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1. Roswell and Marjorie McClelland papers
2014.500.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 32
Document | Accession Number: 2014.500.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1995
bulk: 1940-1945
…, German, Italian and American literature, graduating with a BA from Duke University in 1936 and an MA from Columbia University in 1940. During his studies…
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 … unpublished chapter in the history of the deportation of foreign Jews from France in 1942” which was written by Roswell McClelland. The American Friends Service…
2. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC), Kaunas office (Fond 1236)
Document | Accession Number: 2015.71 | RG Number: RG-26.059
Date:
creation: 1923-1940
…American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC), Kaunas office (Fond 1236)…
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 … digital files. Arranged in one series: 1. Financial records. Indexing terms American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas--History…
3. Selected records from the State Archives of the Republic of Cyprus related to the Jewish emigration
Document | Accession Number: 2017.40.1 | RG Number: RG-85.001
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1949
… detention camp in Palestine, and some to Mauritius. The British held as many as 50,000 people in these camps (see Jews in British camps on Cyprus). Over 1…
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 … Jewish legal and illegal emigration to Cyprus, internment camps for Jews who had immigrated or attempted to immigrate to Mandatory Palestine in violation…
4. Shanghai Volunteer Corps nightstick issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.274 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.274
Date:
issue: 1940-1941
… separation of Jews and non-Jews. Ernst was expelled from school, and his parents were forced to sell their hotel to non-Jews. Ernst began attending trade…
5. Selected records from collections of the Suceava branch of the Romanian National Archive
Document | Accession Number: 2007.135 | RG Number: RG-25.045M
Date:
inclusive: 1833-1950
bulk: 1938-1946
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… against Jews, standards for qualifying for Romanian citizenship, denaturalization, and evacuation of Jews from rural areas, internment of Jews in camps…
6. Selected records related to the history of the Jewish community of Plovdiv
Document | Accession Number: 2016.190.1 | RG Number: RG-46.065
Date:
inclusive: 1906-1957
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… and rural municipal governments in the county; mutual and voluntary exodus of Greeks, Turks, Vlachs and Jews, deserters in the Romanian and Turkish army…
7. Selected records from the Central State Archive of St. Petersburg, Russia
Document | Accession Number: 2013.109 | RG Number: RG-22.041
Date:
inclusive: 1917-1945
inclusive: 1917-1947
…, Kiev, Odessa, distribution of parcels among Jewish schools, children's homes, individuals, medical assistance, resettlement of Jews, OZET Charter (1932…
8. Archives of the Jewish Community Thessaloniki (RI-33)
Document | Accession Number: 2015.348.1 | RG Number: RG-68.187M
Date:
inclusive: 1882-1941
…American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee…
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 …. Indexing terms Corporate Name: Alliance israélite universelle. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Bikur Holim. Jewish National Fund…
9. Langer family papers
2017.616.1 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2017.616.1
Date:
inclusive: 1906-2009
… war, Robert worked for the American Joint Jewish Distribution Committee. In 1948 he received a student visa and scholarship funded by industrialist…
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 …. Jordan, Charles, 1908-1967. Corporate: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Topical Subject: Jews--Austria--Vienna. Jewish refugees--China…
10. Selected records from the Romanian Information Service
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0018 | RG Number: RG-25.004M
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1984
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Reports, lists, orders, correspondence, court documents, and testimonies relating to the surveillance of Romanian Jews (including Chief Rabbi Moses…
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 … Jews and Polish refugees. 1942. 44 p 2. SSI reports on the Jewish community and on the American Embassy. 1941. 15 p 5. SSI (?) reports on Jews…
11. Peter Feigl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.59
Date:
inclusive: circa 1899-2012
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…, and Peter and Agnes found housing in Auch (Gers). Agnes found employment with a refugee agency also jointly operated by the American Friends Service…
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 …, immigration to the United States, memorials to the deportations of Jews from France at Drancy, and the work of the American Friends Service Committee with…
12. Personal case files from the Australian Jewish Welfare Society, Sydney
Document | Accession Number: 2016.406.1 | RG Number: RG-69.012
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1960
…Welfare organization conceived in 1935 in response to persecution of Jews in Europe, which launched an appeal to save German Jewry through migration…
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 … American Journalist AJWS U.S.A. X00567 c.1950 2 Engelman Marcel Married 26 March 1925 Hungarian textiloe worker, leather worker AJWS Victoria France X00568 6…
13. Shanghai Volunteer Corps badge issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.272 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.272
Date:
issue: 1940-1941
… separation of Jews and non-Jews. Ernst was expelled from school, and his parents were forced to sell their hotel to non-Jews. Ernst began attending trade…
14. Konsulat Generalny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Nowym Jorku (Sygn.493)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.71.1 | RG Number: RG-15.524
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1945
Alternate Title:
Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Consulate General in New York
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…American Federation for Polish Jews…
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 …. Federation of Polish Jews in America. American Jewish Joint Distributions Committee. American ORT Federation. Genre/Form: Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc…
15. Regierung des Generalgouvernements (Sygn. 111)
Document | Accession Number: 2016.345.1 | RG Number: RG-15.493
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
Alternate Title:
Rząd Generalnego Gubernatorstwa
General Government
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… the list of books owned by Jews and transferred to the National Library in Krakow, 1939-1944, (File 422/1-573), 2. The Department of Labor…
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 …; registry books of the Jewish population in the districts of Krakow, Radom, Warsaw, and Lublin; and the list of books owned by Jews and http://collections…
16. Norman Bentwich collection (P174)
Document | Accession Number: 2016.150.1 | RG Number: RG-68.193
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1943
… Vluchtelingen, Amsterdam, the Comité voor Bijzondere Joodsche Belangen, Amsterdam, the American Jewish Joint Agricultural Corporation, the Comité Allemand, Paris…
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 …, London, the Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen, Amsterdam, the Comité voor Bijzondere Joodsche Belangen, Amsterdam, the American Jewish Joint…
17. Margaret Anne Goldsmith Hanaw collection
1995.A.0106 Box 4 Folder 11 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0106 | RG Number: RG-10.237
Date:
inclusive: 1874-1986
bulk: 1937-1954
… American soldier, Melvin Jacobs (1916-1999) from Utica, New York. Soon after, Helene moved to Utica, New York. Siegfried Levi died in Algeria in 1946…
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 … his activity with the United Jewish Appeal in Alabama from 1939-1954, as well as documents relating to Oscar Goldsmith’s involvement in the American…
18. Cantor’s black tufted hat worn by a Hungarian rabbi
1990.245.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.7
Date:
use: after 1922-before 1952
… later, the occupation authorities decreed that all Jews six years and older were required to wear a yellow Star of David. Eva could no longer attend…
19. Leather suitcase used by a German Jewish boy while on a refugee transport
Object | Accession Number: 2016.553.2 a-c
Date:
use: 1939 March 08-1941
… them of their political rights, barred them from many professions, forbid marriage between Jews and non-Jews, and banned the kosher slaughter of animals…
20. Comunitati Evreiesti din Romana
Document | Accession Number: 2015.283 | RG Number: RG-25.098M
Date:
inclusive: 1818-1940
Alternate Title:
Jewish Community of Romania
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… camps in Transnistria, Germany, and Poland, and aid activities to Jews by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, or other Jewish organizations…