Overview
- Description
- Ordinances, announcements, minutes of meetings, official correspondence, registration questionnaires of members, personal files of committee employees, materials related to the Youth Department and others.
- Alternate Title
- Jewish County Committee in Żary
- Date
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inclusive:
1946-1950
- Collection Creator
- Powiatowy Komitet ?ydowski w ?arach
- Biography
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Żary is a medium-sized city in southwestern Poland. Jews settled there after the Second World War, in 1946, They were mainly repatriates who survived the German occupation in the Soviet Union. The settlers created a Jewish Committee which dealt with the search for relatives, social assistance and other current affairs of the Jewish community.
Physical Details
- Extent
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6,411 digital images : PDF.
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in one series: 1. Powiatowy Komitet Żydowski w Żarach; File 1-70: Personal files of employees, questionnaires, and various registration documents organized alphabetically.
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--Refugees--Poland--Żary. World War 1939-1945--Atrocities--Europe. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland--Żary--History--20th century. Jewish refugees--Poland--Żary--History--20th century. Jewish organizations--Poland--History--20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Geographic Name
- Żary (Poland) Poland--Politics and government--History--20th century.
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 im. Emanuela Ringelbluma Poland, Sygn. 356. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in March 2019.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 22:01:46
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn676554
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