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Records of HIAS-HICEM Main Office in Europe

Collection

Identifier: RG 245.5 (France I-IV)

Abstract

This collection, which is a sub-group of RG 245 HIAS, includes the records of the main HICEM office in Europe prior to and during World War II. There are also some records from the post-war period relating to the dissolution of HICEM, HIAS’s taking over of HICEM’s operations and HIAS’s work with displaced persons.

Dates: 1924-1953; Majority of material found within 1935-1953

Found in: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Records of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Landsmanshaftn Department

Collection

Identifier: RG 335.7

Abstract

This collection contains mainly correspondence between staff of the JDC Landsmanshaftn Department and members of various landsmanshaftn, benevolent organizations of immigrants originally from the same communities, as well as between the Landsmanshaftn Department and the interest-free loan associations (gmilas khesed societies) and heads of the various Jewish communities, mostly in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Dates: 1926-1950; Majority of material found within 1937-1939; Majority of material found within 1945-1949

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Records of HIAS-HICEM Main Office in Europe

Records of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Landsmanshaftn Department

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