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

Identifier
irn41885
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2010.229
  • RG-15.182M
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1947
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • Yiddish
  • German
  • English
  • French
  • Hebrew
  • Czech
  • Russian
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

33,970 digital images, JPEG

29 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm

Creator(s)

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

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