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Czechoslovak Jewish Relief organisations: Correspondence and papers

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 555

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Czechoslovak Jewish Relief organisations: Correspondence and papers

Date(s): 1945-1947

Level of description: Collection level (fonds)

Extent: c 310 frames

Name of creator(s): Various

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Unknown

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Correspondence and papers relating to relief work for Jews in post war Czechoslovakia, 1939-1947, including a memo from the Council of Jewish Communities in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia regarding the status of Jews in Czechoslovakia [1947]; a report on the situation of Jews in Czechoslovakia by the Jewish chaplain for the Czech forces, England, 24 May 1945 and official guarantee forms for entry into Great Britain, [1939]. Papers from the following organisations: American Joint Distribution Committee; Association of Rabbis and Scholars in Eastern Europe; British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia; Central Board of Jews in Bohemia and Moravia and Silesia; Central British Fund for Jewish Relief and Rehabilitation; Chizuk Hadass Committee; Council of Jewish Committees in Bohemia and Moravia and Silesia; Emergency Council for Help for the Children of Czechoslovakia; Jewish Agency for Palestine; Jewish Telegraph Agency; Relief Committee of Jews from Czechoslovakia; Union of Jewish Communities in Slovakia in Bratislava and World Union of Jewish Students.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English, some German and Czech.

System of arrangement:

The papers have been arranged and filmed in reverse chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

Finding aids:

Detailed description on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Jewish Central Information Office

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

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: Mar 2008

INDEX ENTRIES

Subjects
Charities | Charitable organisations | Associations | Organizations
Emigration | Migration
Jews | Religious groups
Refugees | Migrants
Third Reich | Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Nonprofit organizations

Personal names

Corporate names
American Joint Distribution Committee
Association of Rabbis and Scholars in Eastern Europe
British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia
Central Board of Jews in Bohemia and Moravia and Silesia
Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief x World Jewish Relief x Central British Fund for German Jewry x Council for German Jewry x Central Council for Jewish Refugees x Central British Fund for Jewish Relief and Rehabilitation
Chizuk Hadass Committee
Council of Jewish Committees in Bohemia and Moravia and Silesia
Emergency Council for Help for the Children of Czechoslovakia
Jewish Agency for Palestine
Jewish Telegraph Agency
Relief Committee of Jews from Czechoslovakia
Union of Jewish Communities in Slovakia in Bratislava
World Union of Jewish Students

Places
Czechoslovakia | Eastern Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe