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



ID: RG-02/RG-02
Extent: 2.0 Boxes
Predominant Dates: 1945 -- 1952

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

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.

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. Author: staff

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
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

Preferred Citation: RG-02, Displaced Persons Documents, Publications, Cultural Life, and Post-War Jewish Publications. Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Archive.
Collection Material Type: Mixed Materials
Scope and Contents: 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.

Documents and Files:
RG-02. 15.01, artifact donation from Grace Garbus to JFCGLA, 1975
RG-02.01.01, Displaced persons publication. On the Freedom. Vol. I, No. 1.
RG-02.01.02, Displaced persons publication. Our Voice. Vol. 4. (2)
RG-02.01.03, Displaced persons publication. Our Voice, Vol. 5.
RG-02.01.04, Displaced persons publication. The Jewish Review by and for Liberated Jews in Germany.
RG-02.01.05, Displaced persons publication. "Our Yahrzeit" (Commemoration)
RG-02.01.06, Displaced persons publication. Magazine for the United Revisionists in the British Zone
RG-02.01.07, Die Bruecke (The Bridge), newspaper
RG-02.01.08, Displaced persons publication. Ibergang., No. 33, pp. 5-6.
RG-02.01.09, “Free Again”, published by liberated Jews in D. P. Center, Stuttgart, Germany, No. 2, January 1946
RG-02.01.10, From The Last Extermination, journal, 1946, vol. 1 no. 3, Munich
RG-02.01.11, From The Last Extermination, journal, 1946, vol. 1 no. 2, Munich
RG-02.03.01, Sylvia Lowe, Certificate issued to Jakob Grinschpan proving his imprisonment in Auschwitz, in 1942--1945.
RG-02.03.03, Sylvia_Lowe, Certification of KZ incarceration issued by Jewish Committee in Cham, Bavaria
RG-02.03.04, Sylvia Lowe, Certification to Jakob Grinszpan of his incarceration in Flossenburg concentration camp
RG-02.03.06, Sylvia_Lowe, Hebrew Certificate of memorialization
RG-02.03.07, Sylvia Lowe, Jakob Grinszpan in camp uniform, perhaps after liberation, 1945
RG-02.03.08, Sylvia Lowe, Jakob Grinszpan, certification of concentration camp incarceration, Flossenburg
RG-02.03.09, Sylvia Lowe, prewar family photograph, the oldest child is Jakob Grinszpan
RG-02.03.10, Sylvia Low, Grinszpan photograph in camp uniform, with inscription in Yiddish, 1945
RG-02.03.12, Sylvia Lowe, the form for identity card to the former Jewish inmates of Nazi concentration camps.pdf
RG-02.04, Brycha Publication, entitled “To Home Through the ‘Vale of Tears’”, 1945-1948, Part. 1
RG-02.04, Brycha Publication, entitled “To Home Through the ‘Vale of Tears’”, 1945-1948, Part. 2
RG-02.04, Brycha Publication, entitled “To Home Through the ‘Vale of Tears’”, 1945-1948, Part. 3
RG-02.04, Brycha Publication, entitled “To Home Through the ‘Vale of Tears’”, 1945-1948, Part. 4
RG-02.04, Brycha Publication, entitled “To Home Through the ‘Vale of Tears’”, 1945-1948, Part. 5
RG-02.04, Brycha Publication, entitled “To Home Through the ‘Vale of Tears’”, 1945-1948, Part. 6
RG-02.05.03, Petition for Issuance of Marriage Certificate, Civil Registry Wedding for Berlin, 1957
RG-02.05.04, Letter to High Commissioner of Bavaria Pardon and Review Board, 5 November 1949.
RG-02.05.05, Certificate from Council of Community of Jazlowiec, 10 May 1939.
RG-02.05.06, Council of Jewish Community in Czecho Countries, 25 Oct 1956.
RG-02.05.07, copy of Unified Prefecture of Bari Notarial act, 29 Mar 1949.
RG-02.05.08, Certificate of Compensation issued to George Werner Seemyler, 14 Feb 1967.
RG-02.05.09, Casablanca Certification that Richard Zaporowski born Richard Weinreich, 3 Mar 1956.
RG-02.05.10, affidavit from Circuit of Superior Court at Celle legitamizing marriage, 18 Oct 1949.
RG-02.05.11, Decision from the Office of the Province for Indemnification and Administrated Estates.
RG-02.05.12, marriage certificate between Lagerlechfeld DP camp residents, 1949
RG-02.05.13, envelope addressed to Jewish Federation Council from Grace Garbus
RG-02.05.14, newspaper article 'Doctor may be boy in Holocaust photo', Rockland Review, 30 June 1982
RG-02.05.15, temporary certificate from Justice of the Peace of IX District of Paris, 11 Aug 1939
RG-02.06.01, , School group
RG-02.06.02, school group on a mountain tour (2)
RG-02.06.03, a dance studio
RG-02.06.04, Perla with mother
RG-02.06.05, Perla with a sibling
RG-02.06.06, Perla's family
RG-02.06.07, Perla's family in DP camp
RG-02.06.08, Perla with her father
RG-02.06.09, Perla with her brother
RG-02.06.10, Perla in DP camp
RG-02.06.11, Perla in DP camp, a few years after
RG-02.06.12, Perla, party at the DP camp
RG-02.06.13, Perla and family members
RG-02.06.14, Celebration at the DP camp
RG-02.06.15, Perla dancing
RG-02.06.16, Kids' party, DP camp
RG-02.06.17, Perla with three other girls
RG-02.06.18, Perla's parents photograph on a Polish-Jewish card for the New 1936 year
RG-02.06.19, Perla's parents, undated
RG-02.06.20, Perla's parents on vacation, Poland, 1936
RG-02.06.21, Perla's parents, prewar Poland, undated
RG-02.06.22, opposite side of a postcard with inscription in Yiddish, 1916
RG-02.06.23, Perla with her mother and brother, undated
RG-02.06.24, Perla and school group, DP camp
RG-02.06.25, Perla at the party, DP camp
RG-02.06.26, Perla with her parents and two brothers
RG-02.06.27, Perla's brother, DP camp
RG-02.06.28, Perla, Germany, undated
RG-02.06.29, Perla with unknown woman and child, Germany, undated
RG-02.06.30, Perla with the other kids at the Jewish monument in Germany, 1955
RG-02.06.31, School lesson, DP camp, Germany
RG-02.06.32, Perla on the stool, DP camp, Germany
RG-02.07.01- Unser Leben, Nr. 5 (23) 1947
RG-02.07.02- Unser Leben, Nr. 6 (24) 1947
RG-02.07.03- Unser Leben, Nr. 7 (25) 1948
RG-02.08.01, From the Last Extermination, Journal, Nr. 4, 1947
RG-02.08.01, From the Last Extermination, Journal, Nr. 4, 1947, part 1
RG-02.08.02, From the Last Extermination, Journal, Nr. 4, 1947, part 2
RG-02.08.03, From the Last Extermination, Journal, Nr. 4, 1947, part 3
RG-02.08.04, From the Last Extermination, Journal, Nr. 4, 1947, part 4
RG-02.12, Report on Displaced Persons in the US zone of occupation Germany, 1947
RG-02.15.02, affidavit of Leopold Herszkowicz and Imre Zelowice, 26 July 1947.
Detailed Description
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
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