Central Committee of Jews in Poland. Department of Registration and Statistics Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Ewidencji i Statystyki (Sygn. 303/V)
Extent and Medium
230,508 digital images, JPEG
200 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
Creator(s)
- Centralny Komitet ?ydów w Polsce. Wydzia? Ewidencji i Statystyki
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/V. Records created by the Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce (CKŻP). Wydział Ewidencji i Statystyki; previously Syg. 307. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from ŻIH i via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in October 2010, additional reels accreted in May 2011, and digital files in May 2018.
Scope and Content
Minutes, reports, briefs, correspondence, personnel files, and statistics on the Jewish communities throughout Poland; the central index books and registration forms for Jewish survivors in Poland (approximately 280,000 cards); portions of the Lublin, Łódź, Gliwice, and Bielsko-Biała card files; a card file created by the Warsaw committee of the CKŻP; and a file on people sent from Lvov to Poland during the population exchange with Ukraine. Accretion of records consists of two important files: #595 and 596, the so-called Lublin Registry Books-the earliest list of Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust, 1945-1946. The alphabetical list was compiled by the District Jewish Committee in Lublin. It contains the following data about each registered person: registration number in the central card index, name and surname, parents' names, date and place of birth, sex, occupation, where he came from (that is, how he survived the Holocaust), current address.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in three series: 1. General correspondence (Files 1-40); 2. Personal files (Files 41-42); 3. Statistics of the Jewish population (Files 43-424); 4. Lublin Registry Books, 1945-1946 Files 595 and 596). The central index books and registration forms are arranged in alphabetical order.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
Corporate Bodies
- Central Committee of Polish Jews
Subjects
- Jews--Poland--Social conditions.
- Holocaust survivors--Poland--Registers.
Genre
- Registers.
- Document
Copies
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