Subject collection, 1914-1949.

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Subject collection, 1914-1949.

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Correspondence, reports, and other material relating to various areas of work of American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Contains sections on child care, 1919-1944, including material on orphanages in France and Poland; cultural and religious aid, 1919-1945, including aid to Jewish schools, libraries, rabbis, and seminaries; emigration and immigration, 1919-1944, including material on refugee ships, 1939-1944, including S.S. ST. LOUIS; medical-sanitary relief, 1919-1932, including medical commission to Poland, 1921; pogroms and persecutions, containing report on pograms in Poland and Ukraine, n.d.; work among prisoners of war during World War I; reconstruction, 1919-1945, including files on free loan societies, banks, building programs in Rumania, Palestine, and Poland, as well as records of Reconstruction Department and American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, 1921-1938; refugees, 1915-1943, including efforts to find relatives, records of Refugee Committee, 1921-1923; relief supplies, 1919-1921, 1933-1949, including shipment of clothing and food aid; landsmanshaftn, containing records of Landsmanschaftn Bureau, 1921-1924, and Division, 1936-1940; and vocational training, 1933-1941, with material on hachsharah programs (agricultural training for immigrants to Palestine) in Germany, Austria, Poland, and elsewhere.

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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...

American Joint Reconstruction Foundation

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American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Landsmanshaftn Bureau.

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American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Refugee Committee.

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American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Landsmanshaftn Division.

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American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Reconstruction Dept.

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St. Louis (Ship)

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The German steamship, the St Louis, left Hamburg with 930 Jewish refugees on board on 13 May 1939. Its passengers had valid immigration visas to Cuba stamped in their passports. When the ship arrived at Havana, the refugees were refused entry. The ship was turned back to Europe, where its passengers, after much negotiation were permitted to land in English and Western European ports. Those caught up by the Nazi invasion ultimately met their deaths a year later in the Holocaust....