Selected records from the Ghetto Fighters' House (Beit Lohamei Haghetaot)
Extent and Medium
298,182 digital images, PDF
2,160 microfilm reels, 35 mm
43 DVD-ROMs, 4 3/4 in.
Creator(s)
- Bet lohame ha-geta'ot
Archival History
Bet lohame ha-geta'ot
Acquisition
Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Source of acquisition the Bet lohame ha-geta'ot (Ghetto Fighters' House), Israel. In August 2004, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) and the Ghetto Fighters' House signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly reproduce its entire Holocaust-relevant archival holdings estimated at over 1.5 million pages of records. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the first two parts of the collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archival Programs in June and December of 2009, accretion continued in 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014 and Jan. 2018. This is an ongoing project.
Scope and Content
This collection contains records relating to Jewish underground organizations in ghettos in occupied Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Slovakia, France, and many other countries, Jewish participation in partisan movements against the Nazis and their allies, as well as Jewish life generally before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes testimonies, correspondence, documents of ghetto councils, German and Judenrat edicts, memoirs, biographies, documents of the rescue and aid organizations, underground proclamations, meeting minutes, personal papers, commendations and decorations, research papers, works of literature and art, underground newspapers, maps, diaries, and ghetto police documents. Reports address subjects such as education, work, cultural activities, food supplies, children, health, religion, illegal weapons, official and underground courts, deportations, and fire control.
System of Arrangement
No particular thematic and/or chronological organization. User needs to consult the finding aid. Digital images are reproduced from microfilm reels and organized as follow: DVD #1-7: Contain digital images reproduced from microfilm reels #1-166; DVD #8-23: Contain digital images reproduced from microfilm reels #167-535; DVD #24: Contains digital images reproduced from microfilm reels # 544, 547-557, 559, 560, 562-573; DVD #25-31: Contain digital images reproduced from microfilm reels #574-711; DVD # 32: Contains digital images reproduced from microfilm reels #695B, 697B; DVD #33-34: Contain digital images reproduced from microfilm reels #712-756; DVD #35, Contains digital images reproduced from microfilm reels #1663 -1671(North African records).
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Bet lohame ha-geta'ot
People
- Tene, Benjamin, 1914-1999.
- Berman, Adolf-Abraham, 1906-
- Kornianski, Josef.
Corporate Bodies
- World Union OSE
Subjects
- France
- War criminals--Germany.
- Jewish ghettos--Slovakia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Personal narratives.
- Museums.
- Holocaust victims.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Jewish ghetto--Lithuania.
- Jewish ghettos--Ukraine.
Genre
- Testimonies.
- Questionnaires.
- Correspondence.
- Memoirs.
- Reports.
- Diaries.
- Document
- Postcards.
- Letters.
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Bet lohame ha-geta'ot