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Joint Distribution Committee
Joint Distribution Committee
Organization that brought Jacob Sapirstein to America.
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... The Joint Distribution Committee brought him to
America. He arrived in Boston in 1905 and then went
to Chicago, where HIAS secured a job for him as an
apprentice tailor at Hart, Schaffner & Marx. He did not
like this work and contacted an uncle in Cleveland who
owned a postcard store in the old Hollenden Hotel. ...Source passage 2
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... David Sohn, Executive Director of the Bialystoker
Center, reported on the progress of the relief program
to date. He described the difficulty the committee first
encountered in sending funds directly to Bialystok. It
became necessary to funnel these monies through the
Joint Distribution Committee. Now it is possible for
our committee to send packages of food, medicine and
clothes to the several hundred Jews in Bialystok directly
from New York. We have also aided Bialystokers in
France, Italy, Belgium and Sweden. We have received
conflicting reports about the exact number of Jews in
Bialystok today. The situation is in flux; Jews arrive
and depart every day. ...Connected nodes
Event
Jacob Sapirstein's Migration to America
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Person
Jacob Sapirstein
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Irving I. Stone
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Jennie Kantor
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Morris S. Stone
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Harry R. Stone
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American Greeting Corporation
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Bialystok
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Grajewo
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Institution
Hebrew Academy of Cleveland
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Kiryat Telshe-Stone
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Louis Shreibman
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David Sohn
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Community
Bialystok Jewish community
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New York
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Institution
Bialystoker Center in New York
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Jewish school in Bialystok
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France
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Italy
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Belgium
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Sweden
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Work
The Bialystoker Memorial Book
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