Overview
- Description
- Diaries, memoirs, narratives, questionnaires, correspondence and letters of various individuals, articles, and press clippings. Records relate to experiences of Poles and Jews during the WWII. Included are records relating to German provocations before WWII, the course of the September campaign of 1939, German settlement action and treatment of Poles, forced labor, armed resistance of Poles, intensive germanization, displacement and round-ups, executions of Poles in Mosina and Szamotuły district, working conditions in labor camps, secret teaching, terror and murders of the Poles carried out by the Germans and Ukrainians, cooperation of Ukrainian nationalists with Germany, living conditions in the Dachau, Flossenbürg, Weimar-Buchenwald, Ravensbrück camps, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Melk, Ebensee and other concentration camps, liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Miechów, camp life in Majdanek, extermination of Poles in the Miechów district, stay in the prison at Montelupich prison in Kraków, 1940, memories from the Warsaw Uprising 1944, surveys on German national policy, “Krwawa Niedziela (Bloody Sunday) in Bydgoszcz (3.IX.1939) , massacre at Kalisz in 1945, massacre in Inowrocław prison in October 1939, the extermination of Jews in Chełmno nad Nerem, the activity of the Stronnictwo Ludowe (People's Party) and the Bataliony Chłopskie (Peasants' Battalions) in the occupation in the Gostyń district, the Szare Szeregi (Gray Ranks) in Wielkopolska, destruction of churches and robbing art from Polish Museums and transporting to Germany, Polish secret cultural and artistic activity, conditions of life and work in Kolkhoz in Kazakhstan, 1940-1941.
- Alternate Title
- Memories and diaries
- Date
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inclusive:
1939-2011
- 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
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Correspondence. Diaries. Letters. Questionnaires. Testimonies.
- Extent
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19,064 digital images : PDF ; 10.3 GB .
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged according to the names of individual authors of the narrative. No chronological, alphabetical or subject organization of records.
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
- Fair use only. Citation of the documents in any publication must refer to the Institute Zachodni w Poznaniu and must include the name of the archival group and catalogue number of the originals.
- Copyright Holder
- Instytut Zachodni im. Zygmunta Wojciechowskiego
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Poland. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland. Germanization--Poland--Wielkopolska--History--20th century. Forced labor--Germany--History--20th century. Forced labor--Poland--History--20th century. Forced labor--Kazakhstan--History--20th century. Germans--Poland--History--20th century. Ukrainians--Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)--History--20th century. Polish people--Crimes against--Poland--20th century. Orphanages--Poland--Kostowiec. Jews--Crimes against--Poland--History--20th century. Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Poznań. Prisons Monastaries and convents (ushmm) Political parties.
- Geographic Name
- Bydgoszcz (Poland) Chełmno (Konin, Poland) Gostyń (Poland)--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. Inowrocław (Poland) Kazakhstan--Politics and government--20th century. Kostowiec (Poland) Miechów (Miechów, Poland) Mosina (Poland) Poznań (Poland)--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. Szamotuły (Poland)--Politics and government. Wielkopolska (Poland)--History--20th century. Warsaw (Poland) Poland
- Corporate Name
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Dachau (Concentration camp) Ebensee (Concentration camp) Flossenbürg (Concentration camp) Majdanek (Concentration camp) Mauthausen (Concentration camp) Melk (Concentration camp) Montelupich (Prison) Poland. Polskie Siły Zbrojne. Bataliony Chłopskie Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) Szare Szeregi (Organization)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Instytut Zachodni im. Zygmunta Wojciechowskiego
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Western Institute (Poznań, Poland) [Instytut Zachodni w Poznaniu]. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in December 2017.
Note: This is a cooperative project based on the agreement between USHMM and Yad Vashem, Israel.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 12:46:48
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