Isaac Stone collection

Isaac A. Stone (1907-1974) was born in Estonia in 1907 and immigrated to the United States with his parents as a young boy. In 1935, he earned a PhD in history from Harvard University. During the years following World War II, Stone served in the United States Foreign Service and was in charge of the Berlin Documents Center established in Berlin. He was responsible for gathering documents needed by the prosecution team of the Nuremburg Trials. In the 1940s Stone worked as part of the team of Judge Robert H. Jackson, US Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trial. At that time, Stone worked independently to collect food and clothing for survivors in DP camps in Germany and attempted to locate the relatives of survivors in the United States. After he retired from service he served as professor of history at several universities. Isaac moved to Israel in 1970.