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The bulk of the collection is composed of correspondence, accounts, and other documents relating to the office of reparation at the preparatory commission for the International Refugee Organization, from 1945 to 1948.
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Collection of materials documenting the experiences of David and Dora Ruskin (donor’s parents) and their experiences during the Holocaust. Includes a manuscript entitled “The Journey Home” by Michael Ruskin about his his parents experiences during 1939-1945 during the Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe, Kaunas, Lithuania and the Kovno ghetto; post-war documents from the International Red Cross; marriage ...
Consists of eight post-war certificates for Roman Rotszyld at the Feldafing displaced persons camp, including his identity card, certification from the Obschestvo Remeslenovo i. zemledelcheskovo Trouda (ORT) as an electrician, and certificate of incarceration. It also includes an International Refugee Organization (IRO) certification for Nechama Rotszyld as a dressmaker-helper.
Jan Gorecki was born in 1912 in Borucin, Poland (Kujawsko-Pomeranian). He and his wife, Zofia Radzinksa (b. 1923), were Polish Catholics, and Jan was a conscripted laborer in Nazi Germany. Their son Stanislaw (Stanley) was born in 1944 in Braunschweig, Germany. The family immigrated to the United States in 1950.
Contains, but is not limited to, reports, vocational courses programs, correspondence, and other documents relating to the service of Mordecai E. Schwartz in the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and the Preparatory Commission of the International Refugee Organization (PCIRO) and the handling of displaced persons in the United States Zone from 1946 to 1950. Also contains ...
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is an organization associated with the Society of Friends (Quakers) that works to encourage peace and social justice matters around the world. The AFSC was founded in 1917 in response to the major humanitarian crises related to World War I. Throughout the 1920s the AFSC sought to relieve suffering by operating child feeding programs across Europe, most ...
The papers consist of an identification card issued to Geza Ottai in Cinecittà, Italy, dated November 1948; a photograph of Anna M. Ottai, Geza’s daughter; a registration certificate issued to Geza Ottai by the International Refugee Organization Italian Mission in Rome, Italy, dated May 1949; and a Stewart Times newsletter, dated January 1, 1952.