Overview
- Description
- Records of AJJDC’s Stockholm office during the years 1941-1967. The majority of the materials focus on the Stockholm office’s activities during World War II and in the postwar period from 1944-1949. Included are records of the AJJDC’s collaborations with other organizations to assist survivors, such as its work with the Red Cross on the White Buses. This project, headed by Count Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish diplomat and then-president of the Swedish Red Cross, provided packages and medical care to survivors in concentration camps, as well as bringing concentration camp inmates to safety in Sweden during the last months of the war. AJJDC also cooperated with the local Swedish Jewish community, the Mosaiska Församlingen to assist Holocaust survivors who had arrived in Sweden from Denmark, Norway, Hungary, and concentration camps. After the war, AJJDC representatives in Stockholm arranged for shipments of supplies distributed by AJJDC offices to survivors in Germany, Poland and Austria. These were referred to as the "Felix Convoys", coordinated by Mrs. Kerstin Felix. AJJDC also provided care and maintenance for refugees with tuberculosis and other diseases who were sent to sanatoria in Sweden to recuperate. In addition, the Stockholm office also corresponded with Jewish communities in South America and South Africa who sought to send money and other aid to survivors, and with other Jewish communities requesting assistance, such as the Jewish community in Prague.
- Date
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inclusive:
1941-1967
- Collection Creator
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
- Biography
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The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is the world’s leading Jewish humanitarian assistance organization. The JDC was founded in 1914 to assist Jewish persons in Palestine during World War I. The Holocaust and World War II caused the JDC to ramp up its relief efforts. With the end of the war in 1945, Jewish survivors were placed into hastily created displaced persons camps throughout Europe. Along with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), the JDC helped administer these camps and provide supplies. The JDC has aided millions of Jews in more than 85 countries.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence. Memorandums. Telegrams. Posters.
- Extent
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14 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in six series: 1. Financial records, 1941, 1944-1946, 1958; 2. Correspondence, 1944-1947; 3. Memorandums to staff, 1946-1949; 4. Marcus Levin file, 1942-1943; 5. AJJDC’s Stockholm office- miscellaneous files, 1945-1947; 6. Miscellaneous correspondence with Swedish humanitarian organizations and other international organizations, 1958-1966 (mostly organized in alphabetical order).
The records in this collection have been digitized and are searchable online through the textual collections portal of the AJJDC Archives database.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. The collection is open to researchers with the exception of files that are restricted due to the nature of their contents. Restricted files can include legal files, personnel files, case files, and personal medical diagnoses, etc.: Reels 11-14 are restricted.
- Conditions on Use
- Copyright held by The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Inc. (AJDC). The publication of AJDC records in any format requires the written permission of the JDC Archives. Users must apply in writing for permission to reproduce or publish manuscript materials found in this collection. The USHMM Archives will not provide a reproduction of microfilm reels to any third party but researchers can make copies of individual documents. Researchers should give a credit to the AJDC Archives in Jerusalem when citing documents from the collection.
- Copyright Holder
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War (1939-1945)--Refugees--Sweden. World War, 1939-1945--Civilian relief--Germany. Emigration and immigration--Europe--History--20th century. Humanitarian assistance--Sweden--History--20th century. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Europe--History--20th century. Medical aspects of war--1940-1950. Refugees, Jewish--Europe--Registers. Tuberculosis--Europe--History. Holocaust survivors--Europe--Registers. Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945) Jewish communities (ushmm)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (Jerusalem, Israel). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received this collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in March 2016.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-24 13:46:49
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