Holocaust survivor testimonies Relacje ocalalych z Holocaustu (Sygn. 301)

Identifier
irn508120
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1997.A.0125
  • RG-15.084M
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1946
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • Yiddish
  • Hebrew
  • German
  • Russian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn508120

Extent and Medium

14,588 digital images, JPEG

71 microfilm reels, 35 mm

Creator(s)

  • Centralny Komitet ?ydów w Polsce. Komisja Historyczna

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. 301, File:1-7,297. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from ŻIH via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in 1997, 2000, 2006, and accretion of missing files in 2012.

Scope and Content

Contains approximately 7,000 Holocaust survivor testimonies. Testimonies describe the destruction of an entire Jewish community during World War II. From the autumn of 1944 to the summer of 1947, Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna (Central Jewish Historical Commission) developed a questionnaire and trained interviewers to record the testimonies. Survivors came forward from bunkers in the forests, from partisan units, and from newly liberated concentration and labor camps wishing to relate to the Commission's field workers what they or their families had endured during the occupation. In some cases, the survivor wrote down his/her own statements. The materials in this collection have been and continue to be used as evidence in the trials of war crimes.

System of Arrangement

The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in the microfilmed reels.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma

Corporate Bodies

  • Central Committee of Polish Jews

Subjects

  • Jews--Segregation--Poland.
  • Poland--Ethnic relations--History--20th century.
  • Jewish ghettos--Poland.
  • Holocaust survivors--Poland--Social conditions.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--History--20th century.
  • Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
  • Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland--20th century--Registers.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.

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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