Our Stories All Stories AllArticleBooksFellowship LecturesFor ResearchersFrom the CollectionsGenealogyMy StoryPublications 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 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 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 Icaac 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
