ru-003203-772k
type: RecordSet
archivist note: Entry selected by Krzysztof Tyszka from the book “Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow. A guide to Jewish Historical and Cultural Collections in the Russian State Military Archive”, ed. by D. E. Fishman, M. Kupovetsky, V. Kuzelenkov
biographical history: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is an American Jewish charitable organization founded in November 1914 at the initiative of Jacob Schiff. The JDC was formed by uniting three American Jewish organizations: the American Jewish Relief Committee, the Central Relief Committee, and the People's Relief Committee. The organization's original title was the Joint Distribution Committee of American Funds for the Relief of Jewish War Sufferers; the name American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee was adopted in 1924. The JDC's aim is to provide material assistance to Jewish communities throughout the world. The European bureau of the JDC was created in late 1920 in Berlin, and was headed by Dr. Bernard Kahn. When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, the bureau was transferred to Paris. Kahn was responsible for JDC activities in Central and Eastern Europe, and the bureau supported medical care, schools and education, social welfare, loans, vocational training, and other services, particularly in Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Lithuania. After 1933, it provided relief to Jews in Nazi Germany. Upon Nazi Germany's invasion of France in 1940, the European bureau was evacuated to Angers and Bordeaux.
has or had script: Cyrl
has or had script: Hebr
has or had script: Latn
other finding aids: Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow. A guide to Jewish Historical and Cultural Collections in the Russian State Military Archive, ed. by D. E. Fishman, M. Kupovetsky, V. Kuzelenkov, Scranton - London 2010.
has beginning date: 1922
has creator: 347
has end date: 1941
has or had holder: ru-003203
has or had some members with language: rus
has or had some members with language: fra
has or had some members with language: yid
has or had some members with language: eng
has or had some members with language: heb
has or had some members with language: deu
has or had subject: 347
has or had title: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee European Executive Bureau
has or had title: Amerikanskii evreiskii ob"edinennyi komitet po raspredeleniiu fondov Dzhoint . Evropeiskoe ispolnitel noe biuro
has record set type: Collection
identifier: 772k
record resource extent: 685 files
scope and content: For the most part, the collection reflects the activities of the JDC European Executive Bureau in Paris during the period 1933-40. The collection includes the JDC charter (1931); accounts of JDC activities (1932-38); minutes of sessions of the presidium of the JDC executive committee in New York (1929-33, and 1938), of the JDC managing committee in New York (1937-38), and the JDC presidium and executive committee (1938); reports by members of its managing committee and board of directors (1938-39); minutes of the meeting of subsections of the European Executive Bureau in Paris (April 1935). Among subjects most discussed are these: the adoption of budget items for the fiscal year in question; Jewish emigration; and support for Jewish social, educational, religious, and commercial organizations. The collection also contains documents of the JDC's representative offices, and of organizations subordinate to the JDC, in Albania, Bulgaria, China, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Hungary, India, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Switzerland, Turkey, Yugoslavia, and countries of South America; and also of the United Jewish Appeal. These include lists and addresses of Jewish organizations and philanthropic societies active in these countries; financial statements and statistical reports of the German Jewish Aid Society (Hilfsverein), the Central Committee of German Jews for Relief and Reconstruction, the Reich Representation of Jews in Germany, the Committee to Aid Refugees in France, the Federation of Jewish Communities of France, the Brussels Committee to Aid Emigres, the Jewish Émigré Information Bureau in Basel, and the Geneva Job Placement Bureau for Learned Immigrants; information on the situation of the Jewish population and the activities of Jewish communities in Bombay, Genoa, Trieste, Bologna, Shanghai, Tangier, Zagreb, Durres, Sofia, Bucharest, and other cities, and on the activities of Jewish credi…
title: Американский еврейский объединенный комитет по распределению фондов (Джойнт). Европейское исполнительное бюро