People's Relief Committee for Jewish War Sufferers records 1914-1924

Collection includes official correspondence (ca. 55,000 items) and scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and printed promotional literature pertaining to the activities of the People's Relief Committee. The international, national and intra-committee correspondence, in Yiddish and English, is arranged geographically and relates to the plight of Eastern European Jewry during the years 1915-1924 and relief efforts on their behalf. Scrapbooks contain clippings from U.S. and Canadian Yiddish and English newspapers for the years 1916-1924Formerly stored with this collection was a scrapbook of newspaper clippings on the Central Relief Committee, 1917-1921. This item is now identified as I-29