- Description
- Contains papers of Salo Fiszgrund (1893-1971), a Bund activist in Krakὀw in the1920s. Includes correspondence with Szymon Zachariasz, testimonies relating to the trial of Lieber Gotlob, in which Salo Fiszgrund was a witness, newspaper clippings, an issue of a „Biuletyn Komisji Historycznej przy Komitecie Centralnym Bundu” (“Bulletin of the Historical Commission at the Central Committee of Bund”) of 1946, as well as fragments of notes other publications.
- Alternate Title
- Salo Fiszgrund collection
- Date
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inclusive:
1946-1966
- 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
- Salo Fiszgrund
- Biography
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Salo Fiszgrund (1893-1971) was a Bund activist in Kraków in the1920s. After the outbreak of the war, he lived in the Warsaw ghetto and was a member of the Żydowski Komitet Narodowy (Jewish National Committee) on the so-called Aryan side. Fiszgrund participated in the uprising of the Warsaw ghetto as a Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa, ŻOB (The Jewish Combat Organization) fighter and then in the Warsaw Uprising. Together with Marek Edelman and Leon Fajner, Fiszgrund was a member of a clandestine Central Committee of Bund, where he served as a secretary. He was one of the leading Bund politicians during the inter-war period.
- Reference
- Slucki, David.The International Jewish Labor Bund after 1945: Toward a Global History. Rutgers University Press. 2011.
Siek, M. Kolekcja Salo Fiszgrunda, Lata 1946-1966. Sygn. 331. Warszawa: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma, 2010.
