About the World Jewish Congress Collection: (ID: 30713)
Authorship or Source:
World Jewish Congress Collection.
Title or Main Description:
- About the World Jewish Congress Collection:
- The six reels of microfilm in this collection contain listings created by the World Jewish Congress' Refugee Relief Department (called Location Services after 1945). These 'Location Lists' document the location of survivors during and after the war.
Type of Work:
Microfilm
Alternate or Series Title:
Location Lists.
Museum or Other Institution Holdings:
Transferred from Survivors Registry to USHMM Archives: Accession Number 1997.A.0235.
Provenance:
- The approximately 700 name lists that comprise this microfilm collection of World Jewish Congress records held by the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnatti, Ohio (Website: http://www.americanjewisharchives.org) were identified by former Director of the Registry of Holocaust Survivors, Ms. Sarah Ogilvie in Summer 1994. The microfilm was purchased by the Registry of Holocaust Survivors from the American Jewish Archives, and then transferred to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Collections in 1997.
- See also Document File AC0020 for related information on this collection.
Keywords:
- Holocaust survivors --Europe --Registers --Sources.
- Jews --Foreign countries --Registers --Sources.
- Jews --Foreign countries --Directories --Sources.
- Missing persons --Registers, lists, etc. --Sources.
- World Jewish Congress. Refugee Relief Department. --Sources.
- World Jewish Congress. Location Services. --Sources.
Language and Other Notes:
- This is a collection-level catalog record. Individual name lists from this collection have also been individually cataloged.
- Finding aids appear at the front of each reel.
- Cataloger-assigned title.
Resource Center Cataloging Notes:
Former Q&A Name Lists Database File Number-- AA0244