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Item ID | 358342 | |||
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Title | Memorandum from Mr. J. C. Hyman to Mr. Baerwald | |||
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Author | Mr. Hyman |  |
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Document type | Textual Material | |||
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Dates | 1935 February 07 | |||
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Date | 2/7/1935 | |||
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USSR: Agro-Joint, General, Birobidjan, 1932 - 1935 | |
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| · Reference Code | NY AR192132 / 4 / 30 / 5 / 514 | ||||
| · Full Reference | Collection: Records of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee of the years 1921 - 1932 - NY AR192132 | Sub Collection: Countries and Regions - NY AR192132 / 4 | Record Group: USSR - NY AR192132 / 4 / 30 | Series: USSR: Agro-Joint (American Jewish Joint Agricultural Corporation) - NY AR192132 / 4 / 30 / 5 | ||||
| · Dates | 1932 - 1935 | ||||
| · Scope and Content | Reports on visits to Birobidjan by : Professor M. Krol, attached to letter dated 12/9/35, Lord Marley, 10/14/33 - 10/15/33 and ICOR Library #2, 1935, and J. Rosen, 10/27/34 and les Cahiers do Renouveau, March 1935. Correspondence: Saul Arons, Joseph C. Hyman, B. Hyman, B. Kahn, Lord Marley. Joseph A. Rosen, F. M. Warburg, Max Warburg. In 1928, the USSR set aside the territory of Birobidjan in Eastern Siberis as an autonomous region for Jewish settlement. The JDC took a negative position at the time to the creation of the new region. But after the Nazis rose to power the finding of new homes for Jewish refugees grew pressing, and the Agro-Joint began to restudy resettlement projects in Birobidjan. In 1936, the Soviet Government undertook to shoulder full responsibility for the operation and management of all settlement activities within the territory, and restricted activities of foreign organizations to the transport of prospective immigrants to the USSR borders. Until that point, the Agro-Joint had exercised all but complete authority and supervision in its colonizing activities elsewhere in the country. Moreover, in the Stalinist purges of 1936 - 1938. several leading Jewish personalities in Birobidjan were denounced and liquidated. As a result, the JDC and the Agro-Joint followed a strictly hands-off policy in Jewish resettlement activities in Birobidjan. Following the Nazi invasion of the USSR and the coming of the Holocaust, the Ambijan Committee for Emergency Aid to the Soviet Union mounted pressure on the JDC to aid in the care and rehabilitation of 3,500 Jewish war orphans. The Soviet Government was expected to evacuate these children from other parts of Russia and to build children's settlements for them in Birobidjan. The JDC declined to participate. | ||||
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Search in Collection | 1921-1932 New York Collection | |||
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Language | English |
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