Julia Pirotte collection

Identifier
irn507414
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1990.319
  • RG-10.196
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1966
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn507414

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Julia Pirotte

Biographical History

Julia Pirotte worked as a journalist and photographer for French newspapers during World War II. She participated in the resistance at Marseilles and was a member of the underground. She avoided trial for her alleged communist beliefs prior to the war.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Julia Pirotte in 1990.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of eyewitness testimonies to Nazi atrocities garnered from memoirs of Polish farmers. The memoirs concern their experiences during the Nazi occupation, with particular emphasis on the fate of Jews in their neighborhoods. Julia Pirotte collected the testimonies of eyewitnesses to Nazi atrocities during a contest for best memoirs among readers of "Chtopska Droga" (Peasant Path), a publication for Polish farmers, in 1958. The testimonies by Polish farmers concern events from 1939 to 1945. Pirotte discovered several testimonies concerning the fate of Jews during that era and made typed copies of the testimonies.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is thematic

People

  • Pirotte, Julia.

Subjects

  • Jews--Poland.
  • Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)
  • Jedwabne (Poland)
  • World War, 1939-1945.

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.