TABLE OF CONTENTS


Introduction

Scope and Content Note

Restrictions

Administrative Information

Search Terms

A Finding Aid to the Grodno Relief Society of Boston (Boston, Mass.) Records. 1946-1949.

Manuscript Collection No. 286



Introduction

Repository: The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
Creator: Grodno Relief Society of Boston (Boston, Mass.)
Title: Grodno Relief Society of Boston (Boston, Mass.) Records.
Dates: 1946-1949.
Quantity: 0.8 linear feet.
Abstract: Contains letters from European Jewish immigrants seeking entry to the U.S., and correspondence detailing the society's efforts to aid these persons.
Collection Number: MS-286
Language: Collection material in English and Yiddish.

Scope and Content Note

Contains letters from European Jewish immigrants seeking entry to the U.S., and correspondence detailing the society's efforts to aid these persons.


Restrictions

Terms of Access and Use

The Grodno Relief Society of Boston (Boston, Mass.) Records are open to all users. The original manuscript collection is available in the Barrows-Loebelson Reading Room of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives.

Property and Literary Rights

Samuel Broches, by the act of donating the Grodno Relief Society of Boston (Boston, Mass.) Records to the American Jewish Archives, assigned all property rights to the American Jewish Archives. Literary rights are retained by the Grodno Relief Society of Boston (Boston, Mass.). Literary rights may also be retained by specific creators of materials.

Questions concerning rights should be addressed to the Executive Director of the American Jewish Archives. For more information see the American Jewish Archives copyright information webpage.


Part of the collection previously cataloged as Broches, Samuel, 1886-, collector. Samuel Broches collection, 1671-1949.


Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Footnotes and bibliographic references should refer to the Grodno Relief Society of Boston (Boston, Mass.) Records and the American Jewish Archives. A suggestion for at least the first citation is as follows:

[Description], [Date], Box #, Folder #. MS-286. Grodno Relief Society of Boston (Boston, Mass.) Records. American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Provenance

The Grodno Relief Society of Boston (Boston, Mass.) Records were received from Samuel Broches, Boston, Massachusetts.

Processing Information

Processed by American Jewish Archives staff.

Accruals and Additions

No further accruals are expected to this collection.



Search Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the AJA's online catalog.

Grodno Relief Society of Boston (Boston, Mass.) -- Archives
Holocaust survivors -- Europe
Jews -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Charities
Jews -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Societies, etc
Refugees, Jewish -- Europe
United States -- Emigration and immigration
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees.