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Jewish Restitution Successor Organization

LC control no.no2014155650
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Corporate name headingJewish Restitution Successor Organization
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Variant(s)JRSO (Jewish Restitution Successor Organization)
See alsoPredecessor: Jewish Restitution Commission
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Beginning date1948
Associated placeGermany
LocatedNew York (State)
Field of activityJewish property--Germany Restitution Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) World War, 1939-1945--Claims
Found inAfter five years, 1948-1953, 1953: title page (Jewish Restitution Successor Organization)
Plunder and restitution : findings and recommendations of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States and Staff Report, December 2000, viewed 24 November 2014 chapter 5 (Jewish Restitution Successor Organization (JRSO); on May 15, 1947, the Jewish Restitution Commission was incorporated as a charitable organization in New York; it eventually changed its name to the Jewish Restitution Successor Organization, evidently at the request of American military authorities)
   <http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/pcha/PlunderRestitution.html/html/StaffChapter5.html#anchor2702685>
Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP) website, 24 November 2014 (the Jewish Restitution Successor Organization (JRSO), was set up by the American administration in June 1948; the first office was established in Nuremberg; JRSO was appointed directly by the American Military Government and was composed of 13 Jewish organizations; there were 11 regional offices in the American Zone of Germany, of which four were still functioning by 1953; the offices in Frankfurt and Berlin were active till the 1970s)
   <https://cahjp.huji.ac.il/content/jewish-restitution-successor-organization-jrso>
Wikipedia, viewed Sept. 23, 2019 (Jewish Restitution Successor Organization; formed as Jewish Restitution Commission on May 15, 1947, in New York by various American and international Jewish organizations; in 1948 changed its name to the Jewish Restitution Successor Organization at the request of American military authorities)