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Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Prezydium i Sekretariat (Sygn. 303/I)

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2012.279 | RG Number: RG-15.246

Overview

Description: Contains reports, name lists, minutes of sessions, domestic and foreign correspondence, e.g. with the American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) and World Jewish Congress, personal files of the staff and others, records relating to pogroms of Jewish people in Kielce and other places, religious matters, graveyards, and exhumations, newspaper clippings, and documentation of various commissions of the Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce (CKŻP): the Centralna Komisja Międzypartyjna, Centralna Komisja Mieszana, Komisja Mieszkaniowa, Centralna Frakcja Polskiej Partii Robotniczej (PPR), Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza (PZPR), Związek Walki Młodych, Związek Zawodowy Pracowników Instytucji Społecznych, as well as other documents and photographs of the CKŻP staff.
Alternate Title: Central Committee of the Jews in Poland (CKŻP).The Presidium and Secretariat
Date: 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 Polskich. Prezydium i Sekretariat.
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

Language: Polish Yiddish English French Hebrew Spanish German Russian Italian
Genre/Form: Reports. Minutes. Correspondence. Photographs. Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Extent: 39,309 digital images : PDF ; 15.6 GB.

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: Jews--Poland--History--20th century. Pogroms--Poland--Kielce--History--20th century. Antisemitism--Poland--History--20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
Corporate Name: Central Committee of Polish Jews American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee World Jewish Congress

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: From the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma (ŻIH), Sygn. 303/I. Records created by the Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce (CKŻP), and 1950 transferred to the ŻIH Archives. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the ŻIH via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Sept. 2012.
Special Collection: Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive

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