Meeting of the Joint Distribution Committee, Felix M. Warburg’s office

Photograph taken of the Executive Committee in a meeting on July 10, 1918. In November 1914, the Central Relief Committee and the American Jewish Relief Committee joined forces to create the Joint Distribution Committee for the Relief of Jewish War Sufferers (JDC). The People's Relief Committee joined in 1915. The groups appealed to their individual constituencies for support, but JDC coordinated distribution of the funds and centralized the Jewish war relief effort.