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ORT in Eastern and Western Europe 1920-1979

WO/7/4/2/2            

Level: Sub-Series

Extent: 76 folders

Archive RefTitle/ description
WO/7/4/2/2/1[formerly RG/2/7/26] Le relèvement des Israélites de l'Europe Orientale [The re- establishment of the Eastern European Jews] [French]. Description: Le relèvement des Israélites de l'Europe Orientale [The re-establishment of the Eastern European Jews] Published by ORT/OSE/Emigdirect; Berlin, undated. [French]. Location: 250.
WO/7/4/2/2/2[formerly RG/2/7/29] Société de Propagation du Travail Industriel et Agricole, Parmi les Juifs (ORT) 1880-1920. Copy of publicity pamphlet. [French]. Description: Société de Propagation du Travail Industriel et Agricole, Parmi les Juifs (ORT) 1880-1920. Copy of publicity pamphlet. Paris, 1921. [French]. Date: 1921. Location: 250.
WO/7/4/2/2/3[formerly RG/2/7/30] Verband der Gesellschaften zur Forderung des Handwerks und der Landwirtschaft unter den Juden "ORT" 1880-1923. Copy of publicity pamphlet. [German]. Alt Ref: d05a114b. Description: Verband der Gesellschaften zur Forderung des Handwerks und der Landwirtschaft unter den Juden "ORT" 1880-1923. Copy of publicity pamphlet. Berlin, April 1923. [German]. Date: April 1923. Location: 250.
WO/7/4/2/2/4[formerly RG/2/7/31] Verband der Gesellschaften zur Forderung des Handwerks und der Landwirtschaft unter den Juden "ORT" 1880-1923. Copy of publicity pamphlet. [German]. Alt Ref: d09a007b. Description: Baricht funim Verband ORT, 1923-1926. [ORT Activities 1923-1926]. Berlin, 1926. [Yiddish]. Contains important material regarding Jewish Reconstruction Fund and Cooperative Tools Supply Corporation. Date: 1926. Location: 250.
WO/7/4/2/2/5[formerly RG/2/7/32] 15 Yohr "ORT" Arbeit in Letuva 1920-1935. [15 Years of ORT work in Lithuania, 1920-1935] - copy of pamphlet. [Yiddish]. Description: 15 Yohr "ORT" Arbeit in Letuva 1920-1935. [15 Years of ORT work in Lithuania, 1920- 1935]. Kovno [Kaunas], Lithuania, 1935. [Yiddish]. Includes a photo of the old ORT House in Kovno, and a sketch of the projected House of Labor. Date: 1935. Location: 250.
WO/7/4/2/2/6[formerly RG/2/7/33] Vos Yeder Yid darf visn vegen ORT un OSE. [What every Jew should know about ORT and OSE]. ORT-OSE publicity pamphlet. [Yiddish]. Date: c.1938. Location: 250.
WO/7/4/2/2/7[formerly RG/2/7/34] Der Vilner Yiddisher Technicum fon ORT [The Vilna ORT Technikum] by Eng. M. Schreiber, New York, 1935. [Yiddish]. Alt Ref: d09a005. Date: 1935. Location: 250.
WO/7/4/2/2/8[formerly RG/2/7/35] Minutes of meeting of ORT Central Administration together with Dr. Joseph Rosen, representing JDC [Russian]. Date: early 1920s. Location: 250.
WO/7/4/2/2/9[formerly RG/2/7/42] Statement on the Second ORT Congress in Danzig, 1923 [Russian]. Date: c.1923. Location: 250. 
WO/7/4/2/2/10[formerly RG/2/7/45] A Short Survey of the Activities of the Central Committee of ORT for the period August-December 1926 [Russian]. Date: August-December 1926. Location: 250.
WO/7/4/2/2/11[formerly RG/2/7/27] Appeal for support of ORT activities. Undated pamphlet [Russian]. Location: 250.
WO/7/4/2/2/12[formerly RG/2/7/47] Publication: Wirtschaft un Lebn - Editor, A. Rosin (Ben-Adir), #4 (12), August 1930 [Yiddish]. Date: August 1930. Location: 251.
WO/7/4/2/2/13[formerly RG/2/7/54] Essay by Dr Syngalowski: Reconstruction of Eastern European Jewry. Description: Essay by Dr Syngalowski: Reconstruction of Eastern European Jewry. Reprinted from The Jewish Chronicle Supplements, 1928. Date: 1928. Location: 252.
WO/7/4/2/2/14[formerly RG/2/7/57] Albert Einstein's appeal for ORT, 1927 [German]. Date: 1927. Location: 252.
WO/7/4/2/2/15[formerly RG/2/7/60] L'Histoire de l'ORT en Roumanie [History of ORT in Romania], 1931-1939 , unsigned [French]. Location: 252.
WO/7/4/2/2/16[formerly RG/2/7/61] Minutes of the meetings of the Central Committee of ORT Berlin, covering the period of August 9, 1921 through December 24, 1922 [Russian, Yiddish, German]. Date: 1921-1922. Location: 252.
WO/7/4/2/2/17[formerly RG/2/7/62] ORT activities in Poland 1946-1967. Description: ORT activities in Poland 1946-1967. Includes a letter from Vladimir Halperin to William Haber regarding his visit to Poland in 1957, the original 1957 report by V. Halperin and J. Chorin on their mission to Poland, the Executive Committee's decision to re-launch activities in Poland and the final report, ORT in Poland - 1946-1967 by David Slobodkin, Director of ORT Poland 1946-1950 and 1957-1968 [d06a012]. Date: 1957-1968. Location: 252.
WO/7/4/2/2/18[formerly RG/2/7/64] ORT Français - Bulletin d'Information - ORT France publication [French]. Description: ORT Français - Bulletin d'Information - ORT France publication [French]. Includes original volumes dated: March 1946, December 1946, July 1947, February 1948 and December 1948. Date: March 1946-December 1948. Location: 252.
WO/7/4/2/2/18/1[formerly RG/2/7/64/1] Bulletin du Service d'Information de l'ORT Français, No. 2. Alt Ref: d05a075. Description: Bulletin du Service d'Information de l'ORT Français, No. 2, March 1946. Includes information on ORT France activities in 1946, the first post-war meeting of the World ORT Union Executive Committee, ORT Switzerland, ORT Belgium, ORT activities in Germany and in Poland. Date: March 1946. Location: 252.
WO/7/4/2/2/18/2[formerly RG/2/7/64/2] ORT Français - Bulletin d'Information, December 1946. Alt Ref: d05a076. Description: ORT Français - Bulletin d'Information, December 1946. Includes 4 pages of photos, including a portrait of M. Frenkiel. Location: 252.
WO/7/4/2/2/18/4[formerly RG/2/7/64/4] ORT Français - Bulletin d'Information, February 1948. Alt Ref: d05a078. Description: ORT Français - Bulletin d'Information, February 1948. Includes 4 pages of photos. Date: February 1948. Location: 252.
WO/7/4/2/2/18/5[formerly RG/2/7/64/5] ORT Français - Bulletin d'Information, December 1948. Alt Ref: d05a079. Description: ORT Français - Bulletin d'Information, February 1948. Includes 4 pages of photos. Date: December 1948. Location: 252.
WO/7/4/2/2/19[formerly RG/2/7/66] ORT Calendar for 1937, issued by ORT Lithuania [Yiddish]. Description: ORT Calendar for 1937, issued by ORT Lithuania [Yiddish]. Includes information on various professional and technical subjects taught by ORT. Date: 1937. Location: 252.
WO/7/4/2/2/20[formerly RG/2/7/67] ORT Union 1935/36 - Report of the Executive of the Central Board of the Union submitted to its plenary session Paris, September 7-9, 1936 [French]. Alt Ref: d05a080 Date: 1936. Location: 252.
WO/7/4/2/2/21[formerly RG/2/7/68] Report - Le Docteur Syngalowski en Pologne, 1938 [Dr Syngalowski in Poland, 1938] [French]. Alt Ref: d05a081b. Date: 1938. Location: 252.
WO/7/4/2/2/22[formerly RG/2/7/71] Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the British Zone (Germany), 1945-1947 [English, German]. Alt Ref: d05a083. Description: Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the British Zone (Germany), 1945-1947, bilingual report [English, German]. Date: 1947. Location: 253.
WO/7/4/2/2/23[formerly RG/2/7/113] Material relating to ORT in the DP camps. Description: Material relating to ORT in the DP camps. Includes two accounts of life in the DP camps by Moshe Krakinowski, a Director of the ORT school in the Children's Centre at Rosenheim and Irving Heymont of the Landsberg camp. Heymont's 'After the Deluge' is a fragment. The file also contains a tribute to Jacob Oleiski. Date: late 1940s-late 1970s. Location: 256.
WO/7/4/2/2/24[formerly RG/2/7/153] La Mission de l'ORT dans les Camp de Refugies [ORT's mission in the DP Camps] [French]. Date: Late 1940s. Location: 258.
WO/7/4/2/2/25[formerly RG/2/7/72] Central ORT Institute, Geneva, 1946 [French]. Date: 1946. Location: 253.
WO/7/4/2/2/26[formerly RG/2/7/84] ORT in Lodz - various materials [Yiddish, English]. Description: ORT in Lodz - various materials [Yiddish, English]. Includes biographical notes on Samuel Milman. Date: 1939-1946. Location: 253.
WO/7/4/2/2/27[formerly RG/2/7/87] Draft of the History of British ORT 1919-1973 by Cecily Zimmerman. Alt Ref: d10a021. Date: c.1977. Location: 253.
WO/7/4/2/2/28[formerly RG/2/7/88] Mir Veren Poerim durch ORT [We Become Farmers through ORT], ORT, Lithuania, 1935. Alt Ref: d05a102. Date: 1935. Location: 253.
WO/7/4/2/2/29[formerly RG/2/7/94] Economic Situation of the Jews in Poland and other Eastern European Countries, booklet by Dr. David Lvovitch, American ORT Federation, 1938. Alt Ref: d05a106. Date: 1938. Location: 253.
WO/7/4/2/2/30[formerly RG/2/7/99] Cinquantieme Anniversaire de l'ORT-France [Fiftieth Anniversary of ORT France], F. Schrager, September 1971 [French and Yiddish]. Date: September 1971. Location: 255.
WO/7/4/2/2/31[formerly RG/2/7/100] Correspondence with Dr Arthur Feige, a teacher and Deputy Director of the ORT school in Berlin. Description: Correspondence with Dr Arthur Feige, a teacher and Deputy Director of the ORT school in Berlin. Includes a certificate made out to Mr. Arthur Israel Feige by ORT Berlin, April 17, 1941. Date: October 1977. Location: 255.
WO/7/4/2/2/32[formerly RG/2/7/114] Correspondence and documentation relating to Werner G. Rund and his participation in an ORT programme during the 1930s. Description: Correspondence and documentation relating to Werner G. Rund and his participation in an ORT programme during the 1930s. Contains a list of would-be settlers in France. Date: November 1979-January 1980. Location: 256.
WO/7/4/2/2/33[formerly RG/2/7/117] Central ORT Institute, Anieres - various reports [French, German, English, Yiddish]. Date: 1948-1969. Location: 256.
WO/7/4/2/2/34[formerly RG/2/7/118] ORT Français - Son Activité en 1950 - [ORT France - Activities in 1950] [French]. Alt Ref: d05a109. Date: c.1950. Location: 256.
WO/7/4/2/2/35[formerly RG/2/7/124] ORT 1880-1980, with a Preface by Renzo Levi, Carucci editore, Rome, 1980 [Italian and English]. Alt Ref: d05a111. Date: 1980. Location: 256.
WO/7/4/2/2/36[formerly RG/2/7/127] Report on Mr. J. Chorin's and Mr. V. Halperin's Mission to Poland, 10-25 September, 1957 [English and French]. Alt Ref: d07a264. Date: 1957. Location: 257.
WO/7/4/2/2/37[formerly RG/2/7/129] Excerpts from Judenrat by I. Trunk re vocational training and ORT. Location: 257.
WO/7/4/2/2/38[formerly RG/2/7/138] Jews in the Military Forces in France under Vichy [Russian]. Date: 1940s Location: 257.
WO/7/4/2/2/39[formerly RG/2/7/140] ORT and Vocational Training, 1923-1925 [Russian]. Date: 1923-1925. Location: 257.
WO/7/4/2/2/40[formerly RG/2/7/141] Statement by the Chief Rabbi of France to Marshall Petain, October 22, 1940 [French]. Alt Ref: d16a003. Date: 22 October 1940. Location: 257.
WO/7/4/2/2/41[formerly RG/2/7/143] Address on the subject of ORT in Poland given by Dr. I. Yashunski at the ORT Conference in Paris, 1937. Date: 25 August 1937. Location: 257.
WO/7/4/2/2/42[formerly RG/2/7/144] ORT in Lithuania - materials by and about Jacob Oleiski. Date: 1940s-1970s. Location: 257.
WO/7/4/2/2/43[formerly RG/2/7/157] Souvenirs by C. H. Feigen - From January 1919 to December 1933 - ORT's agricultural work in Russia, Poland and Romania (Bessarabia). Alt Ref: d09a023. Location: 258.
WO/7/4/2/2/44[formerly RG/2/7/158] ORT Activities in France under the occupation - various reports. Description: ORT Activities in France under the occupation - various reports: 
  1. Rapport sur L'Activite de l'ORT en France - Juin 1940-Janvier 1941, January 1941 [French]
  2. ORT Francais Rapport Annuel 1942 [French]
  3. Finanzbericht 1942 [German]
  4. ORT Francais Rapport 1943 [French]
  5. ORT in France under the German Occupation by R. Grinberg [Yiddish] [4-page article from an unknown publication]
  6. Rapport sur l'activite de l'ORT en 1944 [French]. Date: 1941-1944.
 
WO/7/4/2/2/45[formerly RG/2/7/160] Minutes of the first ORT France conference after liberation, Voiron, December 1944 [French]. Alt Ref: d12a102. Date: 21-23 December 1944. Location: 258.
WO/7/4/2/2/46[formerly RG/2/7/161] Copy of certificate issued to E. G. J. Fontheim by the ORT school in Berlin, dated April 24, 1941. Alt Ref: d08a093. Date: 24 April 1941. Location: 258.
WO/7/4/2/2/47[formerly RG/2/7/167] Verband ORT 1880-1923, Berlin - publicity pamphlet [German]. Alt Ref: d05a114a. Date: 1923. Location: 259.
WO/7/4/2/2/48[formerly RG/2/7/170] JDC, ORT and Vocational Education. Description: JDC, ORT and Vocational Education. Minutes of a meeting dated April 7, 1937, with the participation of Dr. B. Kahn, Dr. L. Bramson, Dr. D. Lvovich and U. Schweitzer. Date: 1937. Location: 259.
WO/7/4/2/2/49[formerly RG/2/7/172] Vocational Education in Poland, 1937 - extract from a report on Poland by Alexander Kahn, November 1937. Date: November 1937. Location: 259.
WO/7/4/2/2/50[formerly RG/2/7/173] ORT/JDC Relationship, 1937. Date: 1937. Location: 259.
WO/7/4/2/2/51[formerly RG/2/7/174] Settlement of German Jews in France, 1936-37 [Russian, English]. Date: 1936-1937. Location: 259.
WO/7/4/2/2/52[formerly RG/2/7/175] Audit of the Berlin Office of the American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, 1929. Date: 29 April 1929. Location: 259.
WO/7/4/2/2/53[formerly RG/2/7/199] ORT in Germany 1933-1939 by D. Klementinowski [Yiddish]. Alt Ref: d07f509. Date: 1940s. Location: 260.
WO/7/4/2/2/54[formerly RG/2/7/202] Memoirs of ORT by Dr. M. Abramowitz [Yiddish]. Date: 1940s?. Location: 260.
WO/7/4/2/2/55[formerly RG/2/7/203] ORT in France under the German Occupation by R. Grinberg [Yiddish]. Date: c.1955. Location: 260.
WO/7/4/2/2/56[formerly RG/2/7/207] Union ORT Pour la Propagation du Travail Industriel et Agricole Parmi les Juifs, Exposition International des Art et Technique, Paris 1937 [French] - copy of publicity brochure produced for the 1937 International Exhibition of Art and Technology in Paris. Date: 1937. Location: 260.
WO/7/4/2/2/57[formerly RG/2/7/209] Agricultural training in France [French] . Date: late 1950s-early 1960s. Location: 260.
WO/7/4/2/2/58[formerly RG/2/7/212] The Work of the ORT in Europe - January - May 31, 1946 - Report to the Executive Committee [French]. Description: The Work of the ORT in Europe - January - May 31, 1946 - Report to the Executive Committee [French]. This is a French version copy of the report. Date: May 1946. Location: 260.
WO/7/4/2/2/59[formerly RG/2/7/218] Various minutes of ORT committees covering parts of 1929, 1930, 1933 and 1934 [Russian]. Date: 1929-1934. Location: 261.
WO/7/4/2/2/60[formerly RG/2/7/222] ORT in Czechoslovakia, 1947- mid-1949 [Yiddish]. Alt Ref: d07f085. Date: 1950. Location: 261.
WO/7/4/2/2/61[formerly RG/2/7/223] A history of ORT activities in France, 1974 [French]. Date: February 1974. Location: 261.
WO/7/4/2/2/62[formerly RG/2/7/224] Copy of letter to ORT by French President Vincent Auriol, July 1, 1952 [French]. Date: 1 July 1952. Location: 261.
WO/7/4/2/2/63[formerly RG/2/7/225] Letters re Tool Supply Corporation programme in Eastern Europe, 1928-1930 [Russian]. Date: 1928-1930. Location: 261.
WO/7/4/2/2/64[formerly RG/2/7/226] Draft of a speech by Dr. A. Syngalowski on the situation of the Jews in Poland [German]. Location: 261.
WO/7/4/2/2/65[formerly RG/2/7/228] Material on the 1923 ORT Conference in Danzig [Yiddish, Russian, German]. Date: c.1923. Location: 261.
WO/7/4/2/2/66[formerly RG/2/7/229] Minutes of the Central ORT Administration, 17 September 1923, and an agenda for a meeting to be held at the end of September with a Cash Report [Russian]. Date: September 1923. Location: 261.
WO/7/4/2/2/67[formerly RG/2/7/234] O.R.T.-a chapter from l'Activite des Organizations Juives en France sous l'Occupation, published by CDJC, Paris [French]. Location: 262.
WO/7/4/2/2/68[formerly RG/2/7/244] Letters by I. Trotsky to L. Bramson, dated October 28 and November 3, 1930, regarding the campaign in Czechoslovakia. [Russian]. Date: October-November 1930. Location: 262.
WO/7/4/2/2/69[formerly RG/2/7/248] Letter to Bramson from ORT/OSE/EMIGDIREKT re campaign, dated 16 May 1930 [Russian]. Date: 16 May 1930. Location: 262.
WO/7/4/2/2/70[formerly RG/2/7/252] Letter by S. Poliakov re campaign, dated October 21, 1929 [Russian]. Date: 21 October 1929. Location: 262.
WO/7/4/2/2/71[formerly RG/2/7/253] Letter by S. Dubnov to Bramson, dated October 24, 1926 [Russian]. Date: 24 October 1926. Location: 262.
WO/7/4/2/2/72[formerly RG/2/7/274] Quand Meme, Revue Mensuelle de la Federation de Societes Juives de France, No.3, March 1949. Description: Quand Meme, Revue Mensuelle de la Federation de Societes Juives de France, No.3, March 1949. Includes an article about ORT activities. Date: March 1949. Location: 263.
WO/7/4/2/2/73[formerly RG/2/7/115] Letter from Cylvia K. Margulies to Paul Bernick re inclusion in Leon Shapiro's History of ORT. Date: 11 December 1979. Location: 256.
WO/7/4/2/2/74[formerly RG/2/7/308] Material regarding the ORT school in Berlin 1940-1941. Date: 1940-1981. Location: 265.
WO/7/4/2/2/75[formerly RG/2/7/311] Unzer Lebn - Yiddish publication of the DPs - September 1946, Munich [German]. Date: 26 September 1946. Location: 265.
WO/7/4/2/2/76[formerly RG/2/7/310] 60 Years of ORT Germany - invitation to Jubilee celebration [German]. Date: 1981. Location: 265.