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Countries collection: England files, 1919-1944.

Title: Countries collection: England files, 1919-1944.

Records concerning American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) purchasing office in London, 1919-1921, and JDC distribution of British funds in Eastern Europe, 1921-1925. Also, records of organizations, primarily relating to refugees from Nazi Germany, including Central British Fund for German Jewry (later for Relief and Rehabilitation), including general correspondence and reports, 1933-1940, 1944, reports of Allocation Committee, 1933-1935, financial statements and reports, 1934-1937, and Executive Committee minutes, 1934-1939; Council for German Jewry (later Council for Jewish Refugees) including general files, 1936-1944, Agricultural Committee, 1939-1940, financial statements, 1936-1941, and Executive Committee minutes, 1936-1941; and German-Jewish Emigration Council (Anglo-HICEM), including minutes and correspondence, 1933-1934. Also, includes reports of German Refugee Aid Committee (later German-Jewish Aid Committee, Jewish Refugees Committee), 1938-1941; Inter-Aid Committee for Children from Germany (later Movement for the Care of the Children from Germany, London Refugee Children's Movement), 1936-1940; and Kitchener Refugee Transit Camp, 1938-1940.

ArchivalResource: 2.8 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155467280 View

Countries collection: Austria files, 1919-1945.

Title: Countries collection: Austria files, 1919-1945.

Correspondence, reports, memoranda, printed material, clippings, and other materials concerning social, political, and economic conditions among Jews in Austria, and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) activities. Covers economic crisis, 1921-1923, 1929; anti-Semitism in 1920s; and Anschluss (unification of Austria with Nazi Germany), 1938. JDC activites include aid to child care, educational, and cultural and religious organizations; relief to refugees from Eastern Europe following World War I, and Germany following Nazi takeover; and emigration aid following the Anschluss. Organizations represented include American Relief Administration, Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien, Council for German Jewry (London), HICEM, Hebraisches Pedagogium, Theologisches Lehr-Anstalt, Chajes Realgymnasium, and Youth Aliyah (preparation for movement to Palestine).

ArchivalResource: 1.6 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155467137 View

Countries collection: China files, 1919-1983, 1922-1964 (bulk)

Title: Countries collection: China files, 1919-1983, 1922-1964 (bulk)

Correspondence, reports, memoranda, minutes, printed matter, and other material concerning American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) activities in the Jewish community in China, especially Shanghai and Harbin. Subjects include repatriation of prisoners of war following World War I, 1919-1921; aid to refugees before, during, and after World War II, including aid to Christian refugees, 1946-1953; care for the aged, 1946-1954; community and youth center, 1947-1949; cultural and religious organizations, 1944-1960; emigration, 1941-1964; housing, 1938-1948; medical aid, 1945-1950; and vocational training, 1946-1949. Organizations represented include Central Information Bureau for Jewish War Sufferers, Harbin; Jewish People's Bank of Harbin; Committee for the Assistance of European Jewish Refugees in Shanghai; Shanghai Ashkenazi Collaborating Relief Association; Council for German Jewry; Council of Jewish Communities of Shanghai; International Relief Organization; Church World Service; and National Catholic Welfare Conference. Among correspondents in China are JDC representatives Adolph Glassgold, Horace Kadoorie, Laura Margolis, and Manuel Siegel.

ArchivalResource: 3.7 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155467163 View