The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Cyprus Operation, 1945-1949

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee 

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is the world’s leading Jewish humanitarian assistance organization. The JDC was founded in 1914 to assist Jewish persons in Palestine during World War I. The Holocaust and World War II caused the JDC to ramp up its relief efforts. With the end of the war in 1945, Jewish survivors were placed into hastily created displaced persons camps throughout Europe. Along with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), the JDC helped administer these camps and provide supplies. The JDC has aided millions of Jews in more than 85 countries. 

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Cyprus Operation, 1945-1949 

16,664 digital images, JPEG 19 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm 

Personal letters, petitions, and newspapers published by the deportees. Records contain accounts of the aid activities of the AJJDC in the British detainee camps, including correspondence with the British authorities, medical care, educational programs, welfare activity, immigration to Mandatory Palestine and Israel, and eyewitness accounts of conditions in the camps written by the AJJDC administration. It also consists of many documents related to activities of the British soldiers. 

Copyright Holder: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee 

Arranged in three series: 1. Administration; 2. Organization; 3. Subject Matters. The records in this collection have been digitized and are searchable online through the textual collections portal of the AJJDC Archives database.