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The Selma Wideroff papers consist of correspondence, reports, and photographs documenting Selma Wideroff’s work for the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in Germany from 1945‐1946 in the Bergen‐Belsen displaced persons camp and later at the Blankenese children's center on the Warburg Estate near Hamburg. Correspondence and reports include descriptions of Wideroff’s work in Europe, the use of the Warburg ...

Collection of documents, newspapers and correspondence concerning the Union Générale des Israélites de France [UGIF], for whom Leon Buchholz (donor's great uncle) worked during World War II. Included in the collection is almost a complete weekly newspaper series issued by the UGIF entitled "Bulletin," as well as correspondence received by the UGIF, unused stationary for the American Joint Distribution ...

Factory interiors, generally very dark. Light comes in though windows of a long room. Dark shots in a blacksmith shop as man demonstrates the use of a trip hammer.

Consists of one letter, written by Rabbi Dr. Jehiel Weinberg, undated but circa 1946, to Dr. Marcus Cohen in Basel, Switzerland. In the letter, Rabbi Weinberg, the pre-war principal of the Hildesheimer Seminary in Berlin, writes about the wartime loss of his private library and asks his friend whether the Joint Distribution Committee might be able to assist him in acquiring some Jewish books recovered ...

General views of men working in unidentified internment camp, tracking shot of men hoeing. Wounded men pose. Infirmary with wounded men (matches photo from Récébédou). Women moving into barracks (probably Rivesaltes). Women sewing and washing. CUs of faces. Mail distribution. Children peeling potatoes. Elderly men at camp, CUs. Elderly couples walking (maybe Rivesaltes). Eating in large dining room. ...

LS of hospital run by a German Jewish refugee doctor. An intertitle notes that over 112 refugee physicians were placed in Russia during 1935. MLS of electrical tractor being operated (devised by one of colonists). CU of Morris Troper talking to a man. More shots of the tractor at work.

Consists of correspondence, passports, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other documentation of the Nussbaum and Koch families of Luxembourg. Includes papers and photographs related to Albert Nussbaum, who had worked with refugees in Luxembourg before working for the Transmigration Bureay of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Lisbon, then emigrating to the Dominican Republic; and ...

An American Joint Distribution Committee Publication in memory of the Jewish Holocaust survivors of Berlin, Germany.

The Memoirs of Irene Arnold consist of a 71 page testimony in which she describes her childhood and upbringing in New York, work with the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) as part of a team sent to Lisbon under the auspices of the United States Committee for the Care of European Children (USCOM) in 1942, and postwar work with UNRRA in Europe.