IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 849
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad: reports on Jews and other displaced persons in Europe
Date(s): 1946-1947
Level of description: collection
Extent: 1 folder
Name of creator(s): Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad 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:
Reports of the Jewish Relief Unit and the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad (JCRA) by Jewish relief workers on the conditions of Jews and other displaced persons at the end of the Second World War, including report on the conditions of Greek Jewry during and after the war, with a statistical breakdown of the losses of the Jewish population in the various regions of Greece, Apr 1946; report by H O Joseph on the condition of Italian Jewry, Apr 1946; report by H O Joseph, 'visit to Austria, 6 Dec 1946- 18 Dec 1946' on the activities of the JCRA personnel, to ascertain whether any could be deployed elsewhere and to investigate the situation of displaced persons in camps in the American Zone, Dec 1946; report describing the condition of Jewish displaced persons in Austria, Jan 1947; report by H O Joseph describing the condition of Jews and displaced persons in Austria and correspondence to interested parties enclosing the above reports, 27 Jul 1946-9 Aug 1946.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Original 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:
Deposited by the author of some of the reports (possibly all), Mr H. O. Joseph, a former relief worker, Apr 1987.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
For other Wiener Library Document collections documenting the work of the Jewish Relief Unit and the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad see 'The Henriques Collection' (ref: WL MF 52) and Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and Jewish Relief Unit: organisational papers and documents from former members, (ref: WL 1232).
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Mar 2008