Rosalie Westreich Collection

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Rosalie Westreich Collection

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Collection of correspondence from Persia/Iran; family correspondence; letters to and from friends; newspaper articles, clippings, brochures; genealogicalmaterial; photos; passports; articles; miscellaneous documents; video tapes

1.25 linear feet (3 Boxes).

Leo Baeck Institute Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6346138

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United Jewish Appeal

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American Jewish joint distribution committee

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The American Joint Distribution Committee was founded on November 27, 1914 when the American Jewish Relief Committee (AJRC) and the Central Committee for the Relief of Jews (CCRJ) joined forces under the name of the Joint Distribution Committee of American Funds for the Relief of Jewish War Sufferers. Although JDC reflected the diversity of the American Jewish Community, the Reform-oriented American Jewish Committee faction dominated its early leadership. Conceived as a temporary agency to relie...

Westreich, Rosalie

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Rosalie Westreich was born in Poland in 1908. When she was six month old the family moved to Frankfurt a.M., where her father, Chaim Westreich, opened a bicycle business. She went to school at the Philanthropin till the 10th grade and worked later as a secretary and stenotypist in Frankfurt. After 1933 she changed jobs frequently and emigrated to Paris in 1937, where she lived with her brother and his wife and worked as a nanny. A few months later, she accepted a job as ...