- Description
- The collection contains the papers of Gershon Dua-Bogen (1892-1948), an eminent activist of the socialist and communist parties. The papers includes personal documents from Gershon Dua-Bogen and his son, Jerzy Bogen, correspondence, notes, fragment of memoirs, press-cuttings, invitations, photographs, an index of the Dua-Bogen’s works, a resume, a collection of Jewish songs: Mir zingen. Lider zamlung, and miscellaneous.
- Alternate Title
- Legacy of Gershon Dua-Bogen
- Date
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inclusive:
1926-1970
- 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
- Gershon Dua-Bogen
- Biography
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Gerszon Dua-Bogen (1892-1948) was a member of Poalej Syjon left party, and since 1922 he was active in the international communist movement in Poland, Palestine, USSR, USA, France, Spain and Cuba. He returned to Poland in 1947 and worked for the Polish communist party, Komitet Centralny Polskiej Partii Robotniczej (KC PPR), and then was delegated to work for the Centralny Comitet Żydow Polskich (CKŻP). He was a distinguished personage; it seemed that he would play a significant role as one of the leaders of the Faction of the Polish Labor Party (the ethnic Jewish section of that party). He perished in a car accident near Bielsk at the beginning of February 1948.
- Reference
- See also: RG-15. 251, Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce. Wydział Budowlany (Syg. 303/X): This collection contains plans for a monument to commemorate Gerszon Dua-Bogen ( ŻIH Archives Syg. 303/X/ 33).
Grabski August. Działalność Komunistów wśród Żydów w Polsce (1944-1949), Warszawa: Wydawn. Trio : Żydowski Instytut Historyczny, 2004.
