Matsdorf, Wolf (Bill) Dr

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Dr Wolf (Bill) MATSDORF

Housing: 5 boxes Period: 1940-1989

Bill Matsdorf was a social worker and one of the originators of the Australian Jewish Welfare Society Sheltered Workshop, established in 1955. He was also involved in other activities within the Jewish community including the Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism and the Society for the Rescue of European Jewry. In the 1970s he made his home in Israel, continuing to be the Jerusalem correspondent for The Australian Jewish Times, up to the time of his death on 13th September 1989.
•    Papers: Documents of the Australian Jewish Welfare Society, the Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism, the Australia-Israel Society for Cultural Exchange; the Kimberley plan; personal records and papers on trends in deviant behaviour among Jewish people in New South Wales, the problems of migrants, prison after-care, the aged and mental health.
•    Publications: Copies of his previously unpublished work, No time to Grow. The Story of the Gros-Breeseners in Australia were printed by the Archive twice in 1994 for his widow, the late Hilda Meyerowitz, also a social worker, with the help of Richard Dreyfus, who wrote the preface; numerous journal and newspaper articles.
•    Photos: 14 photos of Australian Jewish Welfare Society activities. 4 photos from the Beth Hatefutsoth Exhibition, Jews on the Land, 1983; personal family photos. See William Matsdorf Collection. Some of this collection has been copied on to a DVD.

ProvenanceMATSDORF, Wolf (MATSDORFW) Dr
Dates(s)1940 to 1980
Scope & ContentPapers, Publications, Photos,
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