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Title: Displaced Persons Documents, Publications, Cultural Life, and Post-War Jewish Publications, 1929-1982

Predominant Dates:1945 -- 1952

ID: RG-02/RG-02

Primary Creator: Displaced person camps, committees (1945 -- 1953)

Extent: 2.0 Boxes

Arrangement:

The arrangement scheme for the record group was imposed during processing in the absence of an original order. Materials are arranged by subject/creator, then by identifier, as assigned by the processor.

Record group is comprised of six collections and one item: 1. Publications on the displaced persons camps; 2. Official documents of the US Military Government in Germany; 3. Sylvia Lowe collection; 4. Brycha Publication; 5. Collection of civil judicial proceedings in displaced persons camps; 6. Perla Karney collection; 7. Collection of Unser Leben; 8. Journal of the Central Historical Commission of Poland

Subjects: Castles, type of housing for displaced persons population, postwar Germany, Categories of displaced persons in postwar Germany, Civil affairs division, US military government in postwar Germany, Correspondence to and from displaced person camps, Cultural activities in Displaced Persons Camps, displaced person, categorization according to country of origin, displaced person camp, photographs, Displaced person camps, documents, Displaced person camps, publications, Displaced person camps in Germany, Displaced persons camps, Displaced persons in Austria, postwar, Displaced Persons Report, displaced persons report, Frankfurt, Education at Displaced Persons Camps, European Command, US military forces in Europe, postwar, Financial responsibility for the DP camps according to Civil Affairs Division US military government, food shortage in post war Germany according to US Military Government, Former German concentration camp barracks, used for housing for displaced persons, postwar Germany, former Wehrmacht (Germany Army) barracks, type of housing for displaced persons, postwar Germany, Frankfurt am Main (Germany), Higher nutritional quality of food provided for DP population, according to US Military Government, Hotels, type of housing for displaced persons population, postwar Germany, International Refugee Organization (IRO), a successor of UNRRA, postwar Europe, International Refugee Organization (IRO), funding of displaced persons population in postwar Europe, Issuance and restoration of civil status and property related documents to displaced persons, Population of Displaced Person Camps (DP) in postwar Germany, Preferable treatment of East Europeans in regard to immigration to US, postwar, President Truman executive order on immigration, December 22 1945, Report about Displaced Persons Camp, Reports about Jewish Displaced Persons in postwar Germany, residential buildings, used to house displaced persons population, postwar Germany, Schools at the Displaced Persons Camps, sources of finding of displaced persons camps, postwar Germany, Soviet deception in regard to displaced persons in the Soviet zone of control, postwar Germany, status of displaced persons in postwar Germany, UNRRA, its role in administration of displaced persons camps in postwar Germany, UNRRA, type of residences used to house the displaced persons population, postwar Germany, UNRRA providing housing for displaced persons camp population, postwar Germany, US Army appropriated funds to use for additional food for displaced persons population, postwar, US Military Government in Bavaria, postwar in regard to DP camp population, US Military Government in German, postwar, supervision of DP camps

Languages: Yiddish, German, English, Polish

Abstract

This is a record group containing the collections about various functions of the DP camps, as well as the US Miltiary Government inspections of the DP camps together with several personal collection in the matter. There are also collections of specific editions published by the DP camps' committees.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This record group is comprised of several postwar collections, stemming from displaced persons camp activities, and reflect the multifaceted postwar developments with regard to displaced persons organizations. The record group combines collections assembled by imminent Jewish immigration from postwar Europe. Included in this record group are publications, photographs, and digitized materials.

Collection Historical Note

Within this record group, the collection of publications include various printed materials published within and outside of the displaced persons camps in Germany and Austria. Largely, the language of these publications were Yiddish. The committees of the displaced persons camps would publish these materials periodically, and would focus the articles on contemporary events, the prospective life in Palestine, and the social and cultural life of the Holocaust survivors whilst in displaced persons camps.

Biographical Note

Self-established Displaced Person Camps Committees, often authorized by the Allied Administration in Germany and Austria

Subject/Index Terms

Castles, type of housing for displaced persons population, postwar Germany
Categories of displaced persons in postwar Germany
Civil affairs division, US military government in postwar Germany
Correspondence to and from displaced person camps
Cultural activities in Displaced Persons Camps
displaced person, categorization according to country of origin
displaced person camp, photographs
Displaced person camps, documents
Displaced person camps, publications
Displaced person camps in Germany
Displaced persons camps
Displaced persons in Austria, postwar
Displaced Persons Report
displaced persons report, Frankfurt
Education at Displaced Persons Camps
European Command, US military forces in Europe, postwar
Financial responsibility for the DP camps according to Civil Affairs Division US military government
food shortage in post war Germany according to US Military Government
Former German concentration camp barracks, used for housing for displaced persons, postwar Germany
former Wehrmacht (Germany Army) barracks, type of housing for displaced persons, postwar Germany
Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Higher nutritional quality of food provided for DP population, according to US Military Government
Hotels, type of housing for displaced persons population, postwar Germany
International Refugee Organization (IRO), a successor of UNRRA, postwar Europe
International Refugee Organization (IRO), funding of displaced persons population in postwar Europe
Issuance and restoration of civil status and property related documents to displaced persons
Population of Displaced Person Camps (DP) in postwar Germany
Preferable treatment of East Europeans in regard to immigration to US, postwar
President Truman executive order on immigration, December 22 1945
Report about Displaced Persons Camp
Reports about Jewish Displaced Persons in postwar Germany
residential buildings, used to house displaced persons population, postwar Germany
Schools at the Displaced Persons Camps
sources of finding of displaced persons camps, postwar Germany
Soviet deception in regard to displaced persons in the Soviet zone of control, postwar Germany
status of displaced persons in postwar Germany
UNRRA, its role in administration of displaced persons camps in postwar Germany
UNRRA, type of residences used to house the displaced persons population, postwar Germany
UNRRA providing housing for displaced persons camp population, postwar Germany
US Army appropriated funds to use for additional food for displaced persons population, postwar
US Military Government in Bavaria, postwar in regard to DP camp population
US Military Government in German, postwar, supervision of DP camps

Administrative Information

Repository: Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

Preferred Citation: RG-02, Displaced Persons Documents, Publications, Cultural Life, and Post-War Jewish Publications. Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Archive.

Processing Information: Materials are primarily described using the local descriptive standards of the LA Museum of the Holocaust.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Sub-Collection:

[Sub-Collection 1: RG-02.01, DP camps publications, 1945 - 1947],
[Sub-Collection 2: RG-02.02, Official documents of US Military Government in Germany, 1947],
[Sub-Collection 3: RG-02.03, Sylvia Lowe Collection, 1945-1950s],
[Sub-Collection 4: RG-02.05, Civil Judical proceeding in DP camps, 1936-1982],
[Sub-Collection 5: RG-02.06, Perla Karney Collection, 1936-1955],
[Sub-Collection 6: RG-02.07, Unser Leben (Our Life), Yiddish Publication of Liberated Jews in Berlin, 1947-1948],
[Sub-Collection 7: RG-02.08, Journal of the Central Historical Commission of Poland, 1947],
[Sub-Collection 8: RG-02.04, Brycha publication],
[All]

Sub-Collection 1: RG-02.01, DP camps publications, 1945 - 1947

This record group comprises several postwar collections related to DP camp activities. The following collections are included: documents regarding the DP camps and related postwar civil judicial proceedings; Brycha publication; Perla Karney collection of photographs; Sylvia Lowe collection of post-liberation documents; and the collection of publications printed by the DP camps’ communal and societal organizations.

The collection of publications includes various printed materials published in and outside the displaced persons camps in Germany and Austria. Largely, the language of publications is Yiddish. The DP camps’ committees published them periodically. Overall, these publications focus on contemporary events and on prospective life in Palestine. Most of these materials are original publications. Another rubric covered by the DP’s publications relates to the social and cultural life of Holocaust survivors while in DP camps.

Collections included in this record group reflect multifaceted postwar developments with regard to displaced persons organizations. This record group combines collections integrated by imminent Jewish immigration from postwar Europe. The following collections constitute this record group: RG-02.01, DP Camps Publications; RG-02.02, Official Documents of the US Military Government in Germany; RG-02.03, Sylvia Lowe Collection; RG-02.04, Brycha Publication; RG-02.05, Civil Judicial Proceedings in DP Camps; RG-02.06, Perla Karney Collection; RG-02.07, Unser Leben (Our Life), Yiddish Publication of Liberated Jews in Berlin.

Subject/Index Terms:: Displaced person camps, publications; Cultural activities in Displaced Persons Camps; Displaced persons publication, On the Freedom, 1945; Displaced persons publication, Our Voice, 1946; The Central Jewish Committee, Bergen Belsen, 1946; Documents in Yiddish language; narratives in Yiddish; Bergen-Belsen DP Camp publications; Celebration of Purim in DP camps, 1946; Reflection on religious holidays, liberated Jews in Germany, 1946; Displaced persons publication, The Jewish Review by and for Liberated Jews in Germany, 1946; Displaced persons publication, Our Yahrzeit, 1942, 1948; The anniversary of ones death, Yahrzeit, DP camps, 1942, 1948; Displaced persons publication, Magazine for the United Revisionists in the British Zone, 1946; Displaced persons publication, Ibergang (Transition), 1946; Publication by the liberated Jews in the DP Center Stuttgart, Free Again, 1946; Chaim Berger, editorial board DP Center Stuttgart, 1946; Szama Waks, editorial board DP Center Stuttgart, 1946; Marek Gutman, editorial board DP Center Stuttgart, 1946; Leibl Rychtman, editorial board DP Center Stuttgart, 1946; Moshe Perl, drawings, DP Center Stuttgart, 1946; Bernard Ginsburg, photo report, DP Center Stuttgart, 1946; Publication by Icchak Kacenelson DP Center Stuttgart, Three Songs, 1946; Publication by Jaakow Lewental DP Center Stuttgart, Nothing, 1946; Publication by Nisn Aizyn DP Center Stuttgart, Morality of our everyday life, 1946; Publication by I Szilowicki DP Center Stuttgart, After storm, 1946; Publication by Sara Ostrzega DP Center Stuttgart, From light music to picture, 1946; Publication by Ing Josef Gutman DP Center Stuttgart, 1946; Last Extermination, Journal for the History of the Jewish People During the Nazi Regime, 1946; Zionist Revisionist Movement, DP Camps, 1946; displaced person camp, Stuttgart; Stuttgart (Germany); Central Historical Commission established by a dozen survivors in Munich on November 28 1945 US Zone; Israel Kaplan, Commission's Director and Editor; Children in the Holocaust, narratives, postwar; Periodicals, Jewish; Cultural life in ghettos; Music in the ghettos; From The Last Extermination, Jewish investigative journal published in postwar Germany; Journal for the history of the Jewish people during The Nazi Regime, published in postwar Germany; Periodicals, Jewish, published by the Central Historical Commission in US zone of occupation, Munich; Warsaw (Poland: ghetto); Luck (Poland: ghetto); means of survival in the Warsaw ghetto, 1940 --1943; Day-to-day work in Warsaw Ghetto, reflected in The Last Extermination, 1946

Creators:: Displaced person camps, committees (1945 -- 1953); Displaced persons camps, authorities (1945 --1954)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-02.01.01, Displaced persons camp publications. On the Freedom. Vol. I, No. 1., 1945

The front page of the DP camp edition On the Freedom, in Yiddish

Subject/Index Terms:: Displaced person camps, publications; Documents in Yiddish language; Yiddish, language; magazine; Stuttgart (Germany); Post-Liberation; Reports about Displaced Persons; Center of the Former Jewish Political Establishment in Stuttgart; Postwar Germany (1945); Emigration to Palestine; Reports about Jewish Displaced Persons in postwar Germany; postwar publication; Postwar Jewish immigration from Germany; narratives in Yiddish

Creators:: Displaced person camps, committees (1945 -- 1953); Center of the Former Jewish Political Establishment in Stuttgart

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-02.01.02, Displaced persons publication. Our Voice, Vol. 4. (2), ca 1945

a page from the Bergen-Belsen DP camp publication, Our Voice, Vol. 5

Subject/Index Terms:: Displaced person camps, publications; Bergen-Belsen DP Camp publications; Yiddish, language; Documents in Yiddish language; English, language; postwar publication; Postwar Germany (1945); Emigration to Palestine; Reports about Jewish Displaced Persons in postwar Germany; Postwar Jewish immigration from Germany; Bergen Belsen (Germany: Displaced Person Camp); Reports about Displaced Persons; Post-Liberation

Creators:: Displaced person camps, committees (1945 -- 1953); Executive Committee of the Bergen Belsen DP camp (ca 1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 3: RG-02.01.03, Displaced persons publication. Our Voice, Vol. 5., ca 1945

Executive Committee of Bergen Belsen DP camp published a periodical, Our Voice.

Subject/Index Terms:: Bergen-Belsen DP Camp publications; Displaced person camps, publications; Yiddish, language; Documents in Yiddish language; English, language; postwar publication; Postwar Germany (1945); Emigration to Palestine; Reports about Jewish Displaced Persons in postwar Germany; Postwar Jewish immigration from Germany; Bergen Belsen (Germany: Displaced Person Camp); Reports about Displaced Persons; Post-Liberation

Creators:: Executive Committee of the Bergen Belsen DP camp (ca 1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 4: RG-02.01.04, Displaced persons publication. The Jewish Review by and for Liberated Jews in Germany., March 1946

The front page of a post-war Jewish Publication, The Jewish Review

Subject/Index Terms:: Displaced person camps, publications; periodicals published by Central Committee of Liberated Jews; German, language; English, language; Documents in German language; magazine; Jewish poetry; postwar publication; Postwar Germany (1945); Emigration to Palestine; Reports about Jewish Displaced Persons in postwar Germany; Postwar Jewish immigration from Germany; Germany (1945 -- 1949); Photographs; Photographs, postwar, 1945 -- 1988; Jewish religious holidays; Jewish religious holidays, Purim; Post-Liberation

Creators:: Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the US zone of occupation in Germany (1945 -- 1952); The Jewish Review, editorial board (1945-1950)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 5: RG-02.01.05- Displaced persons publication. Our Yahrzeit., ca 1948

Memorial journal commemorating the destruction of Jewish Community during the Holocaust, written in Yiddish, published in Cientaszow, a Polish town.

Subject/Index Terms:: Jewish publications in Yiddish, Europe and America; Displaced person camps, publications; Yahrzeit of Cientaszow (Tzentashovo) (Poland); Documents in Yiddish language; Yiddish, language; magazine; postwar publication; Postwar Germany (1945); Emigration to Palestine; Reports about Jewish Displaced Persons in postwar Germany; Postwar Jewish immigration from Germany; Germany (1945 -- 1949); Post-Liberation

Creators:: Displaced person camps, committees (1945 -- 1953)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 6: RG-02.01.06, Displaced persons publication. Magazine for the United Revisionists in the British Zone, 1946

The front page of a Jewish DP camp publication, written in Yiddish, consisting of information regarding the United Zionist Revisionists in the British Zone of Germany.

Subject/Index Terms:: Displaced person camps, publications; Zionist activities; Jewish publications in Yiddish, Europe and America; British Zone of Occupation in postwar Germany; Yiddish, language; Documents in Yiddish language; magazine; postwar publication; Postwar Germany (1945); Emigration to Palestine; Reports about Jewish Displaced Persons in postwar Germany; Postwar Jewish immigration from Germany; Germany (1945 -- 1949); Post-Liberation; United Revisionists in British Zone

Creators:: Displaced person camps, committees (1945 -- 1953)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 7: RG-02.01.07, Die Bruecke (The Bridge), July 1947

Die Bruecke was a newspaper published in work-camp Langwasser, in 1947, Germany.

Subject/Index Terms:: Displaced person camps, publications; Langwasser DP camp, publications; Jewish newspaper; Jewish newspaper in German; German, language; Documents in German language; postwar publication; Postwar Germany (1945); Emigration to Palestine; Reports about Jewish Displaced Persons in postwar Germany; Postwar Jewish immigration from Germany; Germany (1945 -- 1949); Post-Liberation; The Bridge, a newspaper of the Internment and Work Camp Langwasser (Germany)

Creators:: Displaced person camps, committees (1945 -- 1953); Work-camp Langwasser, editorial board (1947)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 8: RG-02.01.08, Displaced persons publication. Ibergang., No. 33, pp. 5-6., ca 1946

This document is an article from a displaced persons newspaper entitled Ibergang, No. 33, written in Yiddish.

Subject/Index Terms:: Displaced person camps, publications; Ibergang newspaper published DP camp, Germany; Yiddish, language; Documents in Yiddish language; postwar publication; Postwar Germany (1945); Emigration to Palestine; Reports about Jewish Displaced Persons in postwar Germany; Postwar Jewish immigration from Germany; Germany (1945 -- 1949); Post-Liberation

Creators:: Displaced person camps, committees (1945 -- 1953); Ibergang, editorial board publication (ca 1946)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 9: RG-02.01.09, “Free Again”, published by liberated Jews in DP Center, Stuttgart, Germany, No. 2, January 1946

Literary magazine entitled Free Again, consisting of literary articles published by the Organization of Liberated Jews in DP Center, Stuttgart, Germany, January 1946. The articles and literary pieces by various writers.

Chaim Berger-- On the threshold of 1946; Icchak Kacenelson--Three Songs (poem); Jaakow Lewental-- Nothing (song; Unknown author-- Testament of 93 martyr; Szama Waks-- Morality of our everyday life; Nisn Aizyn-- To the Queen of Spirit (two songs); I. Szilowicki-- After storm (song); Sara Ostrzega-- From light, music to picture; Marek Gutman-- I am looking for myself in vain; Szama Waks-- A good day (poem); Ing. Josef Gutman; Forming the new life

Subject/Index Terms:: Displaced person camps, publications; displaced person camp, Stuttgart; Yiddish, language; Documents in Yiddish language; English, language; Jewish poetry; postwar publication; Postwar Germany (1945); Emigration to Palestine; Reports about Jewish Displaced Persons in postwar Germany; Postwar Jewish immigration from Germany; Germany (1945 -- 1949); Post-Liberation; Stuttgart (Germany); Jewish publications in Yiddish, Europe and America

Creators:: Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the US zone of occupation in Germany (1945 -- 1952); Liberated Jews in the DP Center, Stuttgart (Germany) (1946)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 10: RG-02.01.10, From the last extermination, journal, 1946, vol. 1 no. 3, Munich

Journal published in postwar Germany, Munich reflecting on The Holocaust, 1946. Editor, Israel Kaplan.

Subject/Index Terms:: Periodicals, Jewish; Periodicals, Jewish, published by the Central Historical Commission in US zone of occupation, Munich; Journal for the history of the Jewish people during The Nazi Regime, published in postwar Germany; From The Last Extermination, Jewish investigative journal published in postwar Germany; Lachwa (Poland); Lachva (Belarus); Lachwa Ghetto Uprising, 1942 reflected in journal for the history of the Jews during The Nazi Regime; Siedlce (Poland); Holocaust in Siedlce Poland reflected in the journal for the history of the Jews under Nazi Regime; Nazi German atrocities in Siedlce Poland, photo documents, reflected in The last Extermination, 1946; Children in the Holocaust, narratives, postwar; Children in the Holocaust in Kielce, Poland reflected in The Last Extermination, journal, 1946; Documents in Yiddish language; narratives in Yiddish; Cultural life in ghettos; Music in the ghettos; means of survival in the Warsaw ghetto, 1940 --1943; Warsaw (Poland: ghetto); Day-to-day work in Warsaw Ghetto, reflected in The Last Extermination, 1946; Eye witness report of Treblinka death camp, reflected in The Last Extermination, 1946; Luck (Poland); Luck (Poland: ghetto); Eye witness testimony about Luck, Poland under German occupation, The Last Extermination, 1947; Lutsk (Ukraine); Atrocities and perpetration in The Holocaust, reflected in The Last Extermination, 1946; Eye witnesses reports and testimonies published in The Last Extermination, 1946; Childrens memories of the war, reflected in The Last Extermination, 1946; Expressions used in the Lodz ghetto, published in The Last Extermination, 1946; Lullaby (ghetto-song), published in The Last Extermination journal, 1946; Songs, sung in the ghetto Lodz, published From the Last Extermination journal, 1946; Selection of Nazi-German wartime documents, published in From the Last Extermination journal, 1946; Photodocuments published in From the Last Extermination journal, 1946; List of Nazi-German camps in Yiddish, published in From the Last Extermination journal, 1946; Report on activities of the Central Historical Commission, From the Last Extermination journal, 1946; News of the Central Historical Commission, From the Last Extermination journal, 1946

Creators:: Central Historical Commission at the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in US zone in Germany (Postwar Germany); Israel Kaplan, editor of the investigative journal, From The Last Extermination, postwar Germany (1946, 1947)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 11: RG-02.01.11, From The Last Extermination, journal, 1946, vol. 1 no. 2, Munich

Subject/Index Terms:: Documents in Yiddish language; From The Last Extermination, Jewish investigative journal published in postwar Germany; Journal for the history of the Jewish people during The Nazi Regime, published in postwar Germany; narratives in Yiddish; Periodicals, Jewish; Periodicals, Jewish, published by the Central Historical Commission in US zone of occupation, Munich; Photodocuments published in From the Last Extermination journal, 1946; Riga (Latvia); Riga (Latvia: ghetto); Dubno (Poland); Dubno (Poland: ghetto); Dubno (Ukraine); Mielec (Poland); Mielec (Poland: concentration camp); Cultural life in ghettos; Cultural life in postwar Germany, reflected in the Last Extermination, journal, 1946; Jewish folklore during the Nazi Time, reflected in the Last Extermination, journal, 1946; Music in the ghettos; Nazi documents with explanations, reflected in the Last Extermination, journal, 1946; Activity report, reflected in the Last Extermination, journal, 1946

Creators:: Central Historical Commission at the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in US zone in Germany (Postwar Germany); Israel Kaplan, editor of the investigative journal, From The Last Extermination, postwar Germany (1946, 1947)