Overview
- Description
- Minutes, reports, briefs, correspondence, personnel files, and statistics on the Jewish communities throughout Poland; the central index books and registration forms for Jewish survivors in Poland (approximately 280,000 cards); portions of the Lublin, Łódź, Gliwice, and Bielsko-Biała card files; a card file created by the Warsaw committee of the CKŻP; and a file on people sent from Lvov to Poland during the population exchange with Ukraine. Accretion of records consists of two important files: #595 and 596, the so-called Lublin Registry Books-the earliest list of Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust, 1945-1946. The alphabetical list was compiled by the District Jewish Committee in Lublin. It contains the following data about each registered person: registration number in the central card index, name and surname, parents' names, date and place of birth, sex, occupation, where he came from (that is, how he survived the Holocaust), current address.
- Alternate Title
- Central Committee of Jews in Poland. Department of Registration and Statistics
- Date
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inclusive:
1944-1950
- 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
- Centralny Komitet ?ydów w Polsce. Wydzia? Ewidencji i Statystyki
- Reference
- Zarys działalności Centralnego Komitetu Żydów w Polsce za okres od 1 stycznia do 30 czerwca 1946. Warszawa: Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich, 1947.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Registers.
- Extent
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230,508 digital images : JPEG ; 938 GB.
200 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in three series: 1. General correspondence (Files 1-40); 2. Personal files (Files 41-42); 3. Statistics of the Jewish population (Files 43-424); 4. Lublin Registry Books, 1945-1946 Files 595 and 596). The central index books and registration forms are arranged in alphabetical order.
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
- Corporate Name
- Central Committee of Polish Jews
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. 303/V. Records created by the Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce (CKŻP). Wydział Ewidencji i Statystyki; previously Syg. 307. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from ŻIH i via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in October 2010, additional reels accreted in May 2011, and digital files in May 2018.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-05-26 10:29:53
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