Overview
- Description
- Contains records of the Building Department (known also as a Department of Engineering and Construction) of the Central Committee of the Jews in Poland (Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce, CKŻP), which was established on March 1,1946. The most valuable part of this collection is the materials documenting the search for the Underground Archive of The Warsaw Ghetto (The Ringelblum Archive) (1949-1950) in the ruins of the estate located at 34 Świętojerska Street. The collection contains the following subject files: Minutes and reports (1 file); Archives of dr. E. Ringelblum (2 files), Edifices, Graveyards, Investments in the Lower Silesia, Monuments, Administration and Housing Cooperatives, and Theaters.
- Alternate Title
- Central Committee of the Jews in Poland. Building Department
- Date
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inclusive:
1945-1951
- 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
- Minutes. Reports. Photographs.
- Extent
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1,918 digital images : PDF ; 839 MB.
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged into eight series: Series 1. Minutes and reports (File 1); Series 2. Archives of dr. E. Ringelblum (File 2); Series 3. Edifices (File 3-15); Series 4: Graveyards (File 16-18); Series 5: Investsments in the Lower Silesia (File 19-20); Series 6: Monuments (File 21-33); Series 7: Administration and Housing Cooperatives (File 34-39); Series 8: Theaters (File 40-42).
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
- Jewish cemeteries--Poland. Jewish committees (ushmm)
- Geographic Name
- Poland
- Corporate Name
- Central Committee of Polish Jews Jewish Press Agency
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. 303/X. After liquidation of the Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce (CKŻP) the records were 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 Dec. 2012.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-07-05 08:05:06
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn49779
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