Der Aelteste der Juden vom Litzmannstadt-Getto The elders of the Jews in the Łódź ghetto Przełożony Starszeństwa Żydow w Getcie Łódzkim
Extent and Medium
794,030 digital images, JPEG
707 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
Archival History
Archiwum Państwowe w Łodzi
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 Archiwum Państwowe w Łodzi (Polish States Archives in Łódź), Record group: Przełożony Starszeństwa Żydow w Getcie Łódzkim; File 1-21105. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the first part of the the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in June 2000, and several subsequent accretions between 2001 and 2007.
Scope and Content
Contains various documents of the record group Przełożony Starszeństwa Żydow w Getcie Łódzkim, 1939-1944. Consists predominantly of the records of Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski, the Eldest of the Jews in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland, and of his administration. Included are letters, announcements, circulars, charts, publications, reports, essays, name lists, and photographs.
System of Arrangement
The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in the microfilmed reels. Arrangement is alphabetical and chronological. Alphabetical cards of employees are microfilmed at the end of the collection (Reels 673-696). Files organized as follow: File 1-2467; Reels 1-328; Reel 329 organized in subgroups: 329/1-329/11; 330-696. File 1011, containing alphabetical information cards of employees, microfilmed at the end of the collection (Reels 673-696)
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
People
- Rumkowski, Mordecai Ḥayim.
Corporate Bodies
- Nazi Party
Subjects
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź.
- Litzmannstadt-Getto (Łódź, Poland)
- Jewish councils--Poland--Łódź.
- Łódź (Poland)--Ethnic relations.
- Jews--Poland--Łódź--Registers.
- World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects--Poland--Łódź.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Łódź.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Jews--Segregation--Poland--Łódź.
- World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Poland--Łódź--Registers.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.
- Announcements.
- Circular letters.
- Reports.
- Registers.
- Letters.
- Essays.
Copies
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