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Master thesis Holocaust- and Genocide studies, University of Amsterdam. 147 p. ; 30 cm.
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is the world’s leading Jewish humanitarian assistance organization. The JDC was founded in 1914 to assist Jewish persons in Palestine during World War I. The Holocaust and World War II caused the JDC to ramp up its relief efforts. With the end of the war in 1945, Jewish survivors were placed into hastily created displaced persons camps throughout ...
Contains twenty-seven black and white photographs of Rena Ferber Finder, her husband, Marcel (Mark) Finder, her mother, Rozia Windisch Ferber, and other displaced persons living in Bindermichl displaced persons camp in Austria. The photographs depict scenes of United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) staff in Bindermichl; an ORT cosmetology training class; memorial and Yom ha-Sho'ah ...
Group of 23 black and white photographs of displaced persons taken in Linz-Bindermichl displaced persons camp, Austria.
Simon Goldman (1929-2010) was born on April 1, 1929 in Łódź, Poland to Jacob and Rachel Ksztan (d. 1939), who were observant Jews and probably also from Łódź. He had three brothers and one sister: Yechiel, Manya, Wewel, and Abram. Simon was briefly located in Siedlce after World War I started. He managed to be hired as a cow hand and passed as a gentile on a farm from the end of 1941 until liberation ...
Contains false papers, correspondence, and photographs pertaining to Szulem Neuman's experiences in hiding in and around Warsaw, Poland, his marriage to Irene Kuklinski, a Polish Catholic, in 1945, and the birth of their daughter, Jadwiga Neuman, in Bindermichl, Austria.
Consists of photographs and photographic negatives, taken upon the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp. Also contains correspondence from American soldier Benjamin Finesmith asking family and friends to send care packages to the displaced persons in the Bindermichl displaced persons camp.
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The collection consists of an aluminum box and photographs relating to the experiences of Rose and Miriam Ziegler and their family before the war in Ostrowiec, Poland, during the Holocaust in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and after liberation, to Miriam's experiences in Bindermichl displaced persons camp and the Strobl children's home in Austria.