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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 4: RG-02.05, Civil Judical proceeding in DP camps, 1936-1982

This collection includes documents concerning the postwar Civil Judicial Proceeding regarding Displaced Persons Camps issues.

Subject/Index Terms:: Documents in English language; donation of artifacts; Jewish Federation Council, Los Angeles; Jewish Federation Council of Greater LA, 590 N Vermont Ave, LA, CA, 90004; Legal document; Forced labor camps; Ukraine (1939-1945); Velykyi Bereznyi (Ukraine); Velki-Balat (Czechoslovakia); Reissuance of birth certificates, postwar Europe; Volosiankia (Czechoslovakia); Volosiankia (Ukraine); Buenos Aires (Argentina); German civil registry in Bohemia and Moravia, wartime; Marriage certificates; Czechoslovakia (1945--1991); Civil registries, West Berlin, 1957; Bavaria (Germany); Immigration to United States; Jewish Immigration; Munich (Germany); Postwar Jewish immigration from Germany; survivors of concentration camps; Tegernseer Landstrasse (Munchen, Germany); Lower military court of Munich, 1949; International Refugee Organization (IRO); Black market, Munich, postwar; Birth certificates; Council of the Community of Jazlowiec; Jazlowiec (Poland); Council of the town of Jazlowiec, 1939; Jewish civil registry, Jazlowiec (Poland); Yazlovets (Ukraine); Buchach (Ukraine); Buczacz (Poland); Survivors of Nazi German concentration camp, Second World War; Black market activity in displaced persons camps, postwar Germany; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Council of Jewish Women of Los Angeles; Council of the Jewish Community in Czech countries, postwar; Jewish Council of Prague, wartime; Judenraet in Prague, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, wartime; Prague (Czech Republic); Treblinka (Poland: extermination camp); Certification of civil status, postwar Europe; Bari (Italy); Jewish Refugee Center (Bari, Italy); Unified prefecture of Bari, Italian civil authorities in the city of Bari, postwar; Cultural activities in Displaced Persons Camps; Displaced persons camps; Lechfeld, DP camp, Germany; Renewing of marriage, DP camps, postwar Germany; Graben (Bavaria, Germany); Warsaw (Poland); Germany (1945--1949); postwar letters; concentration camp photographs; Jewish prisoners of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943; Liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto, 1943; Warsaw (Poland: ghetto); Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Poland); Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, liquidation, photo-documents; periodicals, American; Newspaper headlines

Creators:: Documentatin related to the persecutions in the Holocaust (1933 -- 1945)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-02.05.01, artifact donation from Grace Garbus to JFCGLA, 1975, December 12, 1975

This document is a letter written by Grace Garbus giving the title of 101 items to the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles with the expressed desire of having the items shown or exhibited.

Subject/Index Terms:: donation of artifacts; Grace Garbus, survivor, donator, 1970s; Jewish Federation Council, Los Angeles; Documents in English language; Legal document; Grace Garbus, intention of donations of Holocaust related documents and artifacts, 1975; Jewish Federation Council of Greater LA, 590 N Vermont Ave, LA, CA, 90004

Creators:: Grace Garbus (December 12, 1975); Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles (1975--1976)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-02.05.02, affidavit of Leopold Herszkowicz and Imre Zelowice, 1947--1949

This document is an affidavit signed by Leopold Herszkowicz and Imre Zelowice swearing under oath that they witnessed the death of Mr. Elemer Kiss at a Ukrainian-based labor camp, prepared in Schwabisch Hall; signed in 1947; notarized in 1949.

Subject/Index Terms:: affidavit, Leopold Herszkowicz and Imre Zelowice; Schwabisch Hall (Bavaria, Germany); Hungarian labor site near Kiev,1941, 1942; Leopold Herszkowicz, Hungarian labor battalion servicemen; Imre Zelowice, Hungarian labor battalion serviceman; Documents in English language; Postliberation proofs of Nazi-German and Axis persecutions; Legal document; Ukraine (1939-1945); Forced labor camps; Velykyi Bereznyi (Ukraine); Elmer Kiss, Hungarian labor battalion serviceman; Velki-Balat (Czechoslovakia); Velki-Balat (Ukraine); Volosiankia (Ukraine); Volosiankia (Czechoslovakia)

Creators:: Civil Register, Schwabisch Hall (1947--1949)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 3: RG-02.05.03, Petition for Issuance of Marriage Certificate, Civil Registry Wedding for Berlin, 19 November 1957

This document is a petition for the issuance of a marriage certificate of Alfred Anders and Else Lipschutz, from the Civil Registries of Berlin, 19 November 1957.

Subject/Index Terms:: Marriage certificates; marriage, Alfred Anders and Else Lipschutz; Legal document; Documents in English language; German civil registry in Bohemia and Moravia, wartime; Buenos Aires (Argentina); Czechoslovakia (1945--1991); Civil registries, West Berlin, 1957; Mila Schenkel, notary public, Council of Jewish Women

Creators:: Civil Registry, Berlin. (1957)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 4: RG-02.05.04, Letter to High Commissioner of Bavaria Pardon and Review Board, 5 November 1949

This document is a letter to the HIgh Commissioner of Bavaria Pardon and Review Board from Dr. Herbert Makovsky, Attorney at Law, dated November 5, 1949. The letter requests the pardon of Leib Wendel who was found guilty of possession of 78 bottles of alcohol.

Subject/Index Terms:: Bavaria (Germany); Bavaria Pardon and Review Board; Immigration to United States; Munich (Germany); Postwar Jewish immigration from Germany; Jewish Immigration; Leib Wendel, prisoners of ghetto and concentration camps; International Refugee Organization (IRO); Weimar republic laws, application in West Germany, 1949; Tegernseer Landstrasse (Munchen, Germany); Documents in English language; survivors of concentration camps; Dr. Herbert Makovsky, attorney at law, Munich, 1949; Lower military court of Munich, 1949; Black market, Munich, postwar; Survivors of Nazi German concentration camp, Second World War; Black market activity in displaced persons camps, postwar Germany; Black market activity in DP camps, the case of Leib Wendel, 1949

Creators:: Dr. Herbert Makovsky (1949)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 5: RG-02.05.05, Certificate from Council of Community of Jazlowiec, 10 May 1939

This document is a certificate from the Council of the Community of Jazlowiec stating an investigation regarding verification that Aron Koffler was born in Jazlowiec supposedly in 1896, 10 May 1939.

Subject/Index Terms:: Aron Koffler, birth certificate; Birth certificates; Buchach (Ukraine); Documents in English language; Council of the Community of Jazlowiec; Jazlowiec (Poland); Poland (1939--1945); Council of the town of Jazlowiec, 1939; Jewish civil registry, Jazlowiec (Poland); Yazlovets (Ukraine); Buczacz (Poland); Mila Schenkel, notary public, Council of Jewish Women; Reissuance of birth certificates, postwar Europe

Creators:: Council of Community of Jazlowiec (1939)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 6: RG-02.05.06, Council of Jewish Community in Czecho Countries, 25 October 1956

This is a certificate from the Council of the Jewish Community in Czecho Countries certifying Mr. Kurt Heinrich Rothole's transportation record during WWII, ending in Auschwitz without record of his return, 25 Oct 1956.

Subject/Index Terms:: Kurt Heinrich Rotholz, prisoner of ghetto and concentration camps; Theresienstadt (Czechoslovakia: Ghetto); Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Kurt Heinrich Rotholz, inmate of Theresienstadt ghetto; Documents in English language; Prague (Czech Republic); Council of Jewish Women of Los Angeles; Postliberation proofs of Nazi-German and Axis persecutions; Jewish Council of Prague, wartime; Judenraet in Prague, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, wartime; Mila Schenkel, notary public, Council of Jewish Women; Council of the Jewish Community in Czech countries, postwar; Documents from Czechoslovakia certified in Los Angeles, postwar

Creators:: Council of the Jewish Community in Czecho Countries (1956)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 7: RG-02.05.07, copy of Unified Prefecture of Bari Notarial act, 29 March 1949

This document is a copy of a Unified Prefecture of Bari Notarial act certifying that Hava Bojarsk was deported to Treblinka concentration camp and later killed there, 29 March 1949.

Subject/Index Terms:: Treblinka (Poland: extermination camp); Italian officials, Jewish Refugee Center Bari, Italy, postwar; Hava Bojarsk, perished in Treblinka death camp, 1942; G. Sblendorio, Italian official, Bari, Italy, postwar; Jewish Refugee Center (Bari, Italy); Documents in English language; Postliberation proofs of Nazi-German and Axis persecutions; Bari (Italy); Certification of civil status, postwar Europe; Proof of deportation to Treblinka, death camp; Civil procedure to establish documents on the basis of oral testimonies, postwar Europe; Certification of death in the Holocaust on the basis of oral testimonies, postwar Europe; Unified prefecture of Bari, Italian civil authorities in the city of Bari, postwar; Lazar Korczomker, witness in civil certification, Bari, Italy, postwar; Josef Kosowski, Bari, Italy, postwar; Josef Kosowski, certification procedure, Bari, Italy, postwar; Procedure of oath in certification affair, Bari, Italy, postwar; Dr. Mario Apicella, Italian prefect, Bari, Italy, postwar; Motek Arbeiter, witness in civil certification, Bari, Italy, postwar; Jacob Skop, witness in civil certification, Bari, Italy, postwar; Strauch Mina, witness in civil certification, Bari, Italy, postwar; Judel Kotok, witness in civil certification, Bari, Italy, postwar

Creators:: Unified Prefecture of Bari (1949)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 8: RG-02.05.08, Certificate of Compensation issued to George Werner Seemyler, February 14, 1967

This document is a post-war certificate of compensation issued to George Werner Seemyler, written in German, dated February 14, 1967, Wiesbaden, Germany.

Subject/Index Terms:: certificate of compensation; Wiesbaden (Germany); George Werner Seemyler; Documents in German language

Creators:: Compensation Authority, Wiesbaden (1967)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 9: RG-02.05.09, Casablanca Certification that Richard Zaporowski born Richard Weinreich, March 3, 1956

This document dated March 3, 1956, is a declaration stating that Richard Zaporowski was born Richard Weinreich. Zaporowski changed his name because of the Germanic sound of his former last name Weinreich, in an attempt to prevent persecution in Poland.

Subject/Index Terms:: Richard Zaporowski; Warsaw (Poland); Mila Schenkel, notary public, Council of Jewish Women; postwar Poland; Casablanca (Morocco); The general consulate of the republic of Poland (Paris); Richard Weinreich; Refugees, Polish; Documents in English language

Creators:: Casablanca Notary (1956)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 10: RG-02.05.10, affidavit from Circuit of Superior Court at Celle legitamizing marriage, October 18, 1949

This document is a copy of an affidavit from the Circuit of the Superior Court at Celle, establishing the marriage of Helen Wenger to her first husband Moses Fischauf, written in English, dated October 18, 1949.

Subject/Index Terms:: Marriage certificates; Certificate of Death; Lodz ghetto; affidavit, Helena Wenger and Moses Fischauf; Werner Grahn, attorney and notary, Bergen district, Germany, postwar; Lodz ghetto, identification card; Documents in English language; Legal document; Germany (1949--1990); Mila Schenkel, notary public, Council of Jewish Women

Creators:: Circuit of the Superior Court at Celle (1949)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 11: RG-02.05.11, Decision from the Office of the Province for Indemnification and Administrated Estates., 1950s

This document from the Office of the Province for Indemnification and Administrated Estates finds that Jankef Nossen Rubin was Jewish and resided in the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland. The document also confirms Rubin's death, establishing a widow's pensiion for his wife, residing in Los Angeles, 1950s.

Subject/Index Terms:: Rheinland-Palatinate, German federal land, postwar Germany; Warsaw ghetto; certificate of compensation; Los Angeles (Calif.); Immigration to United States; English, language; Documents in English language; Legal document; Certificate of Death; Miadziol (Poland); Miadziol (Lithuania); Miadziol (Belarus)

Creators:: Office of the Province for Indemnification and Administrated Estates in Rheinland-Pfalz (1950s)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 12: RG-02.05.12, marriage certificate between Lagerlechfeld DP camp residents, 1949

This document is a marriage certification between Lagerlechfeld DP camp residents Izrael Schwarz and Sara Silberfaden before the Civil Registry on October 18, 1949, documented in English.

Subject/Index Terms:: Izrael Schwarz, Holocaust survivor, DP camp resident, Lechfeld, Germany; Lechfeld, DP camp, Germany; Marriage certificates; Cultural activities in Displaced Persons Camps; Displaced persons camps; Sara Schwarz, nee Silberfaden, Holocaust survivor, DP camp resident, Lechfeld, Germany; Legal document; Documents in English language; Siedlce (Poland); Renewing of marriage, DP camps, postwar Germany; Graben (Bavaria, Germany); Mila Schenkel, notary public, Council of Jewish Women; survivors of concentration camps; Survivors of Nazi German concentration camp, Second World War; Civil registry of Graben (Bavaria, Germany); Warsaw (Poland); Germany (1945--1949)

Creators:: Civil Registry, Lagerlechfeld DP camp (1949)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 13: RG-02.05.13, envelope addressed to Jewish Federation Council from Grace Garbus, 1970s

This document is an envelope written by Grace Garbus, directed to Mr. Julius Bisno at the Jewish Federation Council in Los Angeles, CA. circa 1970s.

Subject/Index Terms:: Jewish Federation Council, Los Angeles; postwar letters; Julius Bisno, document collector, Jewish Federation Council of greater Los Angeles; Documents in English language; Correspondence in English language; Grace Garbus, survivor, donator, 1970s; Los Angeles (California, United States)

Creators:: Grace Garbus (December 12, 1975); Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles (1975--1976)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 14: RG-02.05.14, newspaper article 'Doctor may be boy in Holocaust photo', Rockland Review, June 30, 1982

This document is a newspaper article from the Rockland Review entitled "Doctor may be boy in Holocaust photo," explains that Dr. Tsvi Nussbaum, a New York doctor, may possibly be the boy in an important Holocaust photo, June 30, 1982.

Subject/Index Terms:: Tsvi Nussbaum, potential boy in Holocaust photo post Warsaw Ghetto uprising scene, civilian prisoner; Yad Vashem, Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority, museum and archive; Immigration to United States; concentration camp photographs; The Rockland Review, periodicals, United States; Newspaper headlines; Documents in English language; Jewish prisoners of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943; Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, liquidation, photo-documents; Liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto, 1943; Warsaw (Poland: ghetto); Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Poland); periodicals, American

Creators:: The Rockland Review (June 30, 1982)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 15: RG-02.05.15, temporary certificate from Justice of the Peace of IX District of Paris, August 11, 1939

This document is a temporary certificate dated August 11, 1939, valid for two manoths from the Justice of the Peace of the IX District of Paris, inquiring for the French citizenship for the child of Mr. Jacob Rosental, Claude Rosental, born in Paris.

Subject/Index Terms:: Paris (France); interwar France; French citizenship; temporary certificate; Legal document; Mila Schenkel, notary public, Council of Jewish Women; Documents in English language; Jacob Rozental, refugee from Poland to France; Claude Rozental, child born to Jewish refugee family in Paris, July 27 1939; Documents of French judicial resistance; Application to grant citizenship for Jewish boy in Paris, 1939; Cypa Zubicki, refugee from Poland to France; Application for French citizenship for Claude Rezental, August 11 1939; Justice of the Peace (France)

Creators:: Justice of the Peace of the IX District of Paris (1939)