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Level:Collection 
Dates covered:1930's-1950's
Extent:Collected by David Klementinowski, who worked for ORT during and after the war, especially with the agricultural schools in La Roche and Lot et Garonne region. He continued to work for ORT France in the post-war years before moving to the USA. The records were inherited by his son and then his grandson, Newt Klements, the depositor.
Description:Papers and correspondence (mostly handwritten post cards) and photographs relating to David Klementinowski's time with ORT in France, his immigration to the USA and his son's Joseph. Including historic print 'anniversary card' celebrating parents 30th wedding annivesary. David Klementinowksi was Secretary of ORT Germany in the 1930s before emigrating to France, where he worked for ORT during and after the war, especially with the agricultural schools in La Roche and Lot et Garonne region.
Arrangement: Arranged into the following collection: 
Archive RefDigital RefTitle/description                                                
WO/7/7/8/1 

Hand written postcard addressed to David Klementinowski. Addressed to Klementinowski in the ORT Paris office, 5th October 1937

WO/7/7/8/2 Hand written postcard addressed to David Klementinowski. Addressed to Klementinowski in NY, August, 1947
WO/7/7/8/3 Hand written postcard addressed to David Klementinowski. Addressed to Mr & Mrs Klementinowski in NY from 'Charles' 17th July 1953
WO/7/7/8/4d100a642Group photo, 15.7.1925 (Klementinowski is standing, second from the right) 15th July 1925
WO/7/7/8/5d100a643Group photo at a lunch event [possibly 72nd birthday celebration for Osip D?], 17 February 1950, NY (Klementinowski is seated, middle row on the far left) - participants are named, but handwriting is difficult to decipher. Includes: [S?]hindler, I. Kagan, Sohn, Ralph Weinn, Dr Frank ?, Abramson, Kindler, Osip D? and wife, D. Klementinowski, ? 17th February 1950
WO/7/7/8/6d100a644Letter from American ORT to Mr Klements concerning immigration to USA. 6th March 1942
WO/7/7/8/7 Letter from the Department of State of Washington to Dr Klements concerning visa cases of parents 21st May 1942
WO/7/7/8/8 Letter from the Department of State of Washington to Dr Klements concerning visa cases of parents 12th June 1942
WO/7/7/8/9 Application for appearance interdepartmental visa review committee for Aron A Mestel as sponsor for David Klementinowsky and Helene Klementinowsky October, 1942
WO/7/7/8/10 Letter concerning visa applications 18th November 1942
WO/7/7/8/11 Letter from the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society 1st March 1943
WO/7/7/8/12 Letter from Joseph Klements to Mrs Klatchkin, New York City. No date 
WO/7/7/8/13 Letter from the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society 24th September 1945
WO/7/7/8/14 Copy of petition for imigration to USA for David and Helen Klemintinowsky. No date 
WO/7/7/8/15 Copy of ORT in Germany 1933-1939 by David Klementinowsky, 1940's 
WO/7/7/8/16 Studienbuch (transcript) from Friedrich-Wilhelms University, Berlin for Joseph Klementinowsky [depositor's father], 1931
WO/7/7/8/17d100a645Letters of introduction for Joseph Klementinowski from various ORT and OSE personnel, 1937. Including Albert Einstein. 
WO/7/7/8/18d100a646Photo of David and Helene? Klementinowski at La Roche, 1941
WO/7/7/8/19d100a647Group photo at Angireux, France, 1942 [ORT ran a programme there so probably participants]
WO/7/7/8/20d100a648Group photgraph in Karlsbad. 
WO/7/7/8/21d100a649Group photgraph in Karlsbad. 
WO/7/7/8/22d100a650Photo of David and Helene Klementinowsky 
WO/7/7/8/23/6/1d100a651Postcard of ORT-Union stand at the International Exposition in Paris, 1937. The Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life) was held from 25 May to 25 November 1937 in Paris, France. ORT's stand was for the spread of industrial and agricultural work amongst the Jews.