Joseph P. Chamberlain

Title: Joseph P. Chamberlain

Inclusive Dates: 1933-1951

ID: RG 278

Extent Information

2'1"; 5 5"lgl

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in folder numerical sequence

Creators

Chamberlain, Joseph P (1873-1951)

Administrative/Biographical History

Lawyer, Professor of Public Law at Columbia University from 1923 to 1950. Active in the development of private, government and international refugee agencies for European Jewish refugees, from 1933 to about 1950. Chairman of the National Coordinating Committee and its successor, the National Refugee Service. Co-founder of the German Jewish Children's Aid. American representative to the Intergovernmental High Commission for Refugees Coming from Germany, 1933. Member of the President's Advisory Committee on Political Refugees in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration.

Subjects (links to similar collections)

Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
China
Colombia
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Germany
Guyana
Refugees
Survivors, Holocaust
United States
Venezuela

Forms of Material (links to similar genres)

Documents - Papers

Finding Aid Information

Inventory: English, 43 pp., typed. Also includes an alphabetical list of correspondents

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Other Formats: MKM 4 (4)

Description: Correspondence, memoranda, reports and printed matter relating to Chamberlain's work with the following organizations: American Christian Committee for Refugees; Fort Ontario Refugee Shelter, Oswego, N.Y.; German Jewish Children's Aid; Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees; National Coordinating Committee; National Refugee Service; President's Advisory Committee on Political Refugees; War Refugee Board. Topics include Chamberlain's involvement with individual cases, visas, sponsorship, German-Jewish scholars, Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees at Evian, Bermuda Conference, Capital Transfer Plan for German-Austrian Refugees. Of particular interest are the minutes of the President's Advisory Committee, 1938-1943. Materials on settlement projects relating to Alaska, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, British Guiana, California, China, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Venezuela. Correspondents include Dean Acheson, Paul Baerwald, Joseph Beck, Francis K. Biddle, Bernard Dubin, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Felix Frankfurter, Cordell Hull, James Houghteling, Joseph C. Hyman, Ruth Learned, James G. McDonald, Clarence E. Pickett, Leland Robinson, William Rosenwald, Joseph F. Rummel, E.J. Shaughnessy, Felix Warburg, George L. Warren.

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