Justine Wise Polier and Eleanor Roosevelt correspondence collection, 1938-1972 (bulk 1938-1962)

This collection contains correspondence between Judge Justine Wise Polier and Eleanor Roosevelt sent between 1938-1962, with additional correspondence sent between Judge Polier and other individuals through 1972. The bulk of the correspondence between the two women is of a personal nature. There is also correspondence relating to US political and social concerns including WWII immigration quotas, Jewish refugees from various countries, settlement houses, education for racial minorities, and the Civil Rights Movement.Published citations should take the following form: Identification of item, date (if known); Justine Wise Polier and Eleanor Roosevelt Correspondence Collection; P-527; box number; folder number; American Jewish Historical Society, Boston, MA and New York, NY.Gift of Justine Wise Polier,far031

Non-Sectarian Committee for German Refugee Children, Correspondence, Justine Wise Polier (Box 1, Box 26)

The Marion E. Kenworthy Papers contain correspondence, newsletters and minutes of meetings of the Non-Sectarian Committee for German Refugee Children, which was established in 1938 to lobby the United States government to allow immigration for refugee children. The collection also contains correspondence, pamphlets, newspaper articles, editorials, and congressional testimony relating to the 1939 Wagner-Rogers Bill authorizing the admittance of German refugee children to the United States as well as correspondence pertaining to this legislation from the Jewish Children's Bureau of Chicago (1939). Among the more important correspondents are Stephen S. Wise, Robert F. Wagner, Justin Wise Polier, Eugene Meyer and Dorothy Canfield Fisher.Digital ImageDigital finding aid