Overview
- Description
- The collection consists of minutes of the meetings, financial reports, correspondence with various Polish government offices, Jewish charitable and relief organizations, Jewish libraries and cultural organizations during the years 1919-1939, and various documents relating to organization activities.
- Date
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inclusive:
1919-1940
- Credit Line
- Ed Zucker Fund for Archival Acquisitions in Lithuania
- Collection Creator
- Krajowy Komitet ?ydowski Pomocy Ofiarom Wojny.
- Biography
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The Evreiskii Komitet Pomoshchi Zhertvam Voiny (EKOPO) (Jewish Committee for the Assistance to the War Victims) was established in Russia in 1914. This organization provided necessary assistance and relief to tens of thousands of Jewish families who were displaced by Russian Tsarist government from Lithuania and Belarus during WWI. After WWI, the organization (under the Polish name, the Krajowy Komitet Żydowski Pomocy Ofiarom Wojny) continued to provide assistance to the Jewish victims of war and pogroms in the Vilna area. The EKOPO also played major role in the reconstruction of the Jewish communities of this region by providing funding to the local relief organizations, cultural, and educational organizations (known also as the Jewish Committee for Aid and Reconstruction).
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Minutes. Reports. Correspondence. Application forms.
- Extent
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98,010 digital images : JPEG ; 162.9 GB .
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in four series: 1. Minutes; 2. Financial records; 3. Correspondence. 4. Statistics, reports, individual membership forms, and miscellaneous documents.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Reproduction and publication of documents require permission of the Lithuanian Central State Archives.
- Copyright Holder
- Lietuvos centrinis valstybės archyvas
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1914-1918--Jews--Lithuania. World War, 1914-1918--Jews--Poland. World War, 1939-1945 Atrocities--Lithuania. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Lithuania--History--20th century. Jews--Lithuania--Vilnius--Social conditions--20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Lithuania. Jewish committees (ushmm) Holocaust Survivor -- Humanitarian assistance -- Associations, instititoins, etc. Christian communities.
- Geographic Name
- Lithuania--Economic conditions--1918- Lithuania--Ethnic relations--20th century. Lithuania--Politics and government--20th century. Vilnius (Lithuania) Russia Poland
- Corporate Name
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Lietuvos centrinis valstybės archyvas
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Lietuvos centrinis valstybės archyvas (Lithuanian Central State Archives), Fond. 347. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 2014.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-24 13:46:49
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn89487
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