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Restrictions on use: Legal ownership is unclear. Use materials only for background
information.
RG-15.120M --- American Joint Distribution Committee in Poland
This collection contains 2,445 files of the AJDC in Warsaw, including those of the
Secretary's Office and the Emigration, Individual Relief and Welfare, Tracing,
Warehouses, Bookkeeping, Administration, and other departments or units. All AJDC
documents are included in both English and Polish languages. Contents reflect the
AJDC‘s main activities: rendering material assistance (food, medicine, clothing, tools)
and funding organizations (Central Committee of Jews in Poland, the Bund, Zionist
movements, youth associations, religious societies, Hebrew schools).
Provenance: Jewish Historical Institute of Poland (JHI), Warsaw. The archives of Joint in
Poland, transferred to the Jewish Historical Institute in 1949, are far from complete. No
significant documentation of the Legal or Supply Departments survives. The present
reorganization of the files was completed in 2005.
Languages: Polish, English, Czech, French, Hebrew, Dutch, German, Portuguese,
Russian, Swedish, Hungarian, and Yiddish 1945–1949
267 microfilm rolls (35 mm)
Source of Acquisition: Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw
Finding aids: File-level descriptions, introduction, subject and other indexes, all in Polish
Restrictions: Publication or copying of more than several documents for a third party
requires permission of the source archive.
RG-19.040 --- Lawrence and Irene Koenigsberger Collection
This collection includes extensive correspondence relating to the emigration of Manfred
Löwin to the United States in 1939 and his unsuccessful attempts, with the help of his
friends the Koenigsbergers, to save his family. Manfred Löwin changed his name to
Manfred Lovin after his emigration to the United States.
Languages: English, German 1933–1944
Ca. 100 items
Source of Acquisition: Dr. Lorraine Beitler
NOTE: See also RG-28.007—Manfred Lovin Case File from the United Restitution
Organization, and Art and Artifacts Branch—Accession 1992.45—The Manfred Lovin
Collection
RG-19.041 --- Shoshannah Gallowski Fine Collection
This collection contains registration records, photographs, letters, pamphlets, and various
other documents relating to Shoshannah G. Fine‘s work with orphaned Jewish children