Shanghai Collection
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Brief Description: The collection relates to life in the ghetto and includes materials on: founding of the ghetto; relief groups such as JDC, ORT, HIAS, and SACRA (Shanghai Ashkenazic Collaborating Relief Association);  political organizations such as Zionist groups, the Bund;  the rabbinate;  the sick and benevolent society;  kitchen fund;  commercial establishments;  religious schools , secular schools; professional associations;  art, theater and music activities;  Jewish press; emigration from Shanghai after World War II.  There are also manuscript histories of the Shanghai Ghetto.
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Record Series Number: RG 243 /RG 243 
Created by: Shanghai Collection
Volume: 0.0
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Organization: Boxes are arranged in folder numerical sequence

Arrangement: The collection is arranged in the following Series: I) Shanghai ghetto (1943-1945; II) communal organizations and activities (1927-1948); III) migration (1930-1941); IV) newspapers (1935-1948); V) papers of individuals, personal narratives and memoirs (1924-1950); VI) YIVO and other institutions (1945-1948); VII) posters and broadsides (1934-1947).

Access Restrictions: The collection is open to researchers by appointment with the Chief Archivist. For information, write to Chief Archivist, archives@yivo.cjh.org.
Subject Index
China
Communal Welfare Organizations
Film and Cinema
Ghettos, Holocaust
Holocaust and Aftermath
Jewish Labor Bund
Press, Jewish
Rabbis
Social Welfare
Theater
Zionism
Genres/Forms of Material
Documents - Collection
Other Formats: MK 506.1-.5
Finding Aid Revisions: 1994/08/08 ; 1903/12/09 ; GMB
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