Morton Adell collection

Identifier
irn713650
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2020.9.1
  • 2020.308
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn713650

Extent and Medium

folders

3

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Louie (Alice) Adell

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2020 by Louise (Alice) Adell, daughter of Morton Adell.

Scope and Content

Photos and documents of Morton Adell, Regional Director of Northern Greece for the American Joint Distribution Committee in the years immediately after World War II. Includes photographs of the desecration of the Salonika Jewish cemetery; images of a postwar children's Chanukah party; letters; and a JDC report entited "Jewish Education in Greece," by Alfred Cohen, dated October 1946.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Ms. Alice Adell

Corporate Bodies

  • United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
  • American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

Subjects

  • Thessalonikē (Greece)
  • Greece.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.