- Description
- Organizational records and publications from the Sheerit Hapleita in Argentina held in Sheerit Hapleita office at Paso Street. The records include correspondence, photographs, office files, press releases, and printed material; project folders related to campaigns, memorialization events and other activities of Holocaust survivors in Argentina.
- Alternate Title
- Organization of survivors of the Nazi persecution (She'erit Hapleita)
- Date
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inclusive:
1963-2017
- Credit Line
- Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Collection Creator
- She'erit Hapleita
- Biography
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Sh'erit ha-Pletah-The Jewish displaced persons called themselves the Sh'erit ha-Pletah, a Hebrew term of biblical origin meaning "Surviving Remnant" (שארית הפליטה) . The term was derived from the books of Chronicles, Ezra, and Nechemia and it referenced the Jews who remained in Israel after the destruction of the ancient Temple in Jerusalem (Ezra 9:14 and 1 Chronicles 4:43).
Though the term had simultaneously appeared among groups in the liberated Soviet Union, Western Europe, and Palestine before the final victory, Sh'erit ha-Pletah gained popular currency through the efforts of an American Army Jewish chaplain named Abraham Klausner. In June 1945, Klausner compiled the first list of survivors and chose the term as its title. As the 25,000-name list expanded into a six-volume registry of Jewish DPs, the name Sh'erit ha-Pletah gained wide acceptance. When elected delegates of survivors met in Munich in February 1946, they identified themselves as the Congress of the Sh'erit ha-Pletah. [Source: USHMM web page]
- Reference
- Holocaust survivors : resettlement, memories, identities / edited by Dalia Ofer, Francoise S. Ouzan, and Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz. New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
