Papers of Jacob Pat (Fond WAG 127)

Jacob Pat was a journalist, writer and activist born in Bialystok, Russian Empire, in 1890. He served as the General Secretary of the Jewish Labor Bund's Central Association of Yiddish Schools in Warsaw, Poland in the years preceding World War II. A fund-raising trip in the fall of 1938 brought Jacob Pat to the United States where he was compelled to remain due to the war. He then devoted his efforts to anti-Nazi activity and rescue work and became the Executive Secretary of the Jewish Labor Committee, a position he held until his retirement in 1963. He also served as a member of the Delegation of the Jewish Labor Bund to the U.S., and as a chairman of the Congress of Jewish Culture.

Source of acquisition is TheTamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, Fond WAG 127. The papers of Jacob Pat were donated to the The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives by his granddaughter, Rebecca Pat Cohen, in 1998. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archvies recieved the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Program in November, 2009.