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USHMM, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies � 155
Biographical note: David Laor, an agent of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, served as the
Director of the Jewish Children‘s Home in a camp for Polish refugees in Teheran
beginning in 1942. He organized instructors to help locate Jewish children in the refugee
camp and to help escort them to Palestine.
Languages: English, Hebrew, Polish (1943) 1992–1993 (bulk 1992–1993)
0.25 linear inches, photocopies; 2 books; 3 videocassettes
Source of Acquisition: David Laor
Finding aid: Detailed table of contents located at the beginning of each exhibition
scrapbook
RG-59.022M --- Foreign Office; Confidential Correspondence, 1933–1945
This collection contains correspondence and reports of the British Foreign Office
concerning the situation for Jews in the Balkans. It also contains a file concerning the
investigation of Nazi medical experiments on human beings.
Fond 421, ―southeast Europe‖: includes activities of the Iron Guard and of anti-Semitic
activity in Romania.
Fond 425: includes reports on the emigration of Jews from Romania to Palestine and the
relief of Polish refugees.
Fond 434, ―south Europe‖: includes brief confidential reports on anti-Semitism in
Hungary, Romania, Austria, and Italy and on activities and the position of Jews in these
countries.
Fond 438: includes reports on illegal Jewish immigration into Palestine.
Fond 937: includes correspondence relating to Nazi medical experiments on human
beings and on the investigation of five doctors at the clinic in Oranienburg.
Provenance: From the British Public Record Office fonds FO 421 (files 324–325), FO
425 (file 416), FO 434 (file 5), FO 438 (files 13–14), and FO 937 (file 165)
Language: English 1933–1945
4 microfilm rolls (35 mm)
Source of Acquisition: Public Record Office, Kew
Finding aid: Folder-level description
RG-04.020 --- The Relief of Belsen Concentration Camp: Recollections and Reflections of a
British Army Doctor
This is a typescript of ―The Relief of Belsen Concentration Camp:
Recollections & Reflections of a British Army Doctor‖ written by Major-General James
Alexander Deans Johnston ca. 1970. The typescript includes information about
conditions at Bergen-Belsen while the camp was under Nazi control and during
liberation, as well as description of medical measures taken by the British for the benefit