The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Cyprus Operation, 1945-1949
Extent and Medium
16,664 digital images, JPEG
19 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
Creator(s)
- Linda Levi
Biographical History
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is the world’s leading Jewish humanitarian assistance organization. The JDC was founded in 1914 to assist Jewish persons in Palestine during World War I. The Holocaust and World War II caused the JDC to ramp up its relief efforts. With the end of the war in 1945, Jewish survivors were placed into hastily created displaced persons camps throughout Europe. Along with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), the JDC helped administer these camps and provide supplies. The JDC has aided millions of Jews in more than 85 countries.
Archival History
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Acquisition
Source of acquisition is the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (Jerusalem, Israel). The collection was transferred to Israel after the Cyprus camps were closed and stored in Petach Tikva, and later, in the early 1980s, to Jerusalem. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received this collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in March 2016.
Scope and Content
Personal letters, petitions, and newspapers published by the deportees. Records contain accounts of the aid activities of the AJJDC in the British detainee camps, including correspondence with the British authorities, medical care, educational programs, welfare activity, immigration to Mandatory Palestine and Israel, and eyewitness accounts of conditions in the camps written by the AJJDC administration. It also consists of many documents related to activities of the British soldiers.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in three series: 1. Administration; 2. Organization; 3. Subject Matters. The records in this collection have been digitized and are searchable online through the textual collections portal of the AJJDC Archives database.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
People
- Laub, Morris, 1909-
Corporate Bodies
- HIAS (Agency)
- Jewish Agency for Palestine
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
- Wizo
Subjects
- Refugee assistance groups (ushmm)
- Famagusta (Cyprus)
- Jewish Women -- Associations, institutions, etc.
- Jewish refugees--Cyprus--Registers.
- South Africa
- Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)
- Israel--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Cyprus
- Cyprus--History--British rule, 1878-1960.
- Humanitarian assistance--Cyprus--History--20th century.
- Emigration and immigration--Cyprus--History--20th century.
- Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--History--20th century.
- Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
- Holocaust survivors--Cyprus--Registers.
- Refugee camps--Cyprus.
- Nicosia (Cyprus)
- World War (1939-1945)--Refugees--Cyprus.
- Limassol (Cyprus)
- Jewish committees (ushmm)
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Cyprus--History--20th century.
- Cyprus--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
Genre
- Financial records.
- Statistics.
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Registers.
- Correspondence.
- Medical reports.
- Document