Jewish Refugees Committee, Leeds: correspondence and papers (microfilm)

Correspondence and papers of the Leeds office of the Jewish Refugee Committee, 1938-1939, comprising letters from local businesses regarding the recruitment of trainees/ refugees and letters from family members and guardians.

The Jewish Refugees Committee, later the German Jewish Aid Committee, was founded in the early months of 1933 by Otto Schiff under the aegis of the Central British Fund for the Relief of German Jewry. Its tasks were to arrange for the admission of refugees to Britain, their maintenance, training, employment or re-migration. A number of provincial committees were formed to deal with issues regarding Jewish refugees in these areas. The Leeds office trainee department was supervised by David Makovski.

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Jewish Central Information Office

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk

Microfilm

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

MF Doc 27 Archives of the Central British Fund for the Relief of German Jewry (74 reels).

Wiener Collection, Tel Aviv University, Israel.