Further in
Collect and Record!, Laura Jockusch points out that the
methodological guides/questionnaires developed by the Central Jewish Historical Commission were also used in the Displaced Persons camps.
Some members of the Polish CZKH joined the Munich Central Historical Commission:
- Moshe Feigenbaum (briefly worked)
- Shmuel Glube (briefly worked)
- Menachem Marek Asz (took Treblinka eyewitness testimony)
- Betti Ajzenstajn (edited volume of sources on Jewish resistance)
- Leon Weliczker (published a Janowska/Aktion 1005 memoir that was "developed/prepared" by Rachel Auerbach)
According to Jockusch, the Munich Commission had nine questionnaires, of which three were based on the Polish methodological instructions.
One difference is that the Munich questionnaires were to be filled out by the survivor or commission member. In Poland, they were guidelines for use during interviews.
So instances of "witness coaching" should be less prevalent in the DP accounts than those produced in Poland.
Thousands of the Munich DP camp documents are in Yad Vashem's documents collection under "M.1 - Documentation of the Central Historical Commission (CHC) of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Occupied Zone, Munich." The questionnaires aren't digitized, but a few testimonies are.