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Languages: Czech, German, and English
2 boxes
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RG-10.204 Caroline Ferriday Collection, 1952–1983 (1952–1963 bulk)
This collection relates to women in the Polish resistance whom the Nazis subjected to
medical experiments at the Ravensbrück concentration camp and the Auschwitz killing
center. The Polish ―kroliki‖ or ―lapins‖ (rabbits), as they came to be known, underwent
torture including the removal of bone mass from the lower legs and the insertion of septic
materials including glass, dirt, and infected rags into muscle mass in order to test the
efficacy of sulfonamide drugs. Most of the women suffered long and excruciating deaths.
Provenance: The collection was assembled by Caroline Wolsey Ferriday and donated to
the National Archives and Records Administration, which transferred it to the Museum as
a more appropriate repository.
Biographical/historical note: Caroline Wolsey Ferriday was an executive with
L‘Association Nationale des Anciennes Déportées et Internées de la Résistance (ADIR),
headquartered in Paris. Many Polish survivors of the Nazi medical experiments at
Ravensbrück received monetary compensation from the German government as the result
of Ferriday‘s efforts to obtain restitution for the so-called ―lapins.‖ Ferriday also
encouraged friends in the British medical establishment to pressure German medical
authorities for the revocation of Dr. Herta Oberheuser‘s license to practice. Oberheuser
was a Ravensbrück physician responsible for many of the experiments on the ―lapins.‖
Oberheuser resumed her medical practice as a pediatrician after her release from
imprisonment for crimes against humanity. Her medical license was finally revoked in
1960.
Languages: Polish, English, French, and German
2 linear feet
Finding Aids: Partial box list
RG-11.001M.25 Records of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), Paris (Fond 674),
1933–1940
The contents of this collection include a review of activities of the Zionist organization
Haavara that transferred Jewish money from Germany to Palestine; reports of the
Committee of Jewish Delegations, Bucharest, about the legal situation of Jews in
Rumania; Yiddish, Hebrew, French, and German press clippings about Zionism and
antisemitism; memoranda from the Palestine Association of Polish Jews to the League of
Nations; correspondence of the Jewish Central Informational Bureau, Amsterdam, about
the situation of Jews in various countries; an appeal from the Jewish communities of
Romania regarding antisemitism; reviews of persecution in various countries; a report for
a trip through Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Austria, from July to August 1938; and
samples of JTA daily information bulletins in English, French, and German.