Provincial Committee of Jews for Lower Silesia Wojewódzki Komitet Ź̇ydów na Dolny Śląsk (Sygn. 415)
Extent and Medium
25,977 digital images, JPEG
26 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
Archival History
Archiwum Państwowe we Wrocławiu
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 the Archiwum Państwowe we Wrocławiu, Sygn. 415. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in March 2007.
Scope and Content
The collection contains records related to the Jewish settlement in Lower Silesia after 1945. Consists of the surviving office files of the Provincial Committee, which was established in June 1945 and liquidated in 1949. Includes protocols, reports (description and statistics) of the Provincial Committee, as well as of the municipal and county committees, numerous name indexes from the Department of Evidencing and Statistics and the lists of the Department of Child Care. Unfortunately, the documents of the Departments of Youth, Culture and Propaganda and Emigration were scrapped almost in total. It makes the studies on some crucial issues of Jewish settlement in Lower Silesia after 1945 impossible to conduct. Almost all prints (apart from one copy of the Bulletin of the Central Committee of the Polish Jews) were disposed of, too. Only half part of the collection finally survived.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in nine series, according to the structure of the nine departments of the Regional Committee: 1. General Department (File 1-21); 2. Department of Evidencing and Statistics (File 22-101); 3. Department of Finances (File102-142); 4. Department of Child Care (File143-193); 5. Department of Youth (File 194); 6. Department of Culture (File195-196); 7. Department of Emigration (File197-198); 8. Department of Productivity (File199-203); 9. The Circle of the Trade Union of the Workers of Social Institutions, by the Regional Committee of Jews (File 203-206).
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
Subjects
- Jews--Silesia, Lower (Poland and Germany)--History--Registers.
- Jews, Polish--Poland--History--20th century.
- Silesia, Lower (Poland and Germany)--Ethnic relations.
- Jews--Poland--Migrations--History--20th century.
- Holocaust survivors--Silesia, Lower (Poland and Germany)--History.
Genre
- Reports.
- Registers.
- Document
- Statistics.
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Archiwum Państwowe we Wrocławiu