Our Stories All Stories AllArticleBooksEventsFellowship LecturesFor ResearchersFrom the CollectionsGenealogyMy StoryPublications Memories of Tehran July 26, 2022 On Meditating Behind the Camera July 21, 2022 Giving Names to Faces July 20, 2022 Joshua Tapper Lectures on “Who Should the Players Be?”: The JDC in the Soviet Union, 1989-1991 July 18, 2022 Book Review: Baghdadi Jewish Networks in the Age of Nationalism July 15, 2022 JDC Archives Virtual Programs: Fall 2022 June 30, 2022 Jonathan Zisook Lectures on “Passover for the Passed Over”: Jewish Religious Life in Poland after 1968 June 29, 2022 Lorena Cardona González Lectures on Jewish Refugees from Nazism in Colombia, 1945-1950 June 13, 2022 2022 JDC Archives Fellows Announced June 7, 2022 Sandra Gruner-Domić Lectures on Bolivia, a Forgotten Refuge During the Holocaust: Jewish Immigration 1937-1941 May 10, 2022 Jonathan Sarna Lectures on Re-evaluating the Role of American Jewry during the Holocaust April 26, 2022 Marking the 60th Anniversary of the Mass Jewish Emigration from Algeria April 19, 2022 Book Review—The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews after the Holocaust April 19, 2022 From the Midwest to the Mid-East April 14, 2022 JDC Archives Virtual Programs: Spring–Summer 2022 April 12, 2022 Lists of Shanghai Repatriates to Austria and Germany Indexed April 8, 2022 JDC Archives’ Annual Helen Cohen Memorial Lecture—Laura Hobson-Faure’s “A ‘Jewish Marshall Plan’: The American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France” March 30, 2022 JDC Archives Public Program Series Highlights Jewish Women in Turbulent Times March 8, 2022 Juliet Golden Lectures on Sara-Zofia Syrkin-Binsztejnowa February 16, 2022 Recent Acquisitions February 2, 2022 JDC Archives Virtual Programs: Winter–Spring 2022 January 18, 2022 Melissa Klapper Lectures on American Jewish Women Serving the JDC Abroad During the Interwar Years January 17, 2022 Photo Collection Spans Decades and Continents January 14, 2022 The Sailings of the S.S. Marine Flasher January 12, 2022 New Book—In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust January 10, 2022 The Sridei Aish: Saved from the Consuming Fire January 10, 2022 A Rhapsody for the Generations January 5, 2022 JDC Archives’ Annual Helen Cohen Memorial Lecture—Susan Gilson Miller’s “Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa” December 7, 2021 Zvi Feine & Sandra Segal Lecture on Chief Rabbi Moses Rosen’s Leadership in Romania November 9, 2021 The Art of Documenting JDC Assistance October 22, 2021 JDC Archives Staff Present at FDR Library’s Virtual Conference October 20, 2021 JDC Archives Virtual Programs: Fall 2021–Winter 2022 October 20, 2021 Researching His Roots in the Ukraine October 13, 2021 JDC Emigration Service Cards of 1960s Czech Refugees Added to Names Index October 13, 2021 Watch Recordings of JDC Archives Public Programs October 11, 2021 David Nasaw Lectures on Holocaust Survivors in Exile in Germany after World War II October 11, 2021 Anat Kutner Lectures on the Role of JDC in the Rehabilitation of Cyprus Detainees 1946-1949 September 13, 2021 At Home in Feldafing July 20, 2021 A JDC Archives Fellow Discusses Her Research on Jewish Life in 1950s Poland July 20, 2021 Vast New York 1975-1989 Collection Now Digitized July 19, 2021 JDC Archives Virtual Programs: Fall 2021 July 15, 2021 Yechiel Bar-Chaim and Seymour Epstein Reflect on their Service as JDC Country Directors in North Africa July 13, 2021 A Snapshot of Coming to America July 13, 2021 From Europe to Israel to Germany to Brazil July 13, 2021 Sylvia Hershcovitz Lectures on Mela Iancu: A Holocaust Heroine in Romania June 22, 2021 Frankee Lyons Lectures on the JDC in Post-Stalinist Poland, 1957-1960s May 27, 2021 Alexandra Kramen Lectures on the Struggle for Holocaust Justice in the Jewish Displaced Persons Community of Föhrenwald, 1945-1957 May 13, 2021 Dóra Pataricza Lectures on the Joint’s Activity in Szeged in the Aftermath of the Holocaust April 28, 2021 Backdrop to Rescue April 22, 2021 New Book—From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History April 21, 2021 Overcoming Obstacles to Freedom April 15, 2021 Avinoam Patt Lectures on the Jewish Heroes of Warsaw April 8, 2021 JDC Archives Virtual Programs: Spring-Summer 2021 April 8, 2021 Found in the Names Index March 25, 2021 Rebecca Clifford Lectures on the Difficulties of Family Reunification after the Holocaust March 18, 2021 Zvi Gitelman Lectures on JDC’s Return to the Soviet Union in the 1980s March 3, 2021 Distribution of Religious Items January 20, 2021 JDC Archives Virtual Programs: Winter-Spring 2021 January 19, 2021 The Joint and the Casa Dello Studente January 19, 2021 AJDC Paris Emigration Service Index Cards Added to Names Index January 14, 2021 Fred Lazin Lectures on JDC and European Refugees in Postwar Shanghai January 13, 2021 JDC Archives Historic Films in Action January 7, 2021 Panel on JDC’s Work in Poland at 2020 Association for Jewish Studies Virtual Conference January 6, 2021 JDC Archives Shares Zbąszyń Refugees List with JRI-Poland December 10, 2020 Yechiel Bar-Chaim and Ivan Čerešnješ Lecture on Jewish Resilience and Resourcefulness During the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1992-1995 November 12, 2020 JDC Archives Online Events: Fall 2020-Winter 2021 October 23, 2020 Interning, COVID-19 style October 20, 2020 JDC Archives Scholars’ Workshop Focuses on Jews in the Muslim World October 19, 2020 An Illuminated Manuscript October 19, 2020 Found on Film October 16, 2020 MyHeritage Adds JDC Emigration Service Card Records to Its Online Offerings October 9, 2020 Abra Cohen Lectures on If Objects Could Talk September 30, 2020 Lior Sternfeld Lectures on Studying the Middle East through the Prism of the Jewish Communities August 31, 2020 Jeff Edelstein Lectures on the JDC Archives Names Index as a Window to JDC’s History August 19, 2020 Linda Levi Presents “The JDC Archives: New Materials of Interest to Jewish Genealogists” at IAJGS Annual Conference August 13, 2020 New Book—The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa: The Impact of World War II July 16, 2020 JDC Archives Online Events July 15, 2020 James Wooten’s Home Movies July 14, 2020 Finding a Friend and Family at a Critical Moment July 8, 2020 Index of AJDC Prague Office Emigration Case Files Now Available July 7, 2020 Sari Siegel Lectures on Jewish Survivor-Physicians in Transition: From DP Camp Doctors to Emigrants, 1945-1950 June 24, 2020 Michal Ben Ya’akov Lectures on Images of Moroccan Jews and Perceptions of American Jews, 1942-1954 June 4, 2020 Emily Bengels Lectures on Interagency Efforts for Child Rescue and Immigration to the US: 1939-1942 May 13, 2020 Life in Sosúa Revealed April 22, 2020 New Book—Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal April 21, 2020 JDC Archives Fellowship Lectures Available Online April 3, 2020 JDC during the Time of the Spanish Flu (1918–1920) April 1, 2020 Picture It April 1, 2020 A Rare Romanian Artifact in the Archives March 31, 2020 New Book—Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey January 23, 2020 A Gift from Golda January 22, 2020 Reflections on Shanghai January 10, 2020 Panel on JDC’s Work in Italy at Association for Jewish Studies Conference January 9, 2020 Stacy Veeder Lectures on “The Thread that Binds”: Personal Correspondence and Relief Aid in the Camps of Occupied France, 1940-1944 December 19, 2019 Jan Láníček Lectures on “Sardines to the Ghettos”: Relief Food Parcels for Jews in Occupied Europe during the Second World War December 12, 2019 JDC Archives’ Annual Helen Cohen Memorial Lecture—Marion Kaplan, “Lisbon: Harbor of Hope for Jewish Refugees” November 18, 2019 Lauren Henry Lectures on The JDC and the Jews of Alsace and Algeria, 1940-1963 November 4, 2019 It Started and Ended with a Newspaper Article October 24, 2019 JDC Archives Events in November and December October 18, 2019 Exploring the Lists in the Names Index October 18, 2019 Snapshots of a Forgotten World October 18, 2019 New Book—Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran October 2, 2019 How a Recent Grant Helped Uncover a Rare Artifact’s Provenance September 25, 2019 Rachel Blumenthal Lectures on Survivors, Locals, and Welfare Agencies in the Austrian Alps September 23, 2019 Michael Nutkiewicz Lectures on Eli Gumener’s Memoirs September 11, 2019 A Tale from Australia July 18, 2019 “They Gave Us Money to Live” July 18, 2019 JDC Archives Holds Volunteer Recognition Luncheon July 17, 2019 Lending a Helping Hand July 15, 2019 Researching the “Polenaktion” at the JDC Archives July 15, 2019 Piecing together a Puzzle with Newly Received Digital Collections July 11, 2019 Gaëlle Fisher Lectures on Making Sense of Catastrophe: Jewish Leadership in Romania during the Holocaust May 29, 2019 Alina Bothe Lectures on the Polenaktion: Deportation, Refugee Life and Jewish Solidarity May 15, 2019 Ming Hui Pan Lectures on the Survival of Jews in China during World War II May 8, 2019 The JDC at 100: A Century of Humanitarianism April 9, 2019 Illuminating History April 9, 2019 JDC Archives Enters New Partnership with International Tracing Service April 5, 2019 JDC Archives Announces May Events April 5, 2019 From JDC Iran to Morocco with a Healing Mission April 3, 2019 New Book: The Swedish Jews and the Holocaust January 16, 2019 It Only Takes One Document January 16, 2019 Tunisian Treasure January 16, 2019 “Someone in the World Still Cared about Their Fate” January 15, 2019 “A New Lens” on JDC’s Historic Films January 14, 2019 New Book on War Refugee Board October 25, 2018 Mr. Shamsian’s Shiviti Gift October 24, 2018 Finding a Long-Lost Relative after 77 Years October 23, 2018 Danielle Willard-Kyle Lectures on Jewish Refugees and Humanitarian Aid in Italian Displaced Persons Camps October 17, 2018 From JDC in Norway to JDC in New York October 17, 2018 Laura Almagor Lectures on Jewish DPs in Austria and Koppel S. Pinson (1904-1961) August 29, 2018 Archives Website’s “Our Stories” Section Presents Collection Highlights in a New Way July 18, 2018 Gertrud Glanz’s Scrapbook from Shanghai July 10, 2018 JDC Archives Artifacts and Ephemera Collection Database now open July 3, 2018 A Historian Reflects on His Research about Soviet Jewish Transmigrants June 28, 2018 Denis Kozlov Lectures on Soviet Jewish Migration during the 1970s-1980s April 19, 2018 “He Remembered My Voice after 25 Years” April 11, 2018 New Book on World War I and the Jews April 4, 2018 From Europe to the Farm January 23, 2018 New Book on Wartime Refugees in Casablanca January 23, 2018 Learning More about the Children of Cyprus January 17, 2018 Trench Art in the JDC Archives January 16, 2018 Joseph Benatov Lectures on the Fate of Bulgarian Jews during the Holocaust January 8, 2018 JDC Archives Showcased in Two Scholarly Publications December 22, 2017 Naida Michal Brandl Lectures on Jewish Life in Croatia, 1945-1952 December 20, 2017 Omri Tubi Lectures on the Transnational Roots of the Jewish State and Malaria Eradication December 14, 2017 Do You Have a JDC Story? October 16, 2017 New Book on the International Committee of the Red Cross by 2014 JDC Archives Fellow, Gerald Steinacher October 11, 2017 Polish Yiddish Theater Posters October 10, 2017 Do You Know What a Fuzzy Search Is in Our Database? October 9, 2017 Badges of Honor July 18, 2017 A JDC Connection Comes Full Circle July 14, 2017 Do you Recognize Someone? June 21, 2017 Genealogical Resources on Immigrants to Eretz Yisrael April 13, 2017 When a Letter Becomes Art April 13, 2017 An Enduring Personal JDC Connection in Poland April 13, 2017 Natan Meir Lectures on Town Fools, Beggars, and Other Outcasts in Eastern Europe February 22, 2017 Russian Children’s Art January 18, 2017 Michal Frankl Lectures on Jewish Refugees on the Borders of East-Central Europe, 1938 January 12, 2017 Rescue through Emigration in the Nazi Era January 9, 2017 Genealogical Resources in the Records of JDC’s Warsaw Office, 1939-1941 January 6, 2017 Glenn Dynner Lectures on JDC Aid to Traditionalist Jews in Interwar and Nazi-Occupied Poland November 8, 2016 Lighting the Way October 10, 2016 Making Connections: Linking Finding Aids and Digitized Records October 9, 2016 The SS Serpa Pinto Lists: A Resource for Genealogy Research September 29, 2016 JDC Archives Website as a Scholarly Resource in the Digital Age September 29, 2016 JDC Archival Film and Video Collections as Historical and Genealogical Resources September 29, 2016 Luca Fenoglio Lectures on Rescue Activities in Italian-Occupied Southeastern France July 12, 2016 Cultivating Artists on Cyprus: The Rutenberg Seminar June 23, 2016 The JDC Archives Names Indexing Project: A Personal Retrospective May 26, 2016 Mary Cox Lectures on Feeding Hungry Children after World War I May 19, 2016 Rachel Blumenthal Lectures on the Creation of the Claims Conference March 28, 2016 A Grandfather’s JDC Legacy March 27, 2016 Finding Her “Joint Family” in the Archives March 23, 2016 Issachar Ryback’s Agro-Joint Album March 18, 2016 Entwined: Sabah, JDC, and Me January 6, 2016 Anna Manchin Lectures on Jews, Communism, and Ethnicity in 1946 Hungary October 25, 2015 New Book Offers Insight on Early Aid to Russian Jews October 21, 2015 Records of JDC’s Role in “Operation Magic Carpet” Airlift Now Digitized October 16, 2015 Medals of Honor October 13, 2015 Documenting JDC’s Work in the Soviet Union July 8, 2015 Miranda Carson Shares Her JDC Story June 24, 2015 Andrew Falk Lectures on American Jewish Foreign Policy in the Era of World Wars June 17, 2015 JDC Archives Fellow Lectures on Holocaust Survivors and “the Right to Health” April 2, 2015 Traversing a Minefield to Escape Communist Hungary April 1, 2015 “Conditions Terrifying Utterly Hopeless”: A 1933 Telegram March 26, 2015 Festive Purim Sketches in an Israel Old Age Home March 3, 2015 President Woodrow Wilson and JDC February 13, 2015 Citibank, a Mysterious Bank Account, and a Hunt in the Archives January 6, 2015 “Whence Shall Come Our Aid?” JDC’s Early Fundraising Campaigns January 5, 2015 Harry Kamel: A Story of Gratitude December 1, 2014 Memories from Aden October 8, 2014 Painting Depicts JDC Founders October 7, 2014 Gerald Steinacher Lectures on the Red Cross, Jewish Relief Agencies, and the Holocaust July 29, 2014 Helen Cytryn and the Joint: A Photo Identification 70 Years in the Making July 8, 2014 A Symbol for the Continuity of Jewish Life June 25, 2014 I Live. Send Help. June 1, 2014 Golda Schoenbaum and the Joint: a Lifelong Relationship April 1, 2014 The 1948 JDC Haggadah March 30, 2014 The Jews of Sosúa February 7, 2014 A Lens on Poverty January 10, 2014 World War I Prisoner of War Cards Available January 8, 2014 A Tour Guide to a Century of Global Relief Work January 6, 2014 Esther Haskin and the Joint January 6, 2014 Insight into Moses Beckelman: Neither Pencil-Pusher Nor Pushover December 31, 2013 Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, and JDC’s Response November 6, 2013 Using Digital Technology to Research Icchoc Mendel Ganc’s Name October 11, 2013 Delivering Food Relief with Dignity: A Unique Artifact October 4, 2013 Emely Katz Shares Her JDC Story September 25, 2013 A Rosh Hashanah Story August 29, 2013 Lior Sternfeld Lectures on the Jewish Community in Iran from 1941 until the Revolution August 19, 2013 Explore JDC’s Extensive Photo Resources July 23, 2013 Collection of 40,000 Deposit Cards from the World War II Era Features Albert Einstein Record July 15, 2013 Elka Deitsch Shares her JDC Story July 12, 2013 Traditional Ethiopian Pottery June 24, 2013 Special Video of Operation Solomon, the 1991 Airlift of 14,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel May 24, 2013 Joan Finkelstein Shares Her JDC Story April 16, 2013 Long-Time JDC Staffer Donates Treasure Trove of Images to Archives April 9, 2013 Polish Jewish Expellees from Germany (1938-1939) Receiving JDC Aid April 8, 2013 Yom HaShoah and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising April 7, 2013 A Timely Seder March 20, 2013 JDC Haggadah: Occasions of Rescue, Relief and Renewal March 6, 2013 Symbol of Freedom: Seder Plate Distributed in Displaced Persons Camps March 4, 2013 New Release Pays Tribute to Forgotten Heroes of Soviet Jewish Collective December 28, 2012 Miriam Steinberg Weiss Shares Her Father’s JDC Story December 14, 2012 JDC Founding Telegram, 1914 November 13, 2012 JDC Archives Documents in Forthcoming Book on Minsk October 12, 2012 Historic Sound Recording from 1949 Operation Magic Carpet September 27, 2012 Bela Schoenfeld Shares Her JDC Story September 26, 2012 As Jews Today Celebrate the Siyum HaShas, Remembering the Publication of the “JDC Talmud” August 1, 2012 Early Soviet Jewish Life Captured on Film June 29, 2012 Happy Purim! March 7, 2012 Reuven Avital’s Story February 7, 2012 Postcard from Theresienstadt January 13, 2012 A Silent Yizkor September 27, 2011 Refuge in Jamaica September 1, 2011 Historic JDC Poster July 27, 2011 An Early Call to Action July 20, 2011 Lodz Ghetto Currency July 13, 2011 Woodrow Wilson’s Appeal July 1, 2011
