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USHMM, <strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Advanced</strong> <strong>Holocaust</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> � 163<br />

<strong>Language</strong>s: <strong>English</strong>, French, German, Dutch, and others 1932–1940<br />

6 microfilm rolls (16 mm)<br />

Finding aid: Folder-level description<br />

Restrictions: On reproduction and distribution<br />

See the finding aid <strong>for</strong> this collection: RG-11.001M.36<br />

RG-43.093M --- Fonds David Diamant/Union des Juifs pour la Résistance et l‘entraide<br />

(Jewish Union <strong>for</strong> Resistance and Mutual Aid)<br />

This collection contains in<strong>for</strong>mation about David Diamant, the pseudonym of David<br />

Erlich, a communist who lived in France from the late 1920s, remained in Paris during<br />

World War II, <strong>to</strong>ok part in the Resistance, and after the war worked with the UJRE<br />

helping Jewish refugees from Poland. It includes documents concerning Jewish<br />

immigrants in the Communist Party, documents of Jewish volunteers in the Spanish Civil<br />

War, last letters of Jewish resistance fighters be<strong>for</strong>e their execution, postwar personal<br />

files on Polish Jews requesting aid, files on children in Communist-sponsored orphanages<br />

(Comité central de l‘enfance), books from lending libraries at internment camps <strong>for</strong> Jews,<br />

minutes of the UJRE, collections of the periodical Naïe Presse and its French-language<br />

successor, La Presse Nouvelle; and typed manuscripts of various versions of Diamant‘s<br />

books in Yiddish and French.<br />

Provenance: The Musée de la Résistance Nationale, UJRE headquarters, and Diamant‘s<br />

personal archive<br />

<strong>Language</strong>s: <strong>English</strong>, French, German, Polish, Spanish, and Yiddish, 1918–1996<br />

13 microfilm rolls (16 mm)<br />

Source of Acquisition: Musée de la Résistance Nationale, Champigny-sur-Marne<br />

Finding aid: Folder-level descriptions in French<br />

Restrictions: On reproduction<br />

RG-11.001M.25 --- Records of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (J.T.A.), Paris (Fond 674)<br />

The contents of this collection include a review of activities of the Zionist organization<br />

―Haavara‖ by which Jewish money was transferred from Germany <strong>to</strong> Palestine; reports of<br />

the Committee of Jewish Delegations, Bucharest, about the legal situation of Jews in<br />

Rumania; Yiddish, Hebrew, French, and German press clippings about Zionism and<br />

antisemitism; memoranda from the Palestine Association of Polish Jews <strong>to</strong> the League of<br />

Nations; correspondence of the Jewish Central In<strong>for</strong>mational Bureau, Amsterdam, about<br />

the situation of Jews in various countries; an appeal from the Jewish communities of<br />

Romania regarding antisemitism; reviews of persecution in various countries; a report <strong>for</strong><br />

a trip through Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Austria, from July <strong>to</strong> August 1938; and<br />

samples of JTA daily in<strong>for</strong>mation bulletins in <strong>English</strong>, French, and German.

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