Coleção GB 1556 WL 1331 - Greece's Jewish population: Documents

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GB 1556 WL 1331

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Greece's Jewish population: Documents

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  • 1940s (Produção)

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Max Gottschalk was the American Joint Distribution Committee's (JDC's) trust representative in pre-war Belgium. Born in Liege in 1889, he became a social scientist, joining the Institute of Sociology of the Free University of Brussels as a research professor in 1923, he later became Government Commissioner for Unemployment and President of the Social Security Board of Belgium. As President of the Belgian Committee for Refugees from Nazi Germany, he was instrumental in the rescue of the passengers of the ship 'St Louis', that was sent back from Cuba and finally permitted to land in Antwerp in July 1939. He got out of Belgium in 1940, emigrating to America and became the president of HICEM, the Jewish migration organisation.

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GB 1556 WL 1331 1940s collection 1 file Gottschalk , Max , b 1889 , relief worker

Max Gottschalk was the American Joint Distribution Committee's (JDC's) trust representative in pre-war Belgium. Born in Liege in 1889, he became a social scientist, joining the Institute of Sociology of the Free University of Brussels as a research professor in 1923, he later became Government Commissioner for Unemployment and President of the Social Security Board of Belgium. As President of the Belgian Committee for Refugees from Nazi Germany, he was instrumental in the rescue of the passengers of the ship 'St Louis', that was sent back from Cuba and finally permitted to land in Antwerp in July 1939. He got out of Belgium in 1940, emigrating to America and became the president of HICEM, the Jewish migration organisation.

Max Gottschalk

Papers relating to the fate of Greek Jewry during the Holocaust and post-war survivors, 1940s, including plan to rehabilitate Greece's Jewish population after the war; reports by the American Joint Distribution Committee's activities in Greece; correspondence betwen Max Gottschalk and various Greek government departments; papers on the desecration of the Jewish cemetery at Salonika and papers relating to Gottschalk's activities whilst working for the American Joint Foreign Affairs Department.

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Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

February 2008 American Joint Distribution Committee Burial Death Europe Genocide Gottschalk , Max , b 1889 , relief worker Greece Holocaust Humanitarian law Human rights violations Jews Life cycle Nazism Occupied territories Political doctrines Racial discrimination Religious groups Third Reich Totalitarianism War crimes Western Europe

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Max Gottschalk

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Papers relating to the fate of Greek Jewry during the Holocaust and post-war survivors, 1940s, including plan to rehabilitate Greece's Jewish population after the war; reports by the American Joint Distribution Committee's activities in Greece; correspondence betwen Max Gottschalk and various Greek government departments; papers on the desecration of the Jewish cemetery at Salonika and papers relating to Gottschalk's activities whilst working for the American Joint Foreign Affairs Department.

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Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

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  • inglês

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  • latim

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English and French

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Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk

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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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