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American Joint Distribution Committee in Poland

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2007.256 | RG Number: RG-15.120M

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    Overview

    Description
    Contains 2,445 Polish- and English-language files of the American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) in Warsaw, including those of the Secretary’s Office and the Emigration, Individual Relief and Welfare, Tracing, Warehouses, Bookkeeping, Administration, and other departments or units. Contents reflect the AJDC’s main activities: rendering material assistance (e.g., food, medicine, clothing, tools) and funding organizations such as the Central Committee of Jews in Poland, the Bund, Zionist movements, youth associations, religious societies, and Hebrew schools.
    Date
    inclusive:  1945-1949
    Credit Line
    Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Reference
    Bauer, Y. Out of the Ashes. The Impact of American Jews on Post-Holocaust European Jewry. Oxford-Toronto, 1989. pages 71-82, 159-169;

    “Midrasz”, 2004, No 11 (91);

    Czerniaków, A. Dziennik Getta Warszawskiego 6 IX 1939-23 VII 1942, oprac. M. Fuks. Warszawa, 1983

    Epsztein, T. at al. Inwentarz American Joint Distribution Committee w Polsce. Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma: Warszawa, 2005.

    Physical Details

    Genre/Form
    Reports. Posters.
    Extent
    300,340 digital images : JPEG ; 123 GB.
    444 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
    84 digital images of posters : JPEG ; 102 MB.
    5 CDs.
    System of Arrangement
    The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved on the digital files. Arranged in 14 series: 1. Sekretariat; 2. Wydział Prawny; 3. Wydział Kontroli; 4. Wydział Poszukiwań; 5. Wydział Pomocy Indywidualnej; 6.Wydział Ziomkostw; 7. Wydział Emigracyjny; 8. Wydział Transportowy; 9. Wydział Transportowy w Gdyni; 10. Wydział Magazynów; 11. Wydział Buchalterii; 12. Wydział Gospodarczy (Aprowizacyjny); 13. Referat Aprowizacyjny; 14. Varia.

    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
    Publication or copying of more than several documents for a third party requires the permission of the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny imienia Emanuela Ringelbluma.

    Copyright Holder
    Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma

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    Administrative Notes

    Legal Status
    Permanent Collection
    Provenance
    Source of acquisition is the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma (ŻIH). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection from ŻIH via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Sep. and Nov. 2007. Additional records were transferred to the Archives in April and Nov. 2008 (Reels 210-345).
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    2023-08-24 13:46:44
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