Leon Weliczker Wells papers, 1918-2009 (inclusive).

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Leon Weliczker Wells papers, 1918-2009 (inclusive).

The papers include minutes of Hadassah and World Jewish Congress meetings and responses to a questionnaire sent to prominent American Jewish leaders. Correspondence, writings, printed ephemera, and a CD relating to the Holocaust complete the collection.

14 linear feet (20 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8023588

Yale University Library

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World Jewish Congress.

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According to their own constitution, the World Jewish Congress is a voluntary association of representative Jewish bodies, communities and organisations throughout the world, organised to assure the survival and to foster the unity of the Jewish people. Its origins lie in the immediate aftermath of World War I in the cooperative efforts by Jewish communities around the world in religious, legal, political and relief matters. In the aftermath of World War II the World Jewish Congress played a cen...

Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America

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Established in 1912 by Henrietta Szold to raise the standard of health in Palestine, to encourage the development of Jewish life in America, and to foster the Jewish ideal. From the description of Records, 1914-1960 [microform]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70960639 ...

Wells, Leon Weliczker, 1925-

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Leon Weliczker Wells was born in Lvov, Poland, on March 10, 1925. He was a prisoner in the Janowska concentration camp during World War II. He published his memoir of this period entitled The Janowska Road. In 1987 Wells published Who Speaks for the Vanquished?, a study of the response of American Jews to the Holocaust. From the description of Leon Weliczker Wells papers, 1918-2009 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702171098 Leon Weliczker Wells was bo...