The Industrial Removal Office (IRO) was an agency assisting European Jewish immigrants to the United States in the early 20th century.
A branch of the Jewish Agricultural Society called The Industrial Removal Office (IRO), created and funded by philanthropist Maurice de Hirsch,[2] was created in 1901 in order to help Jewish immigrants to integrate economically, culturally, and permanently into the affairs of American Society in the United States of America.
[4] With a financial depression in 1907, The Industrial Removal Office was forced to increase the advertisement of their operations and send its agents further away.
[1] However, the offices which were in less populated areas of the United States, or were most affected, like Philadelphia and Boston, had to temporarily close at the end of the depression.
[1] Following this, and World War I, The Industrial Removal Office was left with very low funds and consequently a decreased reach prompting it to dissolve in 1922.