Central Jewish Historical Commission at the Central Committee of the Jews in Poland Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna przy Centralnym Komitecie Żydów w Polsce, Sygn. 303/XX
Extent and Medium
33,970 digital images, JPEG
29 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
Creator(s)
- Centralna ?ydowska Komisja Historyczna
Archival History
Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
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 is the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma ( ŻIH), Sygn. 303/XX. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Sep. 2010.
Scope and Content
Contains correspondence, certificates and agreements, minutes, reports, instructions and questionnaires for conducting interviews with Holocaust victims, name lists of war criminals and their victims, lists of Jewish doctors in Łódź Ghetto, and many other lists related to Jews in particular cities or villages; lectures, notes and memos, relating to many activities of the Central Jewish Historical Commission at the Central Committee of the Jews in Poland (CKŻP). One of most important part of correspondence constitute letters and supporting documentation relating to war crimes, war criminals and their victims, sent to many organization mainly to Ministry of Justice, Main Commission for Investigation of German Crimes, and the Supreme National Tribunal.
System of Arrangement
Organized in the following seven series: 1. Organizational materials (statutes, orders, circular letter, minutes, work plans, reports, correspondence, certificates and agreements); 2. Documents relating to publication (reports, reviews, preliminary costs, bills, copies of publications); 3. Instructions and questionnaires for conducting testimonies. 4. Historical materials (name lists of victims, catalogs of archival records as testimonies, diaries, and photographs, Jewish newspapers, articles, correspondence sent to Nuremberg tribunal, lectures, radio broadcasts, tables and specifications, notes and memos), 5. Branch offices of CKŻP (Będzin, Białystok, Bielsko, Bydgoszcz, Bytom, Częstochowa, Dzierzoniów, Gliwice, Katowice, Kielce, Kraków, Kutno, Lublin, Łódź, Przemysl, Radom, Sosnowiec, Szczecin, Toruń, Wałbrzych, Warszawa, 6. The Society of CKŻP friends (statutes, protocols and minutes, reports, materials of propaganda, personnel matters, correspondence), 7. Archives of the Provincial Historical Commissions of Katowice, Kraków, Warsaw, Wrocław.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
Corporate Bodies
- Central Committee of Polish Jews
Subjects
- Committees.
- Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland.
- Jews--Poland--History--20th century.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland--History--Sources.
- Holocaust survivors--Poland--Registers.
- War criminals.
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland--History--Sources.
Genre
- Minutes.
- Certificates.
- Lectures.
- Testimonies.
- Document
- Articles.
- Questionnaires.
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma