Collection of applications of the Stalag II B in Hammerstein prisoners of war to the USSR Embassy in Berlin for the Soviet citizenship Zbiór podań jeńców Stalagu II B w Hammerstein do ambasady ZSRR w Berlinie o nadanie obywatelstwa sowieckiego (Sygn. 250)

Identifier
irn47518
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.268
  • RG-15.235
Dates
1 Jan 1940 - 31 Dec 1940
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • Polish
  • Russian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn47518

Extent and Medium

827 digital images, PDF

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.

From the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma (ŻIH), Sygn. 250. The collection was submitted to ŻIH Archives in 1990s. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from ŻIH via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Programs Division in Sep. 2012.

Scope and Content

Contains 230 applications created by the Jewish soldiers of the Polish Army, kept by Germans as prisoners of war in Hammerstein (located in Czarne, the Province of Pomerania, Poland). Jewish soldiers directed requests to the Soviet Union Embassy in Berlin for the Soviet citizenship which would lead to get a chance to return home to their families. These applications contain prisoner's biographical information, their fate during the war, as well as some letters from the applicants’ families, which had not reached their recipients.

System of Arrangement

Arranged in alphabetical order by the last name of prisoners.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma

Corporate Bodies

  • AK-Home Army (Poland)
  • Stalag II B

Subjects

  • Soldiers--Polish.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Czarne--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Pomerania (Poland and Germany)
  • Prisoners of war--Poland--History--20th century.
  • Czarne (Poland)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Czarne--Prisoners and prisons, Jewish.
  • Soldiers--Jewish.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

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