Polish Communist Party. Central Jewish Office Komunistyczna Partia Polski (KPP). Centralne Biuro Żydowskie (Sygn.158)
Extent and Medium
396 digital images, PDF
Creator(s)
- Komunistyczna Partia Polski
Biographical History
Komunistyczna Partia Polski (KPP). Centralne Biuro Żydowskie (Polish Communist Party. Central Jewish Office) was founded on Dec. 16, 1918 in Warsaw. The organization was a co-founder of the Communist International and acted as a section. Main newspapers published by KPP: Nowy Przegląd (The New Digest), Czerwony Sztandar (Red Banner), Głos Komunistyczny (Communist Voice), Gromada (Community) and Wiadomości (“News”). KPP activity was discontinued in August 1938, the organization began working again in 1956. The Central Jewish Office was an integral part of KPP.
Archival History
Archiwum Akt Nowych
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 Archiwum Akt Nowych, Poland. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the digitized collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in Feb. 2015.
Scope and Content
Selected records of the Polish Communist Party (KPP). Central Jewish Office. The collection contains minutes, resolutions, reports, analyses, instructions, articles, correspondence of the organization, and a list of Jewish communist newspapers in Russian. General reports relate to various districts in Poland: Łódź-Częstochowa-Radom, 1935-36; Ciechanów, Płock, Włocławek. 1932, 1934-35; Wołyn, 1923; Łódź and its district, 1931-1935; Piotrków district, 1932; Radom and Lublin, 1931-1932; Siedlce, 1932, 1934, 1935; Warszawa, 1931 and 1935; Kutno, Włocławek, Płock, Mława, Ciechanów, 1931-1932; Częstochowa-Sosnowiec-Siedlce-Lublin, 1937. The reports on "Jewish work" relate to several other districts in Poland: as Łódź, Poznań, Siedlce-Łomża. Other documents relate to the Bund, Poalei Zion, a speech of Nikolai Bukharin at the VI Congress of KPP in Moscow, 1929; incidents in the sanatorium Włodzimierza Medema w Miedzeszynie, and activities of union workers.
System of Arrangement
The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved on the microfilm reels. Arranged in one series: 1. Reports, correspondence and other documents of the Polish Communist Party (KPP). Central Jewish Office.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
People
- Bukharin, Nikolaĭ, 1888-1938.
Corporate Bodies
- International Jewish Labor Bund
- Komunistyczna Partia Polski
Subjects
- Communism--Poland--History--20th century.
- Political parties--Poland--History--20th century.
- Health facilities
- Jewish communists--Poland--History--20th century.
- Jewish children--Institutional care--Poland--Warsaw.
- Communism--Europe--History--20th century.
- Poland
- Political parties.
- Communism and Judaism--Poland--History--20th century.
- International Jewish Labor Bund
- Jews--Poland--History--20th century.
- Miedzeszyn (Warsaw, Poland)
- Poland--Politics and government--1918-1945.
Genre
- Minutes.
- Document
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Correspondence.
- Reports.
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Archiwum Akt Nowych