Collection of Receipts and Paper Items – Relief Operations by American Organizations for Famine Victims in Russia – ...

Collection of Receipts and Paper Items – Relief Operations by American Organizations for Famine Victims in Russia – Sholem Aleichem's Daughter and Daughter of Mendele Mocher Sefarim
Collection of receipts and paper items recording the aid activities by American organizations for famine victims in Russia, among them receipts for transfer of money and food packages from New York to Odessa, from Ernestine Berkowitz, (daughter of Shalom Aleichem and wife of Yitzchak Dov Berkowitz) to Nadezhda Abramovitz, daughter of Mendele Mocher Sefarim. United States, early 20th century. English, Russian and Yiddish.
Among the items:
* Receipts for transfer of donations (food packages or money) from the United States to Russia, from Erenetine Berkowitz to Nadezhda Abramovitz; receipts from the American Relief Administration; a receipt from a Jewish-Berliner aid organization for Pogrom and disaster victims in Russia and Ukraine ("Idisher gezelshaftlikhter hilfs-komitet"); bank receipts for money transfer (Russian Commercial & Industrial Bank). On the back of one receipt appears a letter handwritten by Nadezhda Abramovitz; a Russian Red Cross Commodity Draft Receipt.
* Bank check signed by Yitzchak Dov Berkowitz )given to his daughter, Ernestine).
* Leaflet printed on behalf of the American Relief Administration towards the beginning of distribution of food in Russia. The leaflet explains how the distribution will be carried out and how to donate money and send food packages to Russia. Russian.
* Card in the name of Avraham Kahana, on behalf of HIAS, a Jewish-American organization founded to assist Jewish immigrants from Europe. Printed in Yiddish and English (with details filled in by hand).
In the years 1921-1922, following the Russian civil war, Russians suffered a severe famine. During the famine, the Soviet administration received aid from different countries, among them the United States. The American aid was coordinated by the American Relief Administration.
12 items. Size and condition vary.