Jewish Source Holocaust-Related Manuscript Collections in the ...

Contact Information
Address:
1109 Fifth Avenue
Telephone: (212) 423-3200
E-Mail: njab@thejm.org
The National Jewish Archive of Broadcasting (NJAB) is the largest and most
comprehensive body of broadcast materials on 20th century Jewish culture in the
United States. With a mission to collect, preserve, and exhibit television and
radio programs related to the Jewish experience, the NJAB is one of a few
culturally specific media centers with a major subject-oriented collection,
operating within a museum context.
The National Jewish Archive of Broadcasting holds copies of television programs
from the inception of television in 1948 to the present, all of which concern
Jewish culture and history. Holocaust-related holdings include the complete
videotape record of the Adolf Eichmann trial and interviews with such prominent
figures as I.B. Singer or Elie Wiesel.
Institute for Research in History
Contact Information
Address:
1133 Broadway, Room 923
New York, NY 10010-7903
Telephone: (212)691-7316
The Institute maintains a directory of the archives of the audio/video of Holocaust
testimonies in the United States. Researchers should contact the Institute directly
for information on accessing the collections.
Jewish Theological Seminary
Contact Information
Address:
3080 Broadway
New York, NY 10027-4649
(On the corner of 122 nd St.)
Library – 2 nd Floor, Special Collections – 5 th Floor
Telephone: (212) 678-8081 (Lib. Reference), (212) 678-8077 (Spec. Coll.)
E-Mail: library@jtsa.edu
The library holds the personal papers of the orthodox rabbi Israel Rosenberg,
founder of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, as well as French
Jewish community records, which include such relevant topics as life under the
Vichy government and Nazi occupation.