Jewish Labor Committee Photographs
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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.
Historical 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 hundred 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.
Arrangement
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 5 series:
Missing Title
- Series I: General Activities, 1930s-1980s
- Series II: Personalities
- Series III: Aid To Children
- Series IV: Photograph Albums And Oversized Photographs
- Series V: Unprocessed
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: Series I-General Activities, 1930s To 1980s:Subseries A: Establishment of JLC and Early ActivitiesSubseries B: Holocaust and Jewish Life in Europe Under the NazisSubseries C: Postwar Aid ActivitiesSubseries D: Anti-Discrimination and Pro-Human Rights ActivitiesSubseries E: Other Postwar ActivitiesSubseries F: JLC Staff, Branches, Chapters, Divisions, and CommitteesSubseries G: Miscellaneous
Series II-Personalities:Subseries A: JLC LeadershipSubseries B: General
Series III-Aid to Children:Subseries A: Child Adoption ProgramSubseries 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
Series IV, Oversized Albums and Panorama Portraits
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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Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright (and related rights to publicity and privacy) to materials in this collection, created by the Jewish Labor Committee, was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder.
Preferred Citation
Published citations should take the following form:
Identification of item, date; Jewish Labor Committee Photographs; PHOTOS 048; Box number; Folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The first shipment of the Jewish Labor Committee Records arrived at the Tamiment Library in 1984. The accession numbers associated with these donations are 1984.002 and 1984.006. A number of addition donations to the collection have been made by the JLC and its individual members over the years. The accession numbers associated with the photographs donated by JLC and its members are 1984.015, 2011.091, NPA.1991.001, NPA.1991.005, NPA.1991.011, NPA.1995.024, NPA.1996.015, NPA.2003.023, NPA.2005.160 and NPA.2009.026.
Separated Materials
This collection is comprised of photographs that were separated from the Tamiment Library's Jewish Labor Committee Records, Parts I, II, and III (WAG 025.001, WAG 025.002, and WAG 025.003) as these collections were processed during the 1990s and 2000s.
About this Guide
Processing Information
Materials have been rehoused in archival folders and containers.
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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.
Establishment of JLC and early activities,, 1930s, inclusive
World Labor Athletic Carnival (Counter-Olympics), Randall's Island, New York City, 1936 , 1937, inclusive
Wartime food and clothing drives and other activities, United States, ca.1939-1945, inclusive
World War II photos, United States, misc., ca.1939-1945, inclusive
Wartime England, ca.1939-1945, inclusive
Jewish refugee aid in Poland and Romania,, 1938-1939, inclusive
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.
JLC Heroes and Martyrs of the Ghettos exhibition,, Apr 1945
JLC Heroes and Martyrs of the Ghettos exhibition,, Apr 1945
Belgium, ca.1939-1945, inclusive
Czechoslovakia and Romania, ca.1939-1945, inclusive
France, antisemitic exhibition, ca.1939-1945, inclusive
France, Jewish partisans and general resistance movement, ca.1939-1945, inclusive
France, German atrocities, ca.1939-1945, inclusive
Germany, Liberation of concentration camps, ca.1939-1945, inclusive
Netherlands, ca.1939-1945, inclusive
Poland, ca.1939-1945, inclusive
Unidentified Nazi personnel, ca.1939-1945, inclusive
Refugees, photos produced by or for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, ca.1939-1945, inclusive
Subseries C: Postwar Aid Activities
Scope and Contents note
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.)
Food and clothing drives, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive; 1945-1959, bulk
Book fund and pro-immigration activities, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive; 1945-1959, bulk
Relative search, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive; 1945-1959, bulk
Appeals for help and thank-yous from individual refugees and Holocaust survivors, with photos, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive; 1945-1959, bulk
Refugee visa applications with photo portraits of Holocaust survivors, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive; 1945-1959, bulk
Miscellaneous portraits of refugees and Holocaust survivors, location unidentified, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive; 1945-1959, bulk
Austria, Displaced persons' camps and Holocaust survivors, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive; 1945-1959, bulk
Belgium, Left Poale Zion and miscellaneous postwar Jewish activities, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive; 1945-1959, bulk
China, Jewish refugees, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
France, JLC delegations, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
France, Hakol bekhol puppet theater, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
France, Miscellaneous postwar, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
Germany, Displaced persons' camps, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
Germany, Mit theatrical troupe, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
Germany, Baderech theatrical troupe, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
Germany, JLC delegations, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
Germany, Wolpert-Goldman visit, 1946, inclusive
Germany, Miscellaneous portraits and identity documents of refugees and Holocaust survivors, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
Germany, Miscellaneous postwar, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
Italy, JLC delegations and aid, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
Italy, Bundist Oyfboy Workers Collective, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
Italy, Miscellaneous portraits of refugees and Holocaust survivors, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
Poland, Jewish Labor Bund activities, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
Poland, Left Poale Zion activities, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
Poland, Jacob Pat's visits, 1946, 1949, inclusive
Poland, Miscellaneous portraits and identity documents of refugees and Holocaust survivors, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
Poland, Miscellaneous postwar, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
Romania, Miscellaneous portraits of refugees and Holocaust survivors, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
Sweden, Jewish Labor Bund and Left Poale Zion activities, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
Switzerland (Geneva), Central Jewish Library, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
Palestine/Israel, JLC aid to (United States), ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
Palestine/Israel, JLC delegations, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
Israel, Brith Ha'avodah cooperative workshops, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
Israel, Brith Ha'avodah summer camps, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
Israel, Beit Lessin Cultural Center, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
Israel, Kursky Library and Zygielbojm Auditorium, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
Israel, Moshav Norge, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
Israel, Zygielbojm children's house, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
Palestine/Israel, Yiddish afternoon schools, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
Israel, Workmen's Circle Neve Hadassah summer camp, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
Israel, Workmen's Circle Yiddish theater groups, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
Palestine/Israel, Holocaust survivors, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
Palestine/Israel, Miscellaneous, ca.1945-1950s, inclusive
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.
JLC Fourth National Trade Union Conference on Civil Rights,, 1962, inclusive
National Trade Union Council, 1950s-1960s, inclusive
National Trade Union Council, 1970s, inclusive
National Trade Union Council, 1980s, inclusive
Anti-discrimination activities/AFL-CIO meetings, California, 1960s, inclusive
Anti-discrimination activities/AFL-CIO meetings, Connecticut, 1950s, inclusive
Illinois (Chicago), labor conferences on civil rights, 1955-1959, inclusive
Illinois (Chicago), labor conferences on civil rights, 1960-1962, inclusive
Illinois (Chicago), labor conferences on civil rights, 1963-1984, inclusive
Illinois (Chicago), labor conferences on civil rights- Miscellaneous, unidentified, undated, inclusive
Anti-discrimination activities/AFL-CIO meetings, Massachusetts, undated, inclusive
Anti-discrimination activities/AFL-CIO meetings, Michigan, undated, inclusive
Anti-discrimination activities/AFL-CIO meetings, New Jersey, undated, inclusive
Anti-discrimination activities/AFL-CIO meetings, New York City, undated, inclusive
Anti-discrimination activities/AFL-CIO meetings, New York State, undated, inclusive
Anti-discrimination activities/AFL-CIO meetings, Ohio, undated, inclusive
Anti-discrimination activities/AFL-CIO meetings, Oregon, undated, inclusive
Anti-discrimination activities/AFL-CIO meetings, Pennsylvania, undated, inclusive
Anti-discrimination activities/AFL-CIO meetings, Texas, undated, inclusive
Labor Conference on Civil Rights, Washington D.C., 1956, undated, inclusive
Anti-discrimination activities/AFL-CIO meetings, Wisconsin, undated, inclusive
Canada, AFL-CIO meetings, undated, inclusive
Anti-discrimination activities/AFL-CIO meetings, miscellaneous, undated, inclusive
Civil rights movement, miscellaneous, undated, inclusive
Soviet Jewry rally, New York City, 1953, inclusive
Soviet Jewry rallies, New York City, 1950s-1960s, inclusive
Soviet Jewry rallies, New York City, 1970s, inclusive
Soviet Jewry rallies, New York City, 1980s, inclusive
Other Soviet Jewry activities/materials (i.e., seminars, meetings with officials, antisemitic Soviet cartoons), undated, inclusive
Soviet Jewry activity, United Federation of Teachers, undated, inclusive
Soviet Jewry activity, Local JLC chapters (Illinois, Pennsylvania, Washington, DC), undated, inclusive
Protests against Polish antisemitism, undated, inclusive
Labor Human Rights Award Dinner (1973): Honoring Floyd E. Smith, December 1973, inclusive
Labor Human Rights Award Dinner (1975): Honoring Albert Shanker, December 9, 1975, inclusive
Labor Human Rights Award Dinner (1977): Honoring Sol C. Chaikin, January 1977, inclusive
Labor Human Rights Award Dinner (1978): Honoring Martin J. Ward, March 29, 1978, inclusive
Labor Human Rights Award Dinner (1979): Honoring John Lyons, September 1979, inclusive
Labor Human Rights Award Dinner (1980): Honoring Charles Pillard, December 10, 1980, inclusive
Labor Human Rights Award Dinner (1984): Honoring Edward J. Cleary, December 1984, inclusive
Labor Human Rights Award Dinner 1985): Honoring Lynn Williams, December 10, 1985, inclusive
Labor Human Rights Award Dinner (1988): Honoring Robert Georgine, December 8, 1988, inclusive
Labor Human Rights Award Dinner (1997): Honoring Stern, Matarazzo, Hirsch, January 15, 1997, inclusive
Labor Human Rights Award Dinner (1998): Honoring Feldman, Karp, Malloy, January 27, 1998, inclusive
Labor Human Rights Memorial Tribute (1982): Jerry Wurf, January 7, 1982, inclusive
Labor Human Rights Award Dinner (1975): Honoring Murray Finley, January 1975, inclusive
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.
International contacts: visits of European labor and socialist leaders to U.S.; visits of U.S. leaders abroad, 1940s-1970s, inclusive
International contacts: visits of European labor and socialist leaders to U.S.; visits of U.S. leaders abroad, 1940s-1970s, inclusive
Relations with Israel: Israel rallies; visits to Israel, undated, inclusive
Holocaust commemoration and education, undated, inclusive
Commemorations and memorials, miscellaneous, undated, inclusive
Demonstrations and rallies, undated, inclusive
JLC exhibitions and displays, undated, inclusive
Mensheviks, undated, inclusive
Language of Materials
William Green testimonial dinner and dedication of bust, 1947, 1951, inclusive
Dedication of William Green Human Relations Library, 1959, inclusive
Atran Center for Jewish Culture, undated, inclusive
Dedication of Philip Murray bust, 1953, inclusive
B. Charney Vladeck memorial meeting, 1963, inclusive
JLC conventions and meetings, 1947, inclusive
JLC conventions and meetings, 1940s-1950s, inclusive
JLC conventions and meetings, 1940s-1950s, inclusive
JLC conventions and meetings, 1940s-1950s, inclusive
JLC conventions and meetings, 1960s, inclusive
JLC conventions and meetings, 1960s, inclusive
JLC conventions and meetings, 1960s, inclusive
Language of Materials
JLC conventions and meetings, 1970s-1980s, inclusive
JLC conventions and meetings, 1970s-1980s, inclusive
Language of Materials
JLC conventions and meetings, 1970s-1980s, inclusive
Language of Materials
Triangle Fire Memorial, 2006, inclusive
JLC Conventions, 1969, 1971, inclusive
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.
JLC Staff, undated, inclusive
Language of Materials
National Executive Committee, undated, inclusive
Legislative Committee, undated, inclusive
Membership Division, undated, inclusive
Language of Materials
Educators' Chapter, undated, inclusive
Workmen's Circle branches, undated, inclusive
Women's Division, undated, inclusive
California Chapter, undated, inclusive
Illinois Chapter, undated, inclusive
Maryland Chapter, undated, inclusive
Minnesota Chapter, undated, inclusive
Missouri Chapter, undated, inclusive
New England Chapter, undated, inclusive
Ohio Chapter, undated, inclusive
Oregon Chapter, undated, inclusive
Pennsylvania Chapter, undated, inclusive
Washington, D.C. Chapter, undated, inclusive
Canada Chapter, undated, inclusive
Chicago Chapter, 1956, 1965, 1971, 1973, 1975, inclusive
Philadelphia Chapter, 1972-1975, inclusive
Los Angeles Chapter, 1974, inclusive
Field Offices: Individual and Group Portraits, circa 1960-1989, inclusive
Workmen's Circle, undated
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.
Miscellaneous, undated, inclusive
Miscellaneous, undated, inclusive
AFL-CIO Convention Backdrop, 1955-1956, inclusive
C.I.O. Summer School, 1946, inclusive
Jewish Labor Bund, undated
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.
David Dubinsky, undated, inclusive
Benjamin Gebiner, undated, inclusive
Adolph Held, undated, inclusive
Emanuel Muravchik, undated, inclusive
Michael S. Perry, undated, inclusive
Benjamin Tabachinsky, undated, inclusive
Baruch Charney Vladeck, undated, inclusive
Charles Zimmerman, undated, inclusive
Jacob Zukerman, undated, inclusive
Subseries B: General
Scope and Contents note
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.)
Leon Blum: Album of photographs, undated, inclusive
Leon Blum Luncheon, April 13, 1946, undated, inclusive
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, inclusive
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, inclusive
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, inclusive
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, inclusive
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, inclusive
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, inclusive
Unidentified, undated, inclusive
Rotman, Sara, undated
Berger, Veil, undated
Herszkowicz, Jankiel, undated
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.)
Child Adoption Program -- Participating unions and other labor groups, undated, inclusive
Child Adoption Program -- Participating Workmen's Circle branches, undated, inclusive
Child Adoption Program -- Workmen's Circle, undated, inclusive
Language of Materials
Child Adoption Program -- For children in Belgium, 1948-1949, inclusive
Language of Materials
Children Adopted by Individuals, undated, inclusive
Album of photos of children adopted by the Out of Town Cloak Department of the ILGWU, undated, inclusive
Album of photos of children adopted by the United Cloak, Suit, Infants and Children's Coat Operators and Sample Makers Union, ILGWU, undated, inclusive
Album of photos of children adopted by Cloak Joint Board, undated, inclusive
Album of photos of children adopted by unidentified garment workers' union, undated, inclusive
Montages of children's portraits used for publicity materials, undated, inclusive
Children brought to the United States, undated, inclusive
Rosenberg, Klod Case File, 1949, inclusive
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.
Left Poale Zion children's summer camps in the Brussels area, Belgium, undated, inclusive
Children's summer camps at Braine le Compte and other places in the Brussels area, Belgium, undated, inclusive
Workmen's Circle summer camp at Midelkerk, Belgium, undated, inclusive
La Hilf summer camp, Belgium, undated, inclusive
Children in dramatic performances, Friends of Children Society, Brussels, Belgium, undated, inclusive
Children in dramatic performances, S. Mendelson School, Brussels, Belgium, undated, inclusive
Children at meals and in dramatic performances, Y. L. Peretz School, Brussels, Belgium, undated, inclusive
Children in unidentified dramatic performances and miscellaneous, Belgium, undated, inclusive
Bundist Shmider fun nayem lebn [Forgers of New Life] summer camp, England, undated, inclusive
French members of the Bundist youth group, SKIF, on a visit to England,, 1948, inclusive
JLC delegation bringing aid packages to the Associazione Nazionale enti Assistenza for poor Italian children, Milan, Italy, 1949, inclusive
JLC delegation visiting child aid project in Rome, Italy,, 1949, inclusive
Orphanage or summer camp, Selvino, Italy, undated, inclusive
Miscellaneous, Italy, undated, inclusive
Children's homes, orphanages, and summer camps, Poland, undated, inclusive
Subseries C: Children's Homes and Orphanages and Other Child Aid Projects in France
Scope and Contents note
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.
