Director of Financial Resource Development, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles The JDC also fed and clothed volunteers at the Haganah training camp in Lower Silesia (19471948), and subsidized Zionist kibbutzim for youths. All Rights Reserved. And tens of thousands of Jewish families struggle to make ends meet and secure a future for their children. The Romanian community needed the most support, since it accounted for almost half of the elderly persons receiving home-care services from the JDC. In the former Soviet Union, the network of Hesed social welfare centers we founded catalyzes the spirit of strength and resilience that has defined the Jewish people for centuries. By the end of 1917, the JDC had transferred $2,532,000 to Russia, $3,000,000 to German-occupied Poland and Lithuania, $1,532,300 to Galicia, and $76,000 to Romania. During the years of post-Stalin liberalization, the JDC returned only to Poland (remaining there until 1967). JDC mainly does this through a network of JDC founded and funded Hesed social welfare centers across the former Soviet Union and in partnership with local Jewish communities across Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. EIN: 95-6111928, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Director of Financial Resource Development. In old Romaniawhich had suffered relatively less from the warreconstruction began early and proceeded successfully, but in Bucovina, only a tenth of the aid was able to be applied to reconstruction, as the immediate needs of the population were greater. JDC leverages more than a century of experience helping Jewish communities to provide expert, immediate humanitarian aid and long-term rebuilding efforts for communities in crisis around the world. Responding to Global EmergenciesThe lives of millions annually are irrevocably altered in an instant when natural disasters or other calamities strike. The file Belgium: Administration, General 1933-1940 (nr. Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities?
Need the ability to download nonprofit data and more advanced search options? Eastern Europe was and has remained one of the JDCs main areas of activity. In 1923, the Organization for Child and Orphan Care (Centrala Opieki nad Sierotami; CENTOS) was founded in Poland. Once again, the organization concentrated on two main areassocial welfare and relief, and renewal of Jewish life. In the 1970s, the government of Israel paid ransom money to the Romanian secret police for every Jew who emigrated. 
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JDC offered economic rehabilitation to those wishing to remain in Poland and assistance to those seeking to emigrate. Agro-Joint agronomists helped train the colonists, teaching them advanced methods of agricultural work. Someone from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee will be in contact with you soon. The organization also supported 7,000 Jewish students from Poland, Romania, and Hungary who were studying in Czechoslovakia, as admission of Jews into their home countries universities was restricted. When you include the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC, also known as "the Joint") in your estate plan, your generosity helps us continue to lift lives and strengthen communities across the globe. In aiding Soviet Jewry the JDC cooperated with the Israel governmental organization Nativ (Liaison Bureau of the Foreign Ministry). The JDC Child Care Department placed orphans in shelters and with families; foster families were also located in the United States for hundreds of orphans.
In fact, the aid reached very few Jews. Of the $30 million expended, $10$12 million went to help Jews go to Palestine (the Beriah operation). They organized urgently needed sanitary and medical aid, as well as child care. In 1922, some 40,000 orphans were registered in Poland, and another 14,000 lived in Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. 1920. NOTE: you will be redirectedto the Web site for the. The Photo Collection of the JDC contains a couple of hundred of images relevant to the history of the Jewish communities of Belgium. Military operations during World War I forced hundreds of thousands of East European Jews to leave their homes. We're fostering inspiring Jewish experiences for children, teens, and families, and investing in exciting young leaders from nearly every continent who are committed to shaping their communities futures. The branches of AJDC in the area of the General Government worked until December 1941. Printed by Paul Schpf, Berlin, 1926, with the aid of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and distributed in Eastern Europe by OZE. Try a low commitment monthly plan today. The Czechoslovak, Polish, and Bulgarian governments also permitted the SSE to give aid to Jews in their countries.
World War I left in its wake the seeds of many additional catastrophespogroms, epidemics, famine, revolution, and economic ruinand JDC played a major role in rebuilding the devastated communities of Eastern Europe and Palestine. Click here to resend it.). JDC's worldwide reach, and partnership model, enables it to ensure deep engagement with local communities, and by embedding itself in these communities and drawing staff and ideas from local community members, JDC understands and can respond to local needs in customized, highly relevant ways. This money was allocated mainly for aid to elderly, sick, or solitary persons. ), posing with disinfection equipment, 1921 or 1922. Sign in or create an account to view Form(s) 990 for 2020, 2019 and 2018. In the city of Dzhankoy, Crimea, Agro-Joint built a factory for maintaining and repairing agricultural machinery.
Active today in more than 70 countries, JDC and its partners work to alleviate hunger and hardship, rescue Jews in danger, create lasting connections to Jewish life, and help Israel overcome the social challenges of its most vulnerable citizens, both Jewish and non-Jewish. Uncover the giving option that works best for your goals. Photograph by USA Werkstatte. The number of Jews in Poland grew as refugees were repatriated from the USSR. At the Slnsk Trial in November 1952, the JDC was accused of espionage, sabotage, illegal currency transactions, speculation, and smuggling, under the guise of charitable activity. During that time, the JDC fed up to 2 million people in Ukraine and Belorussia. Kosher dining halls were organized, and several homes for the elderly were equipped. 29 contains a file titled Belgium, 1943-1945, in which we find correspondence and reports on the activities of the Comit National de Dfense des Juifs en Belgique, financed by Saly Mayer and the JDC. JDCs reach extends beyond the global Jewish community by providing non-sectarian disaster relief and long-term development assistance worldwide. These free guides can help you secure the future for the people and causes you care about. Around the world, JDC, often in partnership with the local Jewish community, serves thousands of elderly, children and families in need with home care, food & medicines, and other life saving care. Payments under such agreements, however, are not protected or otherwise guaranteed by any government agency or the California Life and Health Insurance Guarantee Association. In 1926, more than 120 childrens shelters in Europe were subsidized by the JDC; thousands of orphans learned trades. In 19461947, the JDC supplied a significant amount of penicillin and medical equipment to Soviet hospitals. Figures cited in any examples are for illustrative purposes only. (London and Portland, Ore., 2001). The outbreak of war in 1939 did not stop the AJDC relief efforts in Poland. How does this organization measure their results? The Cyprus Collection of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJJDC) offers a unique window into a pivotal period of 20th-century history by documenting the dramatic events in Cyprus against the backdrop of the birth of the State of Israel.
Searching the Photographs database on keywords such as Belgium, Brussels and Antwerp nets over 370 results at the time of writing. This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990 or 990-EZ. Get the legal language to share with your attorney to make a gift in your will or living trust. Information contained herein was accurate at the time of posting. Los Angeles, California 90048, 323.761.8700 Learn more The JDC also helped refugees returning from Russia to find work, acquire trade skills, and obtain affordable loans, whether for opening businesses or for repairing or building homes. As innovation is part of the very nature of JDC's work in Israel, JDC's new Social Impact Accelerator harnesses the can-do spirit of Israel's best and brightest, to develop their own solutions. After July 1921, the JDC ceased giving general relief and reorganized its work on the principle of functionality. To ensure financial backing for the project, in 1928 the JDC created the American Society for Jewish Farm Settlements in Russia (Amsojefs), with James N. Rosenberg as its chair and Julius Rosenwald as its main patron. From August 1946 to February 1949, the deportees--primarily Holocaust survivors--lived behind barbed wire in 12 detention camps. In fact, a majority decided to try to leave Poland, and JDC supplied them with trucks, food, and clothing. In Subcollection Countries & Regions, Record Group: Belgium we firstly note the files (containing correspondence, memos, reports etc.) [emailprotected] The economic restructuring undertaken by the Soviet successor states led to tens of thousands of Jewish pensioners being turned into persons with dire needs. In 19421945, the program had expended $2.2 million. JDC provides life-saving home care to thousands of elderly Jews in Europe and the former Soviet Union. It was founded on 27 November 1914 with the aim of centralizing allocations of aid to Jews adversely affected by World War I. JDC makes it possible. To support JDCs Employment Assistance and Support for At-Risk Youth programs, helping individuals access the job market and receive mentorship and support during the pandemic. (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Photo Archives), Asher Ostrin, Director of the CIS program of the JDC (left) and Seymour Epstein, JDC regional director for Siberia, at the opening of a synagogue renovated with JDC assistance, Omsk, 1996. In 1943, the JDC was permitted to deliver food, clothing, and other goods to the USSR. 152, 153, 154, 155 and 160 for the period 1945-1954. This database might contain special categories of Personal Data and Personal Data relating to criminal convictions or offences, which according to article 9, section 2 under j GDPR and article 24 and 32 under f of the UAVG (Dutch personal data protection act) can be used for research purposes only on the condition that there are appropriate safeguards for the rights and freedoms of the data subject. In the 1970s, when a significant number of the Jews leaving the USSR on Israeli invitations expressed the desire to settle in the West, the JDC, together with the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), and diverging from Israeli policy, helped them resettle in the United States. In December 1949, the JDC was expelled from Poland, having expended almost $21 million there. More than $2 million was expended on such deliveries in 19441947. Thanks to the generous support of the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, JDC is able to help Israeli job seekers and youth at risk during this challenging period of COVID-19.
By April 1923, the organization had helped 300,000 refugees and returnees: 185,000 in Poland and 75,000 in Lithuania. For example, JDC is currently running a grassroots innovation hub in Budapest that is mentoring rising Jewish leaders and providing seed funds for new programs. By late 1948, there were 208 Jewish cooperatives in Poland, providing livelihoods to 18,000 people. Beyond JDC's historic record of life-saving care and investments in building Jewish life and communities, JDC touches over 1 million lives across the world annually.Through our service and direct care work, JDC aids elderly Jews and Jewish families in need in societies lacking a social safety net and successful economies. The JDC supported state childrens homes, gave shelter to Jewish orphans, supported Jewish schools (with an enrollment of 20,000 pupils at the end of 1946), encouraged religious activity, and helped to settle repatriates from the USSR in German territories annexed by Poland. These items were supposed to be distributed by the Soviet Red Cross Society on a nonsectarian basis in regions with high concentrations of Jews. Hot meals were delivered to bedridden persons in their homes. 6505 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1200 to get more GuideStar Nonprofit Profile data today! Faced with the catastrophic health and sanitary conditions in Poland, the JDC began to render emergency medical aid. Records of the New York office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1945-1954. This aid was rendered mainly through CKP, and also directly to the revived community organizations, TOZ, and the Religious Communities Association. A verification email has been sent to you. 
(YIVO), A junk dealer who received aid from the Free Loan Program of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee with his family, Warsaw, ca. Our planned giving team would be happy to speak with you in confidence, with no obligation. Immediately after the end of World War I, in early 1919, AJDC sent representatives to Poland.
We continue to strengthen that work and engage with communities to identify what comes next and how they want to implement it. After 1989, the restitution of communal propertyespecially synagogues confiscated by the Communist regimesbecame the key to financial independence for communities in the region. Comprising the organizational records of JDC, the overseas rescue, relief, and rehabilitation arm of the American Jewish community, the archives includes over 3 miles of text documents, 100,000 photographs, a research library of more than 6,000 books, 1,100 audio recordings including oral histories, and a collection of 2,500 videos. 
about GuideStar Pro. The JDC model is: We effectively pilot research-backed social experiments in key locations, testing and optimizing our initiatives, and then hand them over to the government, which scales them up to run nationwide. 117 and 118 (ca. More than 100 synagogues were returned to Jewish communities in the CIS alone. Records of the New York office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1933-1944. In Czechoslovakia, the local Jewish relief committee distributed aid from the JDC. It also financed their stay at the transit camps in Ostia and Ladispoli, Italy. Aid was also sent to Jews in German-occupied territories. Empowering All IsraelisJDC works to improve the lives of Israel's most vulnerable populations through innovative programs that increase access to social services, education, employment, and opportunities to more fully integrate into Israeli society. Members of the Mizrai Zionist youth group Bene Akiva (maintained by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee), doing Israeli dancing in the foothills of the Tatra Mountains, Brusno, Czechoslovakia (now in Slovakia), 1946. The organization also helped communities to receive restitution for former synagogues and then renovate them. EIN: 95-6111928, 2001 - 2022 The Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. 6907531-StrategicPlan-2020-2020-1612807341927.pdf (2020 - ), Officers, directors, trustees, and key employees, Analyze a variety of pre-calculated financial metrics, Access beautifully interactive analysis and comparison tools, Compare nonprofit financials to similar organizations, Revenue and expense data for the current fiscal year, CEO, Board Chair, and Board of Directors information, *with the ability to download the data for 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 