Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna

Joods comité voor sociale zelfhulp
Jüdische Soziale Selbsthilfe

Identifier: 632
Type of Entity: Corporate Body

History

The Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna was set up with sections for: Finance, Clothes Collection, Emergency Aid, Sanitation and Housing for the Homeless. In addition, Local Committees have been set up in the various sections of Warsaw. In this way a fairly complicated and widespread system of public assistance has penetrated through every level and part of the Jewish public, and reaches into the most distant areas populated by Jews.

Places

Founded in Poland.

Sources

Yad Vashem, www.yadvashem.org

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Jagiellonian University collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn47553
- English
- 1939-1957
- 5,337 digital images, JPEG 10 DVD-ROMs, 4 3/4 in.
- Updated 7 months ago
This collection contains unpublished studies by Michała Weichert, the Chairman of the Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna, ŻSS (Jewish Social Self-Help) in the Generalne Gubernatorstwo (Generalgouvernement) during the war, biographical documents, as well as other documents from the Head Office of the Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna in Kraków. These records refer to many Jewish communities on the territory of the Generalne Gubernatorstwo. Also included are newspaper clippings, studies by Wincenty Stypuła about the history of Jews in Kraków, and by Zygmunt Felczyński about the Jewish hospital in Przemy...
Jüdische Soziale Selbsthilfe Jewish Social Mutual Assistance Zespoł Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna (Sygn. 211)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn501668
- English
- 1939-1944
- 1,449 digital files, PDF 54 microfilm reels, 35 mm 4 DVD, 4 3/4 in.
- Updated 7 months ago
Contains correspondence between the head office in Kraków and the local branches in the General Government relating to the organization’s activities and relations with the German and Polish authorities. Records include financial and organizational materials, personal files of the staff, correspondence, post war copies. The index of names and places is included in finding aid.
Selected records of governor of Radom district Gubernator dystryktu Radomskiego = Der gouverneur des distrikts Radom (Sygn. 209)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn519165
- English
- 1907-1956
- 14,392 digital images, JPEG 14 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
- Updated 7 months ago
The collection contains records relating to local economy, especially the merger of village lands (about 60% of the records), and to office's internal organization and its staff (about 40% of the records). There are some records relating to extermination activity, deportations, camps and the like. Also includes 3,016 personal files of primary school teachers from the Radom district area, but no Jews are represented in these files.
Selected records of the Holocaust collection: Postwar testimonies and Jewish Social Mutual files (RG VII-123)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn47845
- English
- 1940-1945
- 8,369 digital images, PNG 4 microfilm reels, 16 mm
- Updated 7 months ago
Contains approximately 922 survivor testimonies of Holocaust survivors collected by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Bucharest, Romania immediately after WWII, in April or early May 1945, and original files of the Zespół Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna (Jüdische Soziale Selbsthilfe; Jewish Social Mutual Assistance), related to the Jewish communities in Poland: Bobowa, Bychawa, Busko, Cyców, Dąbrowa Tarnowska, Ropczyce, Rudnik, and Uniejów.
Seleted records of the Central Welfare Council. Head Office in Cracow Rada Główna Opiekuńcza. Biuro Centrali w Krakowie (Sygn.125)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn593157
- English
- 1940-1945
- 99,414 digital images, PDF
- Updated 7 months ago
Correspondence, minutes of reports, activity reports, lists of population, statistical information and other records created by the Rada Główna Opiekuńcza (Central Welfare Council), RGO, Polish social welfare organization working during the occupation period in Poland. Some of the material concerns the Jewish population and cooperation with the Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna, ŻSS (Jüdische Soziale Selbsthilfe).
Weichert Collection: Documentation of activities of the Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS - Jewish Social Self Help Organization) in Poland under the German occupation and documentation belonging to Michal Weichert
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- O.21
- English
- 1939-1957
- 43 files
- Updated 10 years ago
Included in the Collection: - Documentation of the administration of the JUS in Krakow during the war years:Correspondence with branches of the organization in the Generalgouvernement area and with various Jewish welfare organizations in occupied Poland; correspondence with the JDC in Geneva and Lisbon; periodical guidelines from the administration to the local chapters; excerpts from periodical reports issued by the German occupational authorities in the Generalgouvernement; - Testimonies and excerpts from testimonies given to the Area Committees for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Pol...
ZSt Ludwigsburg; Krakau
- Institut für Zeitgeschichte–Archiv
- Gy 37 / 1
- German
- Updated 9 years ago
Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna
- Jüdische Soziale Selbsthilfe
- Jewish Social Self-Help
- Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
- 211
- Polish
- 1940-1944
- 1481 files
- Updated 2 years ago
Zespół ŻSS 1940-1942 [1944] zawiera m.in..: - statuty i regulaminy ŻSS, Naczelnej Rady Opiekuńczej, Polskiej Rady Głównej, sprawozdanie z posiedzeń Rady Głównej Opiekuńczej. 1940 r.; - memoriały, okólniki i instrukcje ŻSS 1940-1942; - notatki z posiedzeń Prezydium, konferencji, rozmów telefonicznych i z pracy poszczególnych wydziałów Prezydium 1940-1942; - korespondencja ogólna ze Związkiem Towarzystw Opieki nad Dziećmi i Sierotami Centos, Towarzystwem Ochrony Zdrowia, Domem Sierot w Krakowie, Żydowskim Komitetem Inwalidów Wojennych, Polskim Czerwonym Krzyżem 1940-1942; - wykazy subwencji p...