A body originally established to rescue rabbis and yeshivah students during World War II. Though originally focusing exclusively on rabbis and yeshivah students, it expanded its agenda to assist all Jews in the wake of the revelation of the Final Solution and became the representative relief agency of American Orthodox Jewry.
Vaad Hahatzalah (New York)
Founded in 1939 continued its activity until the early 1950s.
Vaad Ha-Hatzala, Efraim Zuroff (2nd ed.). Published by the Jewish Virtual Library https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0020_0_20275.html