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One of the world’s most significant collections for the study of modern Jewish history.
  • Online Events: Winter 2023-2024
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    Please join us for our upcoming programs!
  • Prevention & Partnership: JDC's Contributions to Public Health
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    This new exhibit explores JDC's achievements promoting global health and fighting epidemics.
  • JDC Archives Joins Google Cultural Institute
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    Online exhibits feature a century of JDC history.
  • Our Shared Legacy:
    World War II and “The Joint”
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    Documents and photographs detailing JDC’s work rescuing and providing relief during and after the Holocaust.
  • Historic Film, Video, and Audio Collection
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    Throughout its history, JDC used audiovisual media to document its work, commissioning films and videos of its relief operations and sound recordings of speeches and radio broadcasts.






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    Our database currently includes more than 700,000 names found in our historic documents and client lists, with more being added regularly.
     














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    Elizabeth (Barry) White and Joanna Sliwa present The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles during the Holocaust


     


    Julie Dawson Lectures on Jewish Life in Postwar Romania


     


    Dalia Wassner Lectures on A Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Memoir and the Creation of Pan-American Jewish Organizations


     


    More Than Just an ID Card


     


    CARE Packages in Action


     


    Volunteer Profile: Susan Lieberman


     


    JDC Archives Virtual Programs: Spring 2024


     


    Stories Come to Life


     








    The JDC Archives website and digitization project were made possible through a lead gift from Dr. Georgette Bennett and Dr. Leonard Polonsky CBE.
     





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    The JDC Archives website and digitization project were made possible through a lead gift from Dr. Georgette Bennett and Dr. Leonard Polonsky CBE.