Greta Fischer papers

Document | Accession Number: 1993.23.553

Date: 1939-1989 (inclusive)
Language: English
Estonian
Czech
German
French
Genre/Form: Photographs.
Registers.
Extent: 2 boxes
1 oversize box
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Lilo Plaschkes

Document Creator: Greta Fischer
Biography: Greta Fischer (1910-1988) was born in Budišov (Bautch) to Leopold and Ida Fischer. She survived the war in London while her parents perished in Theresienstadt. In June 1945, she went to Germany as a member of United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's Team 182 to work at the International Displaced Person’s Children's Center established at Kloster-Indersdorf. During the summer of 1946, the D.P. children’s center was relocated to Prien am Chiemsee and Gstadt am Chiemsee and the cloister was converted to a home for Jewish refugee children from Eastern Europe. Fischer followed the D.P. Center and became director of the International Children’s Center Hotel Kronprinz Prien. In 1948 she escorted a group of children to Toronto, Canada, worked in Montreal as a social worker, and moved to Israel in 1965.
System of Arrangement: The Greta Fischer papers are arranged as six series: I. Biographical materials, approximately 1940-1988, II. Concentration camp materials, approximately 1945, III. Photographic materials, approximately 1939-1941, IV. Printed materials, approximately 1939-1989, V. Reports, memoranda, and speeches, 1945-1987, VI. Souvenirs from the children's centers, 1945-1947
Topical Term: Refugee children--Germany--Markt Indersdorf.
Jewish children--Germany--Markt Indersdorf.
Holocaust survivors--Germany--Markt Indersdorf.
Orphanages--Germany--Markt Indersdorf.
Geographic Name: Markt Indersdorf (Germany)
Prien am Chiemsee (Germany)
Gstadt am Chiemsee (Germany)
Personal Name: Fischer, Greta.
Corporate Name: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
Kloster Indersdorf.
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Lilo Plaschkes, Greta Fischer’s niece, donated the Greta Fischer papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993. The accession previously cataloged as RG-19.034 (1993.A.0031) has been incorporated into this collection.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Additional Accession Number: 1993.A.0031
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
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Also in Greta Fischer collection

The Greta Fischer collection consists of biographical materials about Fischer's UNRRA career; concentration camp materials including a map and a ration card; photographs of children and employees at the D.P. children's centers at Kloster Indersdorf, Prien, and Gstadt; printed materials, reports, memoranda, and speeches about UNRRA's work with displaced children; and souvenirs from the children's centers, an UNRRA badge, a napkin, and a coaster.

Date: 1939-1989