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  • Immigration Division

    1. ARA
    2. World Jewish Congress
    3. Relief and Rescue Departments

    Includes correspondence and reports of Ellen Hilb, Milka Fuchs, and Kurt R. Grossman. The majority of the material deals with applications and affidavits for individual immigration cases, especially for entry into the United States. Box D14. Folder 4. Grossman, Kurt R., 1947-1949 Box D14. Folder 5. Information sheets, no. 1-7, 1947 Box D14. Folder 6. Emergency visa correspondence, 1948 Box D14. Folder 7. Opportunities to Latin America, 1941-1946 Box D14. Folder 8. Hospital of Immigration, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1941-1942 Box D14. Folder 9. United States, Department of State, 1940-1944 Box...

  • Location Service

    1. ARA
    2. World Jewish Congress
    3. Relief and Rescue Departments

    The Location Service files include lists of survivors, known dead, and inmates of concentration and refugee camps. The subseries also contains correspondence, reports, and other materials pertaining to displaced persons camps and survivors after the war. Box D46. Folder 1. Displaced persons location index, lists, memos, releases, 1942-1946 Box D46. Folder 2. Location service activity reports by Finkelstein, Chaim, 1943-1948 Box D46. Folder 3. Central roster, central registration, 1943-1945 Box D46. Folder 4. Central Location Index, 1944-1946 Box D46. Folder 5. American Red Cross, Washington...

  • Child Care Division

    1. ARA
    2. World Jewish Congress
    3. Relief and Rescue Departments

    Box D71. Folder 1. Rescue, 1942-1944 May Box D71. Folder 2. Rescue, 1944 June-1946 February Box D71. Folder 3. Gutman, William, report on destitute children, 1945 May Box D71. Folder 4. Rescue of children in France, reports by Riegner, Gerhart M., and list of children, 1945 Box D71. Folder 5. Jewish children in Christian homes, Poland, Besserman case, 1945-1950 Box D71. Folder 6. Jewish children in non-Jewish homes, 1945-1953 Box D71. Folder 7. Correspondence, 1945-1946 Box D71. Folder 8. Minutes, agendas, correspondence, reports, lists, 1945-1948 Box D71. Folder 9. Correspondence and minut...

  • Committee for Overseas Relief Supplies

    1. ARA
    2. World Jewish Congress
    3. Relief and Rescue Departments

    Box D83. Folder 1. Reports, letters, memos, 1945 Box D83. Folder 2. Reports, letters, memos, 1946 January-March Box D83. Folder 3. Reports, letters, memos, 1946 April-June Box D83. Folder 4. Reports, letters, memos, 1946 July-October Box D83. Folder 5. Reports, letters, memos, 1946 November-December Box D83. Folder 6. Reports, letters, memos, 1947 Box D83. Folder 7. Overseas Guide #1, 1947 December Box D83. Folder 8. Guide of the Committee for Overseas Relief Supplies, no. 1-5, 1946-1946 Box D83. Folder 9. Committee for Overseas Relief Supplies in Action, 1946 May Box D83. Folder 10. Relief...

  • Advisory Council on European Jewish Affairs

    1. ARA
    2. World Jewish Congress
    3. Relief and Rescue Departments

    Box D92. Folder 5. Reports, releases, speeches, 1942 June 6-7 Box D92. Folder 6. Press releases, 1942 May 25-June 8 Box D92. Folder 7. Correspondence, 1942 June Box D92. Folder 8. Originals of speeches, 1942 June Box D92. Folder 9. Reports, 1942 June Box D92. Folder 10. Pre-conference lists of Jewish Representative Committees, 1942 March Box D92. Folder 11. Acceptances for the conference, 1942 May Box D92. Folder 12. Guest list, Spring, 1942 Box D92. Folder 13. Messages, 1942 May-June Box D92. Folder 14. Set of documents, 1942 Box D93. Folder 1. Minutes, 1942-1943 Box D93. Folder 2. Stateme...

  • Rescue Department

    1. ARA
    2. World Jewish Congress
    3. Relief and Rescue Departments

    Included are files of Aryeh L. Kubowitzki and Rudolf Glanz, together with inquiries and locations concerning missing Jews and records of rescue work in post-war Europe. Box D104. Folder 1. List of incoming mail and cables, 1944 July 21-November 9 Box D104. Folder 2. Kubowitzki, Aryeh L., 1944-1946 Box D104. Folder 3. Rescue Committee minutes, 1944-1945 Box D104. Folder 4. Sephardic communities correspondence, 1942-1943 Box D104. Folder 5. Women's Institute of Jewish Studies, 1943 December-1944 February Box D104. Folder 6. Peace Aims Planning Committee, 1941-1944 Box D104. Folder 7. Post-war...

  • Executive Files

    1. ARA
    2. World Jewish Congress
    3. Relief and Rescue Departments

    Consists of correspondence of the Relief Department (and includes some material related to the Rescue Department) along with files of the Relief Committee, Arieh Tartakower, Kalman Stein, and Kurt R. Grossman. Also included are files from the Courses on Jewish Social Work, a training program for social workers planning to help displaced Jews in Europe that was sponsored by the WJC in 1945. Box D1. Folder 1. World Jewish Congress, relief work, reports and drafts, 1939-1941 Box D1. Folder 2. World Jewish Congress, relief work, memos and reports, 1942-1943 Box D1. Folder 3. World Jewish Congre...