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RG-10.024 --- Armand Eisler Papers
USHMM, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies � 166
These letters, essays, and articles contain information about the Eisler genealogy, postwar
Austria, international politics, and the Middle East. Included with the papers is a copy of
―The Terror as a System: The Concentration Camp‖ by Ernst Federn. Letters signed by
Eleanor Roosevelt and Albert Einstein can be found among the correspondence.
Provenance: Herman Spitz inherited Armand Eisler‘s papers shortly before his
emigration to the United States. The collection became the property of Spitz‘s
stepdaughter, Jill Grossvogel at the time of Spitz‘s death.
Biography: Armand Eisler (b. May 6, 1880, Paris, France; d. September 16, 1957, Miami,
Florida) graduated from the University of Vienna with degrees in law and political
science. In 1938, Eisler was a prisoner in Dachau concentration camp and was
subsequently imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp. The Nazis released him
from Buchenwald in 1939 and he immediately immigrated to the United States. Eisler
served as chairman of many committees, including the K.Z. American Association of
Former Inmates of Concentration Camps.
Languages: German, English 1939–1957
2 linear inches
Source of Acquisition: Jill Grossvogel
Finding aid: Folder-level file title list
Restrictions: Published materials protected under copyright
See the finding aid for this collection: RG-10.024
RG-15.081 --- Stanisław Maciejewski Collection
The bulk of this collection includes documents from the years 1946 to 1949 regarding the
activities of the Association of Polish Former Political Prisoners of Prisons and
Concentration Camps in Germany. The material includes prisoner questionnaires that
contain comprehensive bibliographical information about prisoners and prospective
Association members, as well as photographs, fingerprints, and Verification Commission
notes. Also included are correspondence, medical and compensation records,
Maciejewski family documents, newspapers, newspaper clippings, and a book collection.
The Association of Polish Former Political Prisoners of Prisons and Concentration
Camps was founded in 1946 in a Polish displaced persons camp in the British Zone of
Occupation of Germany. On February 24, 1947, German authorities issued an order
dissolving the Association; however, after numerous appeals, in December 1947 at a
convention in Göttingen, Germany, the Association continued to maintain branches in
Meppen-Rose, Osnabrück-Eversburg, Brauschweig, Göttingen, and Clausthal, Germany,
until its demise in 1949. Its official publication was Szlak (The Trail).