us-005578-irn533286
type: RecordSet
archival history: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
conditions of use: Copyright Holder: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
has beginning date: 1937-01-01
has end date: 1949-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 2
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: heb
has or had some members with language: eng
has or had some members with language: tur
has or had some members with language: fra
has or had subject: 843
has or had subject: 006701
has or had subject: 005433
has or had subject: 42
has or had subject: 0
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn533286
record resource extent: 17 microfilm reels, 35 mm
record resource structure: Arranged in four series: 1. Administration; 2. Organizations; 3. Subject Matters; 4. Countries and Regions. The records in this collection have been digitized and are searchable online through the textual collections portal of the AJJDC Archives database.
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: Records include: correspondence with Jewish communities throughout Turkey, Romania, and Palestine; extensive documentation regarding shipments of food packages and other supplies to concentration camps such as Theresienstadt and Bergen-Belsen (including a postcard sent by Rabbi Leo Baeck, the renowned German scholar, from Theresienstadt acknowledging receipt of a AJJDC care package); cables and news releases; lists of survivors, including thousands of files from the Central Location Index; wartime testimonies; and correspondence regarding Joel Brand’s and Rudolf Kasztner’s negotiations in 1944 with Nazi officials in an attempt to save Hungarian Jews from deportation to Auschwitz. This collection also contains documentation on AJJDC's extensive support for refugees passing through Turkey en route to Palestine and to passengers on the SS Drottningholm, a rescue ship used for repatriation of civilians and prisoners of war; and eyewitness accounts, including an account of the sinking of the SS Mefkure, a rescue ship traveling from Romania to Palestine, by torpedoes in the Black Sea on August 5, 1944.
title: Records of the Istanbul Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1937-1949