Founded:

1914

Homepage:

www.jdc.org

The American Joint Distribution Committee is an American Jewish aid organization based in New York City that has been active since 1914.

Mentioned in

• Fritz Buff’s Account of His Journey on the St. Louis (1939)
• Martha Glass, Travel Diary during her passage from Bremerhaven to New York, February 27, 1947-March 14, 1947
• Migration (Tobias Brinkmann)
• Occupational Questions of the Returnees from Shanghai
• Social Issues and Welfare (Stefanie Schüler-Springorum)
• The Founding of a new Jewish Congregation in Hamburg (1945). The Twelve “Founding Fathers.” (Ina Lorenz)
• “Swept back into the unseen vastness of the sea” - Fritz Buff’s account of his voyage aboard the ST. LOUIS, May and June 1939 (Matthias Loeber)