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Collection of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee - AJDC in the Netherlands, 1934-1944
 
 The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, known as the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee - AJDC, was established in the United States in 1914 in order to help the victims of World War I; the head office is located in New York;
 
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Personal letters, petitions, and newspapers published by the deportees. Records contain accounts of the aid activities of the AJJDC in the British detainee camps, including correspondence with the British authorities, medical care, educational programs, welfare activity, immigration to Mandatory Palestine and Israel, and eyewitness accounts of conditions in the camps written by the AJJDC administration. ...

Ministerie van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid: Repatriëring > Archief van de Regeringscommissaris voor Repatrieering, 1943-1945 > repatriëring van Joodse Nederlanders > Correspondentie met het "American Joint Distribution Committee" betreffende het overmaken van gelden ten behoeve van gedeporteerde Joodse Nederlanders,

Consists a letter relating to Oscar Schindler's rescuing of Jews, and about his postwar financial condition.

H.J. de Vries > Voorbereiding opleiding KL in Australië > Overzicht getiteld 'Draft suggested distribution of Dutch Forces based on Australia' met aantallen en inzet van personeel, [1944]

Repatriation of Russian POWs in Bari and Florence, Italy. Reel 2: Bari: Russian guard, standing at entrance to company street, wearing helmet with USSR emblem, holding rifle, bayonet, and snapping to attention. CU USSR armband. Trucks loaded with Russians pulling into the camp, forming double line. American officer directing men in sign language and in German. POWs receiving blankets and mess kits. ...

Contains records of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJJDC) offices in Geneva, Stockholm and Istanbul and odd files of the offices in Lisbon, Brussels and Barcelona. Most of the records consist of correspondence of various JDC offices with other international Jewish and non-Jewish organizations, and with local Jewish communities and organizations, concerning post-war rehabilitation ...

SHAEF mission to the Netherlands Government / British military mission to the Netherlands Government > Instructies en verslagen SHAEF/British Military Mission en 21 Army Group > Instructie '21 Army Group, administrative instruction no. 87, "Supply and distribution of P.O.L. in liberated countries for essential civilian requirements", maart 1945

A set of the digital files is also held by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC.

The Cyprus Collection of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJJDC) offers a unique window into a pivotal period of 20th-century history by documenting the dramatic events in Cyprus against the backdrop of the birth of the State of Israel. Beginning in August 1946, the British government began deporting Jews who came to Palestine in violation of the White Paper of 1939 to the island of ...