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2 Lithuanian Jewish Communities Communal records of towns and cities in Lithuania during period of Jewish National Autonomy

6 Siegfried Bernfeld Papers Jewish youth movement in Austria

10 Vilna Jewish Community Council Jewish communal records, 19th-20th centuries

12 Minsk Jewish Community Council Jewish communal records, 19th-20th centuries 80-89 Elias Tcherikower Archives See individual record groups below 80 Mizrakh Yidisher Historisher Arkhiv Pogroms in the Ukraine, 1918-1920 81 Tcherikower, Elias, Papers Tcherikower’s scholarly works and correspondence, trials and pogroms 82 YIVO Institute, Vilna (Tcherikower Archive) Files of the founding of YIVO, Historical Section 83 Ratner, Marc. Papers SERP –Jewish Socialist Workers’ Party in Russia, turn of 20th c. 84 Vinawer, Maxim. Papers Party of National Liberty (Partiia Narodnoi Svobody and Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Crimean government (1918-1919).

85 Schwarzbard, Shalom. Papers Trial of Schwarzbard following assassination of Simon Petlyura, correspondence, personal documents 86 Charasch, A. Papers Zionist Socialist Labor Party, SSRP, 1912-1918 87 Dubnow, Simon, Papers Historical documents about Jewish communities, correspondence, 16th -20th c.

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88 Gurevitch, Grigori. Papers Early Russian-Jewish revolutionary 89 Gunzburg, Baron Horace de (Nafali Herz) Russian Jewish banker, philanthropist, communal leader. Patron of scientific, cultural, and social institutions and of writers, artists and musicians. 19th century 104 Eyewitness Accounts of the Holocaust Period Collection: Series I and Series III

116 Territorial Collection on France, Holocaust Period France 2 116 Territorial Collection on Holland Holland Primarily documents about the Holocaust in Holland, some 18th century documents 116 Territorial Collection on Hungary: Microfilms of the Holocaust Hungary Period are available

128 Rabbinical and Historical Manuscripts Collection Selected Files are Microfilmed

207 Jewish Community of Salonika Files of the Jewish community, census records, birth and marriage records, etc., 20th c.

208 Chaim Zhitlowsky Papers Scholarly works and correspondence of leading Yiddish diaspora nationalism thinker, 1882-1953

210 Union Generale Des Israelites de France Jewish life in France during Holocaust period

215 Berlin Collection Files of Nazi Propaganda Ministry and of Occupied Eastern Territories

216 Hauptamt Wissenschaft (Berlin) Collection Files of Nazi agency with jurisdiction over academics and scholars in Germany

221 Rene Hirschler Papers Chaplain in internment camps in France during World War II

222 Institut Der NSDAP zur Erforschung der Judenfrage. Includes Kennkarten Collection Files of the Nazi Institute to Study the Jewish Question 223 Sutzkever-Kaczerginski Collection Part I: Vilna Ghetto Original documents of the Vilna Ghetto saved by Abraham Sutzkever

223 Sutzkever-Kaczerginski Collection Part 2: Literary and Historical Manuscripts Original manuscripts saved by Abraham Sutzkever in the Vilna Ghetto

225 Hersch Wasser Collection Fragmentary files of the Emmanuel Ringelblum Oneg Shabbat Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto

235 David Trotsky Papers Jewish life in Belgium 236 Jewish Colonization Association (Paris) Records Jewish colonies in various countries founded by Baron de Hirsch at turn of 20th c.

241 Nachman Zonabend Collection Files and documents of the Judenrat of the Lodz Ghetto

243 Shanghai Collection Documents about Jewish life in Shanghai during WWII

245 Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society See subgroups below for details

245.1 HIAS Board of Directors and Steering Committees HIAS Board of Direcctor Minutes, 1913-1952

245.2 HIAS Ellis Island Bureau Files of Deportation Cases, 1905-23

245.3 HIAS Foreign Relations Department Relates to HIAS’ efforts to locate relatives on behalf of families in the United States, 1915-1973

245.4 HIAS and HICEM Main Offices, New York Administrative records of all aspects of immigration matters in Europe, Americas, Palestine, etc.

245.5 HICEM Main Office in Europe Paris based migration office, active before and during World War II, maintained branches in countries around the world to monitor immigration possibilities for Jews

245.6 HIAS and HIAS Office in Lisbon Casefiles of Jewish refugees during World War II

245.7 HIAS European Office in Paris Covers activities, 1945-48

245.8 United HIAS Service, Main Office, New York Administrative records, 1954-1967

245.10 HICEM Office in Prague Relief activities for Jewish activities, 1927-1940s 246.1 United Service for New Americans Records Administrative records of resettlement and relief activities for Jewish refugees in U.S., 1946-1955

247 National Coordinating Committee for Aid to Refugees Coming from Germany Records American relief organization founded in 1934 to assist refugees from Austria and Germany

248 National Refugee Service Records American Refugee relief organization, successor to National Coordinating Committee, files cover 1938-1946

249 German Jewish Children's Aid Records Founded in 1933 to assist Jewish refugee children from Germany and Austria and to bring them to the U.S.

278 Joseph P. Chamberlain Papers Chairman of a number of Jewish refugee relief agencies, files of relief activities on behalf of Jewish refugees from Austria and Germany. Bulk dates: 1930s

283 Joseph L. Tenenbaum Papers Founder and chairman of the Joint Boycott Council Against Nazi Germany, 1930s

294.1 Leo W. Schwarz Papers Director of the JDC in Germany, Displaced Persons Camps

294.2 Displaced Persons Camps and Centers in Germany Records

294.3 Displaced Persons Camps and Centers in Italy Records

294.4 Displaced Persons Camps and Centers in Austria Records

312 Educational Alliance Records American Jewish immigration settlement house in New York late 19th and 20th centuries

316 Gustave Eisner Papers Relates to Polish Socialist Party, Gustave Eisner Travel Bureau, Lodz mutual aid societies

317 Horace M. Kallen Papers Philosopher, writer, co-founder of the New School for Social Research. Relates to Kallen’s interests in education, philosophy, Zionism, Jewish affairs, consumerism, co-operative movement, political activism

318 Baron Maurice De Hirsch and Wilhelm Loewenthal Papers Files relating to Hirsch’s contacts with Russian government and to the Jewish Colonization Association colonies in Argentina

330 Max Gottschalk Papers Files of the President of HICEM, 1939-1940s.

334 Comite National de Secours Aux Refugies Records Coordinating Committee for refugee relief work in France, 1933-34

335.3 AJDC War Orphans Bureau Records Case files of c. 1500 war orphans from Russia for whom foster families were found abroad, 1919-1923

335.4 AJDC Search Department Records Established in 1921 to help refugees and World War I survivors from Eastern Europe locate relatives in the United States and other countries. 335.5 AJDC Office in Lisbon Files of AJDC Lisbon refugee relief activities, includes passenger lists, 1939- 1951

335.6 AJDC Personal Service Department (Transmigration Bureau) Correspondence and files of JDC migration relief work, 1946-1954

335.8 AJDC Clippings JDC clippings of newspaper articles about situation of Jews in various countries

340 Kehillat Haharedim (France) Records Educational and relief activities of Association des Israelites Pratiquants [Kehillat Haharedim] led by Rabbi Schneur Zalmen Schneersohn (Chneerson) in France during World War II.

343 Rue Amelot (France) Records Relief activities of the underground organization Rue Amelot in France during the Holocaust period

347.8 American Jewish Committee Research Services Department: Press Clippings on Jewish Affairs Clippings gathered by the AJC about anti-Semitism in North American, England and Europe, 1930s-1940s. 348 Lucien Wolf and David Mowshowitch Papers Files of Lucien Wolf, head of the Conjoint Foreign Committee/Board of Deputies of British Jews and his secretary David Mowshowitch about efforts to aid persecuted Jews in Eastern Europe, including Russia, Poland, Rumania and other countries, 1865-1967

352 Meir Birman Papers Files of the Director of the HIAS Office in Harbin and later in Shanghai. Relates to Jewish immigration in the Far East, 1918-1955 358 Joseph Rosen Papers Director of the American Jewish Joint Agricultural Corporation (Agro-Joint), 1924-1949, created by the AJDC in New York to establish agricultural and industrial colonies in the Soviet Union during this period.

364 Jewish Family and Children's Services (Detroit) Records This collection consists predominantly of records of the Jewish Social Service Bureau and, to a much lesser extent, of records of the Jewish Family and Children's Service in Detroit, 1924-1963.

370 Congregation Shearith Israel, New York Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue. Contracts with rabbis, readers and cantors, sextons and ritual slaughterers. Materials on Rabbi H. Pereira Mendes. Constitutions and by-laws of the synagogue. 18th-20th centuries.

402 Samuel Lifschitz Papers Staff member of the Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden, Berlin. File on 25 years of Lifschitz's activities. Correspondence relating to German-Jewish emigration in the 1930s.

406 Alliance Israelite Universelle (Borenstein-Eisenberg Collection) Records The bulk of the materials relates to the heavy wave of immigration of the 1881-1885 period sparked by the May Laws and the pogroms which erupted in Russia in c. 1881 and efforts of the Alliance Israelite and organizations in England and elsewhere to provide relief for Jewish refugees

447 Carl-Schurz Foundation-Oberlander Trust Fund The collection relates to the activities of the Foundation, based in Philadelphia, on behalf of German and Austrian refugee scholars during the Nazi period, 1933-1945

486 Nahum Greenberg Collection A collection of newspaper clippings from the American press on antisemitism and Nazism in the U.S. and Germany, 1930s-1940s.

494 American OSE Committee Records Selected Files Microfilmed The collection consists of records of the American OSE Committee in New York, correspondence with OSE in France and with other organizations about the rescue of children, 1941-1955.

562 Jewish Telegraphic Agency (New York) Records The collection consists of JTA news dispatches and clippings arranged in the following topical series: geographical areas, countries, regions; subject headings; personalities. 1930s-1960s

589 Ilya Dijour Papers Papers primarily reflect Dijour’s activities in HIAS as well as his personal life. 1910-1964

595 Committee for the Study of Recent Immigration from Europe Records The CSRIE was set up ca. 1943 by several relief organizations, both Christian and Jewish, to conduct a study on recent immigration from Europe. Collection includes correspondence and interviews with scientists, physicians and artists. 1943-1947.

606 Labor Zionist Organization of America Records U.S. branch of the Socialist Zionist Party, Poalei Zion, founded in 1905 at a convention in Baltimore. Correspondence, reports, minutes, proceedings and other materials of the LZOA National Conventions and other materials relating to the LZOA. 1904-1967.

618 National Council of Jewish Women, Search Department Records After World War II, the National Council of Jewish Women ran a Search Department for Jewish survivors and tried to locate American relatives. Collection contains records of these activities of the NCJW, 1946-1950.

1139 Abraham Cahan Papers Part 1 of the collection is microfilmed. Abraham Cahan was the editor of the Jewish Daily Forward from 1901 to his death in 1951. The papers contain correspondence with writers and manuscripts submitted to the Forward. 1902-1951.