Records of the Central Relief Committee, Volume II.
Extent and Medium
ca. 34 l.m.
Creator(s)
- Central Committee for the Relief of Jews Suffering Through the War
Scope and Content
In this fonds, we firstly note box 105 folder 1 (years 1920-1940), containing an account book which lists appropriations to yeshivot and Talmud Torahs in several European countries, including Belgium. The series of correspondence with Europe, the Far East and Palestine/Israel contains two files relevant to Belgium. Box 224 folder 15 contains questionnaires and lists concerning Belgium, Lithuania and Romania (1938-1939). In box 225 folder 4 we find correspondence and receipts with regards to Yeshiva Etz Hayim in Heide (Antwerp), for the year 1939. Lastly, we point out that the inventory description of the series of reports (ca. 1928-1949) mentions the Aide aux Israélites Victimes de la Guerre, which was sponsored by the CRC after the Second World War. This series may therefore contain interesting information on the activities of the AIVG.
Finding Aids
S.Z. BERGER, R.S. KOHN, B. MARTIN, B.-Z. NIDERBERG & S. WEINSTEIN, An Inventory to the Records of the Central Relief Committee, Volume II, 1919-1958, 1999. See the Finding Aids Database of the Special Collections – Archives department on http://libfindaids.yu.edu:8082/xtf/search .
Process Info
The EHRI project, in cooperation with the National Archives of Belgium, selected Holocaust-relevant archival descriptions from the finding aid G. DESMET & P. FALEK-ALHADEFF, P.-A. TALLIER (dir.), Bronnen voor de geschiedenis van de Joden en het Jodendom in België (19de-20ste eeuw) - Sources pour l'histoire des populations juives et du judaïsme en Belgique (19e-20e siècles), Brussel, Algemeen Rijksarchief, 2015. Please note that this guide focuses on Belgium-related archival materials in the respective descriptions.
Gertjan Desmet
This archival description was created in the framework of the cooperation between EHRI and the Yerusha project.