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Legacies and papers of Chaim Finkelsztejn (Sygn. S/346)

Document | Accession Number: 2009.144 | RG Number: RG-15.151

Contains personal documents of Chaim Finkelsztejn; correspondence, both official and personal from 1939 to 2001; reports, notes, projects, and papers (including a short biography of Chaim Finkelszejn); books, brochures, newspapers, newspaper clippings; invoices, tickets, stamps, and notes; and photographs.

Date
inclusive:  1936-2002
Language
Polish
English
French
German
Russian
Yiddish
Genre/Form
Brochures.
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Correspondence.
Memoirs.
Photographs.
Extent
1,627 digital images : PDF ; 1.39 GB.
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.

About This Document

Document Creator
Chaim Finkelsztejn
Biography
Chaim Finkelsztejn was born in 1899 in Warsaw and worked before World War II as a journalist in the Zionist newspaper “Haynt;” between 1936 and 1939, he was its director. In 1938, his book Palestyna w pracy i walce (Palestine in Tail and Fight) was published. In 1939. As a deputy from Poland, he traveled to Geneva to attend the World Zionist Congress and remained in Paris once the war broke out. In November 1939, he traveled to New York. After the war, he worked as an administrator and Holocaust researcher in the Institute of Jewish Research in New York.
System of Arrangement
The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved on the digital files. Arranged in six series: I. Personal documents of Chaim Finkelsztejn; II. Correspondence: 1. Correspondence 1939-1943: a) Private letters from family in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1939-1942 and letters of Chaim Finkelsztejn to his wife Rywka and his two daughters, Estera and Awiwa, b) Other private letters from 1939 till 1941, c) Official letters 1939-1943. 2. Correspondence 1945-2001: a) Various letters from 1945, b) Private correspondence 1955-2000, c) Official letters 1945-2001; III. Reports, notes, projects, papers (including short biography of Chaim Finkelszejn); IV.Books, brochures, newspapers, press cuts; V. Invoices, tickets, stamps, notes etc.; VI. Photographs.
Reference
Finkelsztejn, Chaim. Palestyna w Pracy i Walce. 1938.

Pankiewicz, Tadeusz. Apteka w Getcie Krakowskim. Wyd. II, rozsz. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1982.

Special Collection
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

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 (ŻIH), Sygn. 346. Chaim Finkelsztejn's widow donated his papers to ŻIH. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from ŻIH via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in July 2009.

Rights and 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
 
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