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Wiener Library

Jewish Relief Unit: Former members' collections


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1367

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Jewish Relief Unit: Former members' collections

Date(s): 1945-1984

Level of description: Collection level

Extent: 2 boxes

Name of creator(s): Wiener library

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.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of former members of the Jewish Relif Unit (JRU), 1945-1984. The bulk of the collections are from regular JRU volunteers and consist chiefly of copies of photographs and personal accounts. Notable collections include copies of the personal papers of Phyllis Gerson, the leader of the first Jewish Relief Unit sent to Egypt, Feb 1944, providing an account of the organisation and activities of the JRU units in Europe and original and contemporary copies of the papers of George Weis, former JRU legal adviser, documenting his involvement with post-war restitution claims, liaison between the JRU and the post-war occupying authorities and his efforts to resurrect the careers of Jewish lawyers in Germany who had survived the Holocaust.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The collections have been arranged alphabetically according to the name of the JRU volunteer. The papers have been arranged chronologically within each collection.

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:

The deposits were received by the Wiener Library mostly in 1984 as a result of an appeal made at a reunion of former JRU workers in October 1983.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Various

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

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: February 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