Gaynor I. Jacobson collection Tad Szulc papers

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." 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.