Metadata : Greece's Jewish population: Documents
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- The Wiener Holocaust Library
- Holding institution (official language):
- The Wiener Holocaust Library
- Postal address:
- 29 Russell SquareLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomWC1B 5DP
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7636 7247
- Web address:
- https://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- The Wiener Holocaust Library
- Holding institution (official language):
- The Wiener Holocaust Library
- Postal address:
- 29 Russell SquareLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomWC1B 5DP
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7636 7247
- Web address:
- https://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/
- Reference number:
- 1331
- Title:
- Greece's Jewish population: Documents
- Title (official language):
- Greece's Jewish population: Documents
- Creator/accumulator:
- Gottschalk, Max, b 1889, relief worker
- Date(s):
- 1940/1949
- Language:
- English
- French
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Scope and content:
- Papers relating to the fate of Greek Jewry during the Holocaust and post-war survivors, 1940s, including plan to rehabilitate Greece's Jewish population after the war; reports by the American Joint Distribution Committee's activities in Greece; correspondence betwen Max Gottschalk and various Greek government departments; papers on the desecration of the Jewish cemetery at Salonika and papers relating to Gottschalk's activities whilst working for the American Joint Foreign Affairs Department.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Max Gottschalk was the American Joint Distribution Committee's (JDC's) trust representative in pre-war Belgium. Born in Liege in 1889, he became a social scientist, joining the Institute of Sociology of the Free University of Brussels as a research professor in 1923, he later became Government Commissioner for Unemployment and President of the Social Security Board of Belgium. As President of the Belgian Committee for Refugees from Nazi Germany, he was instrumental in the rescue of the passengers of the ship 'St Louis', that was sent back from Cuba and finally permitted to land in Antwerp in July 1939. He got out of Belgium in 1940, emigrating to America and became the president of HICEM, the Jewish migration organisation.
- Access points: locations:
- Greece
- Thessaloniki
- Access points: persons/families:
- Gottschalk, Max
- Subject terms:
- Cemeteries
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Survivors
- Access, restrictions:
- Open
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/70424
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
- Wiener Library
- Reference number:
- 1331
- Title:
- Greece's Jewish population: Documents
- Title (official language):
- Greece's Jewish population: Documents
- Creator/accumulator:
- Gottschalk, Max, b 1889, relief worker
- Date(s):
- 1940/1949
- Language:
- English
- French
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Scope and content:
- Papers relating to the fate of Greek Jewry during the Holocaust and post-war survivors, 1940s, including plan to rehabilitate Greece's Jewish population after the war; reports by the American Joint Distribution Committee's activities in Greece; correspondence betwen Max Gottschalk and various Greek government departments; papers on the desecration of the Jewish cemetery at Salonika and papers relating to Gottschalk's activities whilst working for the American Joint Foreign Affairs Department.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Max Gottschalk was the American Joint Distribution Committee's (JDC's) trust representative in pre-war Belgium. Born in Liege in 1889, he became a social scientist, joining the Institute of Sociology of the Free University of Brussels as a research professor in 1923, he later became Government Commissioner for Unemployment and President of the Social Security Board of Belgium. As President of the Belgian Committee for Refugees from Nazi Germany, he was instrumental in the rescue of the passengers of the ship 'St Louis', that was sent back from Cuba and finally permitted to land in Antwerp in July 1939. He got out of Belgium in 1940, emigrating to America and became the president of HICEM, the Jewish migration organisation.
- Access points: locations:
- Greece
- Thessaloniki
- Access points: persons/families:
- Gottschalk, Max
- Subject terms:
- Cemeteries
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Survivors
- Access, restrictions:
- Open
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/70424
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
- Wiener Library
