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Creator:  Tenzer, HerbertRequires cookie*
 Title:  Herbert Tenzer oral history collection  
 Dates:  Bulk Dates:1940-1947; Bulk Dates: 1940-1947; 1940's, 1985 
 Call No:  1986.004 
 Abstract:  Herbert Tenzer was a founder and administrator of Rescue Children, Inc., organized in June 1946 to assist young Jewish refugees in the aftermath of the Holocaust. The collection includes taped interviews concerning Tenzer's involvement with Vaad Hatzala and Rescue Children, Inc. and photographs of Tenzer with Mayor William O'Dwyer and children at the Rescue Children center. 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | Refugees, Jewish | World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue 
Creator:  Burkhard, HugoRequires cookie*
 Title:  Hugo Burkhard collection  
 Dates:  1940-1972 
 Call No:  1993.012 
 Abstract:  The collection contains materials related to Hugo Burkhard's life after the Holocaust. Hugo Burkhard (1899-1971) survived Dachau and Buchenwald and served as a leader in the post-World War II Jewish community of Nuremberg, Germany. Included are photocopies of Hugo Burkhard's obituary, a written memorial about his life, correspondence between Burkhard and Dr. Curt Metzger of Bradford, Pennsylvania. 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Dachau (Concentration camp) | Holocaust survivors -- Germany | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 
Creator:  Institute of Jewish Affairs.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Institute of Jewish Affairs report collection  
 Dates:  1941-1947 
 Call No:  1986.049 
 Abstract:  The Institute of Jewish Affairs was established in New York by the American and World Jewish Congresses in February, 1941. The purpose of the Institute was to investigate Jewish affairs from the previous twenty five years and to outline suggestions on the basis of which Jewish interests could be claimed in a post-World War II settlement. The collection contains two copies of the Report of the Institute of Jewish Affairs for the period February 1, 1941 - April 30, 1947. 
 Size:  2 folders 
 Subjects:  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | Jews -- History -- 20th century | World War, 1939-1945 -- Reparations 
Creator:  Bunim, Irving M., 1901-1980Requires 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 
Creator:  Novick, HenyaRequires cookie*
 Title:  Rescue Children, Inc. from 1946-1948  
 Dates:  1986 
 Call No:  1986.056 
 Abstract:  The collection consists of a term paper prepared in 1986 by Mrs. Henya Novick. The paper, entitled "Rescue Children, Inc. from 1946-1948", was written for Professor Herbert M. Druks' Brooklyn College class. 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | Jewish children in the Holocaust | World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue | World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees 
Creator:  National Council of Jewish Women. Department of Service for the Foreign BornRequires cookie*
 Title:  National Council of Jewish Women, Department of Service for the Foreign Born Records  
 Dates:  1920-1968 
 Call No:  1976.001 
 Abstract:  The National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) was founded in 1893. It undertook a wide range of religious, philanthropic, and educational activities in response to the wave of Jewish immigrants to American shores. One department, the Service for the Foreign Born, was founded in 1903 to help new immigrants adapt to life in the United States. The collection consists of this department of the NCJW's New York and Brooklyn Sections' case files dealing with the agency's efforts to help refugees adjust to the United States, its work to locate immigrants' missing relatives and friends, and administrative records of the Service for the Foreign Born. 
 Size:  430 linear feet (388 record storage boxes) 
 Subjects:  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | Jewish women -- Societies and clubs | Jews -- Charities | Refugees, Jewish | United States -- Emigration and immigration 
Creator:  United States. Office of Strategic ServicesRequires cookie*
 Title:  OSS Reports on Revisionist Zionists  
 Dates:  1944-1945, 1982; Bulk Dates: 1944-1945 
 Call No:  1985.003 
 Abstract:  The collection includes three reports by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), predecessor organization to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), concerning the activities of Peter Bergson and his Revisionist Zionist organization. The "Bergson Group" Revisionists publicized the horrors experienced by European Jewry under the Nazis to arouse public concern and to pressure the United States government into allowing rescue missions of Nazi victims. 
 Size:  1 folder 
 Subjects:  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | Jews -- United States -- Politics and government | Revisionist Zionists | World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue | Zionists -- United States 
Creator:  Kornfeld, IsaacRequires cookie*
 Title:  Isaac Kornfeld papers  
 Dates:  1937-1969 
 Call No:  1985.032 
 Abstract:  The collection contains materials concerning Kornfeld's work as director of the American Federation of Polish Jews, which organized relief and economic assistance for Jews in Poland and investigated conditions in Poland and Germany following World War II. Also included is Dr. Kornfeld's correspondence with relatives in Europe after World War II. 
 Size:  7 folders 
 Subjects:  Europe -- Social conditions -- 20th century | Germany -- Social conditions -- 1945- | Holocaust survivors | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | Jews -- Europe | Jews -- Germany | Jews -- Poland | Poland -- Social conditions -- 1945- | Rabbis 
Creator:  Levine, LouisRequires cookie*
 Title:  Louis Levine papers  
 Dates:  1932-1953 
 Call No:  1978.099 
 Abstract:  Louis Levine, and American businessman and Jewish communal leader, worked tirelessly for a variety of Jewish causes. Levine's papers relate to his activities in the Jewish Council for Russian War Relief, the Independent Order B'rith Shalom, Yeshiva University, and the American Jewish Congress. Other material includes correspondence, legal and financial documents, leases, and building plans concerning his real estate and contracting business (1932-1953). 
 Size:  53 linear feet 
 Subjects:  Friendly societies -- Ukraine | Friendly societies -- United States | Fund raising -- New York (State) -- New York | Holocaust survivors -- Soviet Union | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | International relief -- Soviet Union | Jews -- Soviet Union | Jews -- United States -- Charities | Jews -- United States -- Societies, etc. | Real estate business -- United States | Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Soviet Union | Refugees, Jewish -- Soviet Union 
Creator:  Bernstein, Mordechai Wolf, 1905-1966Requires cookie*
 Title:  Mordechai Bernstein collection  
 Dates:  1605-1965 
 Call No:  1966.099 
 Abstract:  Mordechai Bernstein was a Jewish historian and Yiddish cultural activist who lived in Poland, Argentina, and the United States. The collection contains unique documents on Jewish life in Germany since the seventeenth century, on Displaced Persons camps in Germany after World War II, and Jewish life in Argentina in the 1950s, as well as transcripts, photocopies and descriptions of numerous original documents and publications maintained in Germany and on German Jewry. Bernstein's personal papers are also included in the collection. 
 Size:  30 Linear feet 
 Subjects:  Archives -- Germany | Forṿerṭs | Holocaust survivors | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | Jewish Daily Forward (New York, N.Y.) | Jewish learning and scholarship | Jewish sermons | Jews -- Argentina | Jews -- Europe, Eastern | Jews -- Germany -- History | Jews -- History | Jews -- Poland | Jews -- United States | Libraries -- Germany | Refugee camps -- Germany | Refugees, Jewish -- Germany | Yiddish language | Yiddish periodicals | Zionism 
 Requires cookie*
 Title:  Jamie Lehmann Memorial Collection - Records of the Jewish Community of Cairo  
 Dates:  1886-1961; Bulk Dates: 1920-1960 
 Call No:  1986.009 
 Abstract:  Consists of account books, by-laws, case files, certificates, correspondence, legal documents, minutes, photographs and reports from the Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jewish communities of Cairo. Also contains minute registers of two lodges of the International Order of B'nai B'rith in Cairo, which provide information crucial for understanding the modernization of Egyptian Jewry that took place in the early decades of the twentieth century. 
 Size:  6.75 linear feet 
 Subjects:  Alexandria (Egypt) -- Politics and government -- 20th century | Alexandria (Egypt) -- Religious life and customs | Alexandria (Egypt) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century | Ashkenazim -- Egypt -- Cairo | Benevolent societies -- Egypt -- Cairo | Cairo (Egypt) -- Politics and government -- 20th century | Cairo (Egypt) -- Religious life and customs | Cairo (Egypt) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century | Charities -- Egypt -- Cairo | Egypt -- Politics and government -- 20th century | Friendly societies -- Egypt -- Cairo | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | Hospitals -- Egypt -- Cairo | Jews -- Charities | Jews -- Egypt | Jews -- Egypt -- Alexandria | Jews -- Egypt -- Cairo | Jews -- Ethiopia | Jews, Ethiopian | Religious institutions -- Egypt -- Alexandria | Religious institutions -- Egypt -- Cairo | Ritual slaughter | Shehitah | World War, 1939-1945 | Zionism 
Creator:  Marton, Bernard Dov, 1909-1990Requires cookie*
 Title:  Bernard Dov Marton Papers  
 Dates:  1914-1998; Bulk Dates: 1932-1970 
 Call No:  1999.003 
 Abstract:  Bernard Dov Marton was an Orthodox rabbi who held numerous pulpits in New York and California from the 1930s through the 1980s. The Bernard Dov Marton Papers contain correspondence, legal documents, publications, newspaper clippings, printed materials, scrapbooks, sound recordings, and photographs pertaining to the life and career of Rabbi Marton and members of his family. 
 Size:  14.83 linear feet 
 Subjects:   | Bogota´ (Colombia) | Bratislava (Slovakia) | Bronx (New York, N.Y.) | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) | Cincinnati (Ohio) | Hamilton (Ont.) | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | Israel | Jamaica (New York, N.Y.) | Jewish Courier | Jewish law | Jewish literature | Jewish newspapers | Jewish sermons | Jews -- California | Jews -- Colombia | Jews -- Education | Jews -- Israel | Jews -- Mexico | Jews -- New York (State) -- New York | Jews -- South America | Jews -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Khust (Ukraine) | Los Angeles (Calif.) | Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) | Maramures (Romania) | Meshiv Nefesh | Mexico | Milwaukee (Wis.) | Newark (N.J.) | Orthodox Judaism | Poland | Rabbis -- Europe | Rabbis -- United States | Refugees, Jewish -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Romania | San Francisco (Calif.) | Sekernice, Czechoslovakia | South Orange (N.J.) | Synagogue music | Synagogues -- United States | Velete (Hungary) | Viseu de Sus (Romania) | World War, 1939-1945 | Zionism | משיב נפש  
Creator:  Vaad HatzalaRequires cookie*
 Title:  Vaad Hatzala Collection  
 Dates:  1940 - 1963; Bulk Dates: 1942 - 1949 
 Call No:  1969.099 
 Abstract:  Orthodox Jewish relief organization established in 1939 initially to provide funds for rabbis and religious students in war-torn Europe and to work for their emigration. Involved in negotiations with Germans to save Jews from concentration camps, and provided assistance to Jews who fled Europe to places such as Japan and Shanghai. Provided spiritual rehabilitation to concentration camp survivors following World War II, and arranged for visas for refugee rabbis and religious students to the United States. 
 Size:  26.75 linear feet plus two oversize document cases 
 Subjects:  Belgium | Bergen-Belsen (Concentration Camp) | Czechoslovakia | Dominican Republic | England | France | Germany | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | International relief -- Europe | Iran | Italy | Jewish children in the Holocaust | Jews -- Belgium | Jews -- Czechoslovakia | Jews -- France | Jews -- Germany | Jews -- Lithuania | Jews -- Migrations | Jews -- Palestine | Jews -- Poland | Jews -- Romania | Jews -- Soviet Union | Jews -- Sweden | Jews -- Switzerland | Jews, United States, Charities | Kobe-shi (Japan) | Lithuania | Morocco | Netherlands | Norway | Palestine | Poland | Rabbinical Seminaries | Rabbis | Reconstruction (1939-1951) | Refugees, Jewish | Romania | Shanghai (China) | South America | Soviet Union | Spain | Sweden | Switzerland | Turkey | United States -- Emigration and immigration | United States -- Politics and government, 1933-1953 | Vaad Hatzala Bulletin | World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue