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Archives of the Displaced Persons Camps in Germany - She'erit Ha-Pletah - Archive file published by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York, documenting the collection ”Archives of the Displaced Persons Camps in Germany” (Yiddish title: ”Arkhiv fun di She'erit Ha-Pletah-Lagern in Daytshland”), cataloged as Record Group No. 294.2. Former library copy. Dozens of typed catalog pages constitute a comprehensive and exceptionally important documentary record of the reconstruction of the public, educational, and cultural life of the She'erit Ha-Pletah in Germany (primarily within the American Occupation Zone) between 1945 and 1952. The catalog reveals the organizational and communal structure of the survivor community through a series of thematic sections. The section devoted to cultural and educational activities documents reports on children's programs, the activities of the Association of Jewish Writers and Artists, the publication of Yiddish newspapers, holiday initiatives such as the preparation of a Hanukkah album, as well as the administration of schools and teachers' seminaries in cities including Kassel and Munich, alongside vocational training programs operated by the ORT network and the UNRRA. A substantial portion of the catalog is devoted to Jewish student organizations, presenting extensive correspondence and minutes of the Association of Jewish Students in the American Zone, with branches at universities and academic centers throughout Germany, including Darmstadt, Heidelberg, Erlangen, Frankfurt, Marburg, Regensburg, and Munich. In addition, the catalog contains valuable administrative and demographic documentation relating to the official representative bodies, foremost among them the minutes of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Munich, correspondence and reports of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) concerning immigration offices, statistical data and detailed demographic studies on the composition of the survivor population in various Displaced Persons camps (including Föhrenwald and Leipheim), together with unique items such as New Year's greeting cards and reports produced by the early historical commissions that had already begun collecting firsthand testimonies and documents for the study of the Holocaust. 121 [1] pages. Good condition.