matzot.
File 1305: Passover, I.-IV. 1947
Old Folder Number: 4360
Cables, correspondence on requests, distribution, complaints, delays in shipments of Passover supplies, primarily matzot.
File 1306: Passover, V.-XII. 1946
Old Folder Number: 4360
Cables, correspondence on requests, distribution, complaints, delays in shipments of Passover supplies, primarily matzot.
File 1307: Passover, III.-IV. 1946
Old Folder Number: 4361
Cables, correspondence on requests, distribution, complaints, delays in shipments of Passover supplies, primarily matzot.
File 1308: Passover, I.-II. 1946
Old Folder Number: 4361
Cables, correspondence on requests, distribution, complaints, delays in shipments of Passover supplies, primarily matzot.
File 1309: Passover, 1945
Old Folder Number: 4361
Cables, correspondence on requests, distribution, shipments of Passover supplies, primarily matzot.
File 1310: Passover, Maot Chitim, 1945-1954
Old Folder Number: 4362
Miscellaneous correspondence (remittances, acknowledgements) on fund-raising campaign to provide Passover supplies.
File 1311: Passover Plates, 1948-1949, 1951
Old Folder Number: 4363
Correspondence regarding shipments and distribution as gifts of ceramic Passover seder plates, made by DPs in Marktredwitz.
File 1312: Sefer Torah, 1950-1954
Old Folder Number: 1297
Correspondence on donations, repairs, distributions of religious books, Sifrei Torah from U.S. to Jewish communities abroad.
File 1313: 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.
File 1314: Sefer Torah, I.-VI. 1949
Old Folder Number: 1298
Correspondence on donations, repairs, distributions of religious books, Sifrei Torah from U.S. to Jewish communities abroad.
File 1315: 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.
File 1316: Sefer Torah, I.-VI. 1948
Old Folder Number: 1299
Correspondence on donations, repairs, distributions of religious books, Sifrei Torah from U.S. to Jewish communities abroad.
File 1317: Sefer Torah, VII.-XII. 1947
Old Folder Number: 1300
Correspondence on donations, repairs, distributions of Sifrei Torah from U.S. to Jewish communities abroad.
File 1318: Sefer Torah, I.-VI. 1947
Old Folder Number: 1300
Correspondence on donations, repairs, distributions of Sifrei Torah from U.S. to Jewish communities abroad.
File 1319: Sefer Torah, VII.-XII. 1946
Old Folder Number: 1301
Correspondence on donations, repairs, distributions of Sifrei Torah from U.S. to Jewish communities abroad.
File 1320: Sefer Torah, I.-VI. 1946
Old Folder Number: 1301
Correspondence on donations, repairs, distributions of Sifrei Torah from U.S. to Jewish communities abroad.
File 1321: Sefer Torah, XI.-XII. 1945
Old Folder Number: 1302
Correspondence on donations, repairs, distributions of Sifrei Torah from U.S. to Jewish communities abroad.
File 1322: Sefer Torah, X. 1945
Old Folder Number: 1302
Correspondence on donations, repairs, distributions of Sifrei Torah from U.S. to Jewish communities abroad.
File 1323: Sefer Torah, VIII.-IX. 1945
Old Folder Number: 1302
Correspondence on donations, repairs, distributions of Sifrei Torah from U.S. to Jewish communities abroad.
File 1324: 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; minutes of first meeting (October 23, 1944), original solicitation letters.
File 1325: 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.
File 1326: Sefer Torah, VI.-XII. 1944
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.
File 1327: 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.
File 1328: 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.
File 1329: Sefer Torah, Donors, 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.
Series 9: Supplies for Overseas Survivors (S.O.S.)
File 1330: S.O.S., 1949-1950
Old Folder Number: 4369
Miscellaneous correspondence on inventory, bills. Materials, speeches on dissolution of S.O.S.
File 1331: S.O.S., IX.-XII. 1948
Old Folder Number: 4369
Correspondence on collections, procedures, administration, budget, and campaigns in various American cities. Minutes of S.O.S. Executive Committee meetings.
File 1332: S.O.S., IV.-VIII. 1948
Old Folder Number: 4371
Correspondence on collections, shipments, administration and local campaigns. Correspondence on cessation of shipments to Austria and Germany.
File 1333: S.O.S., I.-III. 1948
Old Folder Number: 4371
Correspondence on collections, shipments, administration and local campaigns.
File 1334: S.O.S., X.-XII. 1947
File 1335: S.O.S., Books and Religious Articles, 1948-1949
Old Folder Number: 4372
Correspondence on collection of religious objects, books.
File 1336: S.O.S., Clothing, 1948-1949
Old Folder Number: 4373
Correspondence, acknowledgement letters for donations, packing slips, freight bills.
File 1337: S.O.S., Clothing, VI.-XII. 1947
Old Folder Number: 4373
Correspondence, acknowledgement letters for donations, packing slips, freight bills.
File 1338: S.O.S., Clothing, Shipping Notices, 1947-1948
Old Folder Number: 4373
Shipping-notification postcards.
File 1339: S.O.S., Education and Recreation, 1947-1948
Old Folder Number: 4374
Correspondence regarding toys and educational supplies for children.
File 1340: S.O.S., Food, I.-IV. 1949
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.
File 1341: S.O.S., Food, 1947-1948
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.
File 1342: S.O.S., Medical, 1947-1949
Old Folder Number: 4376
Miscellaneous correspondence on medical supplies, needs.
File 1343: S.O.S., Meetings, 1948
Old Folder Number: 4370
Transcripts: Annual meeting (January 3, 1948); meeting of Northeast Region (June 15, 1948).
File 1344: S.O.S., Publicity, 1948-1949
Old Folder Number: 4377
Publicity kits/manuals, sample press releases,, radio scripts, news clips.[ARTIFACTS: S.O.S. button; S.O.S. “Captain” armbands]
File 1345: S.O.S., Publicity, Printed Materials, 1947-1949
Old Folder Number: 4377
Printed materials: S.O.S. bulletins, flyers, press releases.
File 1293: Musical Supplies, 1946-1949
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.
File 1294: Photographic and Theatrical Supplies, 1946-1948
File 1295: Printing Press, Yiddish, 1946
Old Folder Number: 4378
Correspondence on obtaining Yiddish printing press, parts for use by displaced persons in Bavaria.
File 1346: Supply Division Report, IV. 1948
Old Folder Number: 4312
Report on procedures for handling relief supplies.
Record Group: Religious, Cultural, and Educational
Series 1: Educational: General
File 1074: General, 1952-1954
Old Folder Number: 1254
Correspondence, reports on education, publications, book orders.
File 1075: General, 1951
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.
File 1076: General, 1950
Old Folder Number: 1255
Correspondence on education and cultural programs, personnel, book orders, purchases, shipments.
File 1077: General, 1948-1949
Old Folder Number: 1256
Narrative and statistical reports on education activities; materials on book orders, shipments.
File 1078: General, 1946-1947
Old Folder Number: 1256, 3495
Correspondence, narrative and statistical reports on education activities.
File 1347: General, 1951-1954
Old Folder Number: 1238
Correspondence on educational, religious and cultural programs, organizations, financing.
File 1348: General, 1950
Old Folder Number: 1239
Materials on Cultural Committee, including allocations, change in committee role, organization of Cultural Committee in Israel.
File 1349: General, 1949
Old Folder Number: 1239
Materials on Cultural Committee, including allocations, change in committee role, organization of Cultural Committee in Israel.
File 1350: General, 1947-1948
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.
File 1351: General, 1942, 1944, 1945-1946
Old Folder Number: 1240
Materials on Cultural Committee, including memos on allocations, recommendations, expansion of committee role beyond institutions in Palestine.
Series 2: European Shas (Talmud)
File 1353: European Shas, 1952-1954, 1988
Old Folder Number: 1265
Correspondence on prospects for republishing, distribution of remaining volumes of Talmud.
File 1354: European Shas, VIII.-XII. 1951
Old Folder Number: 1267
Correspondence regarding requests for Talmud, newspaper clippings, correspondence on distribution of Talmud.
File 1355: European Shas, VI.-VII. 1951
Old Folder Number: 1267
Correspondence regarding requests for, distribution of Talmud.
File 1356: European Shas, IV.-V. 1951
Old Folder Number: 1266
Correspondence regarding requests for, distribution of Talmud.
File 1357: European Shas, I.-III. 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.
File 1358: European Shas, 1950
Old Folder Number: 1268
Correspondence, including Judah Shapiro memo (December 15, 1950), on distribution of Talmud to libraries, Jewish institutions and refugee rabbis.
File 1359: European Shas, 1947-1949
Old Folder Number: 1268
Correspondence regarding Shas project, including printing, distribution. Press releases on publication.
Series 3: Scholarships
Series 4: Religious Articles and Books
File 1360: Religious Articles and Books, 1952-1954
Old Folder Number: 1283
Correspondence regarding requests, distribution of religious supplies, books.
File 1361: Religious Articles and Books, 1951
Old Folder Number: 1283
Correspondence regarding requests, distribution of religious supplies, books.
File 1362: Religious Articles and Books, VII.-XII. 1950
Old Folder Number: 1284
Correspondence regarding requests, distribution of religious supplies, books.
File 1363: Religious Articles and Books, I.-VI. 1950
Old Folder Number: 1284
Correspondence regarding requests, purchase, distribution of religious supplies, books.
File 1364: Religious Articles and Books, X.-XII. 1949
Old Folder Number: 1285
File 1365: Religious Articles and Books, VII.-IX. 1949
Old Folder Number: 1285
File 1366: Religious Articles and Books, IV.-VI. 1949
Old Folder Number: 1286
File 1367: Religious Articles and Books, I.-III. 1949
Old Folder Number: 1286
File 1368: Religious Articles and Books, IX.-XII. 1948
Old Folder Number: 1287
File 1369: Religious Articles and Books, VII.-VIII. 1948
Old Folder Number: 1287
File 1370: Religious Articles and Books, V.-VI. 1948
Old Folder Number: 1288
File 1371: Religious Articles and Books, I.-IV. 1948
Old Folder Number: 1288
File 1372: Religious Articles and Books, X.-XII. 1947
Old Folder Number: 1289
File 1373: Religious Articles and Books, VII.-IX. 1947
Old Folder Number: 1289
File 1374: Religious Articles and Books, IV.-VI. 1947
Old Folder Number: 1290
File 1375: Religious Articles and Books, I.-III. 1947
Old Folder Number: 1290
File 1376: Religious Articles and Books, X.-XII. 1946
Old Folder Number: 1291
File 1377: Religious Articles and Books, VIII.-IX. 1946
Old Folder Number: 1291
File 1378: Religious Articles and Books, VII. 1946
Old Folder Number: 1291
File 1379: Religious Articles and Books, IV.-VI. 1946
Old Folder Number: 1292
File 1380: Religious Articles and Books, I.-III. 1946
Old Folder Number: 1292
File 1381: Religious Articles and Books, XI.-XII. 1945
Old Folder Number: 1293
File 1382: Religious Articles and Books, VI.-X. 1945
Old Folder Number: 1293
File 1383: South America, 1945-1948
Old Folder Number: 1294
File 1079: Conference on European Jewish Education, VIII.-XII. 1946
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.
File 1352: Cemeteries, 1945
Old Folder Number: 4150
File 1384: Report, Not By Bread Alone, 1950
Old Folder Number: 1239
Carbon copy “Not By Bread Alone: The Story of the Cultural and Religious Activities of the JDC.”
Record Group: Reparations
Series 1: General
File 1385: General, 1952-1954
Old Folder Number: 4388
Correspondence, accounting memos on claims, recovery of reparations, government relations.
File 1386: General, 1950-1951
Old Folder Number: 4388
Correspondence, accounting memos on claims, recovery of reparations, prospects for aid from International Refugee Organization (IRO).
File 1387: General, VII.-XII. 1949
Old Folder Number: 4389
Correspondence, accounting memos on claims, recovery of reparations, government relations.
File 1388: General, I.-VI. 1949
Old Folder Number: 4389
Correspondence, accounting memos on claims, recovery of reparations, government relations.
File 1389: General, V.-XII. 1948
Old Folder Number: 4390
Correspondence, accounting memos on claims, recovery of reparations, government relations.
File 1390: General, I.-IV. 1948
Old Folder Number: 4390
Correspondence, accounting memos on claims, recovery of reparations, government relations.
File 1391: General, 1947
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.
File 1392: General, VII.-XII. 1946
Old Folder Number: 4392
Correspondence on negotiations for reparations funds, division of assets; miscellaneous correspondence, proposals on use of funds.
File 1393: General, I.-VI. 1946
Old Folder Number: 4392
Extracts, press release (January 14, 1946) on Paris Reparations Agreement, possible uses of reparations funds.
File 1394: Non-Monetary Gold, 1947-1954
Old Folder Number: 4392, 532
Correspondence on the recovery, liquidation and allocations of “non-monetary gold” heirless assets, made available through international reparations agreements.
File 1395: Non-Monetary Gold, Hungary, Gold Train and Becher Deposit, 1945-1947
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
Record Group: Restitution
Series 1: General
File 1396: General, 1952-1954
Old Folder Number: 4476
Miscellaneous correspondence, primarily on U.S. legislation regarding heirless Jewish assets in the U.S.
File 1397: General, 1951
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.
File 1398: General, 1950
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.
File 1399: General, 1945-1949
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.
Series 2: Declaration of Death
File 1402: Declaration of Death, 1950, 1952-1953
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.
File 1403: 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.
File 1404: Declaration of Death, 1947-1948
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.
File 1400: Archives and Cultural Properties, 1946-1949
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).
File 1401: Countries, 1947
Old Folder Number: 4391
Materials on property restitution, property laws in Hungary, Austria.
File 1405: Individuals, A-Z, 1950-1951
Old Folder Number: 4484
Miscellaneous correspondence on individual restitution claims.
Record Group: Miscellaneous
File 1406: Anti-Semitism, Correspondence, 1947-1948
File 1407: Holocaust, Publications, 1948-1949
Old Folder Number: 4331
File 1408: Population Statistics, 1945-1950
Old Folder Number: 4257
Reports, correspondence, statistics on Jewish population in various locations, programs; materials from sundry sources.
File 1409: Queries, 1946-1950, 1952-1954
File 1410: Queries, 1944, 1945
File 1411: Sephardim, 1943-1948
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.