Records relating to the Committee for Refugee Education
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The materials were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in Dec 1986 by Catherine Glazier Burnight via Rosalyn Malakoff.
Scope and Content
Includes essay written by refugee students studying English in a program provided by the Committee for Refugee Education after World War II. The essays describe experiences of new life in the United States, memories of persecution and imprisonment in concentration camps, and liberation. Also included are samples of teaching materials used in the English lessons and a 18 December 1949 letter written by one of the English instructors.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
Subjects
- New York (N.Y.)
- Escapes.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Massacres.
- Refugees.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Drohobych (Ukraine)
- Educators.
- Labor camps.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Concentration camps.
- Adult education.
Genre
- Document
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