First Wielkie Oczer Sick and Benevolent Society

Title: First Wielkie Oczer Sick and Benevolent Society

Inclusive Dates: 1915, 1939-1984

ID: RG 1806

Extent Information

1'10-1/2"

Creators

First Wielkie Oczer Sick and Benevolent Society (N.Y.)

Administrative/Biographical History

Organized in 1903 by immigrants from Wielkie Oczy (Vilkatch), in the province of Galicia, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today, Poland). Incorporated in New York in 1908. The Society provided sick and death benefits, purchased graves, and functioned as a burial society. Its constitution also included a provision for emergency welfare relief. The cemeteries used by the Society were Mount Zion, Mount Hebron, and Beth Israel. Dissolved in 1984.

Subjects (links to similar collections)

Benevolent Societies
Burial Societies
Cemeteries
Charitable Societies
Immigrant Societies
Landsmanshaftn
Mutual Aid Societies
United States

Languages of Materials

English
Yiddish

Administrative Information

Acquired: 06/18/2006.

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Acquisition Note: New York State Department of Insurance; ACC 28/06

Collection Material Type: Official Records

Description: Box 1: Cashbook, including records of membership dues receipts, 1956-1973. Membership dues receipt book, 1973-1983. Burial receipts, 1960-1974. Burial society records, including grave reservations, 1965-1978. Correspondence with members, 1965-1979. Society “Bulletin,” 1969-1978. Miscellaneous receipts, notes, publications, 1966-1979. Cemetery maps. Box 2: Minute book, in English and Yiddish, 1958-1982. Draft minutes, 1978-1980. Constitution and amendments, 1953-1979. Cemetery deeds, 1939, 1957. Membership list, 1973. Membership dues ledger, 1979-1983. Balance sheets, 1955-1958, 1967-1978. Audit report, 1978. Box 3: Bankbooks, 1945-1984. Check stubs, 1968-1984. Cancelled checks, 1971-1984. Box 4: Membership list, ca. 1940s. Membership dues ledger, 1939-1959. Box 5: Membership dues ledger, 1959-1979. Certificate of Incorporation (1908), certified copy, 1915. Box 6: Minute book, in Yiddish and English, 1934-1957, accompanied by digitized version (2 DVDs). Papers of Leo Weiss, recording secretary, including photographs, financial reports, and minutes, ca. 1947-1957. Oversized cemetery maps (Mount Zion, Mount Hebron) stored in map drawer.