Selected records of the Żanna Kormanowa collection Akta Żanny Kormanowej (Sygn. 1573)

Identifier
irn714720
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2020.188.1
  • RG-15.809
Dates
1 Jan 1926 - 31 Dec 1980
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • Yiddish
  • Russian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn714720

Extent and Medium

1,689 digital images, PDF

Creator(s)

  • Żanna Kormanowa

Biographical History

Żanna Kormanowa (1900-1988) was a communist activist, journalist, historian of the workers' movement, director of the Department of Education Reform at the Ministry of Education, 1945-1948, from 1947, a researcher at the Institute of History at the University of Warsaw, responsible for the communization of Polish education and historical sciences in Poland in the years 1944–1956. Żanna Kormanowa belonged to that group of Polish historians who played the infamous role in imposing Soviet patterns of practicing history on Polish historical science and thus making it an ideological tool of the Communist totalitarian party system.

Archival History

Archiwum Akt Nowych

Acquisition

Source of acquisition is the Archiwum Akt Nowych, Poland, Sygn.1573 The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in Jan. 2020. This is a cooperative project based on the agreement between USHMM and Yad Vashem, Israel.

Scope and Content

Selected materials from the collection of Żanna Korman née Zelikan (1900-1988), a Polish communist activist: reports and notes about her stay in the USSR in 1941-1945; biographies and memories of many people; curricula for political officers in the Polish army in the USSR; appeals and other electoral materials of Jewish organizations from 1926-1939; correspondence with Henryk Makower and his wife Emma Noemi Makower née Wigdorowicz; and Pinkus Korman personal documents from 1939-1942.

System of Arrangement

Arranged in six groups: 1. Biographies and memories, 1973-1980; 2. Appeals, leaflets, election materials of Jewish organizations; prints and posters, 1926-1939. 3. Stay in the USSR during World War II, 1941-1945; 3. Curricula and papers, 1943- 1944; 5. Władysław Spasowski Pedagogical Society, 1946; 6. Correspondence with prof. Henryk Makower and prof. Noemi Makowerowa, and documents of Pincus Korman, 1926-1961.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

People

  • Spasowski, Władysław, 1878-1941.
  • Makover, Naomi.
  • Korman, Pinkus.
  • Makower, Henryk.
  • Kormanowa, Żanna, 1900-1988.

Subjects

  • Communism--History--20th century.
  • Jewish organizations--Poland--History--20th century.
  • Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1944.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland.
  • Poland--Politics and government, 1945-1980.
  • Education--Poland--History--20th century.
  • Political organizations--Poland--History--20th century.
  • Jewish committees (ushmm).
  • Russia
  • Communists--Poland--History--20th century.

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.