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322:: "Relief and Mutual Aid Society") to provide a more official means to support Jewish refugees in Eastern Europe, and to enable communist countries avoid dealings with a Jewish organisation that they were in tension with. In 1955, Jordan was appointed as the operations officer for JDC, and was appointed as the organisation's head in 1965, succeeding the recently deceased Moses A. Leavitt. He became the first senior leader of a Jewish organization to travel to Arab countries, where he secretly negotiated on behalf of the minority Jewish communities. His travels took him to Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria.
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Esplanade Hotel by Arab agents and died during interrogation by Palestinians at the Egyptian embassy in Prague. Frolik stated that Czechoslovak security services observed the abduction and were aware where Jordan was being held, but decided not to involve
399:, physician Alexander Gonik and professor Ernest Hardmeyer, both from Switzerland, undertook a second autopsy several hours later, with the permission of the Czechoslovak authorities. Jordan's nephew Paul Kaplan identified Jordan's body based on clothing and his wedding ring.
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Jordan's employers, the JDC, had commonly been denounced in communist press as a "subversive
Zionist agency". On November 17, 1967, an anonymous tip was received that Jordan was assassinated by Arab students, but the letter was lost.
222:, Poland) Jordan met the daughter of guesthouse owner, Elizabeth Nemela, later marrying her in 1931. After being attacked by her Nazi brother in 1933, the couple fled as refugees to Prague and lived in DlouhĂĄ Street. In Prague,
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Czechoslovak support for Arab states and the anti-Zionist campaign in communist states at the time, and critiqued the government for its production of misinformation and culture of secrecy. At the request of the
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A Czechoslovak pathologist concluded that Jordan died by drowning, with no signs of trauma. The
Czechoslovak government made a public statement that Jordan had taken his own life. In 2007, Czech newspaper
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Jordan went missing on the evening of August 16, 1967 while on holiday with his wife in Prague, during a stay at the
Esplanade Hotel on Washington Street. His body was found by a rower on a
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to be more accepting of Jewish refugees seeking to flee from
Shanghai. In 1948, he led the JDC's emigration department in Paris where he helped Jewish refugees escape persecution in
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reported his death as occurring in "mysterious circumstances". The
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officials delayed Jordan's attempts to get an
American passport for himself and a visa for his non-American wife. When he did return to the U.S., Jordan attended
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operational, while supporting Jewish refugees fleeing westwards. Jordan fled
Hungary just as his local collaborators were arrested and accused of partaking in
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spoke at a memorial for Jordan held in the
Synagogue of Geneva on September 16, 1967. A eulogy was delivered by Israel's ambassador to the United Nations,
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to support the needs of Burmese, Tibetan, Vietnamese, and Palestinian refugees. During the 1950s Jordan helped create the Swiss organization the
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on February 7, 1908, to Jewish parents Hertha and R. Alfred Jordan. After the breakup of his parents, his mother took him and his sister to
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in Prague, at the hands of Palestinian interrogators after being abducted. He was posthumously awarded the
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authorities stated that Jordan died by drowning in the
918:"Czech report Says Charles H. Jordan Died by Drowning"
695:"Body of American Missing in Prague is Found in River"
352:for his humanitarian work to support Belgian Jews.
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218:. While holidaying in KrummhĂŒbel (present-day
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565:"Kdo vlastnÄ byl ten Jordan?"
494:"In Memoriam: Charles Jordan"
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658:. February 3, 1974.
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