us-004484-wag 025 001
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-cb/003635
date: 1934 - 1947
archivist note: Entry added by EHRI based on online information from The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives.
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1947-12-31
scope and content: In “Series III: Foreign Countries” we find a series of files containing “mixed materials” on Belgium. See box 29, folders 9-15, corresponding to microfilm reels nrs. 77 and 78. The files are dated ca. 1940-1947. “Subseries V:C: Addendum” also holds a file on Belgium (1946) – see box 53B, folder nr. 6 (microfilm reel 167).
type: RecordSet
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1934-01-01
record resource extent: 55.0 linear feet (55 boxes)
other finding aids: A detailed finding aid is available online at http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/wag_025_001/index.html .
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1947-01-01
has or had holder: us-004484
has record set type: Fonds
identifier: WAG.025.001
title: Jewish Labor Committee Records, Part I: Holocaust Era Files.
record resource extent: 55 boxes (ca. 16,5 l.m.).
has creator: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-cb/003635
title: Jewish Labor Committee (U.S.) Records, Part I: Holocaust Era Files
scope and content: The Jewish Labor Committee, an umbrella group of Jewish or Jewish-led trade unions and fraternal organizations, was founded in New York City in 1934. Its primary purposes were to organize anti-Nazi and anti-fascist activity and to provide assistance to European Jews and others persecuted by these movements. During World War II, it maintained close ties with European resistance movements and was able to effect the rescue of hundreds of labor and socialist activists and their families. After the War, it helped to reunite families and resettle survivors. The original donation of JLC records to NYU included more than 800 linear feet of material. This guide describes the first portion of the JLC records; included are general administrative records for the Committee’s earliest years as well as files documenting anti-Nazi activity (including relations with other Jewish organizations), rescue and aid activities, and overseas work in general. Most documentation of the JLC’s domestic anti-discrimination work, which increased in intensity in the post-war years, is included in later series.