Extent: 782 files
The Countries and Regions subcollection details JDC’s rescue, relief, and reconstruction programs and operations in 64 countries and regions from 1955-1964. In addition to documenting the global scope of JDC’s humanitarian initiatives, these files contain extensive reports from JDC country directors and other staff, memos, correspondence, and other documentation that describe the political, cultural, and socioeconomic developments in these locations.
JDC’s aid efforts in this period include: full-scale assistance to Jewish communities in Algeria, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia, including funding for hospitals, schools, and public health resources; support to the French Jewish community in its efforts to absorb waves of immigrants from North Africa fleeing political instability; operation of loan institutions in Australia, Europe, Israel, and South America, to enable Jewish refugees to reestablish themselves in their new places of residence; and the start of its partnership with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, wherein JDC began to direct communal restitution funds from the German government to support and sustain Nazi victims, primarily in Europe, and to reconstruct European Jewish institutions and infrastructure, among others.
In Israel, JDC continued its oversight and funding of MALBEN, an extensive network of institutions and social services formed in partnership with the Israeli government and the Jewish Agency in 1949 to address the needs of handicapped, elderly, and chronically ill populations. In 1953, the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work, named for a JDC founder and long-time chairman, was founded at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem with a mandate to develop Israel’s social welfare system at all levels by educating professionals and developing appropriate policies and systems to sustain diverse populations. In 1951-1952, JDC financed Operation Ezra and Nehemiah, a series of airlifts from Baghdad during which most of the 2,800-year-old Iraqi Jewish community–some 130,000 people–were brought to Israel.
Please note that the names of some of the localities reflect the contemporary usage when these records were created.
Arrangement
The files are arranged alphabetically by country or region in 64 record groups. Within each country or regions, files are organized in the following series: Administration, Organizations, Subject Matter, and Localities. Files that are not associated with a series are listed at the end of each record group.
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Record Group: Aden
Series 1: Aden: Administration: General
File 1: Aden: General, 1955-1962
Old Folder Number: 45/64 #1
Correspondence, reports from Max Lapides on emigration of Yemenite Jews via Aden, including reopening of transit camp in Aden.
Record Group: Albania
Series 1: Albania: Subject Matter: Relief Supplies
File 106: Albania: Passover Supplies, 1955-1958, 1961-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 134
Correspondence regarding costs, shipments of matzot. [See also 55/64 # 233, Greece, Passover Supplies, 1956-1964]
Record Group: Algeria
Series 1: Algeria: Administration: General
File 13: Algeria, General, 1963-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 26
Correspondence, reports on conditions of declining population, property losses.
File 14: Algeria: General, August-December 1962
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 27
Reports, correspondence on fear, flight of Jews after Algerian independence.
File 15: Algeria: General, January-July 1962
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 27
Correspondence, reports on fear, flight of Jews.
File 16: Algeria: General, 1961
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 28
Reports, correspondence on deterioration of situation in Algeria. American Jewish Committee memos, reports, including meeting (March 27, 1961) with Abdel Kader Chanderli, representative of FLN.
File 17: Algeria: General, 1955-1960
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 28, 86
Materials on deterioration of political situation in Algeria.
Series 2: Algeria: Subject Matter: Religion, Culture and Education
File 18: Algeria: Education, 1955-1957, 1962
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 30
Miscellaneous correspondence, press releases on education, on foundation of Ecole Rabbanique.
Series 3: Algeria: Subject Matter: Emigration and Immigration
Files in this series are restricted for confidentiality concerns. Please see our Access & Restrictions Policy.
Series 4: Algeria: Administration: Financial
File 20: Algeria: Financial, 1955-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 32
Financial correspondence, memos regarding transmittal of monthly financial reports (reports not in file).
Series 5: Algeria: Subject Matter: Medical
File 21: Algeria: Medical, 1963, 1965
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 34
Correspondence on availability, conditions of medical services.
Series 6: Algeria: Organizations
File 22: Algeria: Federation des Communautes Israelites d’Algerie, 1960-1962
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 35
Correspondence, including appeal for aid.
Algeria: Federation des Communautes Israelites d’Algerie, 1960-1962
Series 7: Algeria: Subject Matter: Relief Supplies
File 23: Algeria: Relief Supplies, 1959, 1961-1964, 1965
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 37
Correspondence on relief supplies, government control of distribution.
Record Group: Argentina
Series 1: Argentina: Administration: General
File 695: Argentina: General, 1955-1956, 1958, 1962-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1093
Miscellaneous materials on Jewish community, local political and economic conditions.
Series 2: Argentina: Administration: Financial
File 696: Argentina: Financial, 1955-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1095
Correspondence on currency exchange, government controls. Accounting correspondence on remittances, cash requirements, letters of credit, Claims Conference payments.
Series 3: Argentina: Administration: Fundraising
File 697: Argentina: Fund-Raising, 1963-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1097
Accounting and bookkeeping memos on remittances, payments to ORT, OSE, United HIAS Service. Limited correspondence regarding division of fund-raising proceeds with Keren Hayesod (Magbit).
Argentina: Fund-Raising, 1963-1964
File 698: Argentina: Fund-Raising, 1959-1962
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1098
Accounting and bookkeeping memos on remittances, payments to ORT, OSE, United HIAS Service. Limited correspondence regarding cooperation in fund-raising projects.
Argentina: Fund-Raising, 1959-1962
File 699: Argentina: Fund-Raising, 1955-1958
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1098
Accounting and bookkeeping memos on remittances, payments to ORT, OSE, United HIAS Service.
Argentina: Fund-Raising, 1955-1958
Series 4: Argentina: Subject Matter: Emigration and Immigration
File 700: Argentina: Immigration, 1955-1957, 1959
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1102
Miscellaneous correspondence on refugees’ immigration prospects, resettlement problems [Names of some families from Foehrenwald].
Series 5: Argentina: Organizations
File 701: Argentina: Seminario Rabinico, 1957, 1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1108
Seminary appeal for funds; report (transmitted November 29, 1957) on first meeting of seminary founders’ board.
Record Group: Australia
Series 1: Australia: Administration: General
File 107: Australia: General, 1958-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 136
Correspondence on absorption of refugees, housing, fund-raising, communal development, weaning from Claims Conference funds.
Series 2: Australia: Administration: Financial
File 108: Australia: Financial, 1962-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 139
Financial statements from Executive Council of Australian Jewry; accounting correspondence, primarily regarding Claims Conference remittances.
File 109: Australia: Financial, 1960-1961
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 140
Financial statements from Executive Council of Australian Jewry; accounting correspondence, primarily regarding Claims Conference remittances.
File 110: Australia: Financial, 1958-1959
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 140
Financial statements; accounting correspondence, primarily regarding Claims Conference remittances.
File 111: Australia: Financial, 1957
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 140
Financial statements; accounting correspondence, primarily regarding allocations for relief, resettlement of Hungarian refugees.
File 112: Australia: Financial, 1955-1956
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 141
Miscellaneous financial statements; accounting correspondence.
Series 3: Australia: Subject Matter: Emigration and Immigration
File 113: Australia: Immigration, 1955-1959, 1961
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 144
Miscellaneous correspondence; essay by Prof. Morven Brown, “Prejudice and the Migration Programme”, distributed at Australian Citizenship Convention, Canberra, 1961.
Series 4: Australia: Subject Matter: Reconstruction
File 114: Australia: Loan Funds, 1955-1958, 1960
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 148
Correspondence regarding JDC-Jewish Colonization Association (ICA) loan fund [Families with housing loan, October 1, 1958].
Australia: Loan Funds, 1955-1958, 1960
Series 5: Australia: Organizations
File 115: Australian Jewish Welfare and Relief Society, Melbourne, 1961-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 149
Correspondence, reports on activities, appeals for funds.
Australian Jewish Welfare and Relief Society, Melbourne, 1961-1964
File 116: Australian Jewish Welfare and Relief Society, Melbourne, 1957-1960
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 149
Miscellaneous correspondence, reports, appeals for personnel.
Australian Jewish Welfare and Relief Society, Melbourne, 1957-1960
File 117: Australian Jewish Welfare and Relief Society, Sydney, 1955-1959, 1961, 1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 150
Financial reports, correspondence on fund-raising, activities, appeals for assistance.
Australian Jewish Welfare and Relief Society, Sydney, 955-1959, 1961, 1964
File 118: Australian Jewish Welfare and Relief Society, Printed Matter, 1953-1955, 1958, 1960-1961
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 152
Annual reports of New South Wales branch, booklet for 1961 appeal.
Australian Jewish Welfare and Relief Society, Printed Matter, 1953-1955, 1958, 1960-1961
Record Group: Austria
Series 1: Austria: Administration: General
File 119: Austria: General, 1955-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 193
Correspondence, reports and meeting minutes extracts on communal conditions, services, finances.
Series 2: Austria: Administration: Financial
File 121: Austria: Financial, 1957, 1959-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 165
Financial correspondence, cables on remittances, bookkeeping, currency purchases, blocked accounts.
File 122: Austria: Financial, 1955-1956
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 165
Financial correspondence, cables on remittances, bookkeeping, currency purchases, blocked accounts.
File 123: Austria: Financial, Chase Bank Loan Guarantee, 1957
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 171
Correspondence regarding loan guarantee for currency purchase.
File 135: Austria: Transfer of Funds A-Z, 1955-1957
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 185
Correspondence on transfers of funds, currency exchange [Some names associated with transfers].
Series 3: Austria: Organizations
File 125: Austria: Org, Israelitische KultU.S.gemeinde, 1955-1956, 1962-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 190
Correspondence, financial reports.
Austria: Org, Israelitische KultU.S.gemeinde, 1955-1956, 1962-1964
File 126: Austria: Org, Israelitische KultU.S.gemeinde, Lawsuit, 1960
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 170
Correspondence regarding legal claim for rent on property used by IKG and JDC in Salzburg.
File 136: Austria: Org, Voluntary Agencies, 1955-1956
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 186
Miscellaneous regarding status, registration requirements, accreditation of voluntary agencies working with refugees after the re-establishment of Austrian sovereignty.
Series 4: Austria: Subject Matter: Refugees
File 127: Austria: Refugees, 1955, 1957-1958, 1960-1962
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 197
Miscellaneous on needs, treatment, status of refugees.
File 128: Austria: Refugees from Hungary, 1958-1961
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 198
Miscellaneous correspondence regarding refugees, including Orthodox grievances; scholarships for refugee students. [See 55/64 # 119, Austria, General, 1955-1964]
File 129: Austria: Refugees from Hungary, April-December 1957
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 198
Correspondence, reports on refugees, including on health, medical and sanitary conditions; possible emigration. Miscellaneous financial correspondence. [See 55/64 # 119, Austria, General, 1955-1964]
File 130: Austria: Refugees from Hungary, January-March 1957
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 198
Reports, correspondence on refugees’ conditions, relations with Austrian government, financial and statistical data. [See 55/64 # 119, Austria, General, 1955-1964]
File 131: Austria: Refugees from Hungary, 1956
Series 5: Austria: Subject Matter: Restitution
File 132: Austria: Restitution, 1957-1961
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 178
Miscellaneous on meetings, negotiations with Austria and West Germany for compensation, property.
File 133: Austria: Restitution, 1955-1956
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 178
Memos, news accounts on Austrian resistance, proposals, law to compensate Nazi victims living abroad. Financial correspondence.
File 134: Austria: Restitution, Draft White Paper on 1955, 1959
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 179
White Paper (draft, unsigned; 1955) for Committee for Jewish Claims on Austria reviews Austrian Jewish material losses during Nazi era, Austrian anti-Semitism, Austrian response regarding
compensation, restitution.
File 120: Cemeteries, 1955, 1959, 1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 157
Correspondence regarding maintenance, desecrations of cemeteries, graves.
File 124: Jewish Home for the Aged, 1959
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 168
Study on care, services for the aged at home in Vienna.
Record Group: Belgian Congo
Series 1: Belgian Congo: Administration: General
File 24: Belgian Congo, General, 1958, 1960
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 130
Miscellaneous regarding effect on Jews of anti-European sentiment, flight after post-independence riots in Belgian Congo. Morton Friedman (United HIAS Service) statement on Africa (December 1960).
Record Group: Belgium
Series 1: Belgium: Administration: General
File 137: Belgium: General, 1962-1964
File 138: Belgium: General, 1956, 1958-1961
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 200, 207, 213
Miscellaneous on communal services. Miscellaneous on communal services. [See 55/64 # 245, Holland, Medical, Mental Health, 1960-1961 for report on Jewish psychiatric patients in Belgium and Holland]
Series 2: Belgium: Administration: Financial
File 139: Belgium: Financial, 1960-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 203
Correspondence on remittances; memos regarding transmission of monthly reports (reports not included).
File 140: Belgium: Financial, 1955-1959
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 204
Correspondence on remittances; memos regarding transmission of monthly reports (reports not included).
Series 3: Belgium: Administration: Fundraising
File 141: Belgium: Fund-Raising, 1958, 1960-1962
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 208
Correspondence on fund-raising in Belgium, and on fund-raising for refugees from North Africa in France.
Series 4: Belgium: Subject Matter: Reconstruction
File 143: Belgium: Loan Kassas, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1962, 1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 210
Miscellaneous correspondence, primarily on loan to Brussels kassa.
Series 5: Belgium: Organizations
File 144: Belgium: Aide aux Israelites Victimes de la Guerre (AIVG), 1959-1960
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 218
Miscellaneous correspondence, primarily on loan to Brussels kassa.
Belgium: Aide aux Israelites Victimes de la Guerre (AIVG), 1959-1960
File 145: Belgium: Ecole Israelite, 1961
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 219
Report (French) on construction plans for Brussels school.
File 146: Belgium: Jesode Hatora – Beth Jacob, 1955, 1962
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 220
Correspondence, primarily regarding additional aid.
File 147: Belgium: Service Social Juif, 1962-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 221
Reports on development, stabilization of Service Social Juif as family service agency.
File 142: Belgium: Old-Age Homes, 1949, 1957, 1959-1961
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 209
Reports on care and services for the aged.
Record Group: Bolivia
Series 1: Bolivia: Administration: General
File 702: Bolivia: General, 1955, 1962
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1109
Miscellaneous correspondence, including request (1955) to modify property for school.
Series 2: Bolivia: Subject Matter: Reconstruction
File 703: Bolivia: Loan Fund, 1956-1961
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1111
Miscellaneous financial reports on Cochabamba loan fund.
Series 3: Bolivia: Organizations
File 704: Bolivia: Sociedad Colonizadora de Bolivia (SOCOBO), 1956-1963
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1113
Regular reports (German, with English translation) on activities, operations, administration of property. Miscellaneous financial correspondence, legal correspondence on use, transfer of property, cancellation of mortgage.
Bolivia: Sociedad Colonizadora de Bolivia (SOCOBO), 1956-1963
File 705: Bolivia: Sociedad Colonizadora de Bolivia (SOCOBO), 1955
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1113
Financial and agricultural correspondence and reports (in English, German) on farming operations. Miscellaneous on origin of SOCOBO.
File 706: Bolivia: Sociedad de Proteccion a los Immigrantes Israelitas (SOPRO), 1955, 1957-1958, 1960
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1116
Miscellaneous financial correspondence, statistical reports.
Bolivia: Sociedad de Proteccion a los Immigrantes Israelitas (SOPRO), 1955, 1957-1958, 1960
Record Group: Brazil
Series 1: Brazil: Administration: General
File 707: Brazil: General, 1955-1957, 1959-1962
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1119
Miscellaneous correspondence and reports on immigration, communal conditions.
Series 2: Brazil: Administration: Financial
File 708: Brazil: Financial, 1960-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1120
Accounting correspondence on expenses, allocations to organizations, exchange rates, letters of credit. Transmittal memos for monthly reports (reports not included).
File 709: Brazil: Financial, 1955-1959
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1120
Accounting correspondence on expenses, allocations to organizations, exchange rates, letters of credit. Transmittal memos for monthly reports (reports not included).
Series 3: Brazil: Administration: Fundraising
File 710: Brazil: Fund-Raising, 1962-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1122
Financial, accounting correspondence on remittances, division of campaign proceeds.
File 711: Brazil: Fund-Raising, 1959-1961
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1122
Financial, accounting correspondence on remittances, campaign collections, division of campaign proceeds, aid to refugees.
File 712: Brazil: Fund-Raising, 1955-1958
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1123
Financial, accounting correspondence on remittances, campaign collections, division of campaign proceeds.
Series 4: Brazil: Subject Matter: Emigration and Immigration
File 713: Brazil: Immigration, 1955-1960
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1128
Miscellaneous regarding United HIAS Service taking responsibility for immigration operations in Brazil. Financial correspondence on migration and transportation deposits [Names associated with transportation deposits; names of Romanian and Lebanese immigrants on letter, September 29, 1959].
File 714: Brazil: Immigration, Davidson Report, 1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1128
Cecilia Razovsky Davidson draft report (transmitted May 4, 1964) on “40,000 New Brazilians”, her memoirs on refugee resettlement in Brazil since 1937.
Series 5: Brazil: Subject Matter: Reconstruction
File 715: Brazil: Loan Funds, 1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1131
Statistical, financial reports on operations of loan kassas.
File 716: Brazil: Loan Funds, July-December 1963
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1132
Statistical, financial reports on operations of loan kassas.
File 717: Brazil: Loan Funds, January-June 1963
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1132
Statistical, financial reports on operations of loan kassas.
File 718: Brazil: Loan Funds, 1962
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1133
Statistical, financial reports on operations of loan kassas.
File 719: Brazil: Loan Funds, July-December 1961
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1134
Statistical, financial reports on operations of loan kassas.
File 720: Brazil: Loan Funds, January-June 1961
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1134
Statistical, financial reports on operations of loan kassas.
File 721: Brazil: Loan Funds, July-December 1960
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1135
Statistical, financial reports on operations of loan kassas.
File 722: Brazil: Loan Funds, January-June 1960
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1135
Statistical, financial reports on operations of loan kassas [Some names on CEPI loans].
File 723: Brazil: Loan Funds, July-December 1959
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1136
Statistical, financial reports on operations of loan kassas [Some names on loans].
File 724: Brazil: Loan Funds, January-June 1959
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1136
Statistical, financial reports on operations of loan kassas.
File 725: Brazil: Loan Funds, July-December 1958
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1137
Statistical, financial reports on operations of loan kassas; includes some meeting minutes.
File 726: Brazil: Loan Funds, January-June 1958
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1137
Statistical, financial reports on operations of loan kassas; includes some meeting minutes. Miscellaneous on kassas, resettlement.
File 727: Brazil: Loan Funds, 1957
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1138
Statistical, financial reports on operations of loan kassas; includes some meeting minutes. Statistics often include countries of origin of immigrants/refugees [Names on loans].
File 728: Brazil: Loan Funds, 1955-1956
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1138, 1139
Statistical, financial reports on eligibility for, operations of loan kassas [Names of people who received loans from kassas, transmitted May 19, 1955; list of people with promissory notes for transit costs, transmitted September 6, 1955].
Record Group: Canada
Series 1: Canada: Administration: Financial
File 148: Canada: Financial, 1961-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 232, 235
Correspondence on remittances, purchases of relief supplies in Canada for shipment overseas.
File 149: Canada: Financial, 1955-1960
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 232, 235
Correspondence on remittances, purchases of relief supplies in Canada.
Series 2: Canada: Subject Matter: Emigration and Immigration
File 150: Canada: Immigration, 1955, 1959, 1962, 1964, 1966
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 238
Miscellaneous om immigration, including newspaper accounts, statistics.
Series 3: Canada: Administration: Financial
File 151: Canada: Missions, 1959-1960, 1962
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 241
Correspondence regarding logistics of missions to Israel, Europe.
Series 4: Canada: Organizations
File 152: Canadian Jewish Congress, 1961
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 242
Correspondence regarding fund-raising.
Record Group: Chile
Series 1: Chile: Administration: Fundraising
File 731: Chile: Fund-Raising, 1955-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1148
Correspondence on remittances from and division of fund-raising income.
Series 2: Chile: Subject Matter: Reconstruction
File 732: Chile: Loan Funds, 1962-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1151
Statistical, financial reports on operations of loan kassas, Caja de Prestamos para Inmigrantes Judios (CAPIJ). Correspondence on liquidation of CORDAJ.
File 733: Chile: Loan Fund, 1957-1961
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1152
Statistical, financial reports on operations of loan kassas, Caja de Prestamos para Inmigrantes Judios (CAPIJ) [Names of some immigrants who received loans].
Series 3: Chile: Organizations
File 734: Chile: Comite Israelita de Socorros (CISROCO), 1957, 1961-1962
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1147
Financial reports, including allocations.
Chile: Comite Israelita de Socorros (CISROCO), 1957, 1961-1962
File 735: Chile: Hogar Israelita de Ancianos, 1958
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1154
Correspondence regarding requests for equipment for old age home.
File 729: Chile: Earthquake, 1960-1961
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1145
Correspondence, reports on financial aid and relief by governments and voluntary agencies to victims of May 1960 earthquake, tidal waves.
File 730: Chile: Earthquake Loan Fund, 1960-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1146
Correspondence, reports on loan fund to aid victims of May 1960 earthquake, tidal waves [Names of those who received loans].
Record Group: Colombia
Series 1: Colombia: Administration: General
File 736: Colombia: General, 1956
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1155
Excerpt from report (May 1956) on field trip to region, summarizes conditions in and problems facing Jewish communities.
Series 2: Colombia: Subject Matter: Emigration and Immigration
File 737: Colombia: Immigration, 1955-1956
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1157
Miscellaneous accounting correspondence [Several names on correspondence regarding loans].
Record Group: Cuba
Series 1: Cuba: Administration: General
File 153: Cuba: General, 1964
File 154: Cuba: General, 1960-1963
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 247
Miscellaneous correspondence, reports on conditions of community in Havana.
Series 2: Cuba: Subject Matter: Emigration and Immigration
File 155: Cuba: Emigration, 1963-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 248
Correspondence regarding plight of Cuban Jews, offers of aid for transit through Mexico, U.S. blockade of aid to Cuba.
Series 3: Cuba: Subject Matter: Religion, Culture and Education
File 156: Cuba: Shochet, 1962-1963
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 249
Correspondence regarding obtaining shochet for Havana.
Record Group: Curaçao
Series 1: Curacao: Administration: Fundraising
File 157: Curacao: Fund-Raising, 1955-1960, 1962-1963
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 251
Correspondence regarding remittances from fund-raising campaigns.
Record Group: Czechoslovakia
Series 1: Czechoslovakia: Administration: General
File 158: Czechoslovakia: General, 1957-1959, 1963
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 263
Miscellaneous correspondence.
Series 2: Czechoslovakia: Subject Matter: Reconstruction
File 159: Czechoslovakia: Loan Kassas, 1958-1959
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 269
Correspondence regarding efforts to unblock assets of the liquidated credit cooperative Obroda.
Record Group: Denmark
Series 1: Denmark: Administration: General
File 160: Denmark: General, 1960-1962, 1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 207, 283
Materials on communal services.
Record Group: Dominican Republic
Series 1: Dominican Republic: Administration: General
File 161: Dominican Republic: General, 1959-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 287
Financial correspondence, statements on remittances, relief for refugees in Dominican Republic.
File 162: Dominican Republic: General, 1955-1958
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 288
Financial correspondence, statements on remittances, relief for refugees in Dominican Republic.
Record Group: Ecuador
Series 1: Ecuador: Subject Matter: Reconstruction
File 738: Ecuador: Loan Kassas, 1955-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 1162
Correspondence on indebtedness, liquidation of kassa.
Record Group: Egypt
Series 1: Egypt: Administration: General
File 25: Egypt, General, 1961-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 38
Charles Jordan correspondence on deteriorating political and communal conditions in Egypt, including prisoners, Sifrei Torah, emigration. Report on Cairo (1964, unsigned; initials AMB).
File 26: Egypt, General, 1958-1960
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 39
Miscellaneous on political, communal conditions in Egypt.
File 27: Egypt, General, 1957
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 39
Correspondence, reports, including American Jewish Committee and Institute of Jewish Affairs (World Jewish Congress) reports on Jews in Egypt, “Arabization” of Egypt, and American Jewish Congress report: “The Black Record: Nasser Persecution of Egyptian Jewry” (1957).
File 28: Egypt, General, 1956
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 39
Correspondence, including appeal to President Dwight Eisenhower (November 27, 1956) by American Jewish groups on behalf of Egyptian Jews.
Series 2: Egypt: Subject Matter: Restitution
Series 3: Egypt: Subject Matter: Refugees
File 33: Egypt, Refugees, 1960-1963
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 46
Correspondence, reports, summaries of political, economic and communal conditions; closure (1961) of International Red Cross office in Cairo. Miscellaneous reports on arrivals of refugees in Italy [no names].
File 34: Egypt, Refugees, 1958-1959
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 46
Correspondence, reports, summaries of political, economic and communal conditions; miscellaneous on refugee resettlement.
File 35: Egypt, Refugees, April-December 1957
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 45
Correspondence, reports, summaries of political, economic and communal conditions, activities of International Red Cross.
File 36: Egypt, Refugees, February-March 1957
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 44
Miscellaneous on flight, condition of refugees in various countries; effort to secure financing for migration.
File 37: Egypt, Refugees, January 1957
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 44
Correspondence, press reports on flight/evacuation of Egyptian Jews; miscellaneous on communal conditions, discriminatory measures, confiscations in Egypt.
File 38: Egypt, Refugees, 1955-1956
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 43
Correspondence on detention, flight of Jews, blocked accounts, sequestration of property.
Series 4: Egypt: Subject Matter: Religion, Culture and Education
File 39: Egypt, Synagogues, 1963, 1985
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 48
Correspondence on disposition of “redundant” synagogues.
Record Group: El Salvador
Series 1: El Salvador: Administration: Fundraising
File 163: El Salvador: Fund-Raising, 1955-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 294
Correspondence regarding remittances from fund-raising.
Record Group: England
Series 1: England: Administration: Financial
File 164: England: Financial, 1955-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 296
Miscellaneous accounting correspondence.
Series 2: England: Organizations
File 165: England: Central British Fund for Jewish Relief, 1957-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 299
Miscellaneous correspondence on Central British Fund allocations.
File 166: England: Central British Fund for Jewish Relief, Annual Reports, 1956, 1958, 1960-1963
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 299
Printed reports.
England: Central British Fund for Jewish Relief, Annual Reports, 1956, 1958, 1960-1963
File 167: England: Jewish Trust Corporation, 1959-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 304
Financial correspondence on remittances, use of restitution reserves.
File 168: England: Jewish Trust Corporation, 1955-1958
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 304
Correspondence on remittances, currency exchange, bulk settlements; allocations from recovery of properties in Germany.
File 169: England: Wiener Library, 1955, 1957-1959, 1962-1963
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 306
Miscellaneous regarding library in application for JDC, Claims Conference aid.
Record Group: Eritrea
Series 1: Eritrea: Administration: General
File 40: Eritrea, General, 1955-1957, 1959
Record Group: Ethiopia
Series 1: Ethiopia: Administration: General
File 41: Ethiopia, General, 1959-1961, 1963-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 50
Miscellaneous correspondence, reports; no correspondence 1955-1958.
Record Group: Finland
Series 1: Finland: Administration: General
File 170: Finland: General, 1956-1957, 1959-1962, 1964, 1965
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 307, 308
Correspondence regarding loan for community center, assimilation, other problems of small, isolated community.
Record Group: France
Series 1: France: Administration: General
File 171: France: General, 1962-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 309
Correspondence, extracts of committee meeting minutes regarding influx of refugees, lack of housing, limited employment, adjustment issues.
File 172: France: General, 1955-1961
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 309
Miscellaneous correspondence, reports on communal conditions, impact of loss of Claims Conference funds.
Series 2: France: Subject Matter: Religion, Culture and Education
File 174: France: Children, 1959-1964, 1965
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 314
Report, correspondence on services for children, including on placement of children in non-Jewish homes.
File 175: France: Education, 1963-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 315
Correspondence, extracts of meeting minutes regarding educational needs, schools.
File 176: France: Education, September-December 1962
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 315
Miscellaneous on education, aid for North African Jews in France.
File 177: France: Education, January-August 1962
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 315
Miscellaneous on education, aid for North African Jews in France.
File 178: France: Education, 1957, 1959-1961
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 316
Correspondence, reports on supplemental and day schools, including facilities, curriculum, personnel, wages; complaints about spending priorities.
Series 3: France: Administration: Financial
File 179: France: Financial, 1955-1959, 1962
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 317
Miscellaneous financial correspondence on currency exchange, bookkeeping, cash reports.
File 206: France: Transfer of Funds, American Securities, 1955-1957
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 333
Financial correspondence on currency exchange, remittances.
File 207: France: Transfer of Funds, Syngalowski, Aron, 1962
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 341
Correspondence to conclude claim by heirs of Aron Syngalowski.
Series 4: France: Subject Matter: Reconstruction
File 180: France: Loan Kassas, 1956-1958, 1961-1963
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 323
Miscellaneous correspondence on loans, housing loans for refugees from North Africa.
Series 5: France: Localities
File 181: France: Localities, 1949, 1961-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 345, 346
Miscellaneous correspondence.
File 182: France: Localities, Marseille, 1961-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 346
Miscellaneous reports on local conditions [Some family names on correspondence regarding welfare cases].
Series 6: France: Subject Matter: Medical
File 183: France: Medical, Mental Health, 1962
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 324
OSE report (published March 1962), “Psychiatric care problems within the Jewish population in the Paris region,”, including materials on incidence of mental health problems, facilities for psychiatric patients.
Series 7: France: Subject Matter: Emigration and Immigration
File 184: France: Migration, Medical Claim, Marseille, 1955, 1957, 1959
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 309, 325
Report, correspondence regarding claim by Sante Publique for medical care for transmigrants in Marseille.
France: Migration, Medical Claim, Marseille, 1955, 1957, 1959
Series 8: France: Organizations
File 185: France: Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine, 1955, 1958-1961, 1963-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 349
Appeals for aid, including application, correspondence regarding Claims Conference grants.
France: Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine, 1955, 1958-1961, 1963-1964
File 186: France: Cercle Amicale (Workmen’s Circle), 1961-1963
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 351
Correspondence regarding sale of Cercle Amicale property at Brunoy. [See 55/64 # 199, France, Properties, 1959, 1962-1965]
File 187: France: Comite Juif d’Action Social et de Reconstruction (COJASOR), 1956-1957, 1962
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 353
Miscellaneous correspondence.
France: Comite Juif d’Action Social et de Reconstruction (COJASOR), 1956-1957, 1962
File 188: France: Fonds Sociale Juif Unifié, 1963-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 357
Correspondence regarding organization’s budget, financial problems, need for professional fund-raising. [See 55/64 # 200-205, France, Refugees]
File 189: France: Fonds Sociale Juif Unifié, 1956-1957, 1960-1962
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 357
Miscellaneous correspondence, materials on capital projects. [See 55/64 # 200-205, France, Refugees]
File 190: France: Fonds Sociale Juif Unifié, Publications, 1955, 1960-1963
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 358
Correspondence on publications, translations of Judaica, including securing rights for publications.
France: Fonds Sociale Juif Unifié, Publications, 1955, 1960-1963
File 191: France: Fonds Sociale Juif Unifié, Reports, 1958, 1960-1961, 1963
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 359
Miscellaneous narrative, statistical reports.
France: Fonds Sociale Juif Unifié, Reports, 1958, 1960-1961, 1963
File 192: France: International Institute for Hebrew Studies, 1958-1962
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 363
Correspondence regarding budgets, application for Claims Conference funds; reports on activities
France: International Institute for Hebrew Studies, 1958-1962
File 193: France: Lubavitch, 1956, 1958, 1960-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 366
Financial correspondence on costs, sale of property at Brunoy with intent to use proceeds for facility at Aubervilliers. Press release (May 14, 1964) on dedication of Beth Rifka teacher training seminary for girls in Yerres.
File 194: France: OSE, 1957, 1959, 1963
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 367
Miscellaneous materials on medical programs.
File 195: France: Ozar Hatorah, 1963-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 368
Correspondence on arrangements for, problems with relig education, Ozar Hatorah school in Lyon.
File 196: France: Ozar Hatorah, 1961-1962
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 368
Correspondence on financing, development of schools.
File 197: France: Tombeau du Martyr Juif Inconnu, 1958-1960, 1962-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 370
Miscellaneous appeals for aid.
France: Tombeau du Martyr Juif Inconnu, 1958-1960, 1962-1964
File 198: France: Tombeau du Martyr Juif Inconnu, 1955-1957
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 370
Miscellaneous appeals for aid for memorial and its maintenance. Printed matter (English and French): Memorial to Unknown Jewish Martyr.
File 208: France: Yeshivoth, Chachmey Tsorphat, 1957
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 373
Miscellaneous on yeshiva, prospect for scholarships for students from Morocco.
File 209: France: Yeshivoth, Yeshiva Or (Ohr) Joseph, 1955-1956, 1959, 1961-1962, 1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 374
Correspondence on poor conditions at yeshiva; stymied attempts to
move yeshiva from France to Israel.
France: Yeshivoth, Yeshiva Or (Ohr) Joseph, 1955-1956, 1959, 1961-1962, 1964
Series 9: France: Subject Matter: Property
File 199: France: Properties, 1959, 1962-1964, 1965
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 326
Correspondence regarding inspections, transactions for properties. [See 55/64 # 186, France, Org., Cercle Amicale]
Series 10: France: Subject Matter: Refugees
File 200: France: Refugees, 1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 327
Correspondence, statistics on refugees’ need, services for aged.
File 201: France: Refugees, April-November 1963
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 327
Correspondence, statistics, press releases, memos on refugees’ needs.
File 202: France: Refugees, January-March 1963
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 327
Miscellaneous materials on refugees, including financial matters, rehabilitation.
File 203: France: Refugees, July-November 1962
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 328
Reports, correspondence, memos, statistics on influx of refugees, effect on resident population.
File 204: France: Refugees, January-June 1962
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 328
Correspondence, press releases, statistics on refugees, problematic conditions for aid to Algerian refugees.
File 205: France: Refugees, 1955-1961
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 328
Miscellaneous correspondence, statistics on refugees.
File 173: France: Aged, 1960, 1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 312
Report on demographics, care of Jewish aged in Paris region.
Record Group: Germany
Series 1: Germany: Administration: General
File 210: Germany: General, 1956, 1958-1962, 1964-1965
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 375
Miscellaneous on general, economic, political and Jewish conditions in Germany.
Series 2: Germany: Subject Matter: Children
File 212: Germany: Day Care, 1959
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 380
Reports on training for kindergarten teachers.
Series 3: Germany: Subject Matter: Displaced Persons
File 213: Germany: Displaced Persons, General, 1954, 1955-1958, 1960
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 381
Correspondence, extracts of meeting minutes regarding residual populations at displaced persons camps, communal conditions. Miscellaneous on JDC activities, liquidation of services, ability of communal agencies to handle welfare activities.
File 214: Germany: Displaced Persons, Camps, Foehrenwald, 1956-1957, 1962
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 396
Correspondence, extracts of meeting minutes regarding liquidation, closure of Foehrenwald, emigration grants.
Germany: Displaced Persons, Camps, Foehrenwald, 1956-1957, 1962
File 217: Germany: Displaced Persons, Support for Victims of Nazi Medical Experiments, 1957-1958
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 403
Correspondence and memo (July 1957) regarding “Assistance to Victims of Nazi Medical Experiments,”, by Friends of ADIR.
Germany: Displaced Persons, Support for Victims of Nazi Medical Experiments, 1957-1958
Series 4: Germany: Subject Matter: Religion, Culture and Education
File 218: Germany: Education, 1956, 1958-1960, 1963
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 405
Correspondence, memos on Jewish education in Frankfurt.
Series 5: Germany: Administration: Financial
File 219: Germany: Financial, 1959-1963
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 414
Accounting correspondence on remittances, currency exchange, funds from successor organizations and from Claims Conference, via Israel.
File 220: Germany: Financial, 1955-1958
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 414
Accounting correspondence on remittances, currency exchange, funds from successor organizations and from Claims Conference,
via Israel.
Series 6: Germany: Subject Matter: Reconstruction
File 221: Germany: Loan Kassas, 1954, 1955-1959, 1962
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 416
Correspondence, statistics on opening, operations of loan kassas.
Series 7: Germany: Localities
File 222: Germany: Localities, Berlin, 1955-1956, 1961
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 444
Financial correspondence (1955-1956) regarding loan to Berlin Gemeinde. Kurt Grossman memo (December 18, 1961) on local Jewish community.
File 223: Germany: Localities, Frankfurt, 1956, 1958
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 448
Correspondence regarding community’s restitution income from the city of Frankfurt.
Series 8: Germany: Organizations
File 224: Germany: Juedische Gemeindefonds, 1964
File 225: Germany: Zentralwohlfartsstelle der Juden in Deutschland, 1954, 1958-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 452
Correspondence; statistical report (1964) on Zentralwohlfartsstelle operations, services.
Germany: Zentralwohlfartsstelle der Juden in Deutschland, 1954, 1958-1964
File 211: Germany: Aged, 1959
Record Group: Greece
Series 1: Greece: Administration: General
File 226: Greece: General, 1955-1961, 1963-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 454
Correspondence, reports on communal conditions, population shifts, meetings of Greek Jewry.
Series 2: Greece: Localities
File 227: Greece: Corfu Cemetery, 1960
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 458
Correspondence regarding the destruction of cemetery, relocation of relics, sale of desecrated land, use of proceeds.
Series 3: Greece: Subject Matter: Religion, Culture and Education
File 229: Greece: Education, 1957, 1959-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 460
Reports on educational and recreational conditions in Greece.
Series 4: Greece: Administration: Financial
File 230: Greece: Financial, 1955-1959, 1961, 1963-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 462
Miscellaneous correspondence on remittances, clearances.
Series 5: Greece: Subject Matter: Restitution
File 231: Greece: Heirless Assets of Nazi Victims, 1955, 1958-1959, 1961
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 462
Correspondence, memos (English, French) on delays in realizing provisions of 1946 law regarding heirless assets.
Greece: Heirless Assets of Nazi Victims, 1955, 1958-1959, 1961
File 232: Greece: Loan Kassas, 1956-1958, 1961
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 468
Correspondence regarding repayment of loan for kassa.
Series 6: Greece: Subject Matter: Relief Supplies
File 233: Greece: Passover Supplies, 1956-1964
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 471
Correspondence regarding costs, shipments of matzot from Janina group to Greece and Albania. [See also 55/64 # 106, Albania, Passover Supplies]
File 228: Greece: Disasters, 1955-1957
Old Folder Number: 45/64 # 459
Reports, press releases, correspondence on relief supplies, housing aid for earthquakes victims in Larissa.