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Records of the Central Jewish Immigration Society (JEAS), Lwów branch

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2009.138 | RG Number: RG-31.103M

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Overview

Description: Contains bylaws and other normative documents, meeting minutes, informational bulletins, and correspondence with immigration authorities. The collection consists mainly of applications and registration cards of Jews seeking to leave Eastern Galicia during the interwar period.
Date: inclusive: 1924-1939
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.

Physical Details

Language: Polish Yiddish Hebrew
Genre/Form: Registration cards.
Extent: 22,643 digital images : JPEG ; 28 GB.
20 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.

Rights & Restrictions

Conditions on Access: There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
Conditions on Use: Mandatory citation of source archives as well as United States Holocaust Memorial Musem. Fair use only. No use for commercial purposes.
Copyright Holder: T︠S︡entralʹnyĭ derz︠h︡avnyĭ istorychnyĭ arkhiv Ukraïny u Lʹvovi

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Jews--Migrations--Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) Jews--Poland--Małopolska--History.
Geographic Name: Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)--Emigration and immigration. L'viv (Ukraine)--Emigration and immigration. Małopolska (Poland)--Emigration and immigration.

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: T︠S︡entralʹnyĭ derz︠h︡avnyĭ istorychnyĭ arkhiv Ukraïny u Lʹvovi
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Source of acquisition is the T︠S︡entralʹnyĭ derz︠h︡avnyĭ istorychnyĭ arkhiv Ukraïny u Lʹvovi (Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv), Fond 4224, Opis 1. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Central State Historial Archives via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in July 2009.
Special Collection: Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive

Record last modified:: 2022-07-28 17:51:42
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