Overview
- Description
- Contains 230 applications created by the Jewish soldiers of the Polish Army, kept by Germans as prisoners of war in Hammerstein (located in Czarne, the Province of Pomerania, Poland). Jewish soldiers directed requests to the Soviet Union Embassy in Berlin for the Soviet citizenship which would lead to get a chance to return home to their families. These applications contain prisoner's biographical information, their fate during the war, as well as some letters from the applicants’ families, which had not reached their recipients.
- Alternate Title
- Collection of applications of the Stalag II B in Hammerstein prisoners of war to the USSR Embassy in Berlin for the Soviet citizenship
- Date
-
creation:
1940
- 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
- Genre/Form
- Application forms. Letters.
- Extent
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827 digital images : PDF ; 203 MB.
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in alphabetical order by the last name of prisoners.
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
- World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Czarne--Prisoners and prisons, Polish. World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Czarne--Prisoners and prisons, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Pomerania (Poland and Germany) Prisoners of war--Poland--History--20th century. Soldiers--Polish. Soldiers--Jewish.
- Geographic Name
- Czarne (Poland)
- Corporate Name
- Stalag II B AK-Home Army (Poland)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- From the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma (ŻIH), Sygn. 250. The collection was submitted to ŻIH Archives in 1990s. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from ŻIH via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Programs Division in Sep. 2012.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 13:24:55
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