American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Herbert B. Ehrmann Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-94
Abstract
Contains correspondence, addresses and speeches, newspaper clippings, and published material relating primarily to Ehrmann's activity in the national and Boston chapter of the American Jewish Committee (1935-1970). Of special interest is material on the relation of the Committee to the American Jewish Conference (1943-1948), the relationship of American Jewry to the State of Israel, and the attitude of the Committee to the establishment of Israel. Also contains genealogical material, in...
Dates:
undated, 1913-1970
Samuel Gurvitz Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-352
Abstract
Samuel H. Gurvitz was the owner of New England Millworks in Dorchester, Massachusetts and a veteran of World War II. In 1936 and 1939, he visited Palestine, and the photographs from this trip are included in the collection. In 1939 Gurvitz visited Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, Vienna and Prague and witnessed firsthand how the political situation in Nazi Germany was impacting European Jews. His notes from these trips are also included in this collection.
Dates:
1934-1939
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- Berlin (Germany) 1
- Boston (Mass.) 1
- Budapest (Hungary) 1
- Charities 1
- Clippings (information artifacts) 1
- Contact sheets 1
- Correspondence 1
- Kristallnacht, 1938 -- Germany -- Berlin 1
- Newsletters 1
- Notes 1
- Obituaries 1
- Palestine 1
- Paris (France) 1
- Poetry 1
- Prague (Czech Republic) 1
- Refugees, Jewish -- Europe 1
- Reports 1
- Speeches (documents) 1
- Telegrams 1
- Theater programs 1
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Israel 1
- Vienna (Austria) 1
- Warsaw (Poland) 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
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