American Relief Administration: Russian Operations

Identifier
23003
Language of Description
English
Dates
1919 - 1925
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI

Scope and Content

Records, 1919-1925; Correspondence, telegrams, memoranda, reports, agreements, minutes, histories, financial records, lists, press summaries, and photographs, relating to American relief in the Soviet Union following the Russian Civil War, and food and public health problems, agriculture, economic conditions, transportation and communications, and political and social developments, in the Soviet Union. Includes materials on interaction between the American Relief Administration and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

555 ms. boxes, 2 cu. ft. boxes, 2 oversize boxes

Archivist Note

Status: October 1980, revised most recently August 2016 by Agnes F. Peterson

Sources

  • The Hoover Institution Archives: Annotated list of archival materials relating to the Holocaust (Inclued materials relating to Jews, Jewish communities in various countries, Zionism, and antisemitism)

Rules and Conventions

EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0