American ORT Federation
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Brief Description: The records consist of correspondence, minutes, reports, financial and statistical records, printed materials relating to the activity of the AOF and to ORT work worldwide, 1922-1960.      General files, consisting of minutes of AOF Board of Directors, Executive Committee and other committees, 1937-1951. Minutes and other materials of AOF conventions, 1949-1960. Minutes and other records on budget negotiations between AOF and the AJDC, 1936-1960. Correspondence of the American and international ORT leaders including Leon Bramson, Aron Syngalowski, Israel Efroykin, Florence R. Dolowitz, William Haber, Paul Bernick. Reports, including some by Syngalovski on situation in Poland, 1938. Reports of others on ORT in the Soviet-occupied territories of Poland and Lithuania, 1940. Speeches by William Haber, AOF president, 1950-1977.      Country files: correspondence, reports, press releases on ORT work in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Cuba, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Iraq, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Morocco, Poland, Rumania, U.S.S.R., South Africa, South America, Switzerland. Extensive files on ORT in Poland, Israel and on the Displaced Persons camps in Europe, 1945-1950.  Additionally, there are statistics and reports on various countries compiled by the Statistical Analysis Section, 1947-1949.      Publicity files including press releases, press clippings, brochures, 1939-1950s. Editorial materials for the ORT Yearbook, 1963-1972. ORT published reports.      Photographs of ORT vocational programs in Europe (Austria, Belgium, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Rumania) United States, Canada,  Middle East (Iran, Israel, Morocco, Tunisia) and Latin America (Cuba, Argentina, Uruguay).
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Record Series Number: RG 380 /RG 380 
Created by: American ORT Federation
Volume: 0.0
Arrangement:

Organization: folders arranged numerically

Arrangement: The collection is arranged in 3 series: I) General Files (folders 1-15); II) Country Files (16-123); III) Publicity Files (124-162)

Subject Index
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Canada
Chile
China
Communal Welfare Organizations
Cuba
Displaced Persons and DP Camps
Economic Life
Education
England
France
Germany
Great Britain
Holocaust and Aftermath
Hungary
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Mexico
Morocco
Poland
Rumania
Social Welfare
South Africa
Soviet Union
Survivors, Holocaust
Switzerland
Tunisia
United States
Uruguay
USSR
Genres/Forms of Material
Documents - Records
Finding Aid Revisions: 1995/01/03 ; 1903/01/23 ; GMB
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