Overview
- Description
- 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
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inclusive:
1936-2002
- 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
- Chaim Finkelsztejn
- Biography
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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.
- Reference
- Finkelsztejn, Chaim. Palestyna w Pracy i Walce. 1938.
Pankiewicz, Tadeusz. Apteka w Getcie Krakowskim. Wyd. II, rozsz. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1982.
Physical Details
- Extent
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1,627 digital images : PDF ; 1.39 GB.
- 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.
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
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. 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.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 17:51:31
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