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Item ID | 468430 | |||
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Title | Letter from Herbert Katzki to Mr. Marcellus Parsons, Re: Food Parcels to Czechoslovakia with attached memorandum | |||
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Author | Katzki, Herbert |  |
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Document type | Textual Material | |||
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Dates | July 29 1943 | |||
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Date | 7/29/1943 | |||
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Czechoslovakia: Subject Matter, Relief Supplies, General | |
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| · Reference Code | NY AR193344 / 4 / 16 / 3 / 542 | ||||
| · Full Reference | Collection: Records of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee of the years 1933 - 1944 - NY AR193344 | Sub Collection: Countries and Regions - NY AR193344 / 4 | Record Group: Czechoslovakia - NY AR193344 / 4 / 16 | Series: Czechoslovakia: Subject Matter - NY AR193344 / 4 / 16 / 3 | ||||
| · Dates | 1943 - 1948 | ||||
| · Scope and Content | In Nov. 1941, the Nazis proceeded to transform the fortress city of Terezin (Theresienstadt), to the northwest of Prague, into a Jewish ghetto under the supervision of the Gestapo. Jews in the tens of thousands were shipped in, initially from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia and later from other countries too. At first, conditions were less intolerable than in other ghettos and concentration camps, but in time grave shortages in food, clothing and medicaments cropped up, epidemics broke out and mortality rates mushroomed. In May 1943, the JDC was authorized by the U.S. Treasury to transfer $12,000 per month to its Lisbon office, for the shipment of individual food parcels to non-Czech inmates of Theresienstadt. The inmates were restricted to the receipt of two parcels per month, weighing no more than one pound each. In May 1944, the JDC enlarged the monthly allocations to $14,000 and in August to $16,000. In addition, the Lisbon office supervised the shipment of some 5,000 parcels per month to Czech nationals in Theresienstadt. These parcels were shipped via the Czech representative in Lisbon, and were paid for by the British Board of Guardians. Moreover, in April 1944, Saly Mayer, with JDC funds, began to ship 2,000 parcels per month to Theresienstadt from Switzerland via the CICR, and the number expanded greatly by the year's end. Lists of individual inmates for the receipt of parcels were submitted by a number of organizations, and mainly the Federation of Czechoslovakian Jews, the Self-Help of Emigres from Central Europe, the Czechoslovak Jewish Representative Committee, and the Agudas Israel. Correspondence, memos, reports and addenda. Reports and memos on food parcel shipments to Theresienstadt: 9/2/43 Katzki to JDC N.Y., 11/8/43, 1/26/44, 7/7/44, 8/8/44, 1/31/45, 2/9/45. Reports and memos on conditions in Theresienstadt: 8/27/43, 9/15/43 attachment, 6/23/44 attachment to 10/26/44, 8/1/44, 10/13/44(2), 4/23/45 attachment to 7/3/45, 5/24/45, 5/26/45 | ||||
| · Scope and Content | attachment to 6/11/45, 6/4/45(2), July 1945, 7/25/45, 9/22/45. For a small pin bearing the words in Czech: "In Memoriam Theresienstadt", see R.K. Correspondence: Leo Baeck, P. Baerwald, P.F. Dunand, E. Frischer, C. Huber, H. Katzki, A.L. Kubowitzki, M.A. Leavitt, H. Linder, L.L. Margolis, R. McClelland, R. Pilpel, M. Rossel, J.J. Schwartz. | ||||
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Search in Collection | 1933-1944 New York Collection: Selected Documents | |||
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Language | English |
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