Events and documents of year 1957

Correspondence between Simon Wiesenthal and Zachariah Shuster from the American Jewish Committee (Paris, France), concerning the situation of refugees from Hungary in the Austrian the refugee camps, incl. anti-Semitic incidents, such as in Camp Roeder (Salzburg, Austria), from 7 January, 1957 to 2 February, 1957

Letter from Simon Wiesenthal to Franz Cyrus from the United Press (Vienna, Austria) concerning the anti-Western and anti-Jewish Hungarian language newspaper, entitled “Út és Cél”, published in the Hungarian refugee camps in Austria, from 20 May, 1957 to 30 August, 1957

Letter from Simon Wiesenthal to Isidor D. Evian, attorney-at-law (Düsseldorf, FRG), stating that after a conversation with the German Consulate more people might contact him with a request to process their applications for restitution, dated 16 September, 1957

Letter from Simon Wiesenthal to Yad Vashem (Jerusalem, Israel), on the postal system in the ghettos, and his proposal to build up collections in Yad Vashem in this regard, dated 10 October, 1957