Jewish Refugees Committee, Leeds: correspondence and papers (microfilm)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1556 WL 599
Held at	: Wiener Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/ ›
Full title	: Jewish Refugees Committee, Leeds: correspondence and papers (microfilm)
Date(s)	: 1938-1939
Level of description	: collection
Extent	: 640 frames
Name of creator(s)	: Jewish Refugee Committee, Leeds

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Jewish Refugees Committee, later the German Jewish Aid Committee, was founded in the early months of 1933 by Otto Schiff under the aegis of the Central British Fund for the Relief of German Jewry. Its tasks were to arrange for the admission of refugees to Britain, their maintenance, training, employment or re-migration. A number of provincial committees were formed to deal with issues regarding Jewish refugees in these areas. The Leeds office trainee department was supervised by David Makovski.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Correspondence and papers of the Leeds office of the Jewish Refugee Committee, 1938-1939, comprising letters from local businesses regarding the recruitment of trainees/ refugees and letters from family members and guardians.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Filmed in no apparent order.

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

Finding aids:

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

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Jewish Central Information Office

Allied Materials

Related material:

MF Doc 27 Archives of the Central British Fund for the Relief of German Jewry (74 reels).

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:
November 2007