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Committee, which put her in touch with relatives in New York City; her reunion with
Anya in a displaced persons camp near Frankfurt; her move, with Feliks, to Paris where
Feliks painted and exhibited his work; her trip to New York City in 1947 to visit her
relatives; Feliks‘ move to New York; their marriage and move to Montreal shortly
thereafter; and their return to the United States a few years later. Also included are a onepage
biographical sketch of her late husband and photocopies of photographs of him, his
parents, and his two sisters.
Language: English Ca. 1996
.25 linear inches
Source of Acquisition: Janet Rogowsky
NOTE: See also Art and Artifact Branch Accession 1992.213
RG-11.001M.36 --- Records of the Executive Committee of the World Jewish Congress,
Paris (Fond 1190)
This collection contains diverse reports and articles on the economic and political
situation of Jews in almost all the countries of Europe by the World Jewish Congress
(WJC) and many other organizations; a 1937 report of the American Jewish Congress to
Secretary of State Cordell Hull; meeting minutes of a 1938 meeting of the London
Committee of Jewish Refuges and the HICEM about the possibility of immigration for
Jews; summaries of the immigration of Jews to various countries from 1936 to 1937;
WJC materials from and about the 1938 Evian conference; reports on the creation of a
bank to finance Jewish exports from Poland, an initiative to create an international Jewish
colonial society ―Eva-Knol,‖ an economic boycott or blockade of Germany,
Kristallnacht, the conditions of refugees at the borders of Poland and Bucovina, the
defense of Jewish rights in Danzig, the situation of refugees in Spain, Jewish immigration
to French colonial territories, a proposal to create a Jewish foreign legion, Jews in the
French Foreign Legion, Romanian and Jewish lawyers in Romania, an appeal of Sudeten
Jews about damage caused by the German occupation, ghettos set up in various Polish
cities from 1938 to 1940, the situation of Jews in towns of Soviet-occupied Galicia from
1939 to 1940, and economic contributions made by Jewish emigrants in the countries of
their asylum including France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the Baltic states,
Scandinavia, the United States, Central American states, New Zealand, South Africa,
Belgium, and Great Britain; internal WJC correspondence; a 1936 document compilation
about the deprivation of rights of Jews in Germany; edited proofs of chapters of the book
The Economic Situation of Jews in Different Regions of the World, published by WJC in
1937, which includes articles on Yugoslavia, Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece,
France, Danzig, Iraq, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Estonia,
Czechoslovakia, and so on, as well as press reviews of the book; materials from other
organizations including the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the Amsterdam Central Jewish
Information Office, the International Legal Conference of July 1937 in Paris, the
Committee for the Defense of Jewish Rights in Antwerp; samples of antisemitic
publications; and newspaper clippings.