Records of the Jewish community and Jewish Committee in Bielsko-Biała Akta Gminy Wyznaniowej i Komitetu Żydowskiego w Bielsku-Białej (Sygn.308)

Identifier
irn516654
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2005.101
  • RG-15.110M
Dates
1 Jan 1857 - 31 Dec 1975, 1 Jan 1920 - 31 Dec 1950
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • Polish
  • Yiddish
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

4,060 digital images, JPEG

4 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm

Creator(s)

Archival History

Gmina Wyznaniowa Żydowska w Bielsku-Białej

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 Gmina Wyznaniowa Żydowska w Bielsku-Białej, Poland. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Apr. 2005.

Scope and Content

Contains records of the Jewish community in Bielsko-Biała, Poland. Most valuable is the cemetery book with entries of all funerals since the day of the opening of the graveyard in 1949. Also contains original statutes of the Jewish organizations from Bielsko-Biała, Jewish birth registers, Jewish diaries, name lists of Jewish soldiers, name lists of Jewish survivors, lists of Jewish properties, photographs from the Jewish orphanage, photographs and a chronicle of the sport club, Maccabi, in Bielsko-Biała.

System of Arrangement

Organized in the following order: Reel 1: File: 1-67; Reel 2: File 68-101; Reel 3: 102-141; Reel 4: 142-143.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Gmina Wyznaniowa Żydowska w Bielsku-Białej

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

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.