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Title: Displaced Persons Documents, Publications, Cultural Life, and Post-War Jewish Publications, 1929-1982
Predominant Dates:1945 -- 1952
ID: RG-02/RG-02
Primary Creator: Displaced person camps, committees (1945 -- 1953)
Extent: 2.0 Boxes
Arrangement:
The arrangement scheme for the record group was imposed during processing in the absence of an original order. Materials are arranged by subject/creator, then by identifier, as assigned by the processor.
Record group is comprised of six collections and one item: 1. Publications on the displaced persons camps; 2. Official documents of the US Military Government in Germany; 3. Sylvia Lowe collection; 4. Brycha Publication; 5. Collection of civil judicial proceedings in displaced persons camps; 6. Perla Karney collection; 7. Collection of Unser Leben; 8. Journal of the Central Historical Commission of Poland
Subjects: Castles, type of housing for displaced persons population, postwar Germany, Categories of displaced persons in postwar Germany, Civil affairs division, US military government in postwar Germany, Correspondence to and from displaced person camps, Cultural activities in Displaced Persons Camps, displaced person, categorization according to country of origin, displaced person camp, photographs, Displaced person camps, documents, Displaced person camps, publications, Displaced person camps in Germany, Displaced persons camps, Displaced persons in Austria, postwar, Displaced Persons Report, displaced persons report, Frankfurt, Education at Displaced Persons Camps, European Command, US military forces in Europe, postwar, Financial responsibility for the DP camps according to Civil Affairs Division US military government, food shortage in post war Germany according to US Military Government, Former German concentration camp barracks, used for housing for displaced persons, postwar Germany, former Wehrmacht (Germany Army) barracks, type of housing for displaced persons, postwar Germany, Frankfurt am Main (Germany), Higher nutritional quality of food provided for DP population, according to US Military Government, Hotels, type of housing for displaced persons population, postwar Germany, International Refugee Organization (IRO), a successor of UNRRA, postwar Europe, International Refugee Organization (IRO), funding of displaced persons population in postwar Europe, Issuance and restoration of civil status and property related documents to displaced persons, Population of Displaced Person Camps (DP) in postwar Germany, Preferable treatment of East Europeans in regard to immigration to US, postwar, President Truman executive order on immigration, December 22 1945, Report about Displaced Persons Camp, Reports about Jewish Displaced Persons in postwar Germany, residential buildings, used to house displaced persons population, postwar Germany, Schools at the Displaced Persons Camps, sources of finding of displaced persons camps, postwar Germany, Soviet deception in regard to displaced persons in the Soviet zone of control, postwar Germany, status of displaced persons in postwar Germany, UNRRA, its role in administration of displaced persons camps in postwar Germany, UNRRA, type of residences used to house the displaced persons population, postwar Germany, UNRRA providing housing for displaced persons camp population, postwar Germany, US Army appropriated funds to use for additional food for displaced persons population, postwar, US Military Government in Bavaria, postwar in regard to DP camp population, US Military Government in German, postwar, supervision of DP camps
Languages: Yiddish, German, English, Polish
Abstract
This is a record group containing the collections about various functions of the DP camps, as well as the US Miltiary Government inspections of the DP camps together with several personal collection in the matter. There are also collections of specific editions published by the DP camps' committees.
Scope and Contents of the Materials
This record group is comprised of several postwar collections, stemming from displaced persons camp activities, and reflect the multifaceted postwar developments with regard to displaced persons organizations. The record group combines collections assembled by imminent Jewish immigration from postwar Europe. Included in this record group are publications, photographs, and digitized materials.
Collection Historical Note
Within this record group, the collection of publications include various printed materials published within and outside of the displaced persons camps in Germany and Austria. Largely, the language of these publications were Yiddish. The committees of the displaced persons camps would publish these materials periodically, and would focus the articles on contemporary events, the prospective life in Palestine, and the social and cultural life of the Holocaust survivors whilst in displaced persons camps.
Biographical Note
Self-established Displaced Person Camps Committees, often authorized by the Allied Administration in Germany and Austria
Subject/Index Terms
Castles, type of housing for displaced persons population, postwar Germany
Categories of displaced persons in postwar Germany
Civil affairs division, US military government in postwar Germany
Correspondence to and from displaced person camps
Cultural activities in Displaced Persons Camps
displaced person, categorization according to country of origin
displaced person camp, photographs
Displaced person camps, documents
Displaced person camps, publications
Displaced person camps in Germany
Displaced persons camps
Displaced persons in Austria, postwar
Displaced Persons Report
displaced persons report, Frankfurt
Education at Displaced Persons Camps
European Command, US military forces in Europe, postwar
Financial responsibility for the DP camps according to Civil Affairs Division US military government
food shortage in post war Germany according to US Military Government
Former German concentration camp barracks, used for housing for displaced persons, postwar Germany
former Wehrmacht (Germany Army) barracks, type of housing for displaced persons, postwar Germany
Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Higher nutritional quality of food provided for DP population, according to US Military Government
Hotels, type of housing for displaced persons population, postwar Germany
International Refugee Organization (IRO), a successor of UNRRA, postwar Europe
International Refugee Organization (IRO), funding of displaced persons population in postwar Europe
Issuance and restoration of civil status and property related documents to displaced persons
Population of Displaced Person Camps (DP) in postwar Germany
Preferable treatment of East Europeans in regard to immigration to US, postwar
President Truman executive order on immigration, December 22 1945
Report about Displaced Persons Camp
Reports about Jewish Displaced Persons in postwar Germany
residential buildings, used to house displaced persons population, postwar Germany
Schools at the Displaced Persons Camps
sources of finding of displaced persons camps, postwar Germany
Soviet deception in regard to displaced persons in the Soviet zone of control, postwar Germany
status of displaced persons in postwar Germany
UNRRA, its role in administration of displaced persons camps in postwar Germany
UNRRA, type of residences used to house the displaced persons population, postwar Germany
UNRRA providing housing for displaced persons camp population, postwar Germany
US Army appropriated funds to use for additional food for displaced persons population, postwar
US Military Government in Bavaria, postwar in regard to DP camp population
US Military Government in German, postwar, supervision of DP camps
Administrative Information
Repository:
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
Preferred Citation:
RG-02, Displaced Persons Documents, Publications, Cultural Life, and Post-War Jewish Publications. Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Archive.
Processing Information:
Materials are primarily described using the local descriptive standards of the LA Museum of the Holocaust.
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Sub-Collection:
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Sub-Collection 1: RG-02.01, DP camps publications, 1945 - 1947],
[
Sub-Collection 2: RG-02.02, Official documents of US Military Government in Germany, 1947],
[
Sub-Collection 3: RG-02.03, Sylvia Lowe Collection, 1945-1950s],
[
Sub-Collection 4: RG-02.05, Civil Judical proceeding in DP camps, 1936-1982],
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Sub-Collection 5: RG-02.06, Perla Karney Collection, 1936-1955],
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Sub-Collection 6: RG-02.07, Unser Leben (Our Life), Yiddish Publication of Liberated Jews in Berlin, 1947-1948],
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Sub-Collection 7: RG-02.08, Journal of the Central Historical Commission of Poland, 1947],
[Sub-Collection 8: RG-02.04, Brycha publication],
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- Sub-Collection 8: RG-02.04, Brycha publication
- This publication is comprised of photographs depicting the massive illegal emigration of European Jews to Palestine after the war. It also contains biblical texts as complementary notes ot the photographs.
- Subject/Index Terms:
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Photographs, transports and deportations
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Brycha Publication
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Bombed buildings, Germany (1945)
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Photographs, transit camps
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Photographs, postwar, 1945 -- 1988
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Photographs, family members
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Photographs, cities
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Photographs, children
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Immigration to Israel
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Help to the former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, 1945 --1949
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Hebrew, language
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family photographs
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Documents in Yiddish language
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Documents in Hebrew
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Documents in English language
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Displaced Persons Report
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Displaced persons camps
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displaced person camp, photographs
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concentration camp photographs
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Post-Holocaust Commemoration
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Postwar Jewish immigration from Germany
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Brycha, illegal emigration from Eastern Europe from British-mandate Palestine, 1945-1948
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The routes of Brycha emigration, 1945-1948
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Organization of Brycha emigration to British-mandate Palestine, 1945-1948
- Creators:
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Ephraim Dekel (1948)
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Brycha Publication (1948)
- Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-02.04, Brycha Publication, entitled “To Home Through the ‘Vale of Tears’”, 1945-1948, Part. 1
- First part of Brycha publication.
- Subject/Index Terms:
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Brycha, illegal emigration from Eastern Europe from British-mandate Palestine, 1945-1948
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Brycha Publication
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Organization of Brycha emigration to British-mandate Palestine, 1945-1948
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The routes of Brycha emigration, 1945-1948
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Help to the former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, 1945 --1949
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Photograph of children, reflected in Brycha publication, 1945-1948
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Family photographs, reflected in Brycha publication, 1945-1948
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Holocaust related photo-documents, reflected in Brycha publication
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Documents in Hebrew language
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Documents in Yiddish language
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Documents in English language
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narratives in Yiddish
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Narratives in Hebrew language
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Narratives in English language
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Brycha organization, postwar Europe, 1945-1948
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Nazi death carts, reflected in Brycha publication, 1945-1948
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Poetic verses about emigration, reflected in Brycha publication, 1945-1948
- Creators:
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Brycha Publication (1948)
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Ephraim Dekel (1948)
- Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-02.04, Brycha Publication, entitled “To Home Through the ‘Vale of Tears’”, 1945-1948, Part. 2
- Part 2 of Brycha publication.
- Subject/Index Terms:
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Brycha, illegal emigration from Eastern Europe from British-mandate Palestine, 1945-1948
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Brycha Publication
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Organization of Brycha emigration to British-mandate Palestine, 1945-1948
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The routes of Brycha emigration, 1945-1948
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Help to the former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, 1945 --1949
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Photograph of children, reflected in Brycha publication, 1945-1948
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Family photographs, reflected in Brycha publication, 1945-1948
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Holocaust related photo-documents, reflected in Brycha publication
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Documents in Hebrew language
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Documents in Yiddish language
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Documents in English language
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narratives in Yiddish
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Narratives in Hebrew language
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Narratives in English language
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Brycha organization, postwar Europe, 1945-1948
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The brigade, the foundation stone of the organized flight Brycha, reflected in Brycha publication
- Creators:
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Brycha Publication (1948)
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Ephraim Dekel (1948)
- Document/Artifact of Item-Level 3: RG-02.04, Brycha Publication, entitled “To Home Through the ‘Vale of Tears’”, 1945-1948, Part. 3
- Part 3 of Brycha publication.
- Subject/Index Terms:
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Brycha, illegal emigration from Eastern Europe from British-mandate Palestine, 1945-1948
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Brycha Publication
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Organization of Brycha emigration to British-mandate Palestine, 1945-1948
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The routes of Brycha emigration, 1945-1948
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Help to the former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, 1945 --1949
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Photograph of children, reflected in Brycha publication, 1945-1948
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Family photographs, reflected in Brycha publication, 1945-1948
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Holocaust related photo-documents, reflected in Brycha publication
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Documents in Hebrew language
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Documents in Yiddish language
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Narratives in Hebrew language
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Narratives in English language
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Brycha organization, postwar Europe, 1945-1948
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Journey through the Alps, reflected in Brycha publication, 1945-1948
- Creators:
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Brycha Publication (1948)
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Ephraim Dekel (1948)
- Document/Artifact of Item-Level 4: RG-02.04, Brycha Publication, entitled “To Home Through the ‘Vale of Tears’”, 1945-1948, Part. 4
- Part 4 of Brycha publication.
- Subject/Index Terms:
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Brycha, illegal emigration from Eastern Europe from British-mandate Palestine, 1945-1948
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Brycha Publication
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Organization of Brycha emigration to British-mandate Palestine, 1945-1948
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The routes of Brycha emigration, 1945-1948
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Help to the former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, 1945 --1949
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Photograph of children, reflected in Brycha publication, 1945-1948
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Family photographs, reflected in Brycha publication, 1945-1948
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Holocaust related photo-documents, reflected in Brycha publication
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Documents in Hebrew language
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Documents in Yiddish language
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Documents in English language
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narratives in Yiddish
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Narratives in Hebrew language
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Narratives in English language
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Brycha organization, postwar Europe, 1945-1948
- Creators:
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Brycha Publication (1948)
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Ephraim Dekel (1948)
- Document/Artifact of Item-Level 5: RG-02.04, Brycha Publication, entitled “To Home Through the ‘Vale of Tears’”, 1945-1948, Part. 5
- Part 5 of Brycha publication.
- Subject/Index Terms:
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Brycha, illegal emigration from Eastern Europe from British-mandate Palestine, 1945-1948
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Brycha Publication
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Organization of Brycha emigration to British-mandate Palestine, 1945-1948
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The routes of Brycha emigration, 1945-1948
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Help to the former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, 1945 --1949
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Photograph of children, reflected in Brycha publication, 1945-1948
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Family photographs, reflected in Brycha publication, 1945-1948
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Holocaust related photo-documents, reflected in Brycha publication
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Documents in Hebrew language
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Documents in Yiddish language
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Documents in English language
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narratives in Yiddish
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Narratives in Hebrew language
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Narratives in English language
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Brycha organization, postwar Europe, 1945-1948
- Creators:
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Brycha Publication (1948)
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Ephraim Dekel (1948)
- Document/Artifact of Item-Level 6: RG-02.04, Brycha Publication, entitled “To Home Through the ‘Vale of Tears’”, 1945-1948, Part. 6
- Part 6 of Brycha publication.
- Subject/Index Terms:
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Brycha, illegal emigration from Eastern Europe from British-mandate Palestine, 1945-1948
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Brycha Publication
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Organization of Brycha emigration to British-mandate Palestine, 1945-1948
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The routes of Brycha emigration, 1945-1948
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Help to the former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, 1945 --1949
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Photograph of children, reflected in Brycha publication, 1945-1948
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Family photographs, reflected in Brycha publication, 1945-1948
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Holocaust related photo-documents, reflected in Brycha publication
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Documents in Hebrew language
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Documents in Yiddish language
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Documents in English language
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narratives in Yiddish
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Narratives in Hebrew language
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Narratives in English language
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Brycha organization, postwar Europe, 1945-1948
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internment camp, Cyprus, postwar
- Creators:
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Brycha Publication (1948)
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Ephraim Dekel (1948)
Browse by Sub-Collection:
[
Sub-Collection 1: RG-02.01, DP camps publications, 1945 - 1947],
[
Sub-Collection 2: RG-02.02, Official documents of US Military Government in Germany, 1947],
[
Sub-Collection 3: RG-02.03, Sylvia Lowe Collection, 1945-1950s],
[
Sub-Collection 4: RG-02.05, Civil Judical proceeding in DP camps, 1936-1982],
[
Sub-Collection 5: RG-02.06, Perla Karney Collection, 1936-1955],
[
Sub-Collection 6: RG-02.07, Unser Leben (Our Life), Yiddish Publication of Liberated Jews in Berlin, 1947-1948],
[
Sub-Collection 7: RG-02.08, Journal of the Central Historical Commission of Poland, 1947],
[Sub-Collection 8: RG-02.04, Brycha publication],
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