Overview
- Description
- Reports, memories and other materials relating to peasant underground movement, labor camps, prisons and concentration camps, such as lists of the dead, organizational structures of the Peasant Battalions (BCH), reports of BCH members' meetings, correspondence, copies of secret messages written in the camp, speeches, descriptions, surveys and others concerning the territories of occupied Poland.
- Alternate Title
- Accounts, memories and materials of soldiers from the Peasant Battalions
- Date
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inclusive:
1939-2010
Physical Details
- Language
- Polish
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence. Memoirs. Reports. Statistics. Registers.
- Extent
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82,240 digital images : JPEG ; 597 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
- Materials shall be used only for research and educational purposes including use in exhibits and educational programs. The Museum or Yad Vashem may edit, adapt or translate the reproduced archival materials. No permission for use and reproduction of materials by any third parties.
- Copyright Holder
- Zakład Historii Ruchu Ludowego w Warszawie. Fundacja Rozwoju
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945 Atrocities--Poland--Warsaw. World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Underground movements--Peasants--Bataliony Chłopskie. World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--Poland. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Polish. Polish people--Crimes against--Poland--20th century. Underground movements--Poland--́́History--20th century. Cassino, Battle of, Cassino, Italy, 1944. Polish people--Crimes against--Poland--20th century. Peasants--Poland--Political activity--History--20th century.
- Geographic Name
- Brzozowy Kąt (Poland) Chełm (Lublin, Poland : Powiat) Częstochowa (Poland) Dorohusk (Poland) Garwolin (Poland) Kielce (Poland) Kielce (Poland) Komarówka (Poland) Kraków (Poland)--History--20th century. Krasnystaw (Poland) Łowicz (Poland)--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. Lublin (Poland)--German occupation, 1939-1945. Lviv (Ukraine) Minsk Mazowiecki (Poland) Montecassiano (Italy) Olkusz (Poland) Opatów Kielecki (Poland) Opoczno (Poland) Oświęcim (Poland)--History--20th century. Pińczów (Poland : Powiat) Piotrków (Poland) Rawa Mazowiecka (Poland : Powiat)--History. Sandomierz (Poland)--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. Siedlce (Poland) Skierniewice (Poland)--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. Swierże (Poland) Turka (Poland) Warsaw (Poland)--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. Węgrów (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland) Zamość (Poland) Złota (Poland) Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Corporate Name
- Poland. Polskie Siły Zbrojne. Bataliony Chłopskie
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Zakład Historii Ruchu Ludowego w Warszawie. Fundacja Rozwoju
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Zakład Historii Ruchu Ludowego w Warszawie. Fundacja Rozwoju, Poland. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in May 2018. This is a cooperative project based on the agreement between USHMM and Yad Vashem, Israel.
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- 2023-08-25 12:46:54
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