Memoirs. Contest: "Preserve Memory Project" Wspomnienia. Materiały konkursowe "Zachować pamięć"

Identifier
irn73438
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2013.235
  • RG-15.264
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 2005
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn73438

Extent and Medium

23,808 digital images, PDF

Archival History

Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie

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 Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (FPNP, Foundation for Polish-German Reconciliation).The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Dec. 2013.

Scope and Content

Collection of 589 Polish testimonies along with photographs, letters and other personal documents. It contains accounts of Polish victims of WWII, their experiences of German atrocities in Poland and as forced laborers in Germany. The testimonies were sent for the contest "Pomóżcie Nam Zachować Pamieć" organized by the Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (FPNP) and Polska Unia Ofiar Nazizmu in 2005. Contains also other WWII materials collected by the foundation: as photographs, audio and video records. The most interesting materials were published by FPNP in two volumes under a title: “Zachować pamięć.”

System of Arrangement

The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved on digital images. Arranged in two series: 1. Audio and written testimonies, photographs and letters; 2. Documentation of the contest "Pomóżcie Nam Zachować Pamieć." Written testimonies are arranged by names of the testimony authors.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie

Corporate Bodies

  • Foundation for Polish-German Reconciliation

Subjects

  • Forced labor--Germany--History--20th century.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Polish.
  • Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
  • Polish people--Crimes against--Poland--History--20th century.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Germany.
  • Germany--History--20th century.
  • Polish people--Germany-History--20th century.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.

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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