Overview
- Description
- The collection contains 10,055 certificates of deaths fulfilled and signed by the Jewish doctors in the Warsaw Ghetto for the office: “Wydział Statystyczny Zarządu Miejskiego w mieście Warszawie” (Statistical Department of the Council of Warsaw) for the statistical purposes and census records of the City of Warsaw. Certificates of deaths contain following information: the last, first and second name, the year of birth, the place of birth, the father's, and mother's name, the address, the date of death, the number of the death certificate, the marital status, the occupation, the citizenship, the reason of death, the coexisting illnesses and the name of the home doctor. Not all sections of the death certificates were filled.
NOTE: In 2018 this collection was reproduced again in color copies, Sygn. 221, USHMM RG-15.628. Those new color copies are recommended for users. - Alternate Title
- Death cards from the Ghetto of Warsaw
- Date
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inclusive:
1939-1941
- 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.
- Reference
- Wulman, Leon, Tenenbaum, Joseph. The Martyrdom of Jewish Physicians in Poland. New York: Exposition Press, 1963.
Physical Details
- Language
- Polish
- Genre/Form
- Death certificates. Death registers. Census.
- Extent
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10,055 digital images : PDF ; 2.28 GB.
- System of Arrangement
- Death certificates arranged in alphabetical order by the name of individuals.
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
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny imienia Emanuela Ringelbluma (ŻIH), Sygn. 201. The cards were rescued by unknown person, documents contain obvious signs of damage from fire and therefore were not microfilmed (the pages are very dark and partly burnt). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Ż̇IH via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Sep. 2007.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-28 08:13:11
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