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Displaced persons camps in Germany records from YIVO

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 1996.A.0270 | RG Number: RG-67.020M

Overview

Description: Consists of records of displaced persons (DP) camps and centers, which were collected by YIVO between 1946-1954. Includes information about Jewish organizations and committees that supported DPs, the occupation authorities, antisemitism, liberation day celebrations, annual congresses, material needs, the housing shortage in Germany, cultural activities, the Jewish community of Berlin, searches for surviving family members, religious life, the placement of Jewish orphans, the Red Cross, relations with American Jewish communities, and immigration possibilities.
Date: inclusive: 1945-1952

Physical Details

Language: German English Yiddish.
Extent: 150,568 digital images : JPEG ; 420 GB.
117 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
System of Arrangement: Organized in 19 series: 1. Central Committee of the Liberated Jews in the American Zone; 2. Camps and centers, A-E; 3. Camps, Feldafing; 4. Camps, Foehrenwald; 5. Camps, F-Z; 6. Union of Employees of the Central Committee; 7. Union of Invalids; 8; Union of Jewish Students; 9. Landsmanshaften; 10. Jewish Actors Union; 11. Various DP Unions; 12. Zionist Parties; 13. ORT; 14. AJDC; 15. Various Organizations; 16. Miscellaneous Printed Matter; 17. Central Jewish Committee of the British Zone; 18. French Zone and Berlin; 19. Supplements of various series.

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Conditions on Access: This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing station. There are no additional access restrictions to this material.
Conditions on Use: For scholarly use only, no reproduction without permission. Files shall not be copied or shared in any way with another individual or institution. Information on these files of a personal or confidential nature shall not be shared with third parties, neither through hard copy printouts nor by making copied files. For permission to reproduce documents write to the Chief Archivist, YIVO Archives at: reference@yivo.org.
Copyright Holder: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Refugee camps--Germany. Holocaust survivors--Germany. Jewish refugees--Germany--History--20th century. World War, 1939-1945--Refugees. Jewish orphans--Germany--Berlin. Jewish committees (ushmm)
Corporate Name: Zentralkomitee der befreiten Juden in der Amerikanischen Zone American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee International Committee of the Red Cross

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: From YIVO record group 294.2.They were generated by the Jewish DP institutions in Germany after WWII and were transferred to YIVO between 1948 and 1954, following the closing of the camps and dissolution of DP institutions. In 1963 a separate record group was formed of these materials and a preliminary inventory was compiled by Zosa Szajkowski. The arrangement of the records and preparation of the finding aid were completed by Marek Web in 1986. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in 1996.

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