Overview
- Description
- The collection is organized into two parts: originals, including 25 testimonies, 52 protocols of Judenrat meetings, and 434 announcements of the Judenrat; and copies, including personal papers, testimonies, diaries, correspondence, and documents found in the clothing of Jews murdered in Treblinka. Also included are the diary, letters, and other writings of Mordechaj Tenenbaum-Tamaroff; and personal documents of Hersz Cwi Mersik.
- Alternate Title
- Underground Archives of Bialystok Ghetto (Meresik-Tenenbaum Archives)
- Date
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inclusive:
1941-1943
- 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
- ?ydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
- Reference
- Betti Ajzensztejn, Ruch podziemny w ghettach i obozach. Materiały i dokumenty, Warszawa-Łódź-Kraków 1946.
Nachman Blumenthal, Conduct and Actions of a Judenrat. Documents from a Bialystok Ghetto, Jerusalem 1962.
Szymon Datner, Bialystoker-Judenrat Meldungen, „Bleter far Geshikhte”, 1951, t. 4.
Szymon Dater, Der unterdisher bialistokergeto-arkhiv (M-T Arkhiv),1 teyl: di bialistoker provints. Dokumentn, „Bleter far Geshikhte” 1970, t. 28.
Szymon Datner, Getto białostockie i jego podziemne archiwum, „Studia i materiały do dziejów miasta Białegostoku”, t. 11, Białystok 1970.
Adam Dobroński (red.)“Białostoccy Żydzi”, t. 1, Białystok 1993.
Bronia Klibanski, The Underground Archives of the Bialystok Ghetto Founded by Mersik and Tenenbaum, „Yad Vashem Studies”, t. 2., Jerusalem 1958.
Adam Rutkowski (tłum. i opracowanie), „Biuletyn Żydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego” 1966, nr 4 (60).
Mordechai Tenenbaum, Dapim min ha-delekah; pirke-yoman mikhtavim ve-reshimot, wyd. 1 Tel-Aviv 1947, wyd. 2 Jerusalem-Tel-Aviv 1984
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Testimonies. Announcements. Diaries.
- Extent
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67 digital files : PDF ; 1.00 GB.
- System of Arrangement
- Organized into two Series: 1. Białystok Judenrat testimonies, protocols, announcement. 2. Personal documents of Mordechaj Tenenbaum-Tamaroff, and Hersz Cwi Mersik.
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
- Jewish councils--Poland--Białystok. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Białystok--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Underground archives--Poland--Białystok. World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Białystok. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Białystok. Treblinka (Concentration camp)
- Geographic Name
- Białystok (Poland)
- Personal Name
- Tenenbaum, Mordecai, 1916-1943. Mersik, Cwi Hersz.
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 (ŻIH), Sygn. 204. These documents were collected in the Bialystok Ghetto and subsequently buried outside its boundaries. They were found in summer 1945 by Dr. Lew Blumenthal, who delivered them to the Central Jewish Historical Commission in Łódz in April 1946. Originals are located in at least two Israeli archives: Yad Vashem and Kibbutz Lohame Ha-Getaot. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from ŻIH via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in July 2009.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 17:50:49
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