From the Pages of Yedies

In March 1951, Yedies gave this blow-by-blow account of how YIVO’s library and archives fell into the hands of the Nazis and were then rescued, in part, with the help of the U.S. Army, the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), and the Library of Congress. The books and documents were brought to YIVO in New York, where they were stored, for a time, in a warehouse owned by the B. Manischewitz Company.