Overview
- Description
- Contains transcripts of oral history interviews, correspondence, reports, and photographs compiled by Tad Szulc while conducting research on the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Among the materials is information concerning Jewish emigration, displaced persons, Holocaust survivors, and Jews in predominantly Arab countries during the 1960s through the 1990s. Also includes the research notes used by Tad Szulc while writing "Rescue."
- Subtitle
- Tad Szulc papers
- Date
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1950-1989
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Tad Szulc
- Collection Creator
- Tad Szulc
- Biography
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Tad Szulc (1926-2001), a former correspondent for the New York Times, was born Tadeusz Szulc in Warsaw. He moved to Brazil in 1940 and immigrated to the United States in 1949. His book, The Secret Alliance: The Extraordinary Story of the Rescue of the Jews Since World War II, describes the clandestine postwar migration of Holocaust survivors to British Mandatory Palestine.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Extent
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38 linear in..
52 microfiche.
- System of Arrangement
- Arrangement is thematic
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust survivors--Interviews. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Jews--Israel. Jews--Europe. Jews--Migrations.
- Geographic Name
- Israel--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century. United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Personal Name
- Jacobson, Gaynor I. Szulc, Tad.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Tad Szulc collected the materials while conducting research for various books (among them "Rescue!") and articles relating to the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS). The transcripts for taped interviews, which make up the bulk of the collection, were created from 1988 to 1989. Szulc donated the collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in July 1991, stipulating that it should be named the "Gaynor I. Jacobson" collection.
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- 2023-08-25 09:38:43
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