Overview
- Description
- Records of the Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce (CKŻP). Wydział Finansowy (Central Committee of the Jews in Poland. Financial Department). Consist of administrative records, minutes, circular letters, ordinances and instructions for post-inspection reports from the field, correspondence on the budget matters, financial records, registers of Jewish children in care facilities, registers of teachers, and the like. Records relate to planning and controlling of the budget of the organization activities: in charities, culture, health, schools for Jewish communities, care of orphan children, publication of books (publishing houses: Dos Naje Lebn”, Idisz Buch”), and cooperation with regional committees.
- Alternate Title
- Central Committee of the Jews in Poland. Financial Department
- Date
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inclusive:
1944-1950
- Credit Line
- 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.
- Collection Creator
- Centralny Komitet ?ydów Polskich
- Biography
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The Central Committee of Polish Jews also referred to as the Central Committee of Jews in Poland and abbreviated CKŻP, (Polish: Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce, Yiddish: צענטראל קאמיטעט פון די יידן אין פוילן; tr: Centraler Komitet fun di Jidn in Pojln) was a state-sponsored political representation of Jews in Poland at the end of World War II. It was established on November 12, 1944, as the successor of the Provisional Central Committee of Polish Jews formed a month earlier under the umbrella of the communist Polish Committee of National Liberation (PKWN). The CKŻP provided care and assistance to Jews who survived the Holocaust. It legally represented all CKŻP-registered Polish Jews in their dealings with the new government and its agencies. It existed until 1950 when, together with the Jewish Cultural Society, representatives of CKŻP founded the Socio-Cultural Association of Jews in Poland [Source: Wikipedia] The Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce, CKŻP (Central Committee of Jews in Poland) was the most prominent official Jewish institution in Poland following the Holocaust. CKŻP attended to the needs of Jews from fall 1944 until 1950. It sponsored a variety of programs, providing food, shelter, education, medical assistance, cultural activities, and employment services and vocational training. The CKŻP also supervised the repatriation of Jews from the Soviet Union and assisted with legal emigration. A government‐funded body, it was supported financially by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
Physical Details
- Extent
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32 microfilm reels ; 35 mm ; 36,900 frames .
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in five series: 1. General records : Administrative records, minutes of sessions of the Presidium of the Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce (CKŻP), circular letters, ordinances and instructions of the Financial Department, post-inspection reports,, correspondence, and the like [Files 1-27]; 2. Financial records: Preliminary budgets, execution of budgets and collective balance of CKŻP [Files 28-97]; 3. Financial records: Bookkeeping of the central administration along with orphanages in Otwock, Sopliców, Śródborów, Świder and Zatrzebie [Files 98-103]; 4. Financial records: Bookkeeping of regional committees. Records of provinces and districts are arranged in alphabetical order [Files 104-244]; 5. Financial records: Bookkeeping of institutions subordinated to CKŻP [Files 245-257]
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- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Reproduction of more than 100 pages of copies of documents for researchers or other institutions requires a written permission of the General Director of the State Archives of the Republic of Poland. Publication of more than 10 complete documents in an individual work requires the written authorization of the General Director. The Museum may not publish any archival material obtained from the General Director, including specific archives under his control, on the Internet, the World Wide Web, or any other publicly accessible on-line network without the written permission of the General Director. Citation of the materials in any publication must refer to the Museum and the Polish State Archives and must include the name of the archival group and catalogue number of the originals.
- Copyright Holder
- Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust survivors--Poland--History--20th century--Registers. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland--History--20th century. Orphanages--Poland--Otwock--History--20th century. Jewish children--Poland--Registers. Jews--Poland--Social conditions--20th century. Jews--Poland--Economic condition--20th century. Jews--Poland--Charities. Jews--Poland--Societies, etc.--Registers. Jewish organizations--Poland--Warsaw--History--20th century. Agriculture--Study and teaching. Jewish communities (ushmm)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma Poland, Sygn. 303/VII. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in March 2018.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 12:52:24
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