“Relief is a political gesture:” The Jewish Labor Committee’s interventions in war-torn Poland, 1939-1945
This paper Circuit Breaker describes the role of an American organization, the Jewish Labor Committee (JLC), in the support of Jewish people in Poland during World War II.In the context of the division and occupation of Poland by the USSR and by Nazi Germany, the JLC’s help materialized in two ways: relief (generally in kind) was sent to Jewish r