Wisconsin Jewish Military Service Records, 1941-1957
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Summary Information
Title: Wisconsin Jewish Military Service Records
Inclusive Dates: 1941-1957

Call Number: Wis Mss 6SJ

Quantity: 3.2 c.f. (8 archives boxes)

Repository:
Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:
Files of correspondence, clippings, and other informational materials concerning Wisconsin Jewish servicemen in World War II. Four boxes contain papers gathered or compiled by the Army and Navy Committee of the Milwaukee Jewish Welfare Board; among these are service records for individual Jewish members of the armed forces. Another box contains completed questionnaires from World War II veterans, gathered during an unfinished survey of Wisconsin Jewish servicemen conducted about 1957 by Howard Kay for the Wisconsin Society for Jewish Learning. The collection also includes casualty, refugee, officer, and honor roll lists compiled from other sources.

Note:

Forms part of the Wisconsin Jewish Archives.



Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-wis006sj
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Administrative/Restriction Information
Acquisition Information

Presented by Joseph L. Baron, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.


Contents List
Milwaukee Army and Navy Committee record files of individual Jewish World War II servicemen
Box   1
A-L
Box   2
M-Z
Box   3
Milwaukee Army and Navy Committee correspondence, minutes, program materials, lists, 1941-1947
Box   4
Milwaukee Army and Navy Committee miscellaneous correspondence, newspaper clippings, publicity releases, pamphlets, photos
Box   5
Honor roll records of Jewish servicemen from Milwaukee serving in World War II, A-Z
Box   6
Miscellaneous military service records including honor roll lists; casualty, refugee, and officer lists; correspondence of Joseph L. Baron to servicemen and to Camp McCoy, Wisconsin; National and Mid-West Jewish Welfare Board Notices
Box   7
State enlistment records; Madison, Mid-West, and National U.S.O.-J.W.B. correspondence and mimeographed materials
Box   8
Wisconsin Society for Jewish Learning research project materials, including completed questionnaires from the Howard Kay survey of Wisconsin Jewish servicemen in World War II