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

E-Mail: archives@oswego.edu
The Special Collections Division of the Penfield Library holds manuscripts and
oral histories relating to the experiences of almost 1,000 European refugees, many
of them Jewish, who were placed in an internment camp in Fort Ontario from
August 1944 to January 1946 to await the outcome of World War II. Select the
link entitled “Emergency Refugee Shelter at Fort Ontario” under the heading
“Subject Guides” on above website for more detailed information on the holdings
in this collection.
Yeshiva University
Contact Information
Address:
2520 Amsterdam Ave, Room 602 (corner W 185 St.)
New York, NY
Mail Address:
500 West 185 th St
New York, NY 10033
Telephone: (212) 960-5451
Fax: (212) 960-0066
E-Mail: unilib@ymail.yu.edu
The archival collections include the records of New York based relief
organizations and Holocaust rescue efforts, such as the Central Relief Committee;
Vaad Hatzala; Rescue Children, Inc.; the Central Orthodox Committee; the
National Council of Jewish Women: Service for the Foreign Born; and the Center
for Russian Jewry – Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry. There are also oral
history collections, survivor memoirs, and such miscellaneous items as a letter
from Albert Einstein to Mr. Louis LeWinters, congratulating the latter on his
work on behalf of Jewish refugees. Finally, the Mendel Gottesman Library holds
a collection of yizkor books.
Ohio
Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion
http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/aja/collections/catalog10.html
Contact Information
Address:
3101 Clifton Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45220
Telephone: (513) 221-1875
Fax: (513) 221-7812