Guide to the Papers of Leo W. Schwarz (1906-1967) 1940-1954 RG 294.1

Processed by Zosa Szajkowski and Itzek Gottesman. Additional processing by Rachel S. Harrison and Sarah Ponichtera in 2013. Described and encoded as part of the CJH Holocaust Resource Initiative, made possible by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany.

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
Email: archives@yivo.cjh.org
URL: http://www.yivo.org

Electronic finding aid was encoded in EAD 2002 by Rachel S. Harrison in May 2013. EAD finding aid customized in Archon in 2014. Description is in English.

Collection Overview

Title: Guide to the Papers of Leo W. Schwarz (1906-1967) 1940-1954 RG 294.1

ID: RG 294.1 FA

Extent: 51.0 Boxes

Arrangement: Zosa Szajkowski organized the collection and compiled a preliminary inventory in 1959. The arrangement of the papers and the preparation of a finding aid were completed by Itzek Gottesman in 1986. In 2013 Rachel S. Harrison and Sarah Ponichtera encoded the finding aid under a grant from the Claims Conference to the Center for Jewish History. The overall arrangement of the papers reflects the organizational structure of the JDC’s U.S. Zone headquarters in Munich. At the time of their accession to the YIVO Archives, the papers were only partly in order, mostly arranged by topic. A number of folders originated in Mr. Schwarz’s JDC office and were left in their original arrangement. These folders are the core of the collection. Other materials were originally loose and unsorted and were formed into cohesive file units. These are usually denoted in the inventory as "folder consists of discrete pages," meaning that these pages were not originally found together in a folder. The folder titles in the container list were created based upon the folder contents but are not written on the folders themselves, which are labeled only with the folder number. The reel number given is the first microfilm reel and frame number for each folder. The collection is divided into 5 series, which have been further divided into subseries and subsubseries.

Languages: English, German, Hebrew, Yiddish

Abstract

This collection, which is a sub-group of RG 294 Displaced Persons Camps, consists of the records of Leo W. Schwarz, the Director of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC/JDC) for the U.S. Occupation Zone in Germany during the years 1946-1947. The papers pertain to his work with the JDC in Germany and to the history of the Jewish displaced persons in Germany after World War II.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The materials in this collection are, for the most part, the administrative files of Leo W. Schwarz in his capacity as the JDC Director of the U.S. Zone of Germany, a position he held for the years 1946-1947, although there are also earlier materials. In addition, there are JDC documents of later years, indicating that Leo Schwarz continued accumulating documents even after leaving his post, possibly for the purpose of writing The Redeemers , a book about his experiences, which was published in 1953.

The records consist of correspondence, minutes, reports, memoranda, statutes, statistics, circulars, maps of JDC operations in Germany, bulletins, personnel lists, financial records, and other material relating to Jewish DPs in Germany after World War II. These include materials relating to the organizational structure of the JDC and its work in the U.S. Zone as well as its relationship to the U.S. military authorities and to international relief agencies, including the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency (UNRRA), and its successor, the International Rescue Organization (PCIRO, IRO).

The files relating to displaced persons camps and centers contain materials of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone, materials of the DP congresses, correspondence and reports of JDC regional offices, and materials from individual camps. Of special importance are the periodic reports filed by JDC representatives about their inspections of numerous Jewish DP installations in their respective districts. There are also files of the various JDC departments, including the Religious Department, the Health Department, the Welfare and Personal Service Department, the Education and Cultural Activities Department, and the Legal Department, and information about the Jewish DPs in the British and French Zones and in Berlin. There are also several memoirs and eyewitness testimony accounts of the Holocaust collected from survivors in the DP camps, folklore and satire about the life of Jewish displaced persons and the manuscript of Schwarz's own memoir of his time with the JDC, The Redeemers .

This record group provides a vital source for the history of the Jewish displaced persons after the Second World War, and of the substantial relief effort organized on their behalf by the JDC. The papers occupy over 21 linear feet of shelf space in 51 manuscript boxes. The collection is on 48 reels of microfilm, designated as MKM 488. The inclusive dates are 1940-1954.

Historical Note

Leo W. Schwarz was born in New York in 1906. He was the author of several anthologies of Jewish literature, including The Jewish Caravan (1935) and A Golden Treasury of Jewish Literature (1937). During World War II, he served in the United States Army. From 1946 to 1947, he directed the operations of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in the U.S. Zone in Germany at a time when it had begun to shift focus from fulfilling the basic material needs of the Jewish Displaced Persons (DPs) to providing for their rehabilitation and emigration. His book, The Redeemers (1953), is a memoir of his work with the JDC in post-war Germany. Schwarz later became a professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Iowa. He died in 1967.

The JDC, founded in 1914 to aid the Jewish victims of World War I, attained the peak of its relief activity between the years 1945 and 1952, when it spent $342 million on material aid to 250,000 DPs and other Jewish survivors of World War II in Europe. During this period, the bulk of its activities were concentrated in DP camps in the allied-occupied territories of Germany, Austria and Italy.

An August 1945 agreement between the JDC, the U.S. Army and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) allowed JDC relief workers to join in providing emergency aid to the 30,000 Jewish inmates then in DP camps in the U.S. Zone in Germany. Though the main burden of running the camps rested with the U.S. Army, which was responsible for the provision of food, clothing and shelter, and with UNRRA, which administered the camps, the JDC provided the camps with important supplementary aid and services. During the last four months of 1945, the JDC augmented DP provisions with over $700,000 in food, clothing and medicine trucked in from Switzerland, Denmark and France on surplus trucks which it had purchased from the U.S. Army. Initially, the JDC also assisted in the registration of camp inmates and organized tracing bureaus to aid in the reunion of families. In subsequent years, the JDC created new programs of welfare, medical aid, vocational training, and educational and cultural activity in the camps in the U.S. Zone.

In 1946, the DP population in the U.S. Zone in Germany was enlarged by 90,000 Polish Jews who had fled pogroms in Poland (particularly a July pogrom in Kielce which had claimed 42 Jewish lives). The Polish DPs were also attracted by reports of the special status which U.S. policy granted the Jewish DPs and the belief that Germany would be the organizational center of a mass emigration to Palestine as a result of the Anglo-American Commission recommendation that 100,000 Jewish DPs should be admitted into Palestine.

By 1946 the JDC had begun organizing emigration from within the U.S. Zone. While the Jewish Agency for Palestine was in charge of preparing Jews for aliyah and for the maintenance of hakhsharot (training farms), the JDC and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) facilitated the departure of tens of thousands of Jewish DPs for Palestine and other countries. The JDC provided potential emigrees with a range of services which included the matching of skills with prospective countries; helping them obtain passports, birth certificates and visas; arranging medical examinations; maintaining contact with overseas agencies and sponsors; and covering the travel expenses of the emigration itself. As well as aiding the emigration of individuals, the JDC also acted as a liaison between qualified Jewish DPs and the the Preparatory Commission of the International Refugee Organization (PCIRO), the interim agency established in 1947 to fill the hiatus between the demise of the UNRRA and its replacement by the International Refugee Organization (IRO), which arranged for the group emigration of skilled workers to Canada, Australia, and European countries. In 1947, 7,000 Jewish DPs left the U.S. Zone with JDC help and over half of them were able to enter the U.S. under the Truman Directive and U.S. quota laws.

1947 again saw the JDC struggling to cope with an influx of new DPs into the U.S. Zone. Famine in Rumania early in the year resulted in the infiltration into the U.S. Zone of thousands of Jewish DPs desperately in need of nutrition, clothing, shelter, and medical aid. The situation was aggravated by the April 21, 1947 “Freeze Order” of General Lucius Clay, Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. European Command. That order prohibited camps run by the PCIRO, from accepting new inmates after July 2, 1947. The support of the 35,000 refugees who comprised this category fell to the JDC, who expanded their personnel from a staff of 44 in 1946 to 294 in 1947 in order to meet the growing needs of the DP community.

The JDC also reorganized its zones of operation in 1947. Five regions were consolidated into two districts, with Berlin included as a third, known as the “Berlin District.” “Eastern District #1, Land Bavaria” with headquarters in Munich covered the previous regions of Bamberg, Regensburg and Munich. “Western District #2, Greater Hesse, Wurttemberg-Baden” was comprised of the previous regions of Stuttgart, Frankfurt and the Kassel area and was based in Frankfurt. Each Zone had its own director who was under the jurisdiction of the overall U.S. Zone Director. The Zone Director, with the support of an assistant and an executive assistant, set policy and served as a liaison between the JDC and various organizations. These included the U.S. military, the Advisor on Jewish Affairs to the U.S. occupation forces, the PCIRO (later IRO), the Central Committee of Liberated Jews, and voluntary agencies such as ORT (The Society for Trades and Agricultural Labor), the Jewish Agency for Palestine and HIAS.

By 1947, the JDC had also begun to prepare the DPs for work and life outside the camps, with the establishment of work projects and the funding of ORT vocational training schools. The JDC provided supplementary food rations and amenities to Jewish DPs who worked as teachers, doctors, cooks, firemen, policemen, sanitation workers, and administrators in the camps. According to the JDC, by 1948 38,800 Jewish DPs out of a total population of 141,800 Jewish DPs in the U.S. Zone were employed in ORT vocational schools, in service in the DP camps and communities, at hakhsharot, and in JDC-supported tailoring, knitting and shoemaking projects.

Between July 1947 and May 1948, individual emigration of Jewish DPs was jointly funded by the JDC and the PCIRO. The IRO, upon its assumption of the PCIRO’s responsibilities in the spring of 1948, refused to help fund the migration of DPs to the war zone of Palestine. Yet by April 1949, the IRO had fully resumed its financial and tactical support of emigration to Israel and reimbursed the JDC for the interim expenses the JDC had incurred in transferring Jews to Palestine. In November 1949, the JDC and the Jewish Agency, with Israeli government support, founded MALBEN (Institute for the Care of Handicapped Immigrants) in Israel. MALBEN was established to care for the chronically ill, disabled and aged immigrants and other DPs who were hard to place. In 1950, the JDC began to move groups of invalids, who were among the last residents of the German DP camps, to Israel.

Responsibility for JDC U.S. Zone projects was divided among an array of Departments, all answerable to the Zone Director. They included: Personnel and Administration, Transport, Reports and Statistics, Finance, Public Relations, Employment, Emigration, Religious, Medical, Legal, Supply, Special Services, and Recreation and Education.

The JDC also maintained a full complement of health programs and institutions in the U.S. Zone. By 1948, 216 JDC-supported hospitals, sanatoriums, infirmaries, dispensaries, maternity wards, dental clinics, labs, children’s nutrition centers, and rest homes provided 4,629 beds to the Jewish DP community. For a population with a birth rate double that of the U.S. (in 1947, there were 10,000 infants under the age of one in the DP camps), the JDC provided feeding and health programs for expectant and nursing mothers, and supplied them with children’s clothing and other necessities. Through JDC nutrition centers and an immunization program, the health of a malnourished and weakened population was upgraded and maintained.

At the peak of its activities in 1948, the JDC supported 116 schools and kindergartens in the U.S. Zone with a combined student body of 7,843. The JDC completely subsidized the U.S. Zone’s Board for Education and Culture, which, through the combined efforts of the JDC, the Jewish Agency and the Central Committee for Liberated Jews, organized and ran the schools of the Jewish DP population. The JDC, through its Recreation and Education Department, also established summer camps for internee children which served as many as 8,000 per summer, and supported sport clubs and athletic facilities. The JDC’s Student Branch helped Jewish DPs gain entrance to universities, arranged scholarships and stipends for them, and chaired a verification commission which established the credentials of those who had earned professional degrees before the war.

The JDC also played a role in the cultural life of the camps by sponsoring tours by local and foreign performers like American Jewish actor Herman Yablokoff and Israeli dancer Paula Padani, as well as a Mobile Film Unit which traveled throughout the U.S. Zone with a repertoire of English and Yiddish films. Among the more than fifty theatrical groups in existence in the DP camps in the late forties, the JDC-sponsored Munich Yiddish Theatre (MIT) was prominent. The JDC helped finance and supply with newsprint the dozen or more newspapers and periodicals, mostly in Yiddish, which arose in the U.S. Zone in the post-war years. Religious life was fostered by the JDC's Religious Department, which by 1947 subsidized 200 synagogues, 40 mikvot (ritual baths), 20 yeshivot and seminaries, 75 religious schools, and a seminar for shokhtim (kosher slaughterers) in the U.S. Zone. The Religious Department also maintained a rabbinical synod (Agudat Harabonim) of rabbis serving in the camps, and funded the printing and distribution of religious books. The JDC facilitated the observance of religious holidays by supplying the DP camps with ritual objects and food such as shofars, matzot and kosher wine.

The establishment in 1948 of the State of Israel and the Displaced Persons Act in the U.S. made the emigration of all DPs and the closing of the camps a priority. In 1948, the JDC, together with the Office of the Advisor on Jewish Affairs, the IRO, the U.S. Army, voluntary organizations, and DP leadership began to consolidate and reorganize the remaining DP camps. Special camps with homogeneous populations were created in the U.S. Zone for the dwindling population of Israel- and America-bound DPs, the persistent medical cases, and those undecided about or ineligible for emigration.

By 1949, the JDC had closed all of its workshops amidst a general curtailment of voluntary and international agency activity in the Zone. The closing of the last camp, Foehrenwald, in 1953, marked the end of JDC activity in the Jewish DP camps of the U.S. Zone in Germany.

Subject/Index Terms

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions: Permission to use the collection must be obtained from the YIVO Archivist.

Use Restrictions:

Permission to publish part or parts of the collection must be obtained from the YIVO Archives. For more information, contact:

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011

email: archives@yivo.cjh.org

Acquisition Method: Leo W. Schwarz donated his papers to the YIVO Archives in 1959.

Separated Materials: There is no information about materials that are associated by provenance to the described materials that have been physically separated or removed.

Original/Copies Note:

Microfilm Information:

This collection is on 48 reels of microfilm (MKM 488).

Reel 1: (Folders 1 -13) | Reel 2: (Folders 14 - 22) | Reel 3: (Folders 23 - 27)

Reel 4: (Folders 28- 30)| Reel 5: (Folders 31-34) | Reel 6: (Folders 35-42) |

Reel 7 (Folders 43-47) | Reel 8: (Folders 44-53) | Reel 9: ( Folders 54-64) |

Reel 10 (Folders 65-84) | Reel 11: (Folders 85-92) | Reel 12: (Folders 93-103)

Reel 13 (Folders 104-116) | Reel 14 (Folders 117-130) | Reel 15 (Folders 131-142) |

Reel 16 (Folders 143-163) | Reel 17 (Folders 164-177) | Reel 18 (Folders 178-192) |

Reel 19 (Folders 193- 216) | Reel 20 (Folders 217-223) | Reel 21 (Folders 224-237) |

Reel 22 (Folders 238-256) | Reel 23 (Folders 257-274) | Reel 24 (Folders 275-296)

Reel 25 (Folders 297-310) | Reel 26 ( Folders 311-317) | Reel 27 (Folders 318-329)

Reel 28 (Folders 330-337) | Reel 29 (Folders 338-342) | Reel 30 (Folders 343-351)

Reel 31 (Folders 352-371) | Reel 32 (Folders 372-380) | Reel 33 (Folders 381-401)

Reel 34 (Folders 402-415) Reel 35 (Folders 416-424) | Reel 36 (Folders 425-435)

Reel 37 (Folders 436-451) | Reel 38 (Folders 452-469) | Reel 39 (Folders 471-480)

Reel 40 (Folders 481-487) | Reel 41 (Folders 488-501) | Reel 42 (Folders 502-505)

Reel 43 (Folders 506-508) | Reel 44 (Folders 509-513) | Reel 45 (Folders 514-523)

Reel 46 (Folders 524-536) | Reel 47 (Folders (537-541) | Reel 48 (Folders 542-552)

Related Materials: This collection is a sub-group of RG 294, which consists of materials relating to Displaced Persons camps and centers in Germany, Italy and Austria, including a separate sub-group of photographs. In addition, there is some of Leo Schwarz’s correspondence in the Abraham Klausner Papers in the AJHS Archives, P-879. In addition, YIVO, AJHS and LBI libraries and archives have a wealth of materials about World War II, Displaced Persons camps and several other JDC collections, as well as several of Schwarz’s books. These include Mutations of Jewish Values in Contemporary American Fiction , The Jewish Caravan: Great Stories of Twenty-Five Centuries , Memoirs of My People Through a Thousand Years , Refugees in Germany Today , A Golden Treasury of Jewish Literature , and The Redeemers, a Saga of the Years 1945-1952 , among others.

Preferred Citation: Published citations should take the following form:Identification of item, date (if known); Papers of Leo W. Schwarz; RG 294.1; box number; folder number; YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

Series 1: Series I: JDC General Files, 1940-1953,
Series 2: Series II: Displaced Persons Camps and Centers, 1945-1950,
Series 3: Series III: JDC Departments, 1945-1954,
Series 4: Series IV: British Zone, French Zone, Berlin District, 1945-1949,
Series 5: Series V: Memoirs and Testimonies on the Holocaust, 1942-1953

Series I: JDC General Files 1940-1953

Series I comprises the general administrative files of the JDC Director for the U.S. Zone in Germany. These include mainly reports and correspondence of the JDC and local and international affiliates, memoranda, lists, meeting minutes, directories, mailings, and maps.

Folders: 122

Subseries 1: Organization and Structure of the JDC 1944-1953

This subseries contains materials on the organizational structure of the JDC and their work in the U.S. Zone, including general JDC reports on kibbutzim, individual camps, deportations by the U.S. military authorities of individuals illegally in the U.S. Zone, cultural activities, the black market, and general conditions in the DP camps. There are also meeting minutes, correspondence and memoranda, lists of Jewish installations in Germany, reports and minutes related to the international structure of the JDC, international directories of JDC offices and affiliates, bulletins, personnel lists, circulars, and maps of JDC operations in Germany.

Folders: 19

Folder 1: Directory of JDC offices and cooperative committees worldwide June 1947: - Second edition
Folder 2: JDC Country Directors Conference February 3, 1947: - Paris
- Bulletins 1-20
Folder 3: Minutes of JDC Conference of the Country Directors from Europe April 5-10, 1948: - Paris
Folder 4: JDC report 1953: - Submitted to the Conference of Country Directors in 1953
- Includes Camp Foehrenwald
- Returnees from Israel
- Refugees from the West Zone and Berlin
- Emigration
- Tuberculosis among Jews
Folder 5: Lists of Jewish installations in Germany 1947-1948: - June 1947
- IRO and JDC field representatives, January 1948
Folder 6: Reports and minutes on organizational structure of JDC in Germany 1944-1948
Folder 7: Correspondence and memoranda on organizational structure 1946-1947: - Folder consists of discrete pages
Folder 8: Correspondence and memoranda on organizational structure August-October 1947
Folder 9: Correspondence and memoranda on organizational structure January 13, 1947: - Includes analysis of JDC program by Leo W. Schwarz
Folder 10: Various materials on JDC activity 1946-1947: - Includes education and culture
- Kibbutzim
- Youth aliyah
- Infiltration of DPs from Austria
- Food distribution, minutes, December 10, 1946
- Sending the ill to Switzerland for cure
- Lists of employees of the Jewish Agency, January 1, 1947
- Conferences of regional JDC directors, January 4, February 15-16, 1947
Folder 11: Reports of JDC staff conference of the Eastern Military District, 3rd U.S. Army 1945: - October 21, 1945
- Report by Saul S. Elgart on JDC activities in same district, August 1-October 15, 1945
- District includes the camps of Landsberg, Foehrenwald, and Feldafing
Folder 12: Minutes and reports of JDC staff conferences 1946-1947: - January 28-29, 1946
- Paris, September 27-28, 1946
- Munich, October 17, 1947
Folder 13: JDC personnel lists in Germany 1945-1947
Folder 14: Various materials 1946-1948: - Includes staff memos, general memos, Munich memos, and bulletins
Folder 15: Circulars of JDC director in Germany, Samuel Haber May 1947-December 1948
Folder 16: Circulars of the Munich office 1947-1949: - Includes list of all sections of the Central Committee in Munich
Folder 17: Bulletins, Munich office 1947-1949: - Numbers 5-119, October 31, 1947-February 27, 1949 and numbers 1-120, October 25, 1947-May 10, 1949
- These are internal bulletins of workers in the 1st Military District
- Includes Bulletin 7-emigration, 15-distribution of clothing-films, 115-flour for matzot
Folder 18: Minutes of conferences of JDC with other institutions 1946-1948: - Includes meetings of regional directors
- Meetings of provisioning directors, December 10, 1946
- 10th conference of publishers of DP newspapers, Bad Kissingen, September 8, 1948
Folder 19: Maps of JDC operations in Germany November 1947

Subseries 2: JDC Reports 1945-1950

The reports in this subseries include monthly and quarterly departmental reports covering population statistics, personnel, religious affairs, cultural work, education, camp relief, and transportation, medical reports, reports from the U.S. Zone Director and from regional and district offices, as well as from certain camps and individuals, legal aid, emigration, occupations, provisioning, speeches, and reports distributed to JDC bureaus in Paris and New York. There are also a series of reports concerning population flow, UNRRA statistics for the American, British and French Zones, where the JDC was also involved, and other demographic and statistical information.

Folders: 42

Folder 20: Monthly departmental reports May 1946: - Includes population statistics, reports on personnel, religious affairs, education, camp relief, transportation
Folder 21: Monthly departmental reports June 1946
Folder 22: Monthly departmental reports July 1946
Folder 23: Monthly departmental reports August 1946
Folder 24: Monthly departmental reports September 1946
Folder 25: Monthly departmental reports October 1946
Folder 26: Monthly departmental reports November 1946
Folder 27: Monthly departmental reports December 1946
Folder 28: Monthly departmental reports January 1947
Folder 29: Monthly departmental reports February 1947
Folder 30: Monthly departmental reports March-April 1947
Folder 31: Monthly departmental reports April 1947
Folder 32: Monthly departmental reports May 1947
Folder 33: Monthly departmental reports June 1947
Folder 34: Monthly departmental reports July 1947
Folder 35: Monthly departmental reports August 1947
Folder 36: Monthly departmental reports September 1947
Folder 37: Monthly departmental reports October 1947
Folder 38: Monthly departmental reports November 1947
Folder 39: Monthly departmental reports December 1947
Folder 40: Monthly departmental reports January 1949
Folder 41: Monthly departmental reports February 1949
Folder 42: Monthly departmental reports March 1949
Folder 43: Monthly departmental reports April 1949
Folder 44: General consolidated departmental reports September-November 1947: - Includes medical reports, reports of the Zone director, legal aid, emigration, occupations, provisioning, statistical reports
Folder 45: General consolidated departmental reports January-December 1948
Folder 46: General consolidated departmental reports January-May, August, October-December 1949
Folder 47: Quarterly installation reports from various districts December 1947, November 1948
Folder 48: Regional reports 1946-1947
Folder 49: General periodical reports 1946-1950: - Folder consists of discrete pages
Folder 50: Monthly reports of the 5th district (Munich) April 1946-1947
Folder 51: Various reports 1945-1947: - Includes report from Foehrenwald
- Report from Rabbi Alexander Rosenberg on religious activity
- Report on activity in Western Military District
- Cultural work December 26, 1945-January 15, 1946
- Report on Heidelberg district
- Cultural work in Zielsheim, December 24, 1946
- Statistics of children in centers, January 1947
Folder 52: Report by Harry Witeles on visit to Germany from January 6-April 8, 1946. 1946: - Photocopy, 147 pp. and 85 pp. of statistics
Folder 53: Various reports 1945-1946: - Includes speeches and reports distributed by JDC bureaus in Paris and New York
Folder 54: Various reports 1947: - Includes speeches and reports distributed by JDC bureaus in Paris and New York
Folder 55: Various reports 1948-1949: - Includes speeches and reports distributed by JDC bureaus in Paris and New York
Folder 56: Movement Project report and statistics on Jewish population flow in Germany August-November 1946
Folder 57: Monthly statistical reports of Jewish population in Germany January 1946-January 1947
Folder 58: Monthly statistical reports of Jewish population in Germany June-August 1946, May-June and July 1947
Folder 59: Monthly statistical reports of Jewish population in Germany January 1947-July 1949: - Includes UNRRA statistics of American, British and French zones
Folder 60: Monthly statistical reports of Jewish population in Germany 1947: - Includes statistical tables of camps and centers
Folder 61: Monthly statistical reports of Jewish population in Germany January-March 1948: - Includes statistics on health conditions, births and mortality

Subseries 3: Military Authorities and Relief Agencies 1940-1950

This subseries consists of materials of the U.S. military authorities and of international relief agencies, such as the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency (UNRRA), and its successor, the International Rescue Organization (PCIRO, IRO), the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), the American Red Cross, and the American Council of Voluntary Agencies. These include reports and memoranda on various conflicts between U.S. military authorities and the JDC, reports of Jewish Advisors to the U.S. military, Judge Louis Levinthal's records on his mission to Germany as the U.S. Military Advisor on Jewish Affairs, correspondence with UNRRA, minutes of the UNRRA Council on Jewish Affairs, UNRRA reports on Jewish infiltration, conference reports, various materials of the U.S. military, bulletins and circulars, and meeting minutes, among other materials.

Folders: 41

Folder 62: JDC reports and memoranda on conflicts with U.S. military authorities 1946: - Includes house search of JDC employees in Munich
- Liquidation of camp at Furth
- Incidents at Olching, Cham and Landsberg
Folder 63: JDC reports and memoranda on conflicts with U.S. military authorities 1945-1946: - Includes memos to and from JDC to various agencies on DPs
Folder 64: Correspondence with UNRRA 1945-1946: - Also Includes UNRRA and military circulars and reports on incidents in Pilsen of forced return of Jews to Poland, September 6, 1945
Folder 65: Correspondence with UNRRA January 1946-October 1947: - Includes discussion of use of Yiddish and Hebrew
Folder 66: Minutes of UNRRA Council on Jewish affairs 1940-1948: - Also includes memoranda, February 7-12, November 1948 and G-5 Army memo on council, October 2, 1940
Folder 67: Monthly UNRRA report 1946: - May 1946
- Copy of UNRRA report, January 18, 1946 about infiltration of Jewish DPs
Folder 68: Various UNRRA materials 1943-1946: - Includes resignation memo of UNRRA administrator Leo Srole, January 3, 1946
- Permission to publish newspapers, 1946
Folder 69: Memoranda, reports of Jewish advisors with the American military authorities September 1946-October 1947: - Includes materials of Rabbi Phillip Bernstein
Folder 70: Memoranda, reports of Jewish advisors with the American military authorities July 24-September 3, 1947: - Includes daily notes of Judge Louis Levinthal
Folder 71: Memoranda, reports of Jewish advisors with the American military authorities January 21-29, 1947: - Includes correspondence by Judge Levinthal
Folder 72: Memoranda, reports of Jewish advisors with the American military authorities 1947: - Concerns Levinthal’s mission in Germany
Folder 73: Memoranda, reports of Jewish advisors with the American military authorities January-March 1948: - Levinthal’s speeches upon his return to Germany
Folder 74: Memoranda, reports of Jewish advisors with the American military authorities 1947-1948: - Newspaper clippings
Folder 75: Memoranda, reports of Jewish advisors with the American military authorities 1949: - Memoranda, correspondence, reports of William Haber
Folder 76: Memoranda, reports of Jewish advisors with the American military authorities March 13-14, 1949: - Conference report, Heidelberg
Folder 77: Memoranda, reports of Jewish advisors with the American military authorities July 31, 1949: - Conference report on The future of the Jews in Germany, Heidelberg
Folder 78: Memoranda, reports of Jewish advisors with the American military authorities September-November, 1946: - Memo to Judge Simon Rifkind on AJC evaluation of centers
- Minutes of UNRRA and Council on Jewish Affairs
Folder 79: Memoranda, reports of Jewish advisors with the American military authorities 1949: - Includes memoranda and reports of Harry Greenstein
Folder 80: Memoranda, reports of Jewish advisors with the American military authorities November 1, 1949-January 30, 1950: - Final report of Greenstein, November 1, 1949
- Supplement by Major Abraham S. Hyman, January 30, 1950
Folder 81: Memoranda, reports of Jewish advisors with the American military authorities December 1949: - Report on Israel by Chaplain Louis Barish
Folder 82: Memoranda, reports of Jewish advisors with the American military authorities 1948-1950: - Memoranda and reports of Major Abraham S. Hyman
- Includes minutes of a consultation by Jewish organizations in his office, March 15, 1948
Folder 83: Memoranda, reports of Jewish advisors with the American military authorities January 20, 1950: - Final report of A. Hyman, Heidelberg
Folder 84: U.S. Army materials 1944-1945: - Weekly reports of G-5, and SHAEF on DPs
- Folder consists of discrete pages
Folder 85: U.S. Army materials 1945: - Report of the General Board, United States Forces, European Theater, G-5 Section, Study number 35 on DPs, refugees, and Allied military personnel
Folder 86: U.S. Army materials 1945-1949: - Report on Jews in Garmish, May 29 and October 16, 1946
- Recognition of the Central Committee
- Folder consists of discrete pages
Folder 87: U.S. Army materials 1947: - Report, "Displaced Persons and the Occupation Forces in Europe, series, 1945-1946, office of the Chief Historian, European Command"
- Frankfurt am Main, 77 pp., mimeographed
Folder 88: U.S. Army materials undated: - Report "Civil Affairs"
- 95 pp., mimeographed
Folder 89: UNRRA and U.S. Military materials on Jewish DPs in Germany 1945-1949: - Folder consists of discrete pages
Folder 90: SHAEF and UNRRA on Jewish DPs in Germany 1945-1950: - Includes reports
- Folder consists of discrete pages
Folder 91: List of UNRRA and IRO stations in Germany July 20, 1946-September 23, 1948
Folder 92: Reports of UNRRA in Germany 1945-1947: Folder consists of discrete pages
Folder 93: General Bulletin of UNRRA in Germany 1946-1947
Folder 94: UNRRA circulars August 1945-July 1945
Folder 95: UNRRA circulars July-October 1945
Folder 96: UNRRA circulars November 1946-1949: - Folder consists of discrete pages
Folder 97: IRO circulars 1947-1949: - Folder consists of discrete pages
Folder 98: Report of the Survey Committee on Displaced Persons of the American Council of Voluntary Agencies for Foreign Service June 1946: - "Problems of Displaced Persons"
Folder 99: American Council of Voluntary Agencies minutes of meetings and committees 1948-1950: - Includes committee for emigration, children and youth care
Folder 100: American Council of Voluntary Agencies minutes of meetings and committees December 1947-September 1948: - Minutes of committee for children’s and youth care
Folder 101: American Red Cross report undated: - "Summary of Civilian War Relief Activities in Western Europe, 1944 - 1946"
- Photostat copy, 68 pp.
Folder 102: American Red Cross reports 1945-1946: - Reports to G-5, USFA about DPs in Germany and Austria

Subseries 4: General Reports and Correspondence 1945-1952

The materials in this subseries contain general reports and correspondence from Jews in the American Army in Germany to JDC, as well as correspondence of Leo Schwarz. These reports and correspondence concern kibbutzim, various camp conditions, deportations of Jews to Poland, cultural activity in the camps, reports by Joseph Schwarz, Rabbi Yitzhak Serbib, Samuel Haber, Zalman Greenberg, Earl G. Harrison, Larry Becher, and Henry Cohen, conference materials, correspondence between JDC offices, statutes and other materials of the Central Committee in Munich, lists, memoranda, and other materials on German Jews.

Folders: 20

Folder 103: General reports 1945-1949: - Includes report by Dr. Joseph Schwarz, August 14, 1945
- Report on kibbutzim, May 20, 1947
Folder 104: General reports 1945-1951: - Includes report of camp Neustadt
- Report on deportation of 38 Jews to Poland, October 1, 1946
- Report by Rabbi Yitzhak Serbib about French Zone, April 15, 1945
Folder 105: General reports July 1949: - Report by Samuel Haber, “Two Years with the Shearit-Hapleita"
- Munich, Yiddish, 91 pp., typed
Folder 106: General reports November 1945-November 1946: - Includes various materials marked ‘'General and Emergency," concerning the trip of Dr. Zalman Greenberg to the U.S.A.
- Report by Larry Becher about Camp Leipheim
Folder 107: General reports 1945-1948: - Reports on conditions in Germany
- Includes report by Earl G. Harrison to the President of the U.S.A.
- Reports by Larry Becher
- Report by Henry Cohen to World Jewish Congress, November 7, 1946
- Report on first JDC group in Germany, August 20, 1945
- Report on conference between UNRRA and JDC, October 22, 1945
- Memorandum of William Haber on Rabbi Klausner’s report to the American Jewish Conference, May 2, 1948
Folder 108: Correspondence from Jews in the American Army in Germany to JDC April 1945-February 1946: - Concerning conditions in DP camps
Folder 109: Correspondence from Jews in the American Army in Germany to JDC January 18, 1947-October 14, 1948: - JDC in Munich to JDC in Paris
- Includes cultural activity in the camps
Folder 110: Correspondence from Jews in the American Army in Germany to JDC 1945-1949: - Various institutions
- Folder consists of discrete pages
Folder 111: Correspondence from Jews in the American Army in Germany to JDC June 1946-May 1948: - Includes reports on black market in camp Hohne
- Report of Cultural Office of the Central Committee in the British Zone, May 1948
- Report Number 2 of the Jewish Central Information Office on destruction of Dutch Jewry
- Report by Shlomo Michael Gelber on British Zone, June 1946
- Incidents in Bergen-Belsen
Folder 112: Correspondence from Jews in the American Army in Germany to JDC December 1945-February 1947: - Materials on Dr. Leo Schwarz
- Includes reports on canteen in the DP camps
- Declaration of 4 communities of German Jews and "Reichsvereinigung" of German Jews in Germany against formation of a Central Committee, January 26, 1946
- Statutes of the Central Committee
- List of employees in the Munich committee
- Report of JDC in Frankfurt
- Consultation of the Central Committee with JDC concerning collaboration, June 2, 1946
Folder 113: Correspondence from Jews in the American Army in Germany to JDC November 1946-May 1947: - Includes memo on JDC activity
- Agreement on collaboration between the JDC and the Central Committee in Munich, February 9, 1947
- Consultation of JDC in Paris and regarding the student problem in Germany, March 3, 1947
- JDC relief for illegal emigrants to Israel
Folder 114: Correspondence from Jews in the American Army in Germany to JDC 1946-1947: - General and camp reports
- Includes reports on kibbutzim, lists and map
Folder 115: Correspondence from Jews in the American Army in Germany to JDC 1947: - Includes memo to the Central Committee about IRO takeover of UNRRA activity, December 10, 1947
- Jewish students in Polish and German universities
- Memo on incidents of antisemitism, undated
- Activity program, June 10, 1947
Folder 116: Correspondence of Leo Schwarz 1946-1949: - Includes pages of a report of Vaad Hatzalah with statistics on religious schools
Folder 117: Correspondence of Leo Schwarz 1947-1948
Folder 118: Correspondence of Leo Schwarz 1945-1952: - Includes memo of Dr. Auerbach on conditions of DPs, July 23, 1947
- Correspondence with Col. Dayton H. Frost about advisor on Jewish affairs, 1950
- Correspondence with Yehuda Neidich on Jewish affairs, 1951-1952
- Personal correspondence
Folder 119: Correspondence of Leo Schwarz 1946-1947: - Correspondence of Chaplain A.J. Klausner
- Includes inventory of property and finances of the Central Committee, May 10, 1946
Folder 120: Correspondence of Leo Schwarz 1945-1948: - Correspondence regarding relief for German Jews
Folder 121: Correspondence of Leo Schwarz 1946-1948
Folder 122: Correspondence of Leo Schwarz undated: - Includes other materials on German Jews

Series II: Displaced Persons Camps and Centers 1945-1950

Series II comprises the files of the Displaced Persons centers and camps, including materials of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone, minutes and reports of the DP congresses, minutes of meetings of the Central Committee, correspondence and reports of JDC regional offices, and materials from individual camps.

Folders: 101

Subseries 1: The Central Committee of Liberated Jews: Organization and Structure 1945-1949

This subseries consists of records of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews, including correspondence, lists of members and associates, memoranda, statutes, minutes, reports, and correspondence between the Central Committee and JDC regarding cooperation.

Folders: 7

Folder 123: Lists of associates of the Central Committee in Munich and the Regional Committee undated
Folder 124: Correspondence and memoranda on the legalization of the Central Committee by the American Authorities in Germany 1946
Folder 125: Minutes of the Central Committee in Munich October 15, 1946-February 13, 1947: - Includes meetings with liaison officer Colonel Seithers
- Issues 1-22
- Copies in English
Folder 126: Minutes of the Central Committee in Munich October 15, 1946-February 13, 1947: - Copies of above in German
Folder 127: Correspondence and memoranda on cooperation between the Central Committee and JDC November 9, 1946-January 1947
Folder 128: Correspondence and memoranda on cooperation between the Central Committee and JDC November 9, 1946-January 1947: - Includes agreement from January 1947, and letter by Dr. Joseph Schwarz about the situation, November 9, 1946
Folder 129: Statutes, minutes and reports of the Central Committee 1945-1949: - Includes election rules
- Statutes of the Central Committee
- Statutes of the Association of Jewish students
- Minutes and reports of conferences of the Central Committee and regional JDC committees
- Reports of various sections of the Central Committee
- Materials on the liquidation of camps in 1949, 23 pp.

Subseries 2: Central Committee Congresses 1946-1948

This subseries contains minutes, reports and other materials on the Second and Third Congresses of Displaced Persons, 1946-1948.

Folders: 5

Folder 130: Minutes of the Central Committee 1947: - Second regular session, Berchtesgaden, June 23-24, 1947
- Third session, October 13-14, 1947
- Fourth session, December 28-30, 1947
Folder 131: Minutes, reports and other materials of the Second Congress of Shearit-Hapleita February 1947: - Bad Reichenhall
Folder 132: Reports and other materials of the Third Congress of Shearit-Hapleita March 30-April 2, 1948: - Germany
Folder 133: Reports and other materials of the Third Congress of Shearit-Hapleita March 30-April 2, 1948: - Germany
Folder 134: Minutes of the sessions of the Council of Liberated Jews 1946-1948: - After the 3rd congress, Munich
- Incomplete

Subseries 3: Central Committee Minutes 1945-1950

This is a subseries of meeting minutes of the Central Committee, mainly minutes of plenary sessions, as well as of sessions of the Central Committee with representatives of other corporations, including the JDC, ORT, various regional committees, and with Dr. Philipp Auerbach, the commissioner of the Bavarian State Restitution Office.

Folders: 9

Folder 135: Minutes of the plenary sessions of the Central Committee in Munich 1945: - Issues 1-26, July 5-December 31, 1945
- Minutes of July 1, 1945
- Related materials
Folder 136: Minutes of the plenary sessions of the Central Committee in Munich January 8-December 16, 1946: - Issues 27-73
Folder 137: Minutes of the plenary sessions of the Central Committee in Munich April-December 1946: - Issues 41-79
- Incomplete
Folder 138: Minutes of the plenary sessions of the Central Committee in Munich 1947: - Issues 74, 76-77, January 7-February 4, 1947
- Issues 1-70 of the plenum and Presidium, March 9-November 18, 1947
- Minutes Number 1 of a session with the JDC representative, June 16, 1947
Folder 139: Minutes of the plenary sessions of the Central Committee in Munich 1947-1949: - Issues 1-41, April 8-November 7, 1948
- Issues 79-98, January 4-March 22, 1948
- Issues 20-48, July 11-December 16, 1948
- Discrete papers, 1947-1949
Folder 140: Folder number not used
Folder 141: Minutes of the plenary sessions of the Central Committee in Munich April 26-December 1949: - Mostly not numbered
- Issues 49-61
Folder 142: Minutes of the plenary sessions of the Central Committee in Munich January 10-July 17, 1950: - Not numbered
Folder 143: Minutes of sessions of Central Committee in Munich November 1-May 13, 1947: - With the state commissioner Dr. Philipp Auerbach
Folder 144: Minutes of sessions of Central Committee in Munich 1946-1947: - With representatives of other corporations, JDC, ORT, regional committees, Dr. Auerbach, and others
- Relating to industrial schools and other productivization matters
- Reports
Folder 145: Folder number not used

Subseries 4: Camps and Centers: Reports and Correspondence 1945-1949

This subseries contains reports and correspondence of AJDC regional offices and materials from individual camps relating to various camps and centers. The subseries is further subdivided into two subsubseries of JDC district files and files on individual camps and centers.

Folders: 80

Subsubseries A: Files on JDC Districts 1945-1949

Of special importance within this subsubseries are the periodic reports filed by JDC representatives about their inspections of numerous Jewish DP installations in their respective districts.

Folders: 30

Folder 146: Correspondence of JDC in 1st military district (Bavaria) 1945-1946: - About kibbutzim in Schoenbrunn, Mainkofen, Schweikeberg, Herzogsaumuehle, Fallbach, Possenhofen, Bergerhof, 1945-1946
- List of 26 kibbutzim in districts 2, 3 and 5
- Statement by Dr. Nahum Goldman about the condition of the DPs, January 9, 1946
- Evacuation of Rothschweige and Reithofen
- Illegal flight from Camp Moschendorf by 350 Jews
Folder 147: Monthly reports of JDC representatives in 3rd district (Bamberg and Ansbach) October 1947-July 1949
Folder 148: JDC reports and correspondence of the 4th district (Regensberg, Schwandorf, formerly area team 1046) October 20, 1945-July 23, 1948
Folder 149: JDC reports and correspondence of the 5th district (Weilheim) 1946-1948: - December 1946-January 1948
- Minutes of a meeting with the burgomeister, September 29, 1947
Folder 150: JDC reports and correspondence from various communities in the 5th district 1946-1949: - 1946-1949
- Report from Frankfurt about mixed marriages, January 31, 1949
Folder 151: Correspondence of the DP regional committee in the 5th district (Upper Bavaria and Swabia) 1947: - Includes report of inspections in the camps and communities of Leipheim, Neu-Ulm, Tuerkheim, Epfenhausen, Kaufering, Fensig, Wolfratshausen, Bad Woerishof
- Report of the regional committee for April 1947
- 3rd regional conference in Munich, February 19, 1947
- List of camps and other centers in the 5th district
- Meeting of JDC directors, February 15, 1947
Folder 152: Reports of cash relief distributed through the JDC in the 5th district January-August 1947
Folder 153: Lists of camps, communities and other Jewish DP centers in the 5th district 1947
Folder 154: JDC correspondence and reports of the 6th district (formerly area team 1065) 1947-1948
Folder 155: JDC correspondence and reports of the 6th and 7th district (Bad Reichenhall, Munich, Wartenburg, formerly area team 1069) 1947-1948
Folder 156: JDC correspondence and reports of the 6th district 1947-1948: - Includes AJDC group (team) 1045, later renamed region (area) 4, and evacuation of Vilseck
- Statistics of 2790 children in Amberg, Floss, Tirschenreuth, Vilseck, Weiden
- Strike of students in the ORT school of Vilseck against cutting the food rations
Folder 157: JDC correspondence and reports of the 6th district 1947: - Includes JDC groups (teams) 1063-1064, later renamed to regions (areas) 5 and 6
- Camps and centers in Bad Woerrishofen, Buchloe, Kaufbeuren, Markt Oberdorf, Mittenwald, Neidhart, Tuerkheim
- Map of 19 communities and other centers
Folder 158: JDC correspondence and reports of the 6th district September 1945-January 1946: - Includes the providing of and arranging places for agricultural work (Hakhsharot)
Folder 159: Report by G.H. Muntz and Henry Deutsch about the kibbutzim May 20, 1947
Folder 160: Correspondence about Kibbutz Streicher’s Farm November 1948-January 1949
Folder 161: Statistics and other materials about kibbutzim in the U.S. Zone 1947
Folder 162: JDC report about kibbutzim in the U.S. Zone May 20, 1947
Folder 163: JDC reports and correspondence of communities and other centers in the U.S. Zone 1945-1949: - Includes Ansbach, Bad Kohlgrub (hospital), Bad Tolz (hakhsharot), Bayreuth, Mainkofen (hakhsharot), Purten (children’s center), Rotschweigen, Schesslitz (kibbutz), Weilheim (kibbutz)
Folder 164: Report about various camps and communities in the U.S. Zone 1945-1946: - Arranged chronologically, Neustadt, Foehrenwald, Zeilsheim, Deggendorf, Landsberg, Feldafing, Munich, Stuttgart, Fuerth, Bad Nauheim, Pocking
- Report of Eli Rock about the Jewish communities in Bavaria, November 26, 1945
- Report of JDC activity in Lower Bavaria and Oberpfals (Upper Palatinate), January 24, 1946
Folder 165: Monthly reports of various centers in the U.S. Zone undated: - Includes Eschwege, Frankfurt, Buedingen, Darmstadt, Fulda, Gehringshof, Kreis Gelnhausen, Gersfeld, Hessisch Lichtenau, Bad Nauheim, Offenbach-Spreindlingen, Wetzlar, Wiesbaden, Zeilsheim, Lampertheim, other
- Incomplete
Folder 166: JDC reports of visits to camps and centers (field visits) of the 7th army district January 20-22, 1946: - By Larry M. Becker
- Includes Aschau, Bamberg, Deggendorf, Frankfurt, Fuerth, Heidelberg, Lampertsheim, Leipheim, Pocking, Struth, Stuttgart
Folder 167: JDC correspondence with Jewish communities and centers in the U.S. Zone 1946-1949: - Includes Amberg, Ampfing, Dachau, Feldmocking, Freising, Graefelfing, Kempten, Krumbach, Laufen, Mallersdorf, Markt Oberdorf, Marktredwitz, Memmingen, Mindelheim, Mittenwald, Moosburg, Mandelstadt, Rosenheim, St. Ottilien, Starnberg, Tirschenreuth, Waging, Wartenberg
Folder 168: JDC correspondence with Jewish communities and centers in the U.S. Zone 1946-1949: - Includes Bad Reichenhall, Creuzsen, Eisalzried bei Dachau, Franzheim, Grass b. Erding, Greifenberg, Hartmansberg, Hochland, Indersdorf (Kloster), Pottenstein, Pegnitz, Ramsdau, Sindel, Wartenburg, Wolfgang, Wuerzburg
Folder 169: JDC correspondence with Jewish communities and centers in the U.S. Zone 1947-1948: - Includes Buchloe, Heidelberg, Vilseck and neighboring communities
Folder 170: Reports of camps and other centers in the U.S. Zone 1946-1949: - Includes Babenhausen, 1946
- Raid of the camp in the Uhlan barracks, Bamberg, November 24, 1946
- Visit in Camp Binola, March 1948
- Reports of Dachau, 1945-1946
- Eschwege
- Industrial schools in Foehrenwald
- Transit center in Frankfurt
- Kibbutz in Holzhausen
- Lampertheim
- Landsberg
- Jewish community in Mannheim
- Pocking
- Schwandorf
- Collective reports about several camps including Degendorf, Katenberg, Winzer, Bamberg, Fuerth, Rehan, Strut, Winzheim, Schwandorf, Eggenfelden, Straubing
- Folder consists of discrete pages
Folder 171: General JDC reports of various districts in the U.S. Zone October 1947-October 1948
Folder 172: Organization of work in the camps 1946: - Includes Landsberg, Feldafing, Foehrenwald, New Freimann and Gauting
Folder 173: Reports, maps and photos of Jewish cemeteries in camps 1947: - Holzhausen, St. Ottilien, Schwabhausen, Landsberg, Stadtwaldhof, Kaufering, Erpfling, Kurlach, Utting
Folder 174: Various JDC materials on closing of camps October 1948-July 1949
Folder 175: Report by Harry Greenstein June 10, 1949: - Heidelberg
- On his trip to Israel for negotiations with the Israeli Government and Jewish Agency about problems in connection with the closing of the camps in Germany and Austria

Subsubseries B: Files on Camps and Centers 1945-1949

Camps and centers mentioned in this subsubseries include Augsburg, Bamberg, Feldafing, Foehrenwald, Kassel, Munich, Pocking-Waldstadt, and Regensburg (region).

Folders: 50

Folder 176: Altotting November 1946-January 1948: - Correspondence and reports
Folder 177: Ansbach July 1948-June 1949: - Monthly reports
Folder 178: Augsburg September 1946-January 1948: - Correspondence and reports
Folder 179: Bad Woerishofen and neighboring communities 1946-1948: - Correspondence
Folder 180: Bamberg 1946: - Correspondence of the director of the regional JDC bureau
- Arranged alphabetically
Folder 181: Bamberg April 1946: - Monthly reports of kibbutzim in the Bamberg district
Folder 182: Bamberg April 1946: - Monthly reports and memoranda from region
- Arranged alphabetically
Folder 183: Bamberg 1946: - Reports
Folder 184: Bamberg 1946-1949: - Reports
- Folder consists of discrete pages
Folder 185: Bamberg May 1948-July 1949: - Monthly reports
Folder 186: Bamberg 1946-1947: - Reports on camps, kibbutzim
Folder 187: Bamberg June 1948-June 1949: - Reports on camps, kibbutzim
- Incomplete
Folder 188: Bayreuth November 1947-April 1949: - Monthly bureau reports
Folder 189: Deggendorf September 26, 1945-April 9, 1946: - Reports and correspondence
Folder 190: Dorfen-Markt August-September 1946: - Correspondence
Folder 191: Eichstatt 1948-1949: - Correspondence
Folder 192: Feldafing 1945-1946: - Reports, including report on Kinderblock, September 1945
- Reports by Dr. Henri Heitan and Ruth C. Heitan, January 1946 and undated
- Report of Gershon Gelbart, January 11, 1946
- Excerpts from UNRRA report
- Monthly statistical reports, April-May 1946
- Report of the Third American Army on visit to camp, May 17, 1946
Folder 193: Foehrenwald February 2-December 28, 1947: - Minutes of the camp committee
Folder 194: Foehrenwald January 8, 1948-July 3, 1949: - Minutes of the camp committee
Folder 195: Foehrenwald October 1945-May 1946: - Reports and correspondence
Folder 196: Garmisch-Fartenkirchen May 1946-May 1949: - Correspondence
Folder 197: Kassel district 1946: - Reports of centers
Folder 198: Kempten 1948: - Correspondence
Folder 199: Munich 1945-1948: - Minutes of the Munich Jewish Committee, November 26, 1945, January 21, May 30, 1946, April 9, 1948, undated
Folder 200: Munich 1946-1948
Folder 201: Munich July-December 1947: - Minutes of regional committee, district V and VB
Folder 202: Munich February 15, February 29, September 1946: - Reports and memoranda
Folder 203: Munich 1946-1947: - Reports of Munich Jewish Committee
- Reports of JDC on Munich Jewish Committee, January-June 1947
- Report of collaboration of JDC with Munich Jewish Committee, June 17, 1946
Folder 204: Munich July 1947: - JDC reports of 5th district
- Various reports including Munich Jewish Committee
Folder 205: Munich 1946-1949: - JDC correspondence with Munich Jewish Committee on financial matters
Folder 206: Munich 1947: - Minutes of regional conference, reports, memoranda of Regional Committee of Liberated Jews in Upper Bavaria
Folder 207: Munich 1947: - Correspondence and memoranda of Munich Jewish Committee
Folder 208: Munich June-July 1947: - Reports of sections of Munich Jewish Committee
- Lists of employees
Folder 209: Munich 1947: - Reports of Munich JDC bureau
Folder 210: Munich 1946-1949: - Various materials on union of employees of the Munich Jewish Committee
Folder 211: Munich 1946-1949: - Correspondence with the Munich Jewish Committee on provisioning
Folder 212: Munich February 11, 1947: - Notes of Munich Jewish Committee
- Minutes of a meeting between Munich Jewish Committee, Central Committee and JDC
Folder 213: Passau 1947: - JDC correspondence and reports, includes neighboring centers
Folder 214: Pocking January-July 1946: - JDC reports and correspondence
Folder 215: Pocking 1947-1949: - JDC reports and correspondence, includes liquidation of the camp
Folder 216: Parten II (Muhldorff) 1946-1947: - Correspondence, includes JDC training center and list of JDC emigration agencies
- Information on Parten I
Folder 217: Regensburg region 1946: - Monthly JDC reports and correspondence of camps, communities and kibbutzim
- Arranged alphabetically
Folder 218: Regensburg region 1947-1948: - Monthly JDC reports and correspondence of camps, communities and kibbutzim
- Arranged alphabetically
Folder 219: Regensburg region January-November 1947: - Monthly reports of regional JDC director
Folder 220: Regensburg region 1947: - Correspondence with representative from Regensburg
Folder 221: Regensburg region 1947: - Correspondence of regional JDC director about provisioning, includes lists of teachers in 8 centers
Folder 222: Regensburg region 1946-1947: - Correspondence and minutes
- General and financial reports, includes salaries of employees of the Central Committee in the region and August 30, 1946 administrative memorandum Number 1 of JDC on method of financing the Jewish communities, camps and kibbutzim, in the U.S. Zone, 1946-1947
- List of 23 communities, kibbutzim, and camps in Lower Bavaria
- Lists of employees
- Minutes of regional committee, September 18, 1947
- Report on libraries, 80 pp.
Folder 223: Regensburg region May-December 1948: - Monthly reports on Children's Nutrition Center submitted to JDC in Ansbach
Folder 224: Regensburg region November 1947-March 1949: - Correspondence
Folder 225: Notes on Israel April 5-18, 1949: - Typed, daily record of trip to Israel of Harry Greenstein, Advisor on Jewish Affairs to the U.S. Occupation Forces, includes account of meetings with Israeli officials and other notables

Series III: JDC Departments 1945-1954

Series III comprises the files of the various JDC departments: Employment, Religion, Health, Welfare and Personal Services, Emigration, Cultural Activities and Education, Legal Matters, Supplies, Public Relations, and Financial Matters and Personnel. Though none of the subseries contain complete records of the respective departments, the extant material is representative of the JDC's work with the DPs.

Folders: 266

Subseries 1: Employment Board 1946-1949

These files include reports, memoranda, meeting minutes, correspondence, statistics and statistical reports, and other materials related to the issues of employment of the DPs both within the camps and in the outside communities. There are also materials concerning questions of rehabilitation, productivity and the hakhsharot and cooperatives.

Folders: 15

Folder 226: Employment Board April 1946-February 1947: - Reports, memoranda, consultations among JDC, UNRRA, American Army and other authorities
- On organization, rehabilitation and employment among Jewish Displaced Persons
Folder 227: Minutes, reports and other materials of the Central Committee in Munich October 1946-February 1948: - Chiefly of the directorate for employment
- Concerning work and productivity
Folder 228: Periodic reports April 1947-June 1949: - Munich
Folder 229: JDC report 1947: - Draft copy
- Includes projects in and outside the camps
Folder 230: Monthly reports of operation June-December 1947
Folder 231: Monthly reports of operation 1948: - December is missing
Folder 232: Correspondence and reports 1947-1948
Folder 233: Report to Central Committee in Munich April 1947-January 1948: - Report of December 1947-January 1948
- Includes JDC report, April 1, 1947
Folder 234: Statistics of employees May 1, 1948: - Divided by camps, centers, occupations and countries of origin
- Undated statistic
Folder 235: Statistical reports and other materials of the labor department in the Central Committee in Munich January 9, 1947-February 16, 1947: - Includes memorandum from American authorities on the creation of the Jewish Production Corporation
- Occupational structure of the displaced persons according to the regions of the U.S. Zone, January 9, 1947
- Report of activities in 1946 and supplementary report, February 16, 1947
Folder 236: Report of the activity of the industrial office April 1947-May 1949
Folder 237: ORT schools correspondence and reports 1947
Folder 238: Monthly statistical reports 1947-1948
Folder 239: Monthly reports 1948-1949
Folder 240: Various materials on employment for Jewish displaced persons 1946-1949: - Includes minutes of a meeting with UNRRA, Heidelberg, October 19, 1946
- JDC reports by Eta Deutsch, November 11, 1946; by Leo Schwarz, November 12, 1946; by Harold Traub, October 15, 1947
- Statistics of Central Committee in Munich on hakhsharot and cooperatives

Subseries 2: Religious Department 1945-1949

The files of the Religion Department include correspondence, reports, statistics, and other materials pertaining mainly to the acquisition of religious supplies, including kosher foods, religious books and objects for Jewish holidays, and to the maintenance of synagogues, mikvot, yeshivot, and cemeteries. There are also materials relating to rabbis, conferences of Jewish chaplains, statistics on mashgikhim (kashrut supervisors), menakrim (kosher meat preparers), mohilim (circumcisers), mikvot (ritual baths), khevrot kadisha (burial societies), cantors, and religious schools, and materials of the Universal Association of Progressive Judaism.

Folders: 30

Folder 241: Correspondence of Rabbis Weinberg and Rosenberg 1947
Folder 242: Correspondence and other materials about JDC religious relief work in the U.S. Zone 1945-1947: - Includes cemetery for persons killed in the Landsberg district
- Provisioning of kosher foods
- Religious books, candles and other objects for Jewish holidays
- List of houses of prayer, yeshivot and rabbis in Pocking
- Emigration of rabbis
Folder 243: Reports and correspondence of the Religious Department October 1946-November 1948: - Includes monthly reports
- Reports of a visit to the British Zone, October 26-29, 1947
- Conference of Jewish chaplains in Munich, October 1, 1947
- Statistics of mashgikhim, menakrlm, mohilim, mikvot, khevrot kadisha, cantors, and religious teachers
Folder 244: Correspondence January 1947-December 1948: - Includes list of deceased Jewish patients in the Gauting sanatorium, February 20, 1947
- Report of the Vaad Hatzalah, June 15, 1946-June 15, 1947
- List of yeshivot
- Report of a trip to England by Alexander Piekarchik, May 1948
- List of 73 Lubavitch hasidim
- List of rabbis
Folder 245: Reports and memoranda July 1946-January 1947
Folder 246: Incoming correspondence 1948: - Folder of letters of thanks and receipts
Folder 247: Statistics about religious activity in the U.S. Zone of Germany 1948-1949
Folder 248: File of Rabbi Alexander S. Rosenberg 1946: - Includes incidents between Aguda group and American soldiers
- Meeting with General Clay about amnesty for Jewish DPs in jails
- Correspondence of Eugen L. Schmucker, an apostate clergyman in the Orthodox Church, who returned to the Jewish faith during the war
Folder 249: Reports of Rabbi Rosenberg about JDC religious activities in the U.S. Zone 1946: - Includes publications
- Religious education
- Passover
- Marriages
- Kashrut
- The fate of the Rothschild Library
Folder 250: Monthly and other reports of religious activity in the U.S. Zone 1948: - File of Rabbi Shlomo Shapiro
Folder 251: Correspondence of Rabbi Shlomo Shapiro 1948-1949: - Director of JDC religious activities in Germany and Austria
- With Solomon Tarshausky of the JDC in New York
Folder 252: Materials of the Munich office of the Jewish Agency (Sokhnut Hayehudit) 1948
Folder 253: Questionnaires of the religious section of JDC in the U.S. Zone September-October 1946: - Replies from all DP camps and centers with details as to kashrut, religious education, etc.
Folder 254: Questionnaires of the religious section of JDC in the U.S. Zone about talmudei torah, yeshivot and rabbis 1947
Folder 255: Correspondence, reports, lists and other JDC materials about yeshivot 1948
Folder 256: Materials on religious schools in the U.S. Zone 1947: - Includes statistics of 86 schools with 5350 students
- Plan for the rabbinical school in Krumbach
- Statistics of talmudei torah of Agudat Israel in 22 localities
- Statistics of hadarim in the Western military district
- List of children in the Beth Jacob school in Camp Wetzlar
- List of students in the Beth Joseph rabbinical seminary in Neu-Ulm
Folder 257: Correspondence and reports about the yeshiva in Leipheim 1947-1948: - Agreement between Agudas Harabonim and the religious section of the JDC
- Other materials
Folder 258: Purim and reports of Passover in the camps 1946
Folder 259: Distribution of matzos by the JDC in the U.S. Zone 1946-1947: - Memoranda and requisitions
Folder 260: Distribution of Passover wines 1946-1947
Folder 261: Correspondence and reports of the kosher kitchen at the Munich Jewish Committee 1946-1949
Folder 262: Distribution of slaughtering knives (khalafim) and the book Simla Khadasha 1947
Folder 263: Correspondence, accounts and other materials about mikvot in DP centers 1946-1947
Folder 264: Memoranda on provisioning of kashrut 1946-1947
Folder 265: Various materials about provisioning of kosher food undated
Folder 266: Materials of the Universal Association of Progressive Judaism 1947
Folder 267: Various materials about religious activity in the U.S. Zone 1946
Folder 268: Various materials about religious activity in the U.S. Zone 1946-1947: - Cemetery of concentration camp survivors in the district of Landsberg am Lech
- Second assembly of Agudat Harabonim, July 1947
- Reports of Rabbi Alexander Rosenberg
- List of DPs in the Kibbutz Hofetz Hayyim in Bad Reichenhall
Folder 269: Various materials about religious activity in the U.S. Zone 1946-1949: - Includes memorandum of W.R. Wallace about matzos for Passover
- Reports
- Project to carry out religious celebrations outside of the Landsberg camp
- Jewish children in Christian homes
Folder 270: Various materials about religious activity in the U.S. Zone 1948-1949: - Includes building of mikvot in Aschau and Eichstatt
- Correspondence from Wasseralfingen and other localities about divorce
- Correspondence with and about Rabbi Chone Person, director of religious activities in the 1st Western district

Subseries 3: Health Department 1945-1953

The files of the Health Department, which are the most substantial in the departmental series, contain material on medical relief in the U.S. Zone and other important materials on the physical conditions of the Holocaust survivors.

Folders: 94

Subsubseries A: General 1945-1949

This subsubseries consists of reports of the Conference of JDC Medical Directors in Europe, as well as other reports, correspondence, statistics, bulletins, and programs about medical supervision in the U.S. Zone, sanitary conditions, health reports, mass examinations, lists of Jewish invalids, and dental and psychiatric consultations.

Folders: 25

Folder 271: Report of the Conference of JDC Medical Directors in Europe (Country Medical Directors) May 14-18, 1947: - Paris
Folder 272: Report, statistics and correspondence about medical supervision 1945-1949: - Includes reports by Dr. Joseph M. Schwarz, October 25-December 22, 1945
- Dr. Paul Friedman's memorandum about the "project of mental hygiene," October 6, 1946
- Report of the Association of Jewish Physicians in the U.S. Zone, March 25, 1948
- Report for 1948
Folder 273: Materials about medical supervision in the U.S. Zone 1947-1949: - Includes circular of the JDC central bureau for mass examinations
- Conference of medical workers about the problem of mass examinations, Munich, September 10-11, 1948
- Statistical report of the medical section of the JDC-OSE-Central Committee for the year 1948
- Report of the western district, May 18, 1949
- Informational Bulletin Number 12, May 1949
Folder 274: JDC reports and other materials of nurse Rebecca Lyon in the U.S. Zone 1946-1947: - Reports on sanitary condition and medical relief in the camps and communities
- Statistical health reports
- Consultation of Jewish physicians
- Reports by Alycen R. Hiller
- Leaflets
Folder 275: Monthly reports of JDC medical supervisors in the U.S. Zone September 1947-December 1948: - Other materials
Folder 276: Various materials about medical supervision 1948: - Includes program of medical supervision in the summer camps
- Mass examinations
- Appeals and instructions on the prevention of diseases
- Medical supervision at the Regensburg committee
- Nos. 1-34, JDC-OSE-Central Committee Information Bulletin, July 1948
Folder 277: Information bulletin of the JDC-OSE-Central Committee 1949: - Incomplete
Folder 278: Medical report of the JDC-OSE-Central Committee 1948
Folder 279: Reports of the Medical Department of the Central Committee 1946-1949: - Includes monthly, annual and other periodic reports
- Rest home for employees of the Central Committee and local committees in Berchtesgaden
- Statistic of 978 invalids in 58 localities
- Central pharmacy in Munich
Folder 280: Correspondence with the health section of the Munich Jewish Committee October 1946-March 1948
Folder 281: Correspondence about the Munich polyclinic 1946-1949
Folder 282: JDC file On dental premises at the Munich Jewish Committee November 1946-June 1947
Folder 283: Correspondence with the pharmacy at the Central Committee in Munich May-December 1948
Folder 284: Correspondence with the pharmacy at the Munich Jewish Committee October 1946-November 1948
Folder 285: Monthly medical reports of the JDC in the Bamberg district October 1947-June 1949
Folder 286: Medical reports 1946-1949: - Of the camps Pocking, Kelbruck, Degendorf, rehabilitation center Bayerisch Germain and hospital Bogenhausen
Folder 287: Materials of the Association of Jewish Invalids in the U.S. Zone 1948-1949
Folder 288: Lists of Jewish invalids in the U.S. Zone 1948: - Mainly in connection with provisioning
Folder 289: Lists of Jewish invalids in the U.S. Zone 1948: - Mainly in connection with provisioning
Folder 290: Various materials about Jewish invalids July 1947: - Includes statistic of the U.S. and British Zones and Berlin
Folder 291: Correspondence about deaf-mutes 1947-1948: - Includes schools for deaf-mutes in Foehrenwald, Bad Reichenhall and Geretsried
Folder 292: Reports of the psychiatric consultant January-June 1946
Folder 293: Reports of the psychiatric consultant 1946: - Individual cases
Folder 294: Reports and other materials about dental supervision in the U.S. Zone 1947: - Includes statutes of the Association of Jewish Dentists
Folder 295: Minutes, reports, correspondence, and memoranda about summer camps undated

Subsubseries B: Gauting Sanatorium 1946-1953

This subsubseries is made up of reports, notices, minutes, and correspondence and other files on the Jewish patients in the Gauting Sanatorium, which was run by the IRO with JDC financial support.

Folders: 69

Folder 296: Daily reports May 2, 1952-December 31, 1953
Folder 297: Notices about elections to the Jewish Patients’ Committee January-February 1947
Folder 298: Elections to the Jewish Patients’ Committee March 1948
Folder 299: Elections to the Jewish Patients' Committee September 1952
Folder 300: Minutes of the Jewish Patients' Committee undated
Folder 301: Minutes of the Jewish Patients' Committee undated
Folder 302: Minutes of the Jewish Patients' Committee March-June 1946
Folder 303: Minutes, correspondence, notices and other materials of the Jewish Patients' Committee 1948-1949: - In connection with Keren Kayemet activities
Folder 304: Minutes and other materials of the Jewish Patients' Committee 1952
Folder 305: Daily statistical reports January-September 1947
Folder 306: Daily statistical reports July-December 1948
Folder 307: Daily statistical reports 1949
Folder 308: Daily statistical reports 1950
Folder 309: Daily statistical reports 1951
Folder 310: Correspondence of the Jewish Patients’ Committee undated: - In alphabetical order
Folder 311: Correspondence of the Jewish Patients’ Committee July-December 1947
Folder 312: Correspondence of the Jewish Patients’ Committee July-December 1947
Folder 313: Correspondence of the Jewish Patients’ Committee January-June 1947: - A-R
Folder 314: Correspondence of the Jewish Patients’ Committee July-December 1947: - A-R
- Minutes, notices, memoranda
Folder 315: Correspondence of the Jewish Patients’ Committee July-December 1947: - S-Z
Folder 316: Correspondence of the Jewish Patients’ Committee 1948: - In alphabetical order
Folder 317: Correspondence of the Jewish Patients’ Committee January-June 1948: - With the Central Committee in Munich
Folder 318: Correspondence of the Jewish Patients’ Committee July-December 1948: - A-L
Folder 319: Correspondence of the Jewish Patients’ Committee July-December 1948: - M-Z
Folder 320: Correspondence of the Jewish Patients’ Committee July-December 1948
Folder 321: Correspondence of the Jewish Patients’ Committee 1950
Folder 322: Correspondence of the Jewish Patients’ Committee 1950
Folder 323: Correspondence of the Jewish Patients’ Committee March 1950-September 1951
Folder 324: Correspondence of the Jewish Patients’ Committee 1951
Folder 325: Minutes and correspondence about court of honor, meetings with authorities 1947: - Other materials
Folder 326: Memoranda of the Jewish Patients' Committee July-December 1948
Folder 327: Memoranda of the Jewish Patients' Committee 1949
Folder 328: Reports and correspondence of the audit commission in the Gauting sanatorium March 1947-July 1949: - Other materials
Folder 329: Materials about provisioning of Jewish patients in Gauting April-December 1946
Folder 330: Materials about provisioning of Jewish patients in Gauting November 1947-December 1949
Folder 331: Materials about provisioning of Jewish patients in Gauting 1947
Folder 332: Materials about provisioning of Jewish patients in Gauting January-June 1948
Folder 333: Materials about provisioning of Jewish patients in Gauting July-December 1948
Folder 334: Materials about provisioning of Jewish patients in Gauting July-December 1948
Folder 335: Materials about provisioning of Jewish patients in Gauting September-December 1949
Folder 336: Materials about provisioning of Jewish patients in Gauting January-July 1949
Folder 337: Monthly provisioning reports and statistics of the Jewish Patients' Committee 1950
Folder 338: Monthly provisioning reports and statistics of the Jewish Patients' Committee 1951
Folder 339: Correspondence and memoranda 1946: - Chiefly about distribution of clothing among Jewish patients in Gauting
Folder 340: Lists of clothes distributed among Jewish patients in Gauting 1947-1948
Folder 341: Materials about distribution of clothing 1948: - Lists of clothes and other things left over by deceased
Folder 342: Lists of Jewish patients 1949
Folder 343: Individual questionnaire forms of Jewish patients in Gauting undated: - In alphabetical order
Folder 344: Lists of Jewish patients January-June 1947: - Especially children, youths and invalids
Folder 345: Lists of Jewish patients July-October 1947: - Especially children, youths and invalids
Folder 346: Lists of Jewish patients July-December 1948: - Especially children, youths and invalids
Folder 347: Lists of Jewish patients 1950-1952: - Especially children, youths and invalids
Folder 348: Lists of Jewish patients June 1951-September 1952: - Especially children, youths and invalids
Folder 349: Lists of Jewish patients February-September 1952: - Especially children, youths and invalids
Folder 350: Correspondence of the Jewish Patients' Committee 1947: - Especially about theater performance and concerts
Folder 351: Correspondence of the cultural office for Jewish patients in Gauting 1948: - Includes programs of theater performances and concerts
Folder 352: Materials about Bikur-kholim in Gauting 1947-1948: - Lists of relief rendered
Folder 353: Correspondence, accounts and other materials about Bikur-kholim in Gauting undated: - Includes reports of the sales of articles left over by the deceased patients
Folder 354: Requests to Bikur-kholim in Gauting about loans 1949: - Lists of relief rendered
Folder 355: Records of the Khevra kadisha of the Jewish Patients' Committee undated
Folder 356: Correspondence about the Jewish cemetery in Gauting 1947-1949
Folder 357: Death certificates for Jewish patients in Gauting 1947-1949
Folder 358: Letters and documents left over by deceased Jewish patients in Gauting undated
Folder 359: Package of New Year's cards undated: - Found among the effects of patients deceased in Gauting
Folder 360: Maps of the Jewish cemetery of the IRO sanatorium in Gauting undated
Folder 361: Various certificates issued by the Jewish Patients' Committee July-December 1948
Folder 362: Various certificates issued by the Jewish Patients' Committee 1948
Folder 363: Petitions by Jewish patients in Gauting January 1950: - To President Truman and others, about the closing of the sanatorium
Folder 364: Various materials of Jewish patients in Gauting 1948-1952: - Includes petition of 1952 to the Israeli government

Subseries 4: Welfare and Personal Service Department 1945-1949

The files of the Welfare Department and Personal Service Department include records on child care and tracing activities.

Folders: 9

Folder 365: Reports of the Welfare department 1949
Folder 366: Location service 1946-1949: - UNRRA, JDC materials on locating Displaced Persons
- Includes History of Central Location Index
Folder 367: Reports and correspondence of location service at the Central Committee 1946-1947
Folder 368: Reports and correspondence of location service at the Central Committee 1946-1947
Folder 369: Refugee lists of Central Tracing Bureau of UNRRA undated: - Incomplete
Folder 370: Various materials on child care 1945-1947: - Includes Tenth Report of the Swiss Relief Committee on Child Refugees
- Statistics of children in the Jewish camps and centers, November 1, 1946
- Report on the infiltration of Jewish children, November 4, 1946
- Reports of children’s centers in Dornstadt and Schonstein
- Minutes of a meeting of the Committee for Jewish Child Care, March 13, 1947
Folder 371: Various materials on child care May 1946-February 1947
Folder 372: Various materials on child care 1946-1947: - Includes report on UNRRA conference on child care in Austria, January 3-4, 1946
- Evacuation of a children’s center in Struth, January 20, 1947
- Statistics of 29,962 Jewish children in DP centers of the U.S. Zone and Berlin, January 1947
- Reports from Lindenfel and other children’s centers
Folder 373: Various materials on child care 1946-1947

Subseries 5: Emigration Department 1945-1951

These files consist of reports, memoranda, correspondence, and meeting minutes about emigration of DPs from the camps and centers, as well as the infiltration of DPs into the U.S. Zone. Many of these reports and bulletins are organized by JDC office, including the office in Bamberg, Bremen and Stuttgart.

Folders: 20

Folder 374: JDC reports on emigration May-December 1946
Folder 375: JDC reports on emigration 1947
Folder 376: JDC reports on emigration 1948
Folder 377: JDC reports on emigration 1949
Folder 378: Administrative memoranda of the JDC in the U.S. Zone about emigration 1946
Folder 379: JDC reports and memoranda from camp representatives 1945-1948
Folder 380: Correspondence, minutes, memoranda and other materials about emigration 1945-1949
Folder 381: JDC summary report on the infiltration of Jews to U.S. Zone 1946: - From June 1946 to November 15, 1946
Folder 382: Reports and correspondence about infiltrator DPs in camps 1948-1949: - Includes Camp Bundlach, Augsburg, infiltrees from Czechoslovakia in Regensburg, Fiding (near Reichenhall), infiltrators from Romania in Bayreuth, Leipheim, Binglok, Ansbach, Windheim, and Neu-Ulm
Folder 383: Monthly emigration reports of JDC office in Bamberg May-December 1948
Folder 384: Monthly emigration reports of JDC office in Bamberg October 1948-July 1949
Folder 385: Monthly report of JDC office in Bayreuth November 1947-September 1948
Folder 386: Monthly report of JDC office in Bremen January 1948-May 1948
Folder 387: Monthly report of JDC office in Stuttgart February 1948-April 1949
Folder 388: Monthly report of JDC office in Districts I, III and V of the U.S. Zone March-December 1947
Folder 389: Emigration bulletin of JDC in the U.S. Zone 1946-1948
Folder 390: Emigration bulletin of JDC in the U.S. Zone 1947-1948
Folder 391: Emigration bulletin of JDC in the U.S. Zone April 9-October 3, 1948: - Numbers 29-48
- Incomplete
Folder 392: Unzer Zeitung July 22-29, 1951: - Published by the DPs on their way to the USA on board the S.S. General R.M. Blatchford
- Numbers 1-6, 8
Folder 393: Ocean Stimme - "Langfitt" Daily News January 14-24, 1951: - Six issues of a hectographic bulletin issued by the DPs on the ship General W.C. Langfitt, on the way to the USA

Subseries 6: Education and Cultural Activities Department 1945-1949

The Cultural Activities and Education Department records include materials on Yiddish DP newspapers, schools, historical commissions, theater, films, sports, and other recreation in the camps and centers.

Folders: 54

Folder 394: Correspondence with the Association of Jewish Writers and Artists 1946-1947
Folder 395: Correspondence about Hemshekh 1948: - Publication of the Jewish writers in the U.S. Zone
Folder 396: Materials about newspapers 1946-1947: - Yiddish newspapers in the U.S. Zone
- Newspapers from abroad for the DPs
Folder 397: Materials on the preparation of a scrapbook for Hanuka 1946: - Correspondence between Menahem Steier and Dr. L. Schwarz of the JDC
Folder 398: JDC correspondence with the Munich regional committee October 1946-March 1947
Folder 399: JDC correspondence with the Bamberg regional committee 1948-1949
Folder 400: Miscellaneous correspondence and memoranda about cultural activities in the U.S. Zone 1946-1948
Folder 401: Reports and correspondence about cultural and educational matters 1946-1949: - Includes report about a meeting by the parents of students in the Hebrew school in Munich, January 13, 1947
- Statistics of pupils
- General directives for the educational work of the JDC in Germany and Austria, April 1946
- 219 pp.
Folder 402: Various materials about culture and education 1946-1948: - Includes agreement between ORT and Central Committee about vocational training in the U.S. Zone, October 24, 1946
- Report of the department for education and culture at the Central Committee, April 1947-March 1948
- Circular of UNRRA and the U.S. military command about newspapers and other publications of the DPs , September 9 and September 30, 1946
Folder 403: Various materials about culture and education 1947
Folder 404: Various materials about culture and education 1946-1947: - Includes book production
- Chart of vocational schools in the Munich region
- Schedule of lectures at the people’s university of the Munich committee
- Report of a visit to the public school in Camp Schliersee
- Meeting on education, Stuttgart, February 23-24, 1946
Folder 405: JDC correspondence about provisioning for cultural institutions 1946-1947
Folder 406: Financial materials of the JDC cultural office 1948
Folder 407: Minutes of General Directorate for Education and Culture in the U.S. Zone March 26, 1947-January 1948: - Incomplete
- Memoranda and reports
- The directorate was formed in February 1947 by the JDC, the Central Committee and the Jewish Agency
Folder 408: Report about the organization and activities of the cultural office of the Central Committee in Munich November 2, 1947
Folder 409: JDC report about cultural activities in the U.S. Zone December 26, 1945-January 5, 1946: - By M.J. Joslow
Folder 410: JDC reports and correspondence March-December 1946
Folder 411: Correspondence about cultural matters December 1946-October 1948: - Between JDC in the U.S. Zone and JDC New York
- Chiefly between S. Lewis Garber and Jacob Joslow
Folder 412: Correspondence about cultural matters October 1947-October 1948: - Between JDC in the U.S. Zone and JDC New York
- Chiefly between S. Lewis Garber and Jacob Joslow
Folder 413: Correspondence about cultural matters June-October 1948: - Of Juda J. Shapiro at JDC Paris with the JDC in Germany
Folder 414: Reports by Koppel Pinson about Jewish cultural treasures in Germany 1946: Report of June 13, 1946 about the role of the Jewish cultural treasures in the educational work of the JDC
- Reports about the confiscation of Jewish libraries
- Lists of art objects
- Photos of U.S. army depository in Offenbach
- Report of June 27, 1946 about Jewish cultural treasures in Schneitach, near Nuremberg
Folder 415: Monthly and other reports about cultural activities of JDC in the U.S. Zone 1946
Folder 416: Monthly and other reports about cultural activities of JDC in the U.S. Zone 1947
Folder 417: Monthly and other reports about cultural activities of JDC in the U.S. Zone 1947
Folder 418: Reports of the Central Historical Commission undated
Folder 419: Various materials about the historical commissions in the U.S. Zone undated
Folder 420: Personal questionnaires and I.D. cards of Jewish actors in the U.S. Zone undated: - With photos
Folder 421: Materials on tours in DP centers undated: - Tours by Leonard Bernstein, Niusia Gold, variety theater "Goldene Pave" (Golden Peacock), the painter Michael Aram Gottlieb, Lola Granetman, Dvora Lapson, H. Leivick, "Blue-White" Orchestra, "Blue Star” troop, Alexander Yardeni, Sidor Belarsky
Folder 422: Tour of the singer Sara Gorby 1948
Folder 423: Tour of Della Kova and Berk 1948
Folder 424: Tours of Herman Yablokoff and the dancer Paula Padani 1947-1948
Folder 425: Tours of Yehudit Maretzka, Elis Katchek and Celia Berlinska 1947-1949
Folder 426: Tours of Aaron Poliakov’s troupe "Di freylikhe khaliastre" (The Jolly Bunch) undated
Folder 427: Materials on theaters and concerts in the U.S. Zone undated: - Includes Leonard Bernstein, Abraham Feldman, Shoshana Damari, Israel Becker, Norbert Horowitz (Rosental) and Rita Karpinovitch, "Miniature" drama group in Feldafing, Variety theater "Goldene Pave," Herbert Scherzeri, Jewish representative orchestra, Jewish musical variety theater "MIKT," Jewish orchestra of former concentration camp inmates, Shaye Zwillich, "Munich New Jewish Stage," "Jewish Operetta Theater," Dagmara and Max Mixer, Rachel Relis and Feivel Shivak, Jacob Fisher, Moshe Schwimmer and Nathan Shapiro, Saul Hurok
Folder 428: Correspondence on film showings for Jewish DPs July 1946-November 1948
Folder 429: JDC Paris and JDC Munich 1948: - About films, books and other entertainment items in the U.S. Zone
- Includes statistics of 121,970 viewers at 294 film showings in September 1948
- Similar reports for other months
Folder 430: Various materials of the cultural office of JDC about the showing of films 1946-1948
Folder 431: Script and photos of the film "Long is the Road" undated
Folder 432: Screen play by Richard Schweizer about children 1947
Folder 433: Correspondence with the center for physical education 1946-1948
Folder 434: Association of Jewish Sport Clubs in the U.S. Zone 1946-1948: - Statutes, list of clubs, minutes of conferences and committee sessions, reports
Folder 435: Membership cards and questionnaires undated
Folder 436: Programs, instructions and other sport materials undated
Folder 437: Statutes and circulars of the referee panel December 1947-January 1949
Folder 438: Announcements of the academic Jewish sport club in Munich and other Jewish sport clubs 1947-1948
Folder 439: Correspondence of the academic Jewish sport club in Munich 1947-1948
Folder 440: Sixteen sport badges (insignia) of Jewish sport clubs in the U.S. Zone of Germany undated
Folder 441: Reports of the recreation consultant July 1946-June 1947
Folder 442: Correspondence of Special Services of JDC in the U.S. Zone of Germany August 1946: - Includes notices about JDC entertainments in Munich
Folder 443: Monthly reports by M.J. Joslow and later Dr. Philip Friedman, advisors on education May-December 1946: - Dr. Kopl Pinson’s report of Zeilsheim, November 1946
- Joslow’s report about educational activities in the district of the 3rd Army for the period of December 26, 1945 - May 5, 1946
Folder 444: Instructions, lists of teachers and other materials about the schools 1947: - Munich
Folder 445: Minutes, reports and other materials about the teachers’ seminary 1946
Folder 446: Minutes, reports and other materials about the teachers’ seminary 1948
Folder 447: Various materials about the school system 1946-1948

Subseries 7: Legal Department 1945-1954

The records of the Legal Department include correspondence and reports pertaining to German-Jewish relations and restitution, as well as other legal questions facing the DPs, including property transfers and ongoing antisemitic incidents.

Folders: 22

Folder 448: The Legal Status of Refugees in Post-War Germany, 1945-1954 c.1954: - By Leo W. Schwarz
- Draft, 157 pp.
Folder 449: Various materials of the legal department March 1946-May 1947: - Includes Stuttgart incidents of March 29, 1946
- JDC memorandum about legal status of DPs, September 23, 1946
- Philipp Auerbach's memorandum about the former victims of racial, religious and political persecutions, May 3, 1947
- Memorandum of Rabbi Rosenberg about arrests of DPs, March 1946
- Sworn affidavits and other materials regarding Nazi war criminals Josef Tobbens, Jonas Poderys of the S.S. in Kovno, Dovgolevski (Tafka) condemned to death in 1951 by the Soviet authorities
- Incidents in Gerlos and Gnadenwald in the French Zone of Austria, May 1947
- German anti-Jewish leaflets printed in Sweden
- Anti-Jewish poster in Bavaria
Folder 450: Various materials of the legal department February-August 1946: - Includes reports of the JDC legal relief office
- Transfer of property of emigrants to the USA
- Incidents between Jewish DPs and American soldiers
Folder 451: Various materials of the legal department 1946-1948: - Includes legal relief by UNRRA
- Report about the legal status of Jewish DPs, September 23, 1946
- Legal relief work of the JDC
Folder 452: Monthly reports of the legal department June-August 1947
Folder 453: Monthly reports of the legal department April-December 1948
Folder 454: Periodical reports of the JDC legal office in the Bamberg district October 1947-June 1949
Folder 455: Correspondence and reports of the legal department of the Central Committee in Munich 1946-1947
Folder 456: Materials about German-Jewish relations 1945-1946: - Includes incidents of discrimination by the German Housing Bureau in Munich against Jews
Folder 457: Materials about antisemitism in the U.S. Zone June-November 1947: - Includes anti-Jewish remarks by Capt. Hopkins of the military court in connection with an incident in the Ludendorff Barracks, Neu-Ulm
Folder 458: Materials about antisemitism in the U.S. Zone undated: - Includes report "Antisemitism in the U.S. Zone of Germany," by Henry Lilienheim
Folder 459: Reports, leaflets, photographs and newspaper clippings about a demonstration of Jewish DPs against Nazi tendencies of the Suddeutsche Zeitung in Munich August 10, 1949
Folder 460: Materials on incidents between Jewish DPs and Germans 1945-1946: - Includes incidents in the Lampertheim camps, February 6-12, 1945 and Landsberg, 1946
- Case in Landsberg of American soldiers who beat up DPs, 1946
Folder 461: Transcript of proceedings, Mindelheim Riot Case May 27-30, 1946: - Stenographic report of the proceedings in connection with incidents between Germans and Jews in Oberammingen
Folder 462: Attacks by Arabs on Jewish DPs December 1947: - Neu-Ulm incidents
Folder 463: Correspondence with Dr. Philipp Auerbach, state commissioner for victims of racial, religious and political persecutions September 1946-September 1947
Folder 464: Conference of the State Commissariat for Victims of Racial, Religious and Political Persecutions in the American, British and French Zones December 7, 1946
Folder 465: Report of activities of the State Commissariat in Bavaria 1946-1948: - Typescript, 94 pp. with photos of persons, institutions and reproductions of documents
- Organizational plan of the Commissariat
Folder 466: Lists of businessmen registered with the State Commissariat 1948-1949
Folder 467: Various materials about compensation on payments to victims of Nazism 1945-1949
Folder 468: Materials of the U.S. military authorities in Germany regarding indemnification undated
Folder 469: Report Number 2 of the Jewish Restitution Successor Organizations on the Restitution of Jewish Property in the U.S. Zone of Germany 1947-1949: - Nuremberg, February 1, 1949
- Other materials about indemnification

Subseries 8: Supply Department 1945-1949

This subseries consists of minutes, bulletins, circulars, correspondence, and reports about merit rationing and provisioning.

Folders: 6

Folder 470: Folder number not used
Folder 471: Minutes, bulletins, circulars and correspondence, commission for merit rationing of the Central Committee undated
Folder 472: Minutes, bulletins, circulars and correspondence, commission for merit rationing of the Central Committee January 10, 1948-February 8, 1949: - Minutes
- Texts in Yiddish with Latin script and English translation, with an index to the minutes prepared by the JDC
Folder 473: Minutes, bulletins, circulars and correspondence, commission for merit rationing of the Central Committee January 10, 1948-February 8, 1949: - Minutes
- Mainly English translations
Folder 474: Minutes, bulletins, circulars and correspondence, commission for merit rationing of the Central Committee January 10, 1948-February 8, 1949: - Minutes
Folder 475: Reports and correspondence about provisioning 1945-1948
Folder 476: Accounts of JDC provisioning warehouse in Regensburg 1947

Subseries 9: Public Relations Department 1946-1949

This is a subseries of reports and publications of the Public Relations Department of the JDC, as well as press reports of the Central Committee’s Public Relations Department.

Folders: 10

Folder 477: Joint News and other publications of the public relations office 1947
Folder 478: Reports and publications of the public relations office 1948
Folder 479: Reports and publications of the public relations office 1949
Folder 480: Periodical reports of the Central Committee in Munich and its departments October 1946-April 1947
Folder 481: Information bulletin of the Central Committee public relations department September 17-December 31, 1947
Folder 482: Information bulletin of the Central Committee public relations department May-September 1947, January-March 1948
Folder 483: Daily press reports of the Central Committee public relations department April 7-September 17, 1946
Folder 484: Daily press reports of the Central Committee public relations department September 23, 1946-February 20, 1947
Folder 485: Daily bulletin of the radio service at the Central Committee public relations department April 6-September 22, 1946
Folder 486: Daily bulletin of the radio service at the Central Committee public relations department September 23, 1946-February 18, 1947

Subseries 10: Personnel and Finance Office 1945-1948

The materials in this subseries consist of financial reports, memoranda, correspondence, and other materials about JDC employees.

Folders: 6

Folder 487: Financial report of JDC activities in Germany July 1945-April 1946
Folder 488: Memoranda to the JDC field representatives October 18, 1945-February 21, 1946
Folder 489: Directives to the JDC personnel 1947
Folder 490: Correspondence, memoranda and other materials about JDC employees 1946-1948
Folder 491: Correspondence, memoranda and other materials about JDC employees 1946-1947
Folder 492: Correspondence, memoranda and other materials about JDC employees 1947

Series IV: British Zone, French Zone, Berlin District 1945-1949

Series IV relates to the Jewish DPs in the British and French Zones of Germany and in Berlin, including reports on conditions, relief activities, demographics, and correspondence of various JDC regional bureaus. The JDC maintained separate offices in the British and French Zones, while the Berlin office was subordinate to the U.S. Zone headquarters.

Folders: 39

Subseries 1: British Zone 1945-1949

These materials consist of statistical and other reports, lists, minutes, and correspondence about activities and conditions in the British Zone. Camps and centers represented include Hamburg, Hannover, Cologne, Dortmund, Lubeck, Kiel, Dusseldorf, and Bergen-Belsen.

Folders: 21

Folder 493: Statistical reports of the JDC about the Jewish population in the British Zone of Germany October 1945-March 1948
Folder 494: Report of communities 1949: - Includes Hamburg, Hannover, Cologne, Dortmund, Lubeck, Kiel, Dusseldorf
Folder 495: Reports, lists and other materials of Bergen-Belsen 1945-1949
Folder 496: Reports of Harry Witeles about the conditions in the British Zone of Germany March 1946: - Includes minutes of the investigating commission
Folder 497: JDC correspondence and reports December 1945-September 1947: - Includes general report by Harry Witeles, April 2, 1946
- D.B. Wadlinger’s report of May 2, 1946
- Shlomo Michael Gelbart’s report about Bergen-Belsen, June 28, 1946
- JDC reports, December 8, 1945-September 20, 1946 and January 1-June 30, 1947
Folder 498: Correspondence of the recreation consultant of JDC about the British Zone 1946-1948
Folder 499: Materials of the Association of Jewish Students in the British Zone of Germany 1947
Folder 500: Various materials of the British Zone of Germany 1945-1949: - Includes raid in Bergen-Belsen on February 17, 1948
- Performance by the theater studio of Bergen-Belsen in Belgium, 1947
- Article in a British medical journal about Bergen-Belsen, June 9, 1945
- Children’s emigration to England
- Reports about the Hamburg community, September 18, 1945 and January 9, 1946
- Bergen-Belsen statistics, June 1945
- List of camps, communities and centers in the British Zone, September 1949
- Report of the British Zone, June 28, 1946
Folder 501: Correspondence of the JDC directors June-July 15, 1947
Folder 502: Correspondence of the JDC directors July 16-August 1947
Folder 503: Correspondence of the JDC directors September-October 1947
Folder 504: Correspondence of the JDC directors November-December 1947
Folder 505: Correspondence of the JDC directors January-February 1948
Folder 506: Correspondence of the JDC directors March-April 1948
Folder 507: Correspondence of the JDC directors May-June 1948
Folder 508: Correspondence of the JDC directors July-August 1948
Folder 509: Correspondence of the JDC directors September-October 1948
Folder 510: Correspondence of the JDC directors November-December 1948
Folder 511: Monthly Statistical Report on Refugees in the British Zone of Germany January 15, 1947-May 17, 1949: - Published by the IRO Office of Statistics and Operational Records
- Monthly DP Refugee Situation Report and other statistical reports
Folder 512: Minutes of the sessions of Voluntary Societies Advisory February 19, 1946-November 9, 1948: - Held in Lemgo, British Zone of Germany
- Samuel Dallob
Folder 513: Monthly reports on the work of voluntary agencies in the British Zone December 1946-June 1949: - Minutes and reports of several organizations, among them the "JOINT Relief Unit"

Subseries 2: French Zone 1946-1949

These folders contain statistics, reports and correspondence concerning questions of rationing, antisemitic incidents, legal questions, and conditions in the French Zone.

Folders: 2

Folder 514: Reports and correspondence of the French Zone 1946-1949: - Includes statistics of women and children according to origin and age, January 1946
- Reports and statistics of the French Zone, November 19, 1946, April 28, 1947, September 1949
- Categories of rations
- Incidents in Gerlos and Gnadenwald, May 1947
- Law about indemnification in the French Zone, 1949
Folder 515: JDC report about the conditions of Jews in the French Zone of Germany April 28, 1948

Subseries 3: Berlin District 1945-1949

This is a subseries of reports by JDC staff in Berlin and elsewhere, materials relating to the Berlin Jewish community, emigration reports, meeting minutes, correspondence, including correspondence between the JDC in Berlin and the JDC in the U.S. Zone, in Munich, Paris, and New York, and other materials related to the conditions of Jewish DPs in Berlin.

Folders: 16

Folder 516: Reports and correspondence of Berlin 1945-1949: - Includes report of the Berlin Jewish community to the JDC, July 23, 1945
- Report by Dr. Kurt Redlauer, director of Evangelical relief bureau, about Jews in Berlin, September 17, 1945
- Reports of Philip Skarnek, JDC director in Berlin and by other JDC representatives
- Interview and correspondence with U.S. Brigadier General S.R. Mikelson of the DP section, December 1945
- Internal conflicts in the Berlin Jewish community, September 21, 1948
Folder 517: Reports and correspondence of Berlin November 20, 1945-February 12, 1946
Folder 518: Reports and correspondence of Berlin March-July 1946
Folder 519: Reports and correspondence of Berlin January-March 1947
Folder 520: Reports and correspondence of Berlin April-June 1947
Folder 521: Reports and correspondence of Berlin September-December 1947
Folder 522: Reports and correspondence of Berlin March-May 1948
Folder 523: Reports and correspondence of Berlin 1948
Folder 524: Quarterly reports of the JDC in Berlin January-March 1947
Folder 525: Quarterly reports of the JDC in Berlin April-June 1947
Folder 526: Reports on emigration November 1946-August 1947
Folder 527: Various reports 1947
Folder 528: Memoranda, correspondence between the Central Committee of Survivors in Berlin and the JDC representative 1947: - Minutes of joint consultations
Folder 529: Correspondence of JDC in the U.S. Zone with JDC in Berlin about student matters 1947
Folder 530: Correspondence between JDC offices in Berlin, Munich, Paris and New York undated: - About public relations
Folder 531: Correspondence of JDC in Berlin with JDC Paris and New York and with Jewish organizations in London 1946-1947: - About a tracing center
- 58 pp.

Series V: Memoirs and Testimonies on the Holocaust 1942-1953

Series V includes manuscripts of memoirs by survivors and eyewitness testimonies of the Holocaust collected in the DP camps, as well as folklore and satire about the life of Jewish displaced persons, the manuscript of Schwarz's The Redeemers , and Schwarz’s inventory of folders in his archive.

Folders: 21

Folder 532: Photographs and description of the burial of the remains of Jewish concentration camp victims murdered on the way from Theresienstadt to Buchenwald September 12, 1946
Folder 533: German Government and Administration. An Historical-Political Introduction January 31, 1947: - By Werner Peiser
- 175 pp.
Folder 534: Military Tribunal. The Practice of Medicine, Surgery and Related Professional Fields in German December 7, 1946: - By Werner Peiser
- 115 pp.
Folder 535: Texts of talks about Jews on the Frankfurt and Munich radio stations "Radiofunk" 1945-1948: - Includes report by Max Bachmann, of the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior, and Ernest Landau, of the news agency DENA, about the condition of the Jews of Germany, April 1947
- "The Miracle of Water," a chapter of the book by E. Landau on S.S. terror, June 10, 1945
- Incomplete
Folder 536: Folklore and satire about the life of Jewish DPs undated: - Collected by L. Schwarz
Folder 537: Invitations and information about various entertainments in the U.S. Zone of Germany 1948
Folder 538: Typed copy with written corrections of Leo Schwarz’s book 1953: - New York
Folder 539: Various notes, translations from Yiddish newspapers and other materials used by L. Schwarz in his book undated
Folder 540: English translations of the pamphlet "Parshat Exodus" 1947: - Published by the Hagana in "Galut Europa“
- Munich, 134 pp.
- Copy of the pamphlet
Folder 541: Memoirs and testimonies about the war years undated: - Testimonies of Sara Kraviets about 45 children killed in Kielce
- Mark Azef of Zapozne, Ukraine
- Yitzhak Diamant of Suvarov, Ukraine
- Frank Vilerova of the Tarnopol ghetto
- "From Kovno to Munich," by Jacob Levin
- Heinz Sprung about the camp Sachsenhausen
- Janina Heshles, Lvov, Krakow
Folder 542: Memoirs and testimonies about the war years undated: - Includes "Cold Winds of Estland," by Yitzhak Nementchik, Kovno
- "Death Brigade," by Leon Velitchker
- Yitzhak Blumenfeld about the Warsaw Ghetto
- "Justina's Diary," by Gusta Drenger
- "My Eyes Have Seen," by Henry Lilienheim
- "My Work in YIVO Under the Germans," by Rachel Pupko-Krinski
- Vera Walder about Birkenau
- Freddie Kantor about Theresienstadt
Folder 543: Memoirs and testimonies about the war years undated: - Includes Zdzislaw Lukaszewicz about Treblinka
- "Modern Middle Ages": experiences of Zdenka Pantlova of Rokitchany (live films)
Folder 544: Memoirs and testimonies about the war years undated: - Includes "From the Diary of a Partisan"
- "My First Encounter with Pavlo Ivanovitch" (author unknown)
- A testimony of a German Jew from the Lodz ghetto
- Memoirs of the years 1939-1945, by Sh. Kagan of Kamen Koshirski, Volynia, 86 pp., photostat copy
- Ernest Landau about saved children in Belgium, and about relief by American Jewish soldiers in Germany
Folder 545: Memoirs and testimonies about the war years undated: - Includes Dr. Otto Schutz about Ravensbruck
- Testimony about Hungary, author unknown
Folder 546: Memoirs and testimonies about the war years 1942-1943: - Includes "My Experiences," by Anna Mendel Seifert, 224 pp., photo copy
- A diary
Folder 547: Memoirs and testimonies about the war years undated: - Includes "I Go About on One Foot: My Experiences of the 19th February 1943," by Rakhmiel Korb, camp Waldstadt near Pocking
- Description of events in Lithuanian towns
Folder 548: Testimonies, reports and other materials of the Association of Shavler Jews undated
Folder 549: Memoirs and testimonies about the war years undated: - Includes Professor S. Heller about medical investigations in ghettos and camps
- Also about deportation of Jews, chiefly from Hungary
Folder 550: Memoirs and testimonies about the war years 1949: - Includes Roman Grunspan, Cyankali. Experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, 94 pp., published in Schwabach, typed copy
Folder 551: Schwarz's Curriculum vitae 1945-1946
Folder 552: L. Schwarz’s list of folders in his archive undated: - 200 cards
- List is not complete
- Also includes periodicals