Sunday, November 12, 2023

JDC ARCHIVES: LISTS OF NAMES

 https://archives.jdc.org/our-collections/names-index/lists-in-the-names-index/


This extensive collection of material related to Jews is not to be missed. It offers to the researcher many original lists & documents. It also includes a search box into which you may search by last name or first & last name.

Some of the lists presently available are:

--Early Remittance Lists [1915-1917]--Relatives were able to deposit small amounts of money for the JDC to remit to overseas individuals.

--1914-1921

A partial list includes:

Jewish Men from Rohatyn imprisoned in Siberia, Aid to Rabbis in the Russian Empire & Palestine, Russian Jews requesting contact with relatives, Repatriation of injured Jewish prisoners following WWI, Food parcels distribution following WWI, Siberian cards for prisoners of war, Polish Jews requesting assistance from US relatives,  et al.

--Lists from the Nazi Period & its Aftermath:

Refugees in Polish Border areas, Polish Jewish emigrants in Hungary, SS St. Louis Refugees who received JDC aid, escaped Polish Jewish officers, Vilna refugees in 1940, Jewish refugee children, escape to Japan & China, Cuba & Jamaica, South America, Palestine,  U.S., Morocco, Canada, et al.

Parcels sent to Jews in Europe: Belgium & France, Netherlands, Poland, etc.

Jewish refugees receiving aid, Jewish orphans, Emigration Service Index Cards,  etc.

Aliyah to Israel: from Yemen, via North Africa, Cyprus, etc.

--Records from 1954 related to: Algeria, Hungary, Brazil, Egypt, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Austria, etc.

--Other information [and more]:

Genealogical Resources in the Records of JDC's Warsaw Office, 1939-41. 

 https://archives.jdc.org/genealogical-resources-in-the-records-of-jdcs-warsaw-office-1939-1941/

Genealogical Resources on Immigrants to Eretz Yisrael  

https://archives.jdc.org/genealogical-resources-on-immigrants-to-eretz-yisrael/


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