Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna-Komisja Koordynacyjna

  • Jewish Social Self-Help-Coordinating Commission
  • ŻSS-KK
Identifier
320
Type of Entity
Corporate Body

History

The Żydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna-Komisja Koordynacyjna was renamed the Żydowskie Towarzystwo Opieki Społecznej (Jewish Social Welfare Association) in 1940-10 and Żydowska Opieka Społeczna in 1941-11. This organization had a modest and ever more greatly reduced agenda (assistance for the hungry, care of deportees), but in reality it was one of the most important centers of community life in the ghetto. It also retained coordinating functions in relation to other welfare associations and supervision of the house committees and refugee centers.

Places

  • Founded in Poland.

Sources

  • The Warsaw ghetto : a guide to the perished city / B. Engelking, J. Leociak. – New Haven, 2009. – p. 36, 299