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Title
Fun letstn khurbn [From the Last Extermination]: Journal for the history of the Jewish people during the Nazi regime. Munich [Germany]: 1946-1948.
Abstract
"In December 1945 the "Central Committee for the Liberated Jews in Germany" (Tsentral komitet fun di bafrayte Yidn in der Amerikaner Zone) set up the Munich-based "Central Historical Commission" (Tsentral historishe komisye). Israel Kaplan, a teacher from Kovno, and Moshe Figenboim, an accountant, were appointed to head the Commission. Through their leadership (and much prodding), the Commission’s pool of employees and paid and unpaid volunteers collected 2,500 testimonies as well as 8,000 questionnaires filled out mainly in Yiddish, but also in Hebrew, Polish, Hungarian, and German ... With Hebrew-alphabet print sets and a printing machine, the Commission began publishing in 1946 a Yiddish-language journal entitled Fun letstn khurbn (From the Last Destruction). The journal’s primary purpose was to support documentation efforts by encouraging DPs to give testimony. ... The child survivors and their stories held a strong fascination with Kaplan, whose own child survived the Holocaust in hiding and on the run. Under Kaplan’s guidance, the Historical Commission started a collection campaign in late 1946. Like the Historical Commission in Poland, the Munich commission developed special questionnaires and opened an essay contest for children writing about their Holocaust experiences. Hundreds of testimonies were collected from child survivors by the staff of the Central Historical Commission during its more than three years of existence ... For Kaplan, who was also the editor-in-chief of Fun letstn khurbn, children were a distinct group whose voice the world needed to hear. Starting with the second issue, Kaplan published a child’s testimony in each issue of Fun letstn khurbn. A total of eight testimonies were selected for publication between 1946 and 1948 ... The Commission was disbanded in 1948, and the materials it had gathered were transferred eventually to Yad Vashem."--Boaz Coen
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