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Akta Żanny Kormanowej (Sygn. 1573)

Document | Accession Number: 2020.188.1 | RG Number: RG-15.809

Selected materials from the collection of Żanna Korman née Zelikan (1900-1988), a Polish communist activist: reports and notes about her stay in the USSR in 1941-1945; biographies and memories of many people; curricula for political officers in the Polish army in the USSR; appeals and other electoral materials of Jewish organizations from 1926-1939; correspondence with Henryk Makower and his wife Emma Noemi Makower née Wigdorowicz; and Pinkus Korman personal documents from 1939-1942.

Alternate Title
Selected records of the Żanna Kormanowa collection
Date
inclusive:  1926-1980
Language
Polish
Yiddish
Russian
Genre/Form
Biographies.
Correspondence.
Curriculums.
Leaflets.
Memoirs.
Posters.
Statutes.
Extent
1,689 digital images : PDF.

About This Document

Document Creator
Żanna Kormanowa
Biography
Żanna Kormanowa (1900-1988) was a communist activist, journalist, historian of the workers' movement, director of the Department of Education Reform at the Ministry of Education, 1945-1948, from 1947, a researcher at the Institute of History at the University of Warsaw, responsible for the communization of Polish education and historical sciences in Poland in the years 1944–1956. Żanna Kormanowa belonged to that group of Polish historians who played the infamous role in imposing Soviet patterns of practicing history on Polish historical science and thus making it an ideological tool of the Communist totalitarian party system.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in six groups: 1. Biographies and memories, 1973-1980; 2. Appeals, leaflets, election materials of Jewish organizations; prints and posters, 1926-1939. 3. Stay in the USSR during World War II, 1941-1945; 3. Curricula and papers, 1943- 1944; 5. Władysław Spasowski Pedagogical Society, 1946; 6. Correspondence with prof. Henryk Makower and prof. Noemi Makowerowa, and documents of Pincus Korman, 1926-1961.

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Holder of Originals
Archiwum Akt Nowych
Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
Source of acquisition is the Archiwum Akt Nowych, Poland, Sygn.1573 The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in Jan. 2020. This is a cooperative project based on the agreement between USHMM and Yad Vashem, Israel.

Rights and 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
Reproduction of more than 100 pages of copies of documents for researchers or other institutions requires a written permission of the General Director of the State Archives of the Republic of Poland. Publication of more than 10 complete documents in an individual work requires the written authorization of the General Director. The Museum may not publish any archival material obtained from the General Director, including specific archives under his control, on the Internet, the World Wide Web, or any other publicly accessible on-line network without the written permission of the General Director. Citation of the materials in any publication must refer to the Museum and the Polish State Archives and must include the name of the archival group and catalogue number of the originals.

Copyright Holder
Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
 
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