Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and Jewish Relief Unit: papers

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1556 WL 1232
Held at	: Wiener Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/ ›
Full title	: Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and Jewish Relief Unit: papers
Date(s)	: 1942-1948
Level of description	: collection
Extent	: 4 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad

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 the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad (JCRA) and the Jewish Relief Unit (JRU) including volume of original signed minutes of the JCRA; reports from individual JRU members covering a wide variety of JRU activities in various countries and 6 bundles of apparently original lists of Mauthausen Concentration Camp inmates.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Chronological by material type.

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:

Central British Fund for Jewish Relief and Rehabilitation

Allied Materials

Related material:

See WL 'Henriques Archive' (MF 52); WL MF Doc 27 Records of the CBF; ref: 1367

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:
January 2008