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

The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives is committed to
preserving a documentary heritage of the religious, organizational, economic,
cultural, personal, social and family life of American Jewry.
The American Jewish Archives hold numerous articles, records, documents, and
letters that relate to efforts of American Jewish (and some Zionist) individuals,
congregations, and aid societies/committees in assisting Jewish refugees in their
immigration attempts. These holdings include the papers of such important
individuals as Felix Warburg, a New York philanthropist and Jewish communal
leader, and Rabbi Julian Morgenstern, a president of Hebrew Union College who
describes efforts to rescue European Jewish intellectuals and aid other refugees.
The archive also contains a collection of 35 videotaped oral history interviews
with Holocaust survivors, a collection of unpublished survivors’ memoirs, and the
records of Project Eternity (oral history interviews with survivors living in
Cincinnati).
The Klau Library holds a large number of yizkor books (numbering in the
hundreds) as well as microfilm copies of 368 titles in the Hebrew University
Contemporary Jewry Oral History Collection: Part II, World War II, the
Holocaust, Resistance, and Rescue.
Ohio State University
The Rare Books division of the library holds a collection of over 700 yizkor
books in Hebrew, Yiddish, and English, and it continues to purchase books and
update the collection.
Ohio University
The personal papers of the foreign correspondent Victor H. Bernstein include
eight scrapbooks, filled primarily with clippings of his own articles pertaining to
the prewar persecution of Jews, the liberation of the concentration camps, etc.,
and memorabilia such as a newsletter written by concentration camp survivors.
Western Reserve Historical Society
The library holds two relevant collections: “Ayduth Lachayim – Witness
to Life,” a manuscript documenting the experiences of 178 Holocaust
survivors who presently reside in Cleveland, Ohio, as well as the records
of the American Jewish Committee Holocaust Project, which encompasses
the transcripts of interviews with 23 Holocaust survivors residing in
Northeast Ohio. Copies of the AJC Holocaust Project transcripts are stored
at the William E. Wiener Oral History Library of the American Jewish
Committee in New York, and excerpts of the interviews were published in
the 1981 Voices of the Holocaust, ed. Sylvia Rothchild.
Wright State University
The Special Collections and Archives Division of the Paul Laurence Dunbar
Library holds the Emmanuel Ringelblum Collection of Oral History Memoirs of