Records of the Istanbul Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

• American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
• Administration
• angielski
• 91 files
• Aktualizacja: 5 lat(a) temu

This subcollection covers the years 1942-1947 and reflects the JDC Istanbul office's activities during World War II and in the immediate aftermath of the war: coordinating the shipping of relief supplies to wartime Europe; cooperating in rescue operations; and assisting with searches for Holocaust survivors. Of particular note are reports received from various Jewish communities in Iran, Iraq, Romania, and Yugoslavia. The files comprise correspondence, cable registers, invoices, and news releases.

• American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
• Countries and Regions
• angielski
• 59 files
• Aktualizacja: 5 lat(a) temu

These records detail the scope of the relationships between JDC's Istanbul office and refugees and survivors in Europe in the immediate aftermath of WWII. The files contain extensive information on the shipment of relief supplies, including shipping over 250,000 packages for Jewish refugees in Russia via Tehran; eyewitness accounts; inquiries regarding wartime rescue; and reports on JDC relief activities in Balkans, Romania, and Turkey, among other localities.

• American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
• Organizations
• angielski
• 24 files
• Aktualizacja: 5 lat(a) temu

This subcollection covers the years 1937-1949 (the majority of the materials date from 1942-1946) and details the relationships and collaborations among JDC Istanbul's office and other Jewish organizations, NGOs, and governmental agencies and personnel. The files contain correspondence, cables, invoices, names lists, and expenditure statements. Prominent correspondents include: the Jewish Agency for Palestine, whose rescue efforts were JDC-financed; the International Red Cross, under whose auspices JDC sent care packages to Jewish communities in Romania and Slovakia and to prisoners in the ...

• American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
• Subject Matter
• angielski
• 99 files
• Aktualizacja: 5 lat(a) temu

The bulk of this subcollection, which contains materials from 1942-1947, concerns the rescue and transportation of Jewish refugees during and after World War II from countries such as Bulgaria, Germany and Romania, as well as attempts to identify and locate survivors. The files contain lists of survivors, correspondence, shipping manifests, and cables. Additionally, these records contain substantial material on passengers on the SS Drottningholm, an exchange ship which carried Jews from concentration camps, including Buchenwald, and on the SS Mefkure, a rescue ship bombed and lost at sea in...