Papers of the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad (JCRA) and the Jewish Relief Unit (JRU) including volume of original signed minutes of the JCRA; reports from individual JRU members covering a wide variety of JRU activities in various countries and 6 bundles of apparently original lists of Mauthausen Concentration Camp inmates.
Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and Jewish Relief Unit: papers
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- Dates of Creation1942-1948
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- Language of MaterialEnglish
- Physical Description4 boxes
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
The Jewish Relief Unit was the operational arm of the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad, which was formed in 1943 by the Joint Foreign Committee of the Board of Deputies and the Anglo-Jewish Association and under the auspices and financial responsibility of the Central British Fund for Jewish Relief and Rehabilitation.
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Central British Fund for Jewish Relief and Rehabilitation
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Archivist's Note
Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
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