Overview
- Description
- Collection of 589 Polish testimonies along with photographs, letters and other personal documents. It contains accounts of Polish victims of WWII, their experiences of German atrocities in Poland and as forced laborers in Germany. The testimonies were sent for the contest "Pomóżcie Nam Zachować Pamieć" organized by the Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (FPNP) and Polska Unia Ofiar Nazizmu in 2005. Contains also other WWII materials collected by the foundation: as photographs, audio and video records. The most interesting materials were published by FPNP in two volumes under a title: “Zachować pamięć.”
- Alternate Title
- Memoirs. Contest: "Preserve Memory Project"
- Date
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creation:
1939-2005
- 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
- Genre/Form
- Photographs. Testimonies. Sound recordings.
- Extent
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23,808 digital images : PDF.
- System of Arrangement
- The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved on digital images. Arranged in two series: 1. Audio and written testimonies, photographs and letters; 2. Documentation of the contest "Pomóżcie Nam Zachować Pamieć." Written testimonies are arranged by names of the testimony authors.
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. The third party must obtain permission from the Foundation for Polish-German Reconciliation for any commercial use of the documents.
- Copyright Holder
- Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland. World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Polish. Polish people--Crimes against--Poland--History--20th century. Forced labor--Germany--History--20th century. Polish people--Germany-History--20th century.
- Corporate Name
- Foundation for Polish-German Reconciliation
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (FPNP, Foundation for Polish-German Reconciliation).The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Dec. 2013.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-07 07:40:54
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn73438
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