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Karty zgonów z getta warszawskiego (Sygn. 221/15)

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2018.308.1 | RG Number: RG-15.628

Overview

Description: This collection contains death cards of the deceased in the Warsaw ghetto, which were handed over to the Jewish Historical Institute in the 1990s. This consists of more or less a tenth of all cards issued in the ghetto counting 10,052 names, while before the liquidation in 1942 about 100,000 people died. The cards were prepared by the Health Department of the Jewish Council for the Statistical Department of the City Board in Warsaw. The cards were completed and signed by Jewish doctors in the ghetto, mainly from 1941.

Note: Digitized cards are available online on the JHI website. There is also the possibility to search database at: https://cbj.jhi.pl/collections/504441
Alternate Title: Death cards from the Warsaw Ghetto
Date: inclusive: 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.

Physical Details

Language: Polish German
Genre/Form: Death registers.
Extent: 17,256 digital images : PDF.
System of Arrangement: Cards are arranged in alphabetical order in one series: 1. File 221/15; Death Cards A-Z.

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: World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--Warsaw. Jews--Persecutions--Poland--Warsaw. Jewish councils--Poland--Warsaw. Jewish ghetto--Poland--Warsaw. Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw--History.
Geographic Name: Warsaw (Poland) Poland--History--Occupation, 1939--1945. Getto warszawskie (Warsaw, Poland)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Source of acquisition is the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma Poland, Sygn. 221. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in June 2018.

Record last modified:: 2022-07-28 18:18:26
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