Overview
- Description
- Records of the Kehillat Haharedim (Association des Israelites Pratiquants. Association of Orthodox Jews). Consist of correspondence, letters, list of refugees and internees, lists of students, lists of members of Kehillat Haharedim in Paris, bulletin of the organization, financial records, questionnaires, statistical reports, and minutes. Most of records constitute of correspondence with children's homes, internees of camps, rabbis, with the organizations as: the Union générale des israélites de France (UGIF), Hias-Ica Emigration Association (HICEM), World Union OSE (OSE), Federation de Societes Juives de France, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC), Comite d'Aide Immediate aux Deportes et Victimes de la Guerre, and branches of the Kehillat Haharedim in Moirans, Toulouse, Marseilles.
The records relate to the Kehillat Haharedim's activities during and after the World War II, including providing relief work in the camps, sending clothes and religious articles, organizing vocational courses such as tailoring, rescuing Jewish children, organizing Kehillat Haharedim school in Paris, sending relief packages of kosher food, organizing relief projects for Nazi victims. - Alternate Title
- Association des Israelites Pratiquants. Association of Orthodox Jews
- Date
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inclusive:
1939-1947
- Collection Creator
- Kehillat Haharedim (France)
- Biography
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Association des Israelites Pratiquants. Association of Orthodox Jews (Kehillat Haharedim) was organized in 1936 by Rabbi Schneur Zalmen Schneersohn (Chneerson), to conduct religious and educational activities throughout France. During the German occupation, the organization engaged in underground activities, rescuing and supporting Jews, especially children. Originally centered in Paris, its headquarters were moved to Marseilles in 1940, to Demu in 1942 and to St. Etienne-de-Crossey in 1943.
After the war, the organization concerned itself chiefly with searching for children hidden in Christian homes throughout the French countryside and with working for their return to a Jewish environment. A questionnaire was distributed by the Kehillat Haharedim to numerous municipalities in France, inquiring about the existence of Jewish children and expressing the organization's willingness to take custody of such children and to provide for them.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Bulletins. Correspondence. Financial records. Minutes. Questionnaires. Registers. Reports. Statistics.
- Extent
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28,060 digital images : JPEG ; 22.6 GB.
21 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in 11 series: 1. General Administrative Records, 1936-1944; 2. Child Care and Maisons d'Enfants, 1941-1945; 3. Correspondence with Internees and Refugees in Concentration and Labor Camps in the Unoccupied Zone, 1940-1946; 4.Correspondence about Various Matters, 1939-1946; 5. Finances, 1940-1944; 6. Post-War Location and Care for Saved Children, 1944-1947; 7. Maisons d'Enfants, Schools, and Other Post-War Activities to Benefit Children and Youths, 1944-1950; 8. General Religious Activities, 1936, 1944-1947; 9. Kashrut and Orthodox Burials, 1941, 1945-1947; 10. Victims of Nazism, 1944-1947; 11. Correspondence with Organizations about Post-War Aid, 1944-1949.
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- 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
- For scholarly use only, no reproduction without permission. Files shall not be copied or shared in any way with another individual or institution. Information on these files of a personal or confidential nature shall not be shared with third parties, neither through hard copy printouts nor by making copied files. For permission to reproduce documents write to the Chief Archivist, YIVO Archives at: reference@yivo.org.
- Copyright Holder
- Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--France. World War, 1939-1945--Refugees. Jewish children in the Holocaust--France. Children--Nazi persecution--France. War relief--France--History--20th century. Hidden children (Holocaust) France. Jewish orphanages--France--History--20th century. Jewish refugees--France--History--20th century. Jewish religious schools--France--History--20th century. Judaism--Customs and practices--France. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France. Research institutes Humaniatarian assistance
- Geographic Name
- Europe--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century. Gers (France) Isere (France) Le Vernet (France)Marseille (France) Marseilles (France) Moirans (France) Nice (France) Paris (France) Rivesaltes (France) Saint-Etienne-de-Crossey (France) Toulouse (France) France.
- Personal Name
- Schneersohn, Schneour Zalman, 1898-1980.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO), RG-340. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from YIVO via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Sept. 2017.
This collection is a part of the Museum joint project (YIVO and USHMM) to film the Holocaust related records kept at YIVO archives in NYC.
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- 2023-08-25 09:39:53
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