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scope and content: The Samuel Zisman papers consist of biographical materials, team records, drawings and maps, memoranda and reports, personal correspondence, photographs, and printed materials documenting Samuel Zisman’s service as United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) director of District 5 in Bavaria from 1945-1947 and the administration of displaced persons camps in that district. Biographical materials consist of Samuel Zisman’s international certificate of inoculation and vaccination, chest x-ray, and permit to cross the Soviet zone of occupation as well as Paul Spreiregen’s career chronology and biographical sketch of Zisman and provenance statement about the custodial history of the Zisman papers. UNRRA team records include memoranda, notes, and reports documenting UNRRA’s efforts to secure adequate facilities and supplies for displaced persons; team organization and staff responsibilities; notable events and crises within the camps; relationships among groups of displaced persons, UNRRA personnel, the local German population, and the military government; camp conditions; health, nutrition, and sanitation; and repatriation. Many files also include organizational charts, drawings, and maps. A few files also include photographs. Drawings and maps consist of renderings of barracks and an UNRRA reception center; maps of District 5 zones, requisitioned housing in Munich, and the area of Traunstein/Laufen/Berchtesgaden; and illustrated Christmas greetings to Zisman from UNRRA personnel. Memoranda and reports document communications among UNRRA offices, the American Joint Distribution Committee, Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Occupied Zone in Germany, International Relief Organization, Jewish Council, and U.S. Army offices on topics such as displaced persons, “Jewish infiltrees” (non-German Jews smuggled into the American occupation zone of Germany), statistical information about Jewish populations in the American zone, and problems of …
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record resource structure: The Samuel Zisman papers are arranged as seven series: I. Biographical materials, 1944-1947, 1996, II. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration team records, approximately 1945-1947, III. Drawings and maps, approximately 1945-1946, IV. Memoranda and reports, 1945-1947, V. Personal correspondence, 1944-1954, VI. Photographic materials, approximately 1945-1949, VII. Printed materials, 1945-1949
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biographical history: Samuel B. Zisman was born in 1908 in Boston, Massachusetts and served as director of the Bavarian District (District 5) of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration from August 1945 to July 1947. After his service in Europe, he worked as a city planner and as a planning consultant and architect until his death in 1970 in San Antonio, Texas.
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archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
record resource extent: boxes oversize folders 7 4
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1944-01-01
title: Samuel Zisman papers
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1996-12-31