Overview
- Description
- Circular letters, protocols, minutes, orders, correspondence, as well as personal and financial files of the main office and regional branches of the Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP), Specjalna Komisja in Poland.
- Alternate Title
- Central Committee of Jews in Poland. Special Commission
- Date
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inclusive:
1946-1950
- 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.
- Collection Creator
- Centralny Komitet ?ydów Polskich. Komisja Specialna
- Biography
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The Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce, CKŻP (Central Committee of Jews in Poland) was the most prominent official Jewish institution in Poland following the Holocaust. CKŻP attended to the needs of Jews from the fall of 1944 until 1950. It sponsored a variety of programs, providing food, shelter, education, medical assistance, cultural activities, and employment services and vocational training. The CKŻP also supervised the repatriation of Jews from the Soviet Union and assisted with legal emigration. A government-funded body, it was supported financially by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Following the Kielce pogrom of 4 July 1946, the committee oversaw a Jewish self-defense organization, the Komisja Specjalna (Special Commission). It employed about 2,500 guards. The guards protected approximately 390 institutions and units of immobile property. The guards were also in charge of security during various meetings and events organized by the CKŻP institutions, for example, by providing special protection during the excavations of the Ringelblum Archive from the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto in September 1946. The staff of the Special Commission were also responsible for collecting all types of information. A gradual stabilization and less frequent anti-Jewish acts led to the liquidation of the Central Special Commission.
- Reference
- Lucjan Dobroszycki, Survivors of the Holocaust in Poland: A Portrait Based on Jewish Community Records, 1944–1947 (Armonk, N.Y., 1994)
A. Grabski, M. Pisarski, A. Stankowski, Studia z dziejów i kultury Żydów w Polsce po 1945 roku, Warszawa: Wydawn. TRIO, 1997, s. 13-82.
Cała, Alina. Ochrona bezpieczeństwa fizycznego Żydów w Polsce powojennej: komisje specjalne przy Centralnym Komitecie Żydów w Polsce. Warszawa: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma, 2014.
D. Engel, Patterns of a Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1944-1946, “Yad Vashem Studies”, vol. 26, 1998, s. 43-85. http://www1.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%203128.pdf
D. Engel, The Reconstruction of Jewish Communal Institutions in Postwar Poland. The Origins of the Central Committee of Polish Jews, “East European Politics & Societies” 1995, vol. X, No 1, s. 85-107.
J.T. Gross, Upiorna dekada. Trzy eseje o stereotypach na temat Żydów, Polaków, Niemców i komunistów 1939-1948, Kraków: 1998, pp. 93-113.
JadFF Schatz, Komuniści w "sektorze żydowskim": tożsamość, etos i struktura instytucjonalna [w:] Nusech Pojln. Studia z dziejów kultury jidysz w powojennej Polsce [red. Magdalena Ruta], s. 27-49, Wydawnictwo Austeria, 2008)
Zarys działalności Centralnego Komitetu Żydów w Polsce za okres od 1 stycznia do 30 czerwca 1946 r., Warszawa : Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich, 1947.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Protocols. Minutes.
- Extent
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1,467 digital images : JPEG ; 3.43 GB.
2 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved on the microfilm reels. Arranged in two series and two subseries: Series I. Organization files of the CKŻP, Special Commission; with two sub-series: Subseries 1. Personnel Files of the Staff, and Subseries 2. Financial Documents; Series II. Files of Regional Branches of the CKŻP, Special Commission.
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
- Holocaust survivors--Poland--Registers. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland--History--20th century. War victims--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland. Jews--Poland--Social conditions. Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland. Militia
- Geographic Name
- Poland--Ethnic relations--20th century. Poland
- Corporate Name
- Central Committee of Polish Jews
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 (ŻIH), Sygn. 303/VIII. In 1950 the Central Committee of Jews in Poland was liquidated and its archives transferred to the ŻIH. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection from the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny 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:
- 2023-07-06 12:14:15
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