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This collection has been digitized. Microfilm copies of the entire collection are also available on 226 reels labeled according to folder range.

Correspondence, memos, statistics, publications, circulars, bulletins, financial documents, and reports relating to the Displaced Persons Operations, medical care, education and recreation, vocational trainings, emigration and resettlement.

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 Jewish Community of Malmö was founded in 1871 as a result of increased Jewish immigration to the city following the liberalization of Sweden’s industrial legislation. At this time, around 250 Jews were living in the Malmö area. Before the creation of the official community, Jews in the area had belonged to the Jewish Community of Gothenburg, but they also had close ties to the Jewish community ...

The Jack and Beatrice Glotzer papers consist of biographical materials, a memoir, photographs, and a postcard documenting Jack Glotzer’s family in pre‐war and wartime Rohatyn and Jack and Beatrice Glotzer’s immigration to the United States in 1949. Biographical materials include the meal card Beatrice Glotzer used during her passage to the United States, an International Refugee Organization medical ...

Veit Wyler (1908-2002), son of a merchant, was a Swiss lawyer and Zionist politician in Switzerland. He grew up in part with his grandfather, Leo Liepmann Kahn, a Wiesbaden rabbi, who had been "teacher of three generations, a leader of the legal Jewry" for 60 years. He studied at the universities of Zurich, Vienna, Hamburg and Leipzig from 1926-1930, from where he graduated in 1930. In 1935, he opened ...

"In May of 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, effectively putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of this global military conflict did not cease with the signing of truces and peace treaties. Millions of lost and homeless POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and concentration camp survivors overwhelmed Germany, a country in complete disarray. British and ...

Lola Byron was born on September 16, 1943 in as Iza Papierbuch, daughter of Regina Pomerancblum Papierbuch and Jakob Papierbuch. Her mother named her Iza after her own father, Izak Pomerancblum, who was a liquor merchant in Warsaw, but called her Lala (a doll in Polish). Both her parents lived in Warsaw before the outbreak of the war. Regina was born in Kielce and had two sisters: Krysia and Dorka, ...

The Eisingers were a Jewish family who lived in England and what is now the Czech Republic during and shortly after the Holocaust. The documents in this fonds pertain mostly to Bedrich Eisinger (birth name Fritz Eisinger, b. June 21, 1905, in Vienna, Austria) and his wife, Gerda Eisinger (birth name Gerda Sara Marcus, b. April 16, 1916, in Berlin, Germany).Bedrich Eisinger was born to Emil Eisinger ...

The Rose Silberberg Skier papers include a diary, photographs, and materials related to Silberberg’s time at the Convent of the Gray Sisters in Neisse and at the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp documenting the Silberberg family in Jaworzno, Poland, Silberberg’s wartime experiences in hiding, and her post‐war experiences at Zeilsheim. The diary records Silberberg’s wartime memories and her daily life ...