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- 1942-1948 (Creation)
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4 boxes
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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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GB 1556 WL 1232 1942-1948 collection 4 boxes Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad
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.
Central British Fund for Jewish Relief and Rehabilitation
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.
Chronological by material type.
Open
Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
English
Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.
See WL 'Henriques Archive' (MF 52); WL MF Doc 27 Records of the CBF; ref: 1367
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.
January 2008 Concentration camps Europe Genocide Holocaust Humanitarian law Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad Jewish Relief Unit Jews Mauthausen concentration camp Migrants Refugees Religious groups UK War crimes Western Europe World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Wars (events) London England
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Central British Fund for Jewish Relief and Rehabilitation
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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.
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Accruals
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Chronological by material type.
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Open
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Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
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- English
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- Latin
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English
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See WL 'Henriques Archive' (MF 52); WL MF Doc 27 Records of the CBF; ref: 1367
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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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- English