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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 3: RG-02.03, Sylvia Lowe Collection, 1945-1950s

Collection comprises comprises proving incarceration of Lowe family members at Nazi concentration camps. There is also a commemoration diploma issued in memory of Jakob Jozef Grynszpan who died in the Nazi concentration camp.

Subject/Index Terms:: Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Complex of concentration and extermination camps; Displaced persons camps; Documents in English language; Identification documents--Post-WWII; Lowe, Sylvia; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; Postliberation proofs of Nazi-German and Axis persecutions; Prisoner identification numbers, Nazi German concentration camps; Proof of concentration camp incarceration; survivors of concentration camps; The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA); Raciarz (Poland); Raciaz (Poland); Jewish Committee of Cham (Bavaria); Cham (Germany); Documents in German language; Displaced persons (DP) camps in Germany, postwar; Germany (1945--1949); Proofs of incarcerations under German-Nazi and Axis regimes; Reports about Displaced Persons; Flossenburg (Germany: Concentration Camp); Identification documents; identification photograph; Amberg (Germany); concentration camp victims; Documents in Hebrew; Holocaust Memorialization; Postliberation commemoration of the Holocaust; Jewish Community in Amberg, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany, Postwar; family photographs; Jewish life, pre-war; Photographs, children; Photographs, family members; Prewar photographs; Yiddish, language; Issuance of certificates

Creators:: Sylvia Lowe, daughter of the survivor, Jakob Grynszpan

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-02.03.01, Sylvia Lowe, Certification issued to Jakob Grinschpan prooving his imprisonment in Auschwitz.tif, 1942 -- 1945

This document is a proof of incarceration issued to Jakub Grynszpan, imprisoned at the Auschwitz complex of camps from 1942--1945. This certificate was issued by UNRRA.

Subject/Index Terms:: Proof of concentration camp incarceration; Postliberation proofs of Nazi-German and Axis persecutions; Dr. Olmer Abraham, chairman of the Jewish Committee in Cham, Germany; Documents in English language; Identification documents; Identification documents--Post-WWII; identification photograph; Lowe, Sylvia; survivors of concentration camps; Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Complex of concentration and extermination camps; The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA); Concentration camp photograph, Jakob Grinszpan (Jakub Grinschpan); Documents in German language; Cham (Germany); Prisoner identification numbers, Nazi German concentration camps; Displaced persons camps; Jakob Grynszpan (Jakub Grinschpan), prisoner identification number, Nazi German concentration camps; Jewish Committee of Cham (Bavaria); Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; Raciaz (Poland); Raciarz (Poland); Jakob Grynszpan (Jakub Grinschpan), prisoner of Nazi German concentration camps

Creators:: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) (1946)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-02.03.03, Sylvia Lowe, Certification of concentration camp incarceration, issued by Jewish Committee in Cham, Bavaria, 1945

The document includes the name of the concentration camp, prisoner number, birth place, last place of residence, education level, profession, years imprisoned in the concentration camp, and photograph. Grynszpan was imprisoned in Auschwitz.

Subject/Index Terms:: Proof of concentration camp incarceration; Proofs of incarcerations under German-Nazi and Axis regimes; Jewish Committee of Cham (Bavaria); Documents in English language; Jewish organizations in postwar Germany; Postliberation proofs of Nazi-German and Axis persecutions; survivors of concentration camps; The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA); Documents in German language; Germany (1945 -- 1949); Displaced persons (DP) camps in Germany, postwar; Survivors of Nazi German concentration camp, Second World War; Cham (Germany)

Creators:: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) (1946); Military Government of the US occupation zone in Germany (1944 -- 1952)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 3: RG-02.03.04, Sylvia Lowe, Certification to Jakob Grinszpan of his incarceration in Flossenburg concentration camp, 1946

This document consists of proof of general information (occupation, birthplace, concentration camp served in) of ex-prisoner of Flossenburg concentration camp, Jakub Grynszpan, written in German and English, 18 April 1946

Subject/Index Terms:: Proof of concentration camp incarceration; Proofs of incarcerations under German-Nazi and Axis regimes; Postliberation proofs of Nazi-German and Axis persecutions; English, language; Flossenburg (Germany: Concentration Camp); Prisoner identification numbers, Nazi German concentration camps; identification photograph; Documents in English language; Identification documents--Post-WWII; Identification documents; survivors of concentration camps; Jakob Grynszpan (Jakub Grinschpan), prisoner of Nazi German concentration camps; The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA); Grynshpan, Jakob; Displaced persons camps; Germany (1945 -- 1949); Documents in German language; Jewish Community in Amberg, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany, Postwar; Jakob Grynszpan (Jakub Grinschpan), prisoner identification number, Nazi German concentration camps; Jakob Grynszpan (Jakub Grinschpan), prisoner of Flossenburg concentration camp; Amberg (Germany); Displaced persons (DP) camps in Germany, postwar

Creators:: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) (1946); Military Government of the US occupation zone in Germany (1944 -- 1952)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 4: RG-02.03.06, Sylvia_Lowe, Hebrew Certificate of memorialization, ca 1945

This document is a post-liberation certificate written in Yiddish, consisting of a general memorialization for Holocaust victims, in which Jakob Grynszpan planted two trees in memory of his parents, Pichas and Henda Grynszpan, from Poland. The certificate was issued by Keren Kayemet L'Yisrael.

Subject/Index Terms:: Post-Holocaust Commemoration; concentration camp victims; Holocaust Memorialization; Memorilization documents issued by Jewish organization in postwar Germany; Hebrew, language; Documents in Hebrew; Proof of concentration camp incarceration; Postliberation commemoration of the Holocaust; Individually made documents commemorating the Holocaust, Jewish National Fund, Gauting, postwar; Congress of Jewish National Fund in Gauting, Germany, postwar; Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (Jewish National Fund) in postwar Germany

Creators:: Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemet L'Yisrael) (ca 1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 5: RG-02.03.07, Sylvia Lowe, Jakob Grinszpan in camp uniform, perhaps after liberation, ca 1945

Photograph of Jakub Grynszpan in concentration camp uniform, perhaps post-liberation, 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: Photographs, concentration camps; Concentration camp photograph, Jakob Grinszpan (Jakub Grinschpan); Displaced persons camps; Proof of concentration camp incarceration; Proofs of incarcerations under German-Nazi and Axis regimes; Flossenburg (Germany: Concentration Camp); survivors of concentration camps; identification photograph; Prisoner identification numbers, Nazi German concentration camps; Jakob Grynszpan (Jakub Grinschpan), prisoner of Nazi German concentration camps; Jakob Grynszpan (Jakub Grinschpan), prisoner of Flossenburg concentration camp; Jakob Grynszpan (Jakub Grinschpan), prisoner identification number, Nazi German concentration camps; Survivors of Nazi German concentration camp, Second World War

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

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 6: RG-02.03.08, Sylvia Lowe, Jakob Grinzspan, certification of concentration camp incarceration, Flossenburg, 1946

Subject/Index Terms:: Proof of concentration camp incarceration; Proofs of incarcerations under German-Nazi and Axis regimes; Prisoner identification numbers, Nazi German concentration camps; Jakob Grynszpan (Jakub Grinschpan), prisoner of Flossenburg concentration camp; Flossenburg (Germany: Concentration Camp); Amberg (Germany); Documents in German language; Documents in English language; identification photograph; survivors of concentration camps; Jewish Community in Amberg, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany, Postwar; Identification documents; Identification documents--Post-WWII; Germany (1945 -- 1949); The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA); Jakob Grynszpan (Jakub Grinschpan), prisoner identification number, Nazi German concentration camps; Jakob Grynszpan (Jakub Grinschpan), prisoner of Nazi German concentration camps

Creators:: Military Government of the US occupation zone in Germany (1944 -- 1952); United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) (1946)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 7: RG-02.03.09, Sylvia Lowe, prewar family photograph, the oldest child is Jakob Grinszpan, ca 1937

This document is a pre-war photograph of ex-prisoner Jakub Grynszpan, the oldest child pictured, and three family relatives, ca 1937, probably taken in Poland, where Grynszpan was born.

Subject/Index Terms:: family photographs; Jewish life, pre-war; Family photograph, Jakob Grinszpan; Prewar photographs; Photographs, children; Photographs, family members; survivors of concentration camps; concentration camp victims; Grinszpan (Grinschpan) family photo; Interwar Poland

Creators:: Grinszpan family (ca 1937)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 8: RG-02.03.10, Sylvia Lowe, Grinszpan photograph in camp uniform, with inscription in Yiddish, 1945

This document is an image of the backside of the photograph of Grinszpan in prisoner uniform, written in Yiddish, and dated 1945.

Subject/Index Terms:: Concentration camp photograph, Jakob Grinszpan (Jakub Grinschpan); Photographs, postwar, 1945 -- 1988; Yiddish, language; Jakob Grynszpan (Jakub Grinschpan), prisoner of Nazi German concentration camps; Germany (1945 -- 1949); Proof of concentration camp incarceration; Proofs of incarcerations under German-Nazi and Axis regimes; Flossenburg (Germany: Concentration Camp); Jakob Grynszpan (Jakub Grinschpan), prisoner of Flossenburg concentration camp; Displaced persons camps; inscription in Yiddish

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

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 9: RG-02.03.12, Sylvia Lowe, the form for Identity Card to the former Jewish inmates of Nazi concentration camps, ca 1945

This document is the cover page of a post-war identity card for former jewish concentration camp inmates and other persecuted Jewish people, written in English and German, ca 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: Displaced persons camps; Identification documents--Post-WWII; Issuance of certificates; Jewish Community in Amberg, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany, Postwar; Identification documents; Documents in English language; Documents in German language; survivors of concentration camps; Proof of concentration camp incarceration; Proofs of incarcerations under German-Nazi and Axis regimes; Survivors of Nazi German concentration camp, Second World War; Amberg (Germany)

Creators:: Jewish Community, Amberg (ca 1945)