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USHMM, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies � 82
Source of Acquisition: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park,
MD.
RG-67.005M --- The World Jewish Congress New York Office Records. Series C (Institute
of Jewish Affairs)
This collection is organized into the following four sub-series:
1. Executive Files and Correspondence: files of the first three directors of the Institute: J.
Robinson, N. Robinson, and O. Karbach;
2. Research Materials, Reports and Publications. The focus is mainly on Germany, World
War II, the Holocaust, and postwar issues such as DPs, restitution, and refugees;
3. War Crimes and Retribution. Which includes files on searches for Holocaust
witnesses, war crimes trial correspondence, crimes in individual Polish communities, and
the Nuremberg proceedings;
4. Indemnification, which relates to restitution legislation and claims, including property
claims. This subseries is organized by country, and also by restitution organizations,
including the Claims Conference.
Provenance: The World Jewish Congress collection was donated to the American Jewish
Archives by the World Jewish Congress in 1982. All materials donated prior to 2002
have been arranged and described in the American Jewish Archives inventory.
Language: English 1918–1982‚ (bulk 1940–1970)
333 microfilm rolls (16 mm)
Source of Acquisition: Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives,
Cincinnati
Finding aid: English-language, folder-level descriptions
RG-02.169 --- ―Hidden in Broad Daylight‖ by Sarah Getzler
This memoir relates Sara Getzler‘s life in Kraków, the Tarnow ghetto, her separation
from family members, how she passed as a gentile and found employment, her attempts
to communicate with her sisters who were concentration camp inmates, her wartime
employment in Austria, the end of the war, her meeting with members of the Jewish
Brigade, and her illegal emigration to Palestine. The memoir also includes a poem about
a young Jewish boy whose fate is unknown and another describing Getzler‘s feelings for
the Jews who died in the Holocaust.
Language: English N.d.
3 microfiche cards
Source of Acquisition: Sara Getzler
Restrictions: Fair use only