Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce

Political representation of Jews in Poland

CKŻP

Identifier: 1221
Type of Entity: Corporate Body

Dates of Existence

1944-11/1950-10-29

History

The most prominent official Jewish institution in Poland following the Holocaust, the Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce, attended to the needs of Jews from fall 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. The CKŻP was supported financially by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. In 1950-10-29 CKŻP was connected with Żydowskie Towarzystwo Kultury (The Jewish Cultural Society) and it became Towarzystwo Społeczno-Kulturalne Żydów w Polsce.

Places

Founded in Poland, Lublin.

Sources

Wirtualny Sztetl, www.sztetl.org.pl YIVO Institute for Jewish research, www.yivoencyclopedia.org

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Adolf Abraham Berman
- אדולף אברהם ברמן
- Bermann, Adolf Abraham
- EHRI Personalities
- Person
- Updated 7 years ago
17/10/1906

03/02/1978

Psychologist, Zionist activist in the Warsaw ghetto underground and one of the leaders of ZEGOTA. Witness in Eichmann trial.
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
- AJDC
- EHRI Corporate Bodies
- Corporate Body
- Updated 7 months ago
1914/present

Founded in 1914, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee provided assistance to Jews around the world, particularly in eastern Europe. During the Nazi era, this umbrella agency for aid organizations in the United States was involved in emigration planning and relief work in Germany, until 1939 providing an increasing share of the budget for German Jewish organizations, such as the Reichsvertretung. The Joint efforts continued after the war began and extended beyond the Reich into countries occupied or controlled by Germany.
Bulletin of the Jewish Press Agency Żydowska Agencja Prasowa. Biuletyn (Sygn. 354)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn37565
- English
- 1944-1949
- 18 digital files, PDF
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains selected issues of the Bulletin of the Żydowska Agencja Prasowa (Jewish Press Agency), published from Nov.1944 to Dec.1949. Bulletin covers mainly political aspects of Jewish life. The Bulletin was published on bad quality paper, using duplicate typescript; some issues are almost completely illegible.
Central Jewish Committee in Poland, Education Department Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Oświaty (Sygn.303/IX)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn508321
- English
- 1945-1950
- 16,937 digital files, PDF 47 microfilm reels, 35 mm
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains files of the Central Committee's Education Department, including correspondence, reports, inspection reports, minutes of meetings, statistics, I.Q. tests, school programs, text books, song lyrics, programs for community centers, school certifications, index cards of surviving Jewish children, indexes of found and hidden children in Germany and other European countries, adoption documents, index cards of children in orphanages, and financial statements. Accretion of 2018 includes documentation of several departments: Organizational files (1717-1756): Lists of childcare facilities, i...
Central Jewish Committee in Poland. Presidium Centralny Komitet Żydow Polskich (CKŻP). Prezydium (Sygn. 303/1-27)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn508714
- English
- 1945-1949
- 4 microfilm reels, 35 mm
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains meeting protocols and reports related to the Jewish life in Poland after World War II. The collection documents activities of the Presidium, Central Jewish Committee in Poland. The data pertains mainly to the financial, political, educational, cultural, and emigration issues of the Jewish population in Poland.
Central Jewish Historical Commission at the Central Committee of the Jews in Poland Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna przy Centralnym Komitecie Żydów w Polsce, Sygn. 303/XX
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn41885
- English
- 1944-1947
- 33,970 digital images, JPEG 29 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains correspondence, certificates and agreements, minutes, reports, instructions and questionnaires for conducting interviews with Holocaust victims, name lists of war criminals and their victims, lists of Jewish doctors in Łódź Ghetto, and many other lists related to Jews in particular cities or villages; lectures, notes and memos, relating to many activities of the Central Jewish Historical Commission at the Central Committee of the Jews in Poland (CKŻP). One of most important part of correspondence constitute letters and supporting documentation relating to war crimes, war criminals ...
Collection of photographs from various files Fotografie z różnych dokumentów (Sygn. BN)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn47522
- English
- 1944-1950
- 20 digital images, PDF
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains various photographs of the size of membership cards or passports, made in the early post-war years. They were attached to various documents (mainly from the records of the Organization for Rehabilitation and Training ( World ORT Union; ORT), the Towarzystwo Ochrony Zdrowia Ludności Żydowskiej (Society for Health-Protection of the Jewish Population in Poland; TOZ), and Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (Central Committe of the Jews in Poland; CKŻP): Department of Emigration, personal files), however, over several dozen years they were, due to unknown circumstances, separated from tho...
Files of Szymon Zachariasz Akta Szymona Zachariasza (Sygn. 476)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn95712
- English
- 1941-1975
- 5,744 digital images, PDF
- Updated 1 year ago
Collection of files relating to Szymon Zachariasz and his political activities. Contains resumes, surveys, certificates, identity cards, memories of Zachariasz; memories and reports of the Komunistyczana Partia Polski (KPP) and its activists, records on the cooperation with the editorial committee of the dictionary "Słownik Biograficzny Działaczy Polskiego Ruchu Rewolucyjnego", articles published in the "Folks Sztyme", and other unpublished speeches and articles, 1941-1968; papers, historical sketches, instructions, clippings and extracts from the press issued on the celebration of the anni...
Health Care Organization of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland Towarzystwo Ochrony Zdrowia Ludności Żydowskiej w Polsce przy Centralnym Komitecie Żydow w Polsce (TOZ), Sygn. 324
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn516513
- English
- 1945-1950
- 89,203 digital images, JPEG 80 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains records related to the health conditions of Poles and Jews who survived the Holocaust and repatriates returning to Poland from the Soviet Union. The majority of the documents relate to child care, and to cooperation with international organizations.The most complete records are from Łódź, Warsaw, Dzierzoniów, Wrocław, Kraków and Szczecin. Materials include name indexes.
Leonard Lief correspondence
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn500307
- English
- folders 3
- Updated 1 year ago
The Leonard Lief correspondence consists of letters, postcards, forms, and receipts exchanged among Leonard Lief in New York, his family in Warsaw, and humanitarian agencies and organizations. The correspondence documents Lief’s efforts to assist his family during the early years of the Holocaust and to trace their whereabouts and fates afterwards. Correspondence from humanitarian agencies and organizations includes letters and postcards from the Red Cross, HIAS, Jewish Social Self Help, Central Committee of Polish Jews, and American State Department transmitting requests, facilitating the ...
Ministry of Public Administration in Warsaw Ministerstwo Administracji Publicznej w Warszawie (Sygn. 199)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn551211
- English
- 1945-1950
- 25,676 digital images, PDF
- Updated 1 year ago
Selected files from the following departments of the Ministry of Public Administration in Warsaw: The Cabinet of the Minister (Gabinet Ministra), Political Department (Departament Polityczny), Department of Administration and Law (Departament Administracyjno-Prawny), Department of Religious Denominations (Departament Wyznaniowy). The materials refer to: repatriation, the organization and activities of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland (CKŻP), Jewish political parties, organizations (e.g. Joint, Jewish Agency for Palestine, Polamit), statistical data and Jewish religious congregations,...
Provincial Jewish Committee in Warsaw Wojewódzki Komitet Żydowski w Warszawie (Sygn. 352)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn47524
- English
- 1944-1959
- 15,999 digital images, PDF
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains the records of the Provincial Jewish Committee in Warsaw (Wojewódzki Komitet Żydowski w Warszawie, WKŻ), which was established in September 1944 and was subordinated to the Central Committee of Jews in Poland (Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce, CKŻP). Records consist of correspondence, organizational files, testimonies, statistics, personal files from the staff, financial records relating to matters of the survivors of the Holocaust.
Selected records from the State Archives in Płock
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn73597
- English
- 1932-1945
- 4,586 digital images, JPEG 3 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains selected records from towns (Płock, Gąbin, Gostynin, Sierpc, Raciąż and Wyszogród), and counties (in Gostynin, Płock and Sierpc) in voivodeship Mazowieckie (Poland), both those group of records are from the pre-war, and post-war period. Records from the pre-war period include: minutes of sessions of the Town Hall, budget books, reports and various matters of social and economic character, as well as minutes of sessions of the Jewish Religious Community Council in Płock from1932-1933, and reports from the sessions of the Rabbinical Judgement in Drobin. Records from the period of 193...
Selected records from the State Archives in Radom Wybrane materiały z Archiwum Państwowego w Radomiu
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn595258
- English
- 1915-1951
- 18 microfilm reels, 35 mm
- Updated 1 year ago
Selected records of the various units of municipal offices in Radom city and its district, the Radom District Court, School Inspectorate, Association of Polish Teachers, and the banks and credit unions. Included is also the private collection of documents of Lejbuś, Judek Perl. Records of the municipal offices in Radom city and district consists of correspondence, German announcements, statistics of people from Polish territories incorporated into the Reich including the number of displaced Jews, records on the forced work of Polish population, cases of Polish POWs, lists of people murdered...
Selected records of the city of Warsaw. City Board of the capital city of Warsaw Akta miasta Warszawy. Zarząd Miejski miasta stołecznego Warszawy (Sygn. 3)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn611479
- English
- 1944-1950
- 64 digital files, PDF
- Updated 1 year ago
Records of the Social-Political Department of the City Board in Warsaw concerning Jewish associations from the post-war period: Correspondence, registration or refusal of registration, lists of associations, reports on activities, statutes, lists and members and personal files.
Selected records of the district of Sochaczew Starostwo Powiatowe w Sochaczewie (Sygn. 98)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn607812
- English
- 1945-1948
- 184 digital images, PDF
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains various records related to the Jewish Committee of Sochaczew, other Polish organizations and societies, Jewish graveyards, lists of war graves, Poles and Jews inhabiting the county of Sochaczew, and additionally included are licenses for running private enterprises.
Selected records of the Polish Committee of National Liberation Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (Sygn. 185) : Wybrane materialy
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn557918
- English
- 1944
- 6,067 digital images, PDF
- Updated 1 year ago
Selected records of the Polish Committee of National Liberation (PKWN), including: A list of the members of the PKWN, and others, who left Moscow for Chełm in 1944, reports of the PKWN delegates of the Department for Jewish Affairs regarding the security of the so-called liberated areas and the organization of Jewish communities, correspondence with the Central Jewish Committee, newsletters of the Jewish Press Agency, 1944, records of the Department of Justice discussing matters of the restitution of property to Jewish survivors, records on the war crime trials, articles written by staff of...
Selected records of the Voivodeship Office in Kielce Urząd Wojewódzki Kielecki II (Sygn. 305)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn531845
- English
- 1939-1949
- 4,838 digital images, PDF
- Updated 1 year ago
Diverse documentation from the Voivodeship Office in Kielce, records related to: identification of dead corpses of people who died during the World War II, war graves, removal of gravestones from pavements, security matters (assaults on Jews in the postwar period, including the Kielce pogrom of July 4, 1946 and other antisemitic riots), registers of war damages, changes of surnames, giving names to the children with unknown parents, the matters of Jewish religious associations, lists of graveyards and synagogues, lists of people of non-Catholic denomination in individual counties, various m...
Selected records of the Voivodship Office in Łódź Urząd Wojewódzki Łódzki (Sygn. 804) : Wybrane materiały
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn614057
- English
- 1945-1950
- 5,902 digital images, JPEG
- Updated 1 year ago
Statistical data, correspondence, minutes, registration of war damages, records of the population, records related to the property of Jewish communities, and so-called productivisation of the Jewish population after the war, lists and other materials concerning associations and unions, lists of the mass graves of war victims, and loss or granting of Polish citizenship, documents regarding civil status and the help for the victims of prisons and Nazi camps, as well as other materials.
Towarzystwo Społeczno-Kulturalne Żydów w Polsce
- TSKŻ
- EHRI Corporate Bodies
- Corporate Body
- Updated 1 decade ago
Founded in 1950

Towarzystwo Społeczno-Kulturalne Żydów w Polsce is the largest Jewish organization in the country. The main objectives of the association is the integration of the Jewish community, the activities in the area of Jewish culture and Yiddish language and to build good Polish-Jewish relations.