Gaynor I. Jacobson collection Tad Szulc papers
Extent and Medium
38 linear in.,
52 microfiche,
Creator(s)
- Tad Szulc
Biographical History
Tad Szulc (1926-2001), a former correspondent for the New York Times, was born Tadeusz Szulc in Warsaw. He moved to Brazil in 1940 and immigrated to the United States in 1949. His book, The Secret Alliance: The Extraordinary Story of the Rescue of the Jews Since World War II, describes the clandestine postwar migration of Holocaust survivors to British Mandatory Palestine.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Tad Szulc
Tad Szulc collected the materials while conducting research for various books (among them "Rescue!") and articles relating to the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS). The transcripts for taped interviews, which make up the bulk of the collection, were created from 1988 to 1989. Szulc donated the collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in July 1991, stipulating that it should be named the "Gaynor I. Jacobson" collection.
Scope and Content
Contains transcripts of oral history interviews, correspondence, reports, and photographs compiled by Tad Szulc while conducting research on the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Among the materials is information concerning Jewish emigration, displaced persons, Holocaust survivors, and Jews in predominantly Arab countries during the 1960s through the 1990s. Also includes the research notes used by Tad Szulc while writing "Rescue."
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
People
- Jacobson, Gaynor I.
- Szulc, Tad.
Corporate Bodies
- Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jews--Europe.
- Holocaust survivors--Interviews.
- Israel--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Jews--Israel.
- Jews--Migrations.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document