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Guide to the Jewish Labor Committee Collection Photographs PHOTOS 048

Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY, 10012
(212) 998-2630
gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu


Tamiment Library / Wagner Archives

Collection processed by Roberta Newman, 1998; Anton Weiss-Wendt, 1999.

This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2009-06-24T12:07-0400 Description is in English.

2009 Box list revised by Sarah DeMott.

Descriptive Summary

Creator: Jewish Labor Committee (U.S.)
Title: Jewish Labor Committee Photographs
Dates: Bulk, 1940-1959
Dates: 1930s-1980s, (Bulk 1940s-1950s)
Abstract: The Jewish Labor Committee was founded in 1934 for the purpose of organizing opposition to fascism and providing assistance to its victims. It maintained close contact with European resistance movements, and was able to effect the rescue of several thousand labor and socialist activists, their families and other refugees. After World War II, the Committee continued its program of relief to Holocaust victims and reconstruction of Jewish culture by financing Yiddish libraries, schools, and cultural centers throughout Europe and Israel, in addition to campaigning for trade union rights and against religious discrimination. The bulk of the material relates to the years immediately following World War II through the 1950s, and includes many photographs relating to the Committee's relief programs for Holocaust victims, especially children. Of special interest are images of the children's performances: singing, dancing, theater. Also depicted are supporters, including: David Dubinsky, Leon Blum, and Jacob Pat. In addition, there are images of Committee-supported Yiddish libraries, schools, and cultural centers, as well as, several hundred portrait photographs of individual children from the Committee's Child Adoption program.
Quantity: 6.0 Linear feet (9 boxes) (2x2, 8x10; b&w)
Call Phrase: PHOTOS 048
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Historical/Biographical Note

The Jewish Labor Committee, an umbrella group of Jewish trade unions and fraternal organizations, was founded in 1934 for the purpose of organizing opposition to fascism and providing assistance to its victims. It maintained close contact with European resistance movements and was able to effect the rescue of several thousand labor and socialist activists and their families, as well as other refugees. After World War II, the Committee continued its program of relief to Holocaust victims, providing regular shipments of food, clothing, and medical supplies. It cooperated with other Jewish agencies in helping reunite families, and organized a "Child Adoption" program through which American trade unionists supported thousands of destitute children. The Committee contributed to the reconstruction of Jewish culture after 1945 by financing Yiddish libraries, schools, and cultural centers throughout Europe and Israel. In addition, the Committee has campaigned for trade union rights in the United States and abroad, and against anti-Semitism and other forms of racial and religious discrimination.

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Scope and Content Note

The bulk of this material is concentrated in the years immediately following World War II and in the 1950s, and includes many photographs relating to the Committee's relief programs for Holocaust victims, especially children. Most of these photographs were shot in Europe (including Austria, Belgium, England, Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden, and Switzerland, but with the largest number shot in France) and in Israel. They are particularly strong in images of children's homes supported by the Committee--often in concert with the Workmen's Circle or United States labor unions. These include images of the exteriors of the homes themselves (several are quite impressive, resembling small chateaux), and of various activities within them: children at meals, in class, playing, getting dressed, being examined by medical personnel, etc. Of special interest are images of the children's performances: singing, dancing, theater. Also depicted are visitors/supporters of the homes, including David Dubinsky, Leon Blum, Jacob Pat, and others. In addition, there are several hundred portrait photographs of individual children supported by the Committee through its Child Adoption program. The collection also includes images of Yiddish libraries, schools, and cultural centers financed by the Committee in Europe and in Israel, photographs of performances by two Yiddish/Jewish theater groups in postwar Germany (the Baderekh Theater in Berlin and the "Mit" Theater in Munich), images of displaced persons camps, and of the activities (demonstrations, summer camps, performances) of European organizations allied with the Committee, such as the Jewish Labor Bund, Left Poalei Zion, and SKIF (the youth arm of the Bund).

The collection is arranged and subdivided as follows:

Subseries A: Establishment of JLC and Early Activities

Subseries B: Holocaust and Jewish Life in Europe Under the Nazis

Subseries C: Postwar Aid Activities

Subseries D: Anti-Discrimination and Pro-Human Rights Activities

Subseries E: Other Postwar Activities

Subseries F: JLC Staff, Branches, Chapters, Divisions, and Committees

Subseries G: Miscellaneous

Subseries A: JLC Leadership

Subseries B: General

Subseries A: Child Adoption Program

Subseries B: European Orphanages and Children's Homes and Other Child Aid Activities (except for France)

Subseries C: Children's Homes and Orphanages and Other Child Aid Activities in France

Folder labels denote series, subseries, individual folder numbers, and topic. For example, the folder entitled "Wartime food and clothing drives and other activities" is labeled as follows: I-A-3: Wartime food and clothing drives and other activities (i.e. Series I, Subseries A, Folder 3).

In addition, two appendices provide more information on the contents of the collection. They consist of a partial guide to photographs of prominent individuals represented in Series I of the collection ( see Appendix 1 ; Series II: Personalities also has photographs of the same and other individuals), and a list of translations of the Yiddish captions/annotations for nearly all the images that have such notations --a total of approximately 1700 photographs (see Appendix 2) .

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Arrangement

Arrangement is roughly chronological and alphabetical by names of countries and individuals, with some exceptions. Within each series, the progression is from the specific to the general (i.e., in SERIES I, SUBSERIES D, the arrangement moves from JLC-sponsored civil rights activities to general photographs related to the civil rights movements).

The files are grouped into 4 series:

I, General Activities, 1930s-1980s
II, Personalities
III, Aid To Children
IV, Oversized Albums And Panorama Portraits (Box 9 and Flat File Case #1: Drawer 8)

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Related Material at the Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

The Julius Bernstein Papers (Wagner 116)

The Jacob Pat Papers (Wagner 127)

The Isaiah M. Minkoff Papers (Wagner 086)

The Baruch Charney Vladeck Papers (Tamiment 037)

The Jewish Labor Committee Records (Wagner 25)

The Jewish Labor Committee, Boston Records (Wagner 159)

The Jewish Labor Committee, Chicago Records (Wagner 160)

Baruch Charney Vladeck Photographs (Photographs 30)

Jewish Labor Committee--Chicago--Photographs (Photographs 71).

" Jewish Labor and the Holocaust," a web exhibit based on the JLC records and featuring more than 100 graphics from the collection.

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Separated Material

There is no information about materials that are associated by provenance to the described materials that have been physically separated or removed.

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

Open for research without restrictions.

Use Restrictions

Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the:
Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-2630
Fax: (212) 995-4225
E-mail: erika.gottfried@nyu.edu

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Access Points

People

Blum, Léon, 1872-1950--Portraits.
Dubinsky, David, 1892-1982--Portraits.
Gebiner, Benjamin A.--Portraits.
Held, Adolph, 1885-1969--Portraits.
Mehring, Bertha --Portraits.
Meiksin, Bella --Portraits.
Pat, Jacob, 1890-1966--Portraits.
Tabachinsky, Benjamin --Portraits.
Vladeck, B. (Baruch), 1886-1938.

Subjects

Anti-fascist movements--Europe.
Antisemitism.
Children--Europe--Portraits.
Children--Institutional care--Europe--Pictorial works.
Demonstrations--Europe--Pictorial works.
Employee rights.
Holocaust survivors--Europe--Portraits.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Jewish labor unions--United States.
Jewish libraries--Europe--Pictorial works.
Jews--Europe--Portraits.
Labor leaders--Europe.
Labor leaders--United States--Portraits.
Race discrimination.
Refugee camps--Europe--Pictorial works.
Refugees, Jewish--Europe--Portraits.
Resistance movements, War--Europe.
Socialists--Europe.
Theater, Yiddish--Germany--Pictorial works.
World War, 1939-1945--Civilian relief--Pictorial works.
World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue.

Organizations

Jewish Labor Committee (U.S.)
Ogólny Zydowski Zwiazek Robotniczy "Bund" w Polsce.
Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring.

Type

Photographic prints.

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Administrative Information

Provenance

The photographs were donated to the Robert Wagner Labor Archives in 1991 and 1996 by the Jewish Labor.

Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form:

Identification of item, date; Collection name; Collection number; box number; folder number;
Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012, New York University Libraries.

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Container List

Series I: General JLC Activities

Scope and Contents note

Contains photographs related to JLC's activities from its founding until the 1980s, not including its post-World War II programs of aid to Jewish children in Europe (see Series III for child aid programs).

Subseries A: Establishment and Early History

Scope and Contents note

Includes photographs related to JLC's early history (1934-45), including the organization's establishment in 1934, meetings and conventions in the 1930s, the counter-Olympics it organized in August 1936, and food and clothing drives to aid victims of fascism in the 1940s. It also contains a smaller number of photographs indirectly related to JLC's WWII activities, including photographs of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (ILGWU)'s wartime activities, Jewish refugees from Hitler in England, the Jewish Brigade of the British Army, the liberation of the Jews of Tunisia at the hands of the British, and photographs of Jewish communal efforts on behalf of refugees from Hitler who were forced to flee into Poland in the late 1930's.
Box Folder Title Date
1 1 Establishment of JLC and early activities, 1930s
1 2 World Labor Athletic Carnival (Counter-Olympics), Randall's Island, New York City 1936 , 1937
1 3 Wartime food and clothing drives and other activities, United States ca.1939-1945
1 4 World War II photos, United States, misc. ca.1939-1945
1 5 Wartime England ca.1939-1945
1 6 Jewish refugee aid in Poland and Romania, 1938-1939

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Subseries B: Holocaust and Jewish Life in Europe under the Nazis

Scope and Contents note

Contains photographs related to the Holocaust. The bulk of the photographs consist of poor-quality copy prints of news service photographs of concentration camps and other Nazi atrocities. However, this subseries also contains photographs of the JLC's April 1945 Heroes and Martyrs of the Ghettos exhibition commemorating anniversary of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Other original photographs in the subseries include several pictures of unidentified Nazi personnel.
Box Folder Title Date
1 7 JLC Heroes and Martyrs of the Ghettos exhibition, Apr 1945
1 8 JLC Heroes and Martyrs of the Ghettos exhibition, Apr 1945
1 9 Belgium ca.1939-1945
1 10 Czechoslovakia and Romania ca.1939-1945
1 11 France, antisemitic exhibition ca.1939-1945
1 12 France, Jewish partisans and general resistance movement ca.1939-1945
1 13 France, German atrocities ca.1939-1945
1 14 Germany, Liberation of concentration camps ca.1939-1945
1 15 Netherlands ca.1939-1945
1 16 Poland ca.1939-1945
1 17 Unidentified Nazi personnel ca.1939-1945
1 18 Refugees, photos produced by or for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee ca.1939-1945

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Subseries C: Postwar Aid Activities

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Documents the JLC's aid to Holocaust survivors and others in Europe and Israel in the first years after World War II (1945-early 1950s). It includes images depicting the JLC's food, clothing and book drives, and its "Relative Search" program. Most photographs in this subseries portray various aspects of the postwar renewal of Jewish life and culture in displaced persons camps, in European cities, and in Israel. (See also Series IV for an album of photographs of Left Poale Zion projects in Israel.)
Box Folder Title Date
1 19 Food and clothing drives Bulk, 1945-1959ca.1945-1950s
1 20 Book fund and pro-immigration activities Bulk, 1945-1959ca.1945-1950s
1 21 Relative search Bulk, 1945-1959ca.1945-1950s
1 22 Appeals for help and thank-yous from individual refugees and Holocaust survivors, with photos Bulk, 1945-1959ca.1945-1950s
1 23 Refugee visa applications with photo portraits of Holocaust survivors Bulk, 1945-1959ca.1945-1950s
1 24 Miscellaneous portraits of refugees and Holocaust survivors, location unidentified Bulk, 1945-1959ca.1945-1950s
1 25 Austria, Displaced persons' camps and Holocaust survivors Bulk, 1945-1959ca.1945-1950s
1 26 Belgium, Left Poale Zion and miscellaneous postwar Jewish activities Bulk, 1945-1959ca.1945-1950s
1 27 China, Jewish refugees ca.1945-1950s
1 28 France, JLC delegations ca.1945-1950s
1 29 France, Hakol bekhol puppet theater ca.1945-1950s
1 30 France, Miscellaneous postwar ca.1945-1950s
1 31 Germany, Displaced persons' camps ca.1945-1950s
1 32 Germany, Mit theatrical troupe ca.1945-1950s
1 33 Germany, Baderech theatrical troupe ca.1945-1950s
1 34 Germany, JLC delegations ca.1945-1950s
1 35 Germany, Wolpert-Goldman visit 1946
1 36 Germany, Miscellaneous portraits and identity documents of refugees and Holocaust survivors ca.1945-1950s
1 37 Germany, Miscellaneous postwar ca.1945-1950s
1 38 Italy, JLC delegations and aid ca.1945-1950s
1 39 Italy, Bundist Oyfboy Workers Collective ca.1945-1950s
1 40 Italy, Miscellaneous portraits of refugees and Holocaust survivors ca.1945-1950s
2 1 Poland, Jewish Labor Bund activities ca.1945-1950s
2 2 Poland, Left Poale Zion activities ca.1945-1950s
2 3 Poland, Jacob Pat's visits 1946, 1949
2 4 Poland, Miscellaneous portraits and identity documents of refugees and Holocaust survivors ca.1945-1950s
2 5 Poland, Miscellaneous postwar ca.1945-1950s
2 6 Romania, Miscellaneous portraits of refugees and Holocaust survivors ca.1945-1950s
2 7 Sweden, Jewish Labor Bund and Left Poale Zion activities ca.1945-1950s
2 8 Switzerland (Geneva), Central Jewish Library ca.1945-1950s
2 9 Palestine/Israel, JLC aid to (United States) ca.1945-1950s
2 10 Palestine/Israel, JLC delegations ca.1945-1950s
2 11 Israel, Brith Ha'avodah cooperative workshops ca.1945-1950s
2 12 Israel, Brith Ha'avodah summer camps ca.1945-1950s
2 13 Israel, Beit Lessin Cultural Center ca.1945-1950s
2 14 Israel, Kursky Library and Zygielbojm Auditorium ca.1945-1950s
2 15 Israel, Moshav Norge ca.1945-1950s
2 16 Israel, Zygielbojm children's house ca.1945-1950s
2 17 Palestine/Israel, Yiddish afternoon schools ca.1945-1950s
2 18 Israel, Workmen's Circle Neve Hadassah summer camp ca.1945-1950s
2 19 Israel, Workmen's Circle Yiddish theater groups ca.1945-1950s
2 20 Palestine/Israel, Holocaust survivors ca.1945-1950s
2 21 Palestine/Israel, Miscellaneous ca.1945-1950s

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Subseries D: Anti-Discrimination and Human Rights Activities

Scope and Contents note

Contains images related to the JLC's postwar support of AFL and CIO (later AFL-CIO) educational efforts in the field of human rights, as well as the JLC's work of combatting antisemitism worldwide. The majority of the photographs are of labor conferences on civil rights in Chicago and other United States cities, National Trade Union Council anti-discrimination activities, and rallies in support of the rights of Soviet Jewry. Individual folders document the work of JLC local chapters for these causes. There are also several pictures of JLC protest rallies and conferences on behalf of Polish Jews.
Box Folder Title Date
2 22 JLC Fourth National Trade Union Conference on Civil Rights, 1962
2 23 National Trade Union Council 1950s-1960s
2 24 National Trade Union Council 1970s
2 25 National Trade Union Council 1980s
2 26 Anti-discrimination activities/AFL-CIO meetings, California 1960s
2 27 Anti-discrimination activities/AFL-CIO meetings, Connecticut 1950s
2 28 Illinois (Chicago), labor conferences on civil rights 1955-1959
2 29 Illinois (Chicago), labor conferences on civil rights 1960-1962
2 30 Illinois (Chicago), labor conferences on civil rights 1963-1984
2 31 Illinois (Chicago), labor conferences on civil rights- Miscellaneous, unidentified undated
2 32 Anti-discrimination activities/AFL-CIO meetings, Massachusetts undated
2 33 Anti-discrimination activities/AFL-CIO meetings, Michigan undated
2 34 Anti-discrimination activities/AFL-CIO meetings, New Jersey undated
2 35 Anti-discrimination activities/AFL-CIO meetings, New York City undated
2 36 Anti-discrimination activities/AFL-CIO meetings, New York State undated
2 37 Anti-discrimination activities/AFL-CIO meetings, Ohio undated
2 38 Anti-discrimination activities/AFL-CIO meetings, Oregon undated
2 39 Anti-discrimination activities/AFL-CIO meetings, Pennsylvania undated
2 40 Anti-discrimination activities/AFL-CIO meetings, Texas undated
2 41 Labor Conference on Civil Rights, Washington D.C., 1956 undated
3 1 Anti-discrimination activities/AFL-CIO meetings, Wisconsin undated
3 2 Canada, AFL-CIO meetings undated
3 3 Anti-discrimination activities/AFL-CIO meetings, miscellaneous undated
3 4 Civil rights movement, miscellaneous undated
3 5 Soviet Jewry rally, New York City 1953
3 6 Soviet Jewry rallies, New York City 1950s-1960s
3 7 Soviet Jewry rallies, New York City 1970s
3 8 Soviet Jewry rallies, New York City 1980s
3 9 Other Soviet Jewry activities/materials (i.e., seminars, meetings with officials, antisemitic Soviet cartoons) undated
3 10 Soviet Jewry activity, United Federation of Teachers undated
3 11 Soviet Jewry activity, Local JLC chapters (Illinois, Pennsylvania, Washington, DC) undated
3 12 Protests against Polish antisemitism undated

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Subseries E: Other Postwar Activities

Scope and Contents note

Documents the JLC's work in international labor relations, Holocaust commemoration and education, and other programs and projects. The bulk of the photographs are of JLC annual conventions and meetings. The subseries also contains pictures of JLC meetings with international labor leaders, and the organization's participation in international labor conferences, labor rallies in support of Israeli democracy and other causes. There are several images of annual Warsaw Ghetto Memorial commemorations and of courses on the Holocaust for educators run in conjunction with the United Federation of Teachers.
Box Folder Title Date
3 13 International contacts: visits of European labor and socialist leaders to U.S.; visits of U.S. leaders abroad 1940s-1970s
3 14 International contacts: visits of European labor and socialist leaders to U.S.; visits of U.S. leaders abroad 1940s-1970s
3 15 Relations with Israel: Israel rallies; visits to Israel undated
3 16 Holocaust commemoration and education undated
3 17 Commemorations and memorials, miscellaneous undated
3 18 Demonstrations and rallies undated
3 19 JLC exhibitions and displays undated
3 20 Mensheviks undated
3 21 William Green testimonial dinner and dedication of bust 1947, 1951
3 22 Dedication of William Green Human Relations Library 1959
3 23 Atran Center for Jewish Culture undated
3 24 Dedication of Philip Murray bust 1953
3 25 B. Charney Vladeck memorial meeting 1963
3 26 JLC conventions and meetings 1947
4 1 JLC conventions and meetings 1940s-1950s
4 2 JLC conventions and meetings 1940s-1950s
4 3 JLC conventions and meetings 1940s-1950s
4 4 JLC conventions and meetings 1960s
4 5 JLC conventions and meetings 1960s
4 6 JLC conventions and meetings 1960s
4 7 JLC conventions and meetings 1970s-1980s
4 8 JLC conventions and meetings 1970s-1980s
4 9 JLC conventions and meetings 1970s-1980s

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Subseries F: JLC Staff, Branches, Chapters, Divisions, Committees

Scope and Contents note

Includes group portraits of JLC staff and photographs related to the work of the organization's National Executive Committee, Legislative Committee, Educators' Chapter, Women's Division, and local chapters.
Box Folder Title Date
4 10 JLC Staff undated
4 11 National Executive Committee undated
4 12 Legislative Committee undated
4 13 Membership Division undated
4 14 Educators' Chapter undated
4 15 Workmen's Circle branches undated
4 16 Women's Division undated
4 17 California Chapter undated
4 18 Illinois Chapter undated
4 19 Maryland Chapter undated
4 20 Minnesota Chapter undated
4 21 Missouri Chapter undated
4 22 New England Chapter undated
4 23 Ohio Chapter undated
4 24 Oregon Chapter undated
4 25 Pennsylvania Chapter undated
5 1 Washington, D.C. Chapter undated
5 2 Canada Chapter undated

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Subseries G: Miscellaneous

Scope and Contents note

Contains photographs of unidentified events and of subjects only indirectly related to the activities of the JLC. It includes a group of images of synagogues and other Jewish community buildings in the Netherlands.
Box Folder Title Date
5 3 Miscellaneous undated
5 4 Miscellaneous undated

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Series II: Personalities

Scope and Contents note

Contains portraits of individuals connected with the JLC.

Subseries A: JLC Leadership

Scope and Contents note

Officials and photographs of unidentified events that prominently feature them.
Box Folder Title Date
5 5 David Dubinsky undated
5 6 Benjamin Gebiner undated
5 7 Adolph Held undated
5 8 Emanuel Muravchik undated
5 9 Michael S. Perry undated
5 10 Benjamin Tabachinsky undated
5 11 Baruch Charney Vladeck undated
5 12 Charles Zimmerman undated
5 13 Jacob Zukerman undated

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Subseries B: General

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Consists of portraits of identified individuals alphabetically arranged and group portraits of prominent personalities at unidentified events. The subseries also contains a folder of unidentified portraits and an album of photographs devoted to the life and career of Leon Blum. (See also the INDEX TO PERSONALITIES for a partial cross-reference to more photographs of these and other prominent individuals that appear elsewhere in the collection.)

Box Folder Title Date
5 14 Leon Blum: Album of photographs undated
5 15 Leon Blum Luncheon, April 13, 1946 undated
5 16 A-C
Irving Abramson
Fritz Adler
Frank Z. Atran
Herman Becker
Hayyim Nachman Bialik
Ella Bogval
Irving Brown
Abraham Cahan
Nathan Chanin
Leo M. Cherne
Jay Chapman
Gerald Coleman 		undated
5 17 D-G
Louis de Brouckere
Leon Dennen [Denenberg]
Richardson Dilworth
Oscar Ewing
Arthur Goldberg
Paul Goldman
Samuel Gompers
Patrick Gorman
William Green
Greppi (Mayor of Milan)
Murray Gross 		undated
5 18 H-K
Moshe Haar
W. Averell Harriman
Myra Hess
Sidney Hillman
Louis Hollander
Samuel P. Hugh, Jr. (?)
Hubert Humphrey
Professor Kaplan
John F. Kennedy
Dimitri Klepinin 		undated
5 19 L-P
Victor Larock
Louis Levy
Herve L'Heureux
Itzik Manger
Michael Mann
George Meany
Benjamin and Vladka Meed
Bella Meiksin
Lord Melchett
Walter Mondale
Max Mont
Pauline M. Newman
Paul Olberg
Molly Picon 		undated
5 20 R-Z
Avraham Reisen
Emmanuel Ringelblum
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Kurt Schumacher
Senator Lewis Schwellenbach
Benzel Sokiranski
Congressman William P. Stratton
Maurice Tobin
Paul Tyson
Bentsl Tsolevitsh
James A. Wechsler
Uriel Weinreich
Chaim Weizmann
Roy Wilkins
Alex Wollod
William Wolpert
Leonard Woodcock
Assistant Secretary of Labor Ralph Wright
B. Zivion 		undated
5 21 Groups
Some Individuals represented in this file:
Raphael Abramowitsch
Robert Abram
Luigi Antonini
Shelley Appleton
Adolf Arnaut
Nathan Bar Yaacov
Gregory Bardacke
Joseph Baskin
Mr. and Mrs. Chaim Bass
Sh. Bikel
Israel Breslow
Yudl Borenstein
Nathan Chanin
Martin Cohen
David Dubinsky
Levi Eshkol
Y. Feinberg
David Gingold
Arturo Giovanitti
Joseph Glickson
I.H. Goldberg
Chaim Grade
John Green
William Green
Murray Gross
Fritz Heine
Adolph Held
Philip Heller
Hershkowitz
Louis Hollander
Carl Jennings
Morris Jushewitz
I. Knapp
J. Knox
Jules Kolodny
Walter Kushenbaum
J. Landis
Herbert S. Lehmann
John Lewis
Marx Lewis
John V. Lindsay
Michael Mann
Bishop McConnell
George Meany
Vladka Meed
Golda Meir
Melnick
Isaiah Minkoff
Joseph Mlotek
Emanuel Muravchik
Morris Novick
Jacob Pat
Emmanuel Patt
Louis Pincus
Jacob S. Potofsky
Chaim Pupko
Steven Remson
Alex Rose
Devorah Rosenblum
Jack Rubinstein
Moshe Rubinstein
Bayard Rustin
Jacob Schlitt
Edward Schneider
Y. Schwartz
Walter Seifert
Zalman Shazar
Dr. Silberberg
Don Slaiman
Leon Stern
William Stern
Stolarsky
Benjamin Tabachinsky
Norman Thomas
President Harry S. Truman
Y. Tyberg
Liv Ullman
Irving Vogel
Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr.
M. Waldman
Richard Walsh
Simon Weber
William Wolpert
Jerry Wurf
Charles Zimmerman
Jacob Zukerman 		undated
5 22 Unidentified undated

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Series III: Aid to Children

Scope and Contents note

Documents JLC's child relief activities in Europe and Israel immediately following the end of World War II. The bulk of the photographs are of JLC-supported orphanages and children's homes in France.

Subseries A: Child Adoption Program, United States.

Scope and Contents note

Portrays the support of United States trade unions and Workmen's Circle branches for JLC's overseas children's homes. The bulk of the photographs are of union members inside garment factories and members of Workmen's Circle branches handing over donation checks to JLC representatives. There also several albums of portraits of children sponsored by specific unions. (See also Series IV and individual child portraits in case files.)
Box Folder Title Date
5 23 Child Adoption Program -- Participating unions and other labor groups undated
5 24 Child Adoption Program -- Participating Workmen's Circle branches undated
5 25 Child Adoption Program -- Workmen's Circle undated
5 26 Child Adoption Program -- For children in Belgium 1948-1949
5 27 Children Adopted by Individuals undated
5 28 Album of photos of children adopted by the Out of Town Cloak Department of the ILGWU undated
6 1 Album of photos of children adopted by the United Cloak, Suit, Infants and Children's Coat Operators and Sample Makers Union, ILGWU undated
6 2 Album of photos of children adopted by Cloak Joint Board undated
6 3 Album of photos of children adopted by unidentified garment workers' union undated
6 4 Montages of children's portraits used for publicity materials undated
6 5 Children brought to the United States undated

Subseries C: Children's Homes and Orphanages and Other Child Aid Projects in France

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Documents JLC-sponsored children's homes in France such as the Nahum Aronson Home, the Shlomo Mendelson Home, the Emanuel Ringelblum Home, the B. Charney Vladeck sanatorium, the Morris Sigman Home and others. The subseries also contains images of day nurseries and of the activities of the Bundist youth groups, SKIF and Tsukunft, in France.
Box Folder Title Date
6 21 Nahum Aronson Home, Andelys undated
6 22 Nahum Aronson Home, Andelys (album) undated
6 23 Nahum Aronson Home, Andelys (album) undated
6 24 La Colonie Scolaire homes and programs undated
6 25 IKA Home, Corvol-1`Orgueilleux undated
6 26 Bertha Mehring Nursery, Paris undated
7 1 S. Mendelson Home, Le Mans, #1 undated
7 2 S. Mendelson Home, Le Mans, #2 undated
7 3 S. Mendelson Home, Le Mans, #3 undated
7 4 S. Mendelson Home, Le Mans -- field trip to Paris undated
7 5 S. Mendelson Home, Le Mans (album) undated
7 6 S. Mendelson Home, Le Mans (album) undated
7 7 S. Mendelson Home, Le Mans (album) undated
7 8 S. Mendelson Home, Le Mans (album fragments) undated
7 9 Maison d'enfants d'Ophem undated
7 10 Physical Culture Center, Gournay sur Marne undated
7 11 Emmanuel Ringelblum Home, Paris undated
7 12 B. Charney Vladeck Home, Brunoy undated
7 13 B. Charney Vladeck Home, Brunoy undated
7 14 B. Charney Vladeck Home, Brunoy undated
7 15 Morris Sigman Home, Paris undated
7 16 Miscellaneous day nurseries undated
7 17 SKIF and Tsukunft groups undated
7 18 Children Group Portraits: France undated
7 19 Individual Children: France undated
7 20 Children, miscellaneous undated
7 21 Children, miscellaneous undated

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Subseries B: European Orphanages and Children's Homes and Other Child Aid Activities (Excluding France)

Scope and Contents note

Contains photographs of JLC-sponsored summer camps, orphanages and children's homes in Belgium, England, Italy, and Poland.
Box Folder Title Date
6 6 Left Poale Zion children's summer camps in the Brussels area, Belgium undated
6 7 Children's summer camps at Braine le Compte and other places in the Brussels area, Belgium undated
6 8 Workmen's Circle summer camp at Midelkerk, Belgium undated
6 9 La Hilf summer camp, Belgium undated
6 10 Children in dramatic performances, Friends of Children Society, Brussels, Belgium undated
6 11 Children in dramatic performances, S. Mendelson School, Brussels, Belgium undated
6 12 Children at meals and in dramatic performances, Y. L. Peretz School, Brussels, Belgium undated
6 13 Children in unidentified dramatic performances and miscellaneous, Belgium undated
6 14 Bundist Shmider fun nayem lebn [Forgers of New Life] summer camp, England undated
6 15 French members of the Bundist youth group, SKIF, on a visit to England, 1948
6 16 JLC delegation bringing aid packages to the Associazione Nazionale enti Assistenza Per i Bimbi poveri d'Italia, Milan, Italy 1949
6 17 JLC delegation visiting child aid project in Rome, Italy, 1949
6 18 Orphanage or summer camp, Selvino, Italy undated
6 19 Miscellaneous, Italy undated
6 20 Children's homes, orphanages, and summer camps, Poland undated

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Series IV: Oversized Albums, Jewish Daily Forward Pages (Copies)
Box Title Date
8 Albums of photographs of individual children (and information relating to them) sponsored by United States trade unions Photocopies of Jewish Daily Forward photo essays on Child Adoption
9 Albums of photographs of individual children (and information relating to them) sponsored by United States trade unions, and one oversized album of Left Poale Zion housing and other construction projects in Israel.
FFC: 6-6 Oversized photographs (mostly panoramic views of JLC meetings and banquets).

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