Caroline Ferriday collection

Caroline Wolsey Ferriday was an executive with"L'Association Nationale des Anciennes Déportées et Internées de la Résistance" (ADIR), headquartered in Paris, France. Many Polish survivors of the Nazi medical experiments at Ravensbrück received monetary compensation from the German government as the result of Ferriday's efforts to obtain restitution for the so called "lapins." Ms. Ferriday also encouraged friends in the British medical establishment to bring pressure to bear on German medical authorities for the revocation of Dr. Herta Oberheuser's license to practice. Oberheuser was a physician at Ravensbrück and was responsible for many of the experiments on the"lapins." Oberheuser resumed her medical practice as a pediatrician after her release from prison for crimes against humanity. Her medical license was revoked in 1960.

The collection was assembled by Caroline Wolsey Ferriday and donated to the National Archives and Records Administration in 1983. The National Archives gifted the collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994.