The Far Eastern Jewish Central Information Bureau (DALJEWCIB), Harbin-Shanghai.
Extent and Medium
210 files.
Creator(s)
- Far Eastern Jewish Central Information Bureau
Scope and Content
This fonds mainly contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, reports and notes. We find five series: the outgoing letters and cables sent to individuals and organisations (1918-1947), the letters and cables received from organisations and activists (1918-1938), general correspondence with various organisations (1935-1947), various documents such as lists of refugees, and a last series consisting of emigration applications (1938-1939). The Far Eastern Jewish Central Information Bureau corresponded notably with HICEM Brussels and the Service of Transmigration of the CARJ in Brussels in 1939 and 1940. This correspondence can be found in the file DAL/164 (totalling 808 pages).
Finding Aids
Inventory of the RI-41 (DAL) The Far Eastern Jewish Central Information Bureau (DALJEWCIB) Harbin-Shanghai 1918-1947, The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People Jerusalem (CAHJP), s.d.
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 & Pascale Falek
This archival description was created in the framework of the cooperation between EHRI and the Yerusha project.
Subjects
- refugees
- migration