Articles, clippings, and other materials relating to the UNRRA and displaced persons
Extent and Medium
oversize folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Henry Eigles in 1990.
Scope and Content
Consists of several newspaper and magazine articles concerning Jews and displaced persons and the activities of American and British armies in the occupied zones in Europe after World War II. Included are three issues of "UNRRA," which concern the work of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) with displaced persons after the Holocaust. Also included are issues of Jewish publications in Brazil containing articles about displaced persons and two issues of "Army talks."
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
Corporate Bodies
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
- United States. Army
- Great Britain. Army
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Subjects
- Jews--Poland.
- Emigration and immigration.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- War criminals.
- War crime trials.
- Bremen (Germany)
- Refugee camps.
Genre
- Document
- Periodicals.
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.