Author: JDC Archives

For Len Bieber, researching the history of Jewish emigration to Bolivia against the backdrop of World War II is particularly resonant: he was born in Bolivia, to German Jewish parents. A professor of political science who has taught in Ecuador, Germany, and Mexico, in 2010, Bieber published Presencia juda en Bolivia: la ola inmigratoria de 1938-1940 (The Jewish Presence in Bolivia: The Immigration Wave of 1938-1940), where he examines the WWII-era wave of Jewish immigration to Bolivia and analyzes the factors which impacted their economic and sociocultural integration at that juncture. The Jewish refugee experience in Bolivia was indelibly...

 JDC’s Stockholm Collection, which documents its World War II-era relief work in Sweden, is now available online.Browse highlights from our photo holdings on Sweden here. This collection, housed in the Jerusalem office of the JDC Archives, comprises approximately 50,000 pages and chronicles JDCs extensive activity in Sweden from 1941-1967. Given its strategic location in neutral Sweden, JDCs office was well-positioned to purchase, receive, and send supplies to needy communities in Europe, provide support for war-time rescue operations, and care for, forward mail to, and search for survivors after World War II. Materials in this collection include: reports from concentration...

The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow and the Museum of the History of the Polish Jews in Warsaw, both exciting new institutions which have opened in the past two years, collectively feature over 40 images from the JDC Archives in their core exhibits to effectively tell the history and culture of their Jewish communities. The Center in Moscow, which opened in November 2012, showcases historic JDC images to convey the scope of such diverse topics as Jewish life in the pre-World War II Soviet Union and the Agro-Joint agricultural collective program, which operated from 1924 to 1938...