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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 6: RG-02.07, Unser Leben (Our Life), Yiddish Publication of Liberated Jews in Berlin, 1947-1948

This collection includes three editions of "Unser Leben" (Our Life), a publication of liberated Jews in Berlin.

Subject/Index Terms:: Unser Leben (Our Life) publication, Nr. 5, 1947, Berlin, Germany; Jewish publications in Yiddish, Europe and America; Documents in Yiddish language; Displaced persons camps; Displaced person camps, publications; Unser Leben (Our Life) publication, Nr. 6, 1947, Berlin, Germany; Unser Leben (Our Life) publication, Nr. 7, 1948, Berlin, Germany; Unser Leben (Our Life) publication, photodocuments, 1947; Jewish religious life in postwar Germany

Creators:: Organization of the Liberated Jews of Berlin (1947--1948); Unser Leben (Our Life) Publication, Berlin, postwar Germany (1947--1948)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-02.07.01- Unser Leben, Nr. 5 (23), 1947

This document is a newspaper from the Yiddish publication of Liberated Jews in Berlin, Unser Leben (Our Life).

Subject/Index Terms:: Jewish religious life in postwar Germany; Founder of the Martyrs Memorial and Museum of the Holocaust, Irving Peters, 1963; Jewish publications in Yiddish, Europe and America; Displaced persons camps; Displaced person camps, publications; Irving Peters, President of the American Congress of Jews from Poland, 1960; Irving Peters, President of the 5000 survivors, Berlin, 1945-1949; Unser Leben (Our Life) publication, photodocuments, 1947; Documents in Yiddish language; Establishment of the Council of postwar Jewish Organizations survivors of the Holocaust,1962; Unser Leben (Our Life) publication, Nr. 5, 1947, Berlin, Germany; Search for loved ones, Susan Abonyi, Eger Hungary, 1926, Unser Leben publication Nr. 5; Search for loved ones, Mania Abramowicz, Piotrkow Poland, 1929, Unser Leben publication Nr. 5; Search for loved ones, Sofie-Sara, Heymann, Ahrweiler Germany, 1885, Unser Leben publication Nr. 5; Search for loved ones, Moszek Ajzenberg, Sochocin Poland, 1898, Unser Leben publication Nr. 5; Search for loved ones, Hersz Ajzenberg, Sochocin Poland, 1898, Unser Leben publication Nr. 5; Search for loved ones, Jojne Ajzenbrg, Sochocin Poland, 1927, Unser Leben publication Nr. 5; Search for loved ones, Isaak Bacharach, Mansbach Germany, 1881, Unser Leben publication, Nr. 5; Search for loved ones, Martha Poppe, Germany, 1883, Unser Leben publication, Nr. 5; Search for loved ones, Zbigniew Breiter, Katowice Poland, 1923, Unser Leben publication, Nr. 5; Search for loved ones, Marek Brener (Doleczki), Poland, 1930, Unser Leben publication, Nr. 5; Search for loved ones, Liebe Grojnowska, Poland, 1930, Unser Leben publication, Nr. 5; Search for loved ones, Lidia Hajnal, Bistrica Romania, 1913, Unser Leben publication, Nr. 5; Search for loved ones, Magdolna Kovacs-Oppenheim, Hungary, Unser Leben publication, Nr. 5; Search for loved ones, Elisabeth Friedlander, Stettin Germany, 1905, Unser Leben publication, Nr. 5; Search for loved ones, Grete Merlander, Hannover Germany, 1906, Unser Leben publication, Nr. 5; Search for loved ones, Szaja Wajsbard, Plonsk Poland, 1898, Unser Leben publication, Nr. 5; Search for loved ones, Esther-Cyrla Wajsbard, Plonsk Poland, 1906, Unser Leben publication, Nr. 5; Search for loved ones, Moniek Wajsbard, Plonsk Poland, 1932, Unser Leben publication, Nr. 5; Search for loved ones, Karl Weiss, Oranienburg Germany, 1932, Unser Leben publication, Nr. 5

Creators:: Unser Leben (Our Life) Publication, Berlin, postwar Germany (1947--1948); Organization of the Liberated Jews of Berlin (1947--1948)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-02.07.02- Unser Leben, Nr. 6 (24), 1947

This document is a four page Yiddish publication of Liberated Jews in Berlin, called Unser Leben (Our Life).

Subject/Index Terms:: Jewish religious life in postwar Germany; Jewish publications in Yiddish, Europe and America; Displaced person camps, publications; Displaced persons camps; Documents in Yiddish language; Founder of the Martyrs Memorial and Museum of the Holocaust, Irving Peters, 1963; Irving Peters, President of the 5000 survivors, Berlin, 1945-1949; Irving Peters, President of the American Congress of Jews from Poland, 1960; Establishment of the Council of postwar Jewish Organizations survivors of the Holocaust,1962; Unser Leben (Our Life) publication, Nr. 6, 1947, Berlin, Germany

Creators:: Unser Leben (Our Life) Publication, Berlin, postwar Germany (1947--1948); Organization of the Liberated Jews of Berlin (1947--1948)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 3: RG-02.07.03- Unser Leben, Nr. 7 (25), 1948

This document is a four page Yiddish publication called Unser Leben (Our Life), focusing on the cultivation of Jewish culture and life.

Subject/Index Terms:: Unser Leben (Our Life) publication, Nr. 7, 1948, Berlin, Germany; Establishment of the Council of postwar Jewish Organizations survivors of the Holocaust,1962; Jewish religious life in postwar Germany; Displaced person camps, publications; Displaced persons camps; Jewish publications in Yiddish, Europe and America; Irving Peters, President of the American Congress of Jews from Poland, 1960; Irving Peters, President of the 5000 survivors, Berlin, 1945-1949; Founder of the Martyrs Memorial and Museum of the Holocaust, Irving Peters, 1963; Documents in Yiddish language

Creators:: Unser Leben (Our Life) Publication, Berlin, postwar Germany (1947--1948); Organization of the Liberated Jews of Berlin (1947--1948)