Records of the Jewish Relief Committee (Fond 505, Opis 1)

Identifier
irn36136
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2008.128
  • RG-31.074M
Dates
1 Jan 1918 - 31 Dec 1931
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • Hebrew
  • English
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

22,370 digital images, JPEG

35 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm

Archival History

T︠S︡entralʹnyĭ derz︠h︡avnyĭ istorychnyĭ arkhiv Ukraïny u Lʹvovi

Acquisition

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Source of acquisition is the T︠S︡entralʹnyĭ derz︠h︡avnyĭ istorychnyĭ arkhiv Ukraïny u Lʹvovi (State Central Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv), Fond 505, opis 1. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the State Central Historical Archives of Ukraine via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in September 2008.

Scope and Content

This collection includes bylaws, minutes of the meetings of the Executive Committee and its subcommittees, reports and statistical information, correspondence with Polish government offices and agencies, Jewish organizations (Joint, Jewish Colonization Society, Central offices of the Jewish communities in Warsaw), commercial shipping companies regarding transportation for immigrants leaving for Argentina, Northern America and Africa, as well as financial reports of the charitable (Gmilat Hesed) and coop organizations. The third and largest part of this collection consists of the records of the local branches of the committee (the committee had 14 local offices) related to the relief activities in Eastern Galicia, their correspondence files and various financial and statistical reports (organized in alphabetical order of localities). The Jewish Relief Committee (JRC) was established to provide immediate assistance to the victims of the Jewish pogroms in Lwów and the Eastern Galicia region during the political unrest of November 1918. Later, in the early 1920s, the Relief Committee widened its activities by providing general relief and assistance to the entire Jewish population of the region. The Committee's activities included financial, legal and housing assistance for poor and low-income members of the Jewish community as well as assistance in organizing soup kitchens, orphanages and in conducting emigration. In the late 1920s, the Relief Committee focused much of its efforts towards economic rehabilitation of the impoverished Jewish communities in Eastern Galicia by providing credits to small Jewish businesses and by organizing vocational and agricultural training.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: T︠S︡entralʹnyĭ derz︠h︡avnyĭ istorychnyĭ arkhiv Ukraïny u Lʹvovi

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