Overview
- Description
- The collection contains records related to the Jewish settlement in Lower Silesia after 1945. Consists of the surviving office files of the Provincial Committee, which was established in June 1945 and liquidated in 1949.
Includes protocols, reports (description and statistics) of the Provincial Committee, as well as of the municipal and county committees, numerous name indexes from the Department of Evidencing and Statistics and the lists of the Department of Child Care. Unfortunately, the documents of the Departments of Youth, Culture and Propaganda and Emigration were scrapped almost in total. It makes the studies on some crucial issues of Jewish settlement in Lower Silesia after 1945 impossible to conduct. Almost all prints (apart from one copy of the Bulletin of the Central Committee of the Polish Jews) were disposed of, too. Only half part of the collection finally survived. - Alternate Title
- Provincial Committee of Jews for Lower Silesia
- Date
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inclusive:
1945-1949
- 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
- Bat, Samuel. Ludność Żydowska na Dolnym Śląsku [in:] Rocznik Śląski 5, 1961, p. 141-163.
Szyja, Bronsztejn. Z Dziejów Ludności Żydowskiej na Dolnym Śląsku po II Wojnie Światowej, Wrocław 1993.
Egit Yakov. Zu a nay lebn. Zvey yor yidisher yishev in Nidershlezye, Wroclaw 1947.
Wieczorek, Paweł. Żydzi Wałbrzyscy po II Wojnie Światowej, [w:] Śląski Kwartalnik Historyczny Sobótka, Rocznik LVIII (2003), nr 4, s. 389-403.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Reports. Statistics. Registers.
- Extent
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25,977 digital images : JPEG ; 22.39 GB.
26 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in nine series, according to the structure of the nine departments of the Regional Committee: 1. General Department (File 1-21); 2. Department of Evidencing and Statistics (File 22-101); 3. Department of Finances (File102-142); 4. Department of Child Care (File143-193); 5. Department of Youth (File 194); 6. Department of Culture (File195-196); 7. Department of Emigration (File197-198); 8. Department of Productivity (File199-203); 9. The Circle of the Trade Union of the Workers of Social Institutions, by the Regional Committee of Jews (File 203-206).
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. Museum staff are currently unable to copy, digitize, and/or photograph collection materials on behalf of researchers. Researchers are encouraged to plan a research visit to consult collection materials themselves.
- 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
- Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Jews--Silesia, Lower (Poland and Germany)--History--Registers. Holocaust survivors--Silesia, Lower (Poland and Germany)--History. Jews, Polish--Poland--History--20th century. Jews--Poland--Migrations--History--20th century.
- Geographic Name
- Silesia, Lower (Poland and Germany)--Ethnic relations.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Archiwum Państwowe we Wrocławiu
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition the Archiwum Państwowe we Wrocławiu, Sygn. 415. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in March 2007.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:12:09
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