Overview
- Description
- This collection contains records relating to the history of the Jewish population in Łódź between 1939-1945. Includes bulletins, lists of various economic investments, a city administration telephone directory and correspondence, a collection of documents related to the creation of the ghetto, information leaflets (NSDP), court files in civil cases, correspondence of the Police (Gestapo. Geheime Staatspolitzei Litzmannstadt), lists of displaced people to Germany, Himmler directives, military messages from Hitler's headquarters, statistical summaries on the Łódź real estate, name lists of tenants, janitors' IDs, financial files, lists of prisoners in various categories, private correspondence and photographs, ID cards and employee name lists (index of people); documents of confiscation of property of the Jewish population, lists of persons applying for the acquisition of objects from the property of the Jewish population; financial statements; ghetto administration orders, statistics of ghetto administration, personal lists and photographs of the ghetto inhabitants, school students' files, health and sanitary statistics of the ghetto population, chronicles and reporters on the life of the ghetto, various underground appeals to the population calling for conspiracy activities, private documents and literary works and drawings (cartoons of Rumkowski), various statistics and post-war articles about the Łódź ghetto, documents of the city of Łódź, and private documents from the ghetto Archive. (See also USHMM collection: RG-15.083M: 2000.126. Przełożony Starszeństwa Żydow w Getcie Łódzkim: The elders of the Jews in the Łódź ghetto, 1939-1944)
- Alternate Title
- Collection of materials for the history of the Jewish population in Łódź
- Date
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inclusive:
1939-1945
- 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.
- Reference
- USHMM, RG-15.083M, Przełożony Starszeństwa Żydow w Getcie Łódzkim, 1939-1944.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Announcements. Bulletins. Caricatures. Circular letters. Correspondence. Photographs. Registers. Reports.
- Extent
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44,050 digital images : PDF.
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in four series: 1. Administracja niemiecka (File 1-216); 2. Getto Lodzkie-Przełożony Starszeństwa Żydów w Łodzi (Der Älteste der Juden in
Litzmannstadt (File 217-372); 3. Materiały powojenne dotyczące getta łódzkiego (File 373-414); 4. Aneksy i uzupełnienia (File 415-626).
Rights & Restrictions
- 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
- Publication or copying of more than several documents for a third party requires the permission of the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny imienia Emanuela Ringelbluma.
- Copyright Holder
- Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Poland--Łódź--Registers. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities---Poland--Łódź. World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects--Poland--Łódź. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź. Jewish councils--Poland--Łódź. Police administration--Poland--Łódź--History--20th century. Jews--Segregation--Poland--Łódź. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Łódź.
- Geographic Name
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. Łódź (Poland)--Ethnic relations. Litzmannstadt-Getto (Łódź, Poland)
- Personal Name
- Rumkowski, Mordecai Ḥayim, 1877-1944. Himmler, Heinrich, 1900-1945. Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
- Corporate Name
- Nazi Party Germany. Gestapo
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma Poland, Sygn. 624. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in June 2018.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 08:12:49
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