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Title: |
American Jewish Committee Holocaust Project Records |
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Repository: |
Western Reserve Historical Society
Phone: 216-721-5722 http://www.wrhs.org |
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Creator: |
American Jewish Committee Holocaust Project |
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Dates: |
1973-1975 |
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Quantity: |
1.20 linear feet (2 containers) |
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Abstract: |
The American Jewish Committee Holocaust Project was designed to interview Holocaust survivors and their families with emphasis on their adjustment here. Twenty-three Northeast Ohio survivors were interviewed as part of the national project. These interviews were conducted by Judah Rubinstein and Bea Stadtler. Copies of all transcripts are stored at the William E. Wiener Oral History Library of the American Jewish Committee in New York. Excerpts of the interviews were published in the book, Voices from the Holocaust, edited by Sylvia Rothchild and published in 1981. The collection consists of transcripts of interviews with twenty-three Holocaust survivors residing in Northeast Ohio. The collection also includes adminstrative materials such as guidelines for interviewers, background information about potential interviewees, and correspondence with interviewees. |
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Identification: |
MS 4582 |
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Location: |
closed stacks |
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Language: |
The records are in English |
The American Jewish Committee Holocaust Project was funded by a 1973 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to the American Jewish Committee (f. 1906) which seeks to protect the civil and religious rights of Jews in America and abroad and to advance improved human relations of all people. The full name of this project was "Study in American Pluralism Through Oral Histories of Holocaust Survivors."
The project's organizers stated their goals as follows: "we are seeking the European and American histories of these survivors, with particular emphasis on their American experience and the effects of the Holocaust upon their adjustment here." Approximately 250 survivors of the Nazi Holocaust and members of their families, from all over the United States, were interviewed in this two-year project. Northeast Ohio survivors were interviewed by Judah Rubinstein, director of research of The Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, and Bea Stadtler, a Cleveland area Holocaust educator and author. Copies of all transcripts are stored at the William E. Wiener Oral History Library of the American Jewish Committee in New York City. Excerpts from interview transcripts were published in Voices from the Holocaust, which was edited by Sylvia Rothchild and includes a foreword by Elie Wiesel (New York and Scarborough, Ontario: New American Library, 1981).
The American Jewish Committee Holocaust Project Records (1973-1975), consists principally of transcripts of interviews with twenty-three Holocaust survivors residing in Northeastern Ohio. The collection also includes administrative materials such as guidelines for interviewers, background information about potential interviewees, and correspondence with interviewees.
This collection is of value to researchers interested in American immigration history and American Jewish history and, more specifically, in the history of American Jewish Holocaust survivors residing in Cleveland and northeast Ohio.
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 4582 American Jewish Committee Holocaust Project Records, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Jewish Community Federation, 1985.
Processed by Nancy F. Schwartz in 1992.