Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna

  • Central Jewish Historical Commission
  • ועדה היסטורית יהודית בפולין
  • Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna w Polsce
  • Central Jewish Historical Commission in Poland
Identifier
475
Dates
1944-1947
Type of Entity
Corporate Body

History

One of the organization’s first projects was to prepare elaborate questionnaires for groups of Holocaust survivors. By December 1945, some 3,000 testimonies had been collected, constituting one of the most significant bodies of evidence about the Holocaust gathered in the immediate postwar years. In early 1945, the commission began publishing annotated editions of these responses. It then sought monographs on the Holocaust in Poland, based largely on evidence it had gathered. By late 1947, the commission had collected about 7,300 testimonies and had published 38 books.

Sources

  • The Holocaust : Roots, History, and Aftermath / D.M. Crowe. – Colorado, 2008. – p. 279 The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe