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Jewish Relief Unit: Personnel files


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1407

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Jewish Relief Unit: Personnel files

Date(s): 1940s-1950s

Level of description: Collection level

Extent: 5 boxes

Name of creator(s): Jewish Relief Unit

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Jewish Relief Unit was the operational arm of the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad, which was formed in 1943 by the Joint Foreign Committee of the Board of Deputies and the Anglo-Jewish Association and under the auspices and financial responsibility of the Central British Fund for Jewish Relief and Rehabilitation. This organisation, which was based in Great Britain, provided support and assistance of all kinds to Jewish Displaced Persons in the aftermath of the war in Germany.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Personnel files of former Jewish Relief Unit volunteers including reports of their activities.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Alphabetical

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Jewish Relief Unit

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

MF Doc 27 Archives of the Central British Fund: Reel 23; File 123: JCRA Organisational Notes and Meetings, 1943-1949; File 124: Report on Communities and Camps, 1944-1949; Reel 24 File 129: JRU Reports by Henry Lunzer and Rose Henriques; File 131: Rose Henriques news bulletins, February-October 1947; File 132: Rose Henriques reports re visits to Germany, 1945-1948; File 133: Field Workers, 1947-1948l; File 137: JRU Morris Feinmann, 1891-1944; File 148: Sample and Agreement between volunteers accepted and JCRA, 1945-1949; Reel 26 File 149: JRU news letters; File 150: JRU personnel activity, 1947-1949; File 152: Finance Committee extracted minutes re members of JRU. Also see WL Doc 1367 for collection of material from former JRU members.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: March 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Associations | Organizations
Jews | Religious groups
Refugees | Migrants
Volunteers | Social work
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

Personal names

Corporate names
Jewish Relief Unit

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe