Questionnaires filled out by children in the Foehrenwald DP camp, 1945-1946
Extent and Medium
423 Files
Creator(s)
- Central Historical Committee (CHC) of the Foehrenwald DP camp
Archival History
The Central Historical Committee (CHC) distributed questionnaires among the children (those from Hungary, and the rest from Poland) in DP camps, in order to collect information regarding the fate of the children and the fate of their families during the Nazi period.
Scope and Content
The questionnaires include questions concerning the names of family members, their places of origin and the general background of the children. On the reverse side of each questionnaire there is a short report regarding the history of the child from the day s/he was deported to the ghetto, the camps to which s/he was deported, when s/he was separated from his/her family members and places where s/he was from after the liberation until his/her arrival at the DP camp.
Finding Aids
Description files available on IDEA ALM system at Yad Vashem Archives reading room
Existence and Location of Originals
YV archives
Existence and Location of Copies
USHMM
Archivist Note
JL according to the RG description in the YV system
Dates of Descriptions
2012-06-28
Corporate Bodies
- Central Historical Committee (CHC) of the Foehrenwald DP camp
Places
- Germany