German Jewish Children's Aid

The German Jewish Children's Aid (GJCA) (this is its complete name)[1] was an organization, based in America, which acted as the receiving organization for unaccompanied (and some orphaned) Jewish children emigrating primarily from Germany to the United States. It was in charge of posting bonds for the refugee children, (thereby preventing their becoming public charges), obtaining visas, arranging their transfer to the US and caring for them after arrival.[2] Since 1934, the organization had helped hundreds of distressed refugee children resettle in USA.[3] After November 1942, it was renamed "European Jewish Children's Aid."

  1. ^ Guide to the Records of the German-Jewish Children's Aid, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York.
  2. ^ Philip K. Jason; Iris Posner. Don't Wave Goodbye: The Children's Flight from Nazi Persecution to American Freedom. Greenwood Publishing Group; 2004. ISBN 978-0-275-98229-4. p. 3.
  3. ^ Richard Breitman and Allan Lichtman. FDR and the Jews. Harvard University Press; 19 March 2013. ISBN 978-0-674-07367-8. p. 121.