Isaac Bitton papers Photographs of Jewish refugees in Lisbon, Portugal photographs.
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Bitton, Isaac, 1926-
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Isaac Bitton is a Portuguese Jew and a refugee of the Holocaust. Bitton presently resides in Woodstock, Illinois. From the description of Isaac Bitton papers Photographs, clippings, and other materials relating to Aristides de Sousa Mendes photographs clippings scrapbook articles letters. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). WorldCat record id: 86118762 From the description of Isaac Bitton papers Scrapbook, photographs, and other materials relating to the Nahariya memo...
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...