LibGuides: Primary Sources: The Holocaust: McDonald, James G.

Online Sources: James G. McDonald

High Commission for Refugees from Germany Collection
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"The collection consists of copies of correspondence on the placement of German refugees from the office of High Commissioner James G. McDonald with numerous refugee-aid organizations and prominent individuals as well as minutes of commission meetings, press releases, reports of commission subcommittees dealing with finances, passports, travel regulations and special problems of emigration by professionals."
James G. McDonald - U.S. Holocaust Museum
James G. McDonald FROM THE HERBERT H. LEHMAN COLLECTIONS
James G. McDonald to William Howard Schuman, June 30, 1949
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Correspondence. 1 page. | excerpt: "This note is to solicit the sympathetic consideration of your Admissions Department for a young pianist, Avraham Sternklar desirous of entering Juilliard
James McDonald, Ex‐Ambassador to Israel, Dies (New York Times)
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Letter of Resignation of James G. McDonald, High Commissioner for Refugees (Jewish and Other) Coming from Germany
LONGINES CHRONOSCOPE WITH JAMES G. MC DONALD
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TELEVISION INTERVIEW: William Bradford Huie and Henry Hazlitt talk with Mcdonald, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, on problems and progress of Israel. DVD copied by IASL Master Scanner Katie Filbert.

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