James G. McDonald collection
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 by Barbara McDonald Stewart. An accretion of additional material was added to the collection in 2017 by Vail Barrett.
Scope and Content
The James G. McDonald collection consists of diary entries, correspondence, subject files, photographs, and printed materials documenting McDonald's work as chair of the Foreign Policy Association, League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from Germany, chairman of President Roosevelt's Advisory Committee on Political Refugees, member of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Jewish Problems in Palestine and Europe, U.S. Special Representative to the Jewish State, and U.S. Ambassador to Israel. The collection also includes a name plate for Ambassador McDonald and a bible presented to him by Chaim Weizmann.
Genre
- Collection