Relief and Rescue Departments

Relief and Rescue Departments 

Relief and Rescue Departments 

46.4 linear feet (116 Hollinger boxes) 

Contains files of WJC departments engaged in relief and rescue work. The series includes files from the Relief Department, Department of European Jewish Affairs, Rescue Department, and Relief and Rehabilitation Department. Files of the Secretary-General of the WJC are included among the files of the Rescue Department director, since Aryeh L. Kubowitzki fulfilled both positions. In the WJC collection, rescue materials were often found interfiled with general Relief Department files. Since the Rescue and Relief Departments were closely related in function and were merged in 1945, the materials of the two were combined into one series. Series D deals with political, material, and social relief and rescue activities, location of survivors, immigration and migration, refugees, displaced persons, extermination and reaction to Hitler's Final Solution, and relations with international relief organizations (including the UNRRA and Red Cross). Throughout the second world war, the relief and rescue departments at the New York office maintained contact with WJC relief and rescue workers in Europe, especially via WJC offices in London, Stockholm, Geneva, and Lisbon. 

This series is divided into seven subseries:1. Executive Files; 2. Immigration Division; 3. Location Service; 4. Child Care Division; 5. Committee for Overseas Relief Supplies; 6. Advisory Council on European Jewish Affairs; 7. Rescue Department.