Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad: reports on Jews and other displaced persons in Europe

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1556 WL 849
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: 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 & 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

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).

Publication note:

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