| | Creator: | Bunim, Irving M., 1901-1980 | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Irving Bunim oral history collection | | | Dates: | 1976-1978 | | | Call No: | 1985.014 | | | Abstract: | Irving Bunim was a businessman, Jewish lay leader, and major figure in the Vaad Hatzala to help Jewish refugees. The Vaad Hatzala, an Orthodox Jewish relief organization established in 1939, provided funds for rabbis and religious students in war-torn Europe and worked for their emigration. The collection contains a photocopy of a transcript of an interview with Irving Bunim by Rabbi Moshe Kolodny of the Agudath Israel of America Orthodox Jewish Archives concerning the work of the Vaad Hatzala during World War II. | | | Size: | 1 folder | | | Subjects: | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | Refugees, Jewish | World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue | |
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