Fela and Chaim Perelman collection
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2006 by Dr. Noémi Perelman Mattis.
Scope and Content
The collections consists of medals, correspondence, documents, memoirs, newspaper clippings, publications, and videocassettes relating to the experiences of Drs. Fela and Chaim Perelman, before, during, and after the war in Belgium where they were active in the Jewish underground and then in the care of refugees and postwar emigration to Palestine, and later ardent supporters of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The collection also includes oral history interviews with Fela Perelman, which were conducted by Jean-Philippe Schreiber between 1984 and 1989.
Genre
- Collection