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Yemenite Jewish refugees wait on the airstrip to board a plane to Israel during Operation Magic Carpet.

Aden, c.1949. Photograph: Al Taylor.

JDC has come to be known as the 911 of the Jewish people. At times of crisis and devastation, overseas Jewish communities have an address for assistance, be it in circumstances of war, revolution, or persecution. Highlights of JDC’s rescue efforts include work during and in the aftermath of World Wars I and II and funding and carrying out major rescue operations such as Operation Magic Carpet from Yemen and Operation Ezra and Nehemiah from Iraq, assisting Jewish refugees fleeing the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, playing a role in Operation Solomon, and rescue during the Balkan wars of the 1990s.

Exhibit

Everything Possible:
JDC and the Children of the DP Camps

Featuring historic photographs from the JDC Archives, focuses on JDC’s significant efforts on behalf of children in the displaced persons camps established by the Allied Armed Forces after World War II. JDC was permitted to enter the camps to supplement minimal provisions with critical nutritional, medical, educational, and religious services for survivors.

News and Articles
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A Wretched Voyage with a Happy End: The Story of the Cabo de Buena Esperanza and Cabo de Hornos

JDC Archives to Co-Sponsor Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean

JDC Archives to Co-Sponsor Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean

JDC at the Movies

JDC at the Movies

A Tale of Two Photographs

A Tale of Two Photographs

Memories of Tehran

Memories of Tehran

Giving Names to Faces

Giving Names to Faces

Lorena Cardona González Lectures on Jewish Refugees from Nazism in Colombia, 1945-1950

Lorena Cardona González Lectures on Jewish Refugees from Nazism in Colombia, 1945-1950

Sandra Gruner-Domić Lectures on Bolivia, a Forgotten Refuge During the Holocaust: Jewish Immigration 1937-1941

Sandra Gruner-Domić Lectures on Bolivia, a Forgotten Refuge During the Holocaust: Jewish Immigration 1937-1941

Marking the 60th Anniversary of the Mass Jewish Emigration from Algeria

Marking the 60th Anniversary of the Mass Jewish Emigration from Algeria

Lists of Shanghai Repatriates to Austria and Germany Indexed

Lists of Shanghai Repatriates to Austria and Germany Indexed

Recent Acquisitions

Recent Acquisitions

The Sailings of the S.S. Marine Flasher

The Sailings of the S.S. Marine Flasher

JDC Emigration Service Cards of 1960s Czech Refugees Added to Names Index

JDC Emigration Service Cards of 1960s Czech Refugees Added to Names Index

At Home in Feldafing

At Home in Feldafing

From Europe to Israel to Germany to Brazil

From Europe to Israel to Germany to Brazil

Overcoming Obstacles to Freedom

Overcoming Obstacles to Freedom

Found in the Names Index

Found in the Names Index

AJDC Paris Emigration Service Index Cards Added to Names Index

AJDC Paris Emigration Service Index Cards Added to Names Index

JDC Archives Shares Zbąszyń Refugees List with JRI-Poland

JDC Archives Shares Zbąszyń Refugees List with JRI-Poland

Finding a Familiar Face: Marc Chagall in the JDC Archives

Finding a Familiar Face: Marc Chagall in the JDC Archives

Reflections on Shanghai

Reflections on Shanghai

It Started and Ended with a Newspaper Article

It Started and Ended with a Newspaper Article

A Tale from Australia

A Tale from Australia

Researching the “Polenaktion” at the JDC Archives

Researching the “Polenaktion” at the JDC Archives

Alina Bothe Lectures on the Polenaktion: Deportation, Refugee Life and Jewish Solidarity

Alina Bothe Lectures on the Polenaktion: Deportation, Refugee Life and Jewish Solidarity

Ming Hui Pan Lectures on the Survival of Jews in China during World War II

Ming Hui Pan Lectures on the Survival of Jews in China during World War II

The St. Louis: 80 Years Later

The St. Louis: 80 Years Later

Rebecca Erbelding Gives First Helen Cohen Memorial Lecture on The US War Refugee Board and JDC

Rebecca Erbelding Gives First Helen Cohen Memorial Lecture on The US War Refugee Board and JDC

Danielle Willard-Kyle Lectures on Jewish Refugees and Humanitarian Aid in Italian Displaced Persons Camps

Danielle Willard-Kyle Lectures on Jewish Refugees and Humanitarian Aid in Italian Displaced Persons Camps

POLIN Museum showcases JDC Archives materials on March 1968

POLIN Museum showcases JDC Archives materials on March 1968

Gertrud Glanz’s Scrapbook from Shanghai

Gertrud Glanz’s Scrapbook from Shanghai

Learning More about the Children of Cyprus

Learning More about the Children of Cyprus

JDC Archives Showcased in Two Scholarly Publications

JDC Archives Showcased in Two Scholarly Publications

JDC Archives Scholars’ Workshop Focuses on Refugees and Statelessness

JDC Archives Scholars’ Workshop Focuses on Refugees and Statelessness

Badges of Honor

Badges of Honor

Michal Frankl Lectures on Jewish Refugees on the Borders of East-Central Europe, 1938

Michal Frankl Lectures on Jewish Refugees on the Borders of East-Central Europe, 1938

Rescue through Emigration in the Nazi Era

Rescue through Emigration in the Nazi Era

Lighting the Way

Lighting the Way

The SS Serpa Pinto Lists: A Resource for Genealogy Research

The SS Serpa Pinto Lists: A Resource for Genealogy Research

New Issue of Dorot Highlights JDC Names Indexing Projects

New Issue of Dorot Highlights JDC Names Indexing Projects

Luca Fenoglio Lectures on Rescue Activities in Italian-Occupied Southeastern France

Luca Fenoglio Lectures on Rescue Activities in Italian-Occupied Southeastern France

Records of JDC’s Role in “Operation Magic Carpet” Airlift Now Digitized

Records of JDC’s Role in “Operation Magic Carpet” Airlift Now Digitized

Traversing a Minefield to Escape Communist Hungary

Traversing a Minefield to Escape Communist Hungary

BBC Publishes Two Major Features on the Survivors of the St. Louis

BBC Publishes Two Major Features on the Survivors of the St. Louis

Insight into Moses Beckelman: Neither Pencil-Pusher Nor Pushover

Insight into Moses Beckelman: Neither Pencil-Pusher Nor Pushover