The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was an international relief agency representing 44 nations, but largely dominated by the United States. Founded in 1943, it became part of the United Nations (UN) in 1945, and it largely shut down operations in 1947. Its purpose was to "plan, co-ordinate, administer or arrange for the administration of measures for the relief of victims ...

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee correspondence contains monthly reports and biographical briefs on the residents of the displaced persons camps near Ulm and Heidenheim, Germany. The administration of these camps were run by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which was set up in 1913 in order to assist Jewish communities overseas. The collection centers around the documentation ...

O.36 - David Boder Collection: Testimonies of survivors in DP camps in Germany
 
 This record group is a collection of testimonies recorded by David Boder, a Professor of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology, in DP camps in Europe in 1946. The collection is comprised of testimonies of Jews and non-Jews, recorded in various languages and translated into English.
 
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Scrip, valued at 5 kronen, issued in 1943 in Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp acquired by Mordecai E. Schwart. Schwartz, a soldier in the United States Army, was recruited after the war ended in May 1945 to serve as Area Director for UNRRA. He worked for UNRRA until 1948, when the organization was deactivated. He then became Area Director for the International Refugee Organization (IRO), ...

Contains documentation about the administration of the camp, the condition and treatment of the inmates, lists of inmates, a list of those liberated from the camp, information about provisions for Christmas 1943, memoranda from the camp commandant, personal papers of the inmates, and other information.

Copyright Holder: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte - Archivleitung

Pan slowly up to a Hitler Youth Flag waving. A mountain range is visible. 00:01:15 A Hitler Youth organizer meets with members outside the Salzburg train station prior to leaving for camp. The boys carry suitcases. Sign by the road with "HJ Fuehrerschule Groedig 1km" and a two-toned diamond with a swastika. Scenes of the camp at Groedig and mountain landscape from above. 00:02:00 The boys pile out ...

Inert, Gypsum-based, spent Zyklon-B pellets, recovered outside a crematorium at Majdanek killing center in Poland, following the liberation of the camp by the Soviet army in July 1944. Developed and patented in 1924 by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schädlingsbekämpfung mbH (German Corporation for Pest Control, a subsidiary of Degussa), Zyklon-B was originally produced as a pesticide and rodenticide. It ...

Contains two passports for Ruwen Basel, three identification cards for Fela Liebgold and Ruwen Basel, correspondence pertaining to reparation payments, and Ruwen Basel's work for United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) as a camp supply officer.

In the 1950s, the policy of the West German law courts was to limit the number of Germans who could be prosecuted for crimes against humanity during the Nazi era, thereby preserving the old state elites who had been accomplices to the Nazi regime, among them the judiciary, 90% of whom had been Nazi party members. The number of Nazi criminals prosecuted in West Germany dropped throughout the 1950s. ...

Morris Gastfreund (1916-2010) was born on 2 February 1916 in Wodzisław Śląski, Poland. He was the survivor of several camps including Dachau, Buchenwald, and Skarzysko-Kamienna. He was liberated from Theresienstadt in May 1945 and lived in the Landsberg displaced persons camp for several years. He later immigrated to the United States.

Consists of 20 photographs depicting scenes at post-liberation Ebensee and a notice entitled "The Camp of Ebensee" with handwritten annotations by Paul Seres. The notice contains information about the evolution of the camp, conditions for prisoners, and atrocities committed by the camp commanders. It appears to have been written by a camp prisoner shortly after liberation. The photographs and the "notice" ...

The Cardinal Faulhaber letter was written by Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber and addressed to the administration of Dachau concentration camp requesting the release of clergymen imprisoned within the camp. Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber (1869-1952) was a German cardinal and archbishop of Munich, Germany who was a prominent opponent of the Nazis.

La cote 109 W des Archives départementales de la Vienne ne correspond ni à un fonds, ni à un versement. Riche de 423 articles, représentant 23,6 mètres linéaires, cet ensemble de documents a été composé à partir de plusieurs versements effectués aux Archives par différents producteurs. On y trouve des documents produits par : -la préfecture de la Vienne (291 articles pour 15,54 mètres linéaires) – ...

The letter was written to Col. Wooten from J. Nestel in Salzburg, Austria, requesting that Capt. D'Jernes remain as commander in the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) displaced persons camp "Beth Bialik" (Jewish Transit Camp #2). Attached are 51 sheets containing 1,417 signatures from camp residents.

Jean Richard Samuel Werner (April 9, 1912 - October 8, 2002) studied natural sciences at the University of Bern. In 1942 he became an assistant director of the work camp Thalheim and in October 1942 he became a deputy head of the work camp Davesco. In 1943 he became a head of the women's refugee house in Kriens and later on the head of the work camp in Saint-Cergue. In August 1943 he became an inspector ...

The papers consist of an identification card for former concentration camp inmates issued to Henry Freier donor's husband in Laufen, Germany, and an identification card ("Ausweis") for civilian internees of Mauthausen concentration camp issued to Mina Horowicz at the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) DP camp in Ebensee, Austria.

Collection of the Department for Relief to Refugees from Germany in The Hague, the Netherlands, 1938-1942
 
 Collection of the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken: Zorg voor de Vluchtelingen uit Duitsland (Department for Relief to Refugees from Germany of the Ministry of the Interior of the Netherlands), 1938-1942; thousands of refugees from Germany began to arrive to the Netherlands starting ...

Né en France en 1909, Jacques Rossi passera 19 ans au Goulag et ne retrouvera son pays natal, après bien des aventures, qu'en 1985. Décidé à communiquer son expérience concentrationnaire, tout en évitant la facilité de l'autobiographie, il a choisi la forme du manuel afin d'évoquer le pourquoi et le comment de cette institution destinée à broyer les hommes. Bibliographie : pages 315-320. ...

Arthur Greenbaum was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1924 under the name Szlama Arpad Gruenbaum. He was a prisoner at the Mauthausen concentration camp from July 2nd, 1944 to April 4th, 1945. After liberation he stayed at the Mannheim Displaced Persons Center, and later arrived at the Backnang Displaced Persons Camp in February 1946, along with his cousin Elisabeth Wieder. He received certification from ...

Contains photocopies of camp prisoners' newsletters, proceedings and minutes of meetings, communiques, memoranda, correspondence, reports, and a scrapbook relating to Charles Rosenbloom's work with United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Team 115 at Dachau concentration camp shortly after World War II and his involvement with the International Prisoners' Committee in Dachau.

Copyright Holder: Spomen-područje Jasenovac

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