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RG-02.146 --- ―If My Heart Didn‘t Break Then‖ by Jean Beller
USHMM, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies � 97
This memoir describes Jean Beller‘s childhood and adolescence in Poland, her
experiences as a student of elementary education in Tel Aviv, her return to Poland before
the outbreak of World War II, conditions inside the Łódź ghetto, her experiences with
Chaim Rumkowski, her work as a kindergarten teacher and as the head of an orphanage
in the ghetto, her attempts to hide when the ghetto was evacuated, the death of her parents
and a brother, her deportation to Auschwitz and other concentration camps, and her life in
the United States after the war.
Language: English 1993
2 microfiche cards
Source of Acquisition: Sheila Beller (Jean Beller‘s daughter)
Restrictions: Fair use only
RG-19.046M --- Selected Records from the American Relief for Poland Organizations
This collection contains reports, bulletins, general correspondence, name lists, ―welfare
messages,‖ financial records, newspaper clippings, photographs, and various other
records relating to the work of American Relief for Poland from 1939 to 1952. The files
of the American Relief for Poland Lisbon office, contain the reports and general
correspondence of Florian Piskorski, the American Relief for Poland delegate for Europe;
general financial records of the Lisbon office; name lists of Polish and Jewish refugees,
Polish prisoners of war, and Roman Catholic priests in concentration camps who were
receiving aid; and general records relating to American Relief for Poland‘s work with
various branches of the Red Cross throughout Europe.
Languages: Polish, English 1939–1952
5 microfilm rolls (35 mm)
Source of Acquisition: Polish Museum Archives, Chicago, Illinois
Finding aid: Folder-level description
See the finding aid for this collection: RG-19.046M
RG-19.002 --- Helen Waren Letter
This is a copy of an undated letter by Helen Waren, an actress in Europe at the close of
World War II. In her letter she describes her experiences with Allied troops in Europe, in
displaced persons camps, and displaced Jews suffering persecution after the war. Also
included is a November 21, 1945, letter by Maj. Charles Heitzberg of the War
Department, Office of the Chief of Staff, describing the origins of the letter to Lt. Gen.
Lucius D. Clay, Deputy Military Governor of the U.S. Zone of Occupation.
Provenance: National Archives and Records Administration record group 260 (OMGUS)