1930s-1959 Philip Friedman
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The collection relates primarily to Friedman's post-war research on the history of the Holocaust as well as to his administrative activities in various organizations. The bulk of the collection consists of second-hand sources collected by Friedman. Correspondents include: H. G. Adler, Hannah Arendt, Rachel Auerbach, Salo Baron, Ben Zion Dinur, Nathan Menachem Gelber, Rudolf Glanz, Jacob Glatstein, Israel Halpern, Arthur Herzberg, Raul Hilberg, Joseph Kermish, Israel Klausner, A. M. Klein, Leibush Lehrer, H. Leivick, Jacob Lestschinsky, Raphael Mahler, Nahum Baruch Minkoff, Shmuel Niger, Joseph Opatoshu, Koppel Pinson, Leon Poliakov, Gerald Reitlinger, A.A. Roback, Isaac Schwarzbart, Hillel Seidman, Genia Silkes, Anna Simaite, Isaac Nachman Steinberg, Michael Weichert, Mark Wischnitzer. Materials on the Holocaust are primarily arranged by ghetto or concentration camp. Included are: eyewitness accounts collected by the Central Jewish Historical Commission in Poland; depositions relating to the trial of Michael Weichert; materials on Nazi war criminals. Papers relating to Friedman's organizational activities include: records of the Historian's Circle of the YIVO Institute; records of the YIVO-Yad Vashem joint projects; records of the Central Jewish Historical Commission in Poland. The collection also includes Friedman's personal papers and a bibliography of his writings. ; Inventory: English, 117 pp., ms. ; Jewish historian. Earned his doctoral degree at the University of Vienna in 1925. His dissertation was entitled "The Jews of Galicia in their Struggle for Political Emancipation." In the inter-war period Friedman published studies on the Jews of Galicia and Lodz. Lecturer at the Institute of Judaic Studies in Warsaw. After World War II Friedman collected documentation on the Holocaust and wrote extensively on the subject. First director of the Central Jewish Historical Commission in Poland in the post-war period. Consultant to the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal. Lecturer at Columbia University. Director of YIVO- YAD Vashem bibliographical series on the Holocaust. Born in Lwow, Poland. After the war settled in the United States.
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1930s-1959 Philip Friedman
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Friedman, Philip,1901-1960. |
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