American Council For Warsaw Jews Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 1041
Scope and Contents
Membership records. Organizational records, including some minutes, 1943. Memoir by Samuel Wohl, 1947 (Yiddish). Press releases, correspondence, resolutions.
Dates
- Creation: 1943 - 1947
Creator
- American Council for Warsaw Jews (Organization)
Biographical / Historical
Established in 1942 to "aid Jews in Warsaw and outlying cities; to give immediate aid to Warsaw Jews wherever they can be reached; to help the post-war reconstruction of the Warsaw Jewish community; to aid and centralize activities of Warsaw Jews in America." Sent delegates to Warsaw. Dissolved in the 1950s.
Extent
.25 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Yiddish
Geographic
Topical
- American Council of Warsaw Jews.
- Fraternal organizations -- United States
- Holocaust survivors -- Poland
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland
- Immigrants -- United States
- International relief -- Poland
- Jewish refugees -- Soviet Union
- Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw
- Jews -- United States -- Charities
- Jews -- United States -- Societies, etc.
- Jews, Polish -- United States -- Societies, etc.
- Landsmanshaftn -- United States.
- Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Poland
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Repository
