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The collection consists of contracts signed by the Agro-Joint with the Soviet government for 1924, 1927, 1933, minutes of meetings of the main and field offices, correspondence with agencies, organizations and foreign firms on the purchase and delivery to the USSR of agricultural equipment and supplies; various reports on the work of agronomists in the Jewish settlers' villages, financial plans and ...

The documentation is from 1939-1950. Most of the documentation describes the activities of Saly Mayer as the (unofficial) representative of the JDC in Switzerland during World War II.Saly Mayer transferred JDC funds to persecuted Jews in Europe and Shanghai in different ways. He also distributed money for the care of the Jewish refugees in Switzerland. As part of his activities, he received information ...

P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
 
 The documentation is from 1939-1950.
 
 Most of the documentation describes the activities of Saly Mayer as the (unofficial) representative of the JDC in Switzerland during World ...

This collection documents JDC's global overseas operations in over 70 countries and regions in the immediate post-World War II (WWII) period from 1945 - 1954. These records testify to the complex and multi-faceted nature of JDC's worldwide rescue, relief, and rehabilitation initiatives from its headquarters in New York, which primarily focused upon: resettling and sustaining Jewish refugees and Holocaust ...

This incredibly rich archival fonds contains several hundreds of files relevant to the immediate post-war relief efforts of the JDC, and its support of Jewish organisations engaged in the reconstruction of the Belgian Jewish communities during the late 1940s - early 1950s. The fonds is divided into four main sections (‘subcollections’): Administration, Organisations, Subject Matter and Countries & ...

Pp. 17-170 recount the experiences of the author (b. 1914) under the Ustasha regime in his hometown Zagreb, and in Sarajevo and a succession of small towns and villages in Bosnia-Herzegovina. He survived thanks to a government program employing Jewish physicians; in 1944 he joined the partisans. Describes the fate of friends and relatives, many of whom perished in Jasenovac and other Ustasha concentration ...