Selected records from the Ghetto Fighters' House (Beit Lohamei Haghetaot)

Identifier
irn37309
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2009.91
  • RG-68.112M
Dates
1 Jan 1920 - 31 Dec 1950
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Hebrew
  • German
  • Polish
  • Yiddish
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn37309

Extent and Medium

298,182 digital images, PDF

2,160 microfilm reels, 35 mm

43 DVD-ROMs, 4 3/4 in.

Creator(s)

  • Bet lohame ha-geta'ot

Archival History

Bet lohame ha-geta'ot

Acquisition

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.

Source of acquisition the Bet lohame ha-geta'ot (Ghetto Fighters' House), Israel. In August 2004, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) and the Ghetto Fighters' House signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly reproduce its entire Holocaust-relevant archival holdings estimated at over 1.5 million pages of records. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the first two parts of the collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archival Programs in June and December of 2009, accretion continued in 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014 and Jan. 2018. This is an ongoing project.

Scope and Content

This collection contains records relating to Jewish underground organizations in ghettos in occupied Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Slovakia, France, and many other countries, Jewish participation in partisan movements against the Nazis and their allies, as well as Jewish life generally before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes testimonies, correspondence, documents of ghetto councils, German and Judenrat edicts, memoirs, biographies, documents of the rescue and aid organizations, underground proclamations, meeting minutes, personal papers, commendations and decorations, research papers, works of literature and art, underground newspapers, maps, diaries, and ghetto police documents. Reports address subjects such as education, work, cultural activities, food supplies, children, health, religion, illegal weapons, official and underground courts, deportations, and fire control.

System of Arrangement

No particular thematic and/or chronological organization. User needs to consult the finding aid. Digital images are reproduced from microfilm reels and organized as follow: DVD #1-7: Contain digital images reproduced from microfilm reels #1-166; DVD #8-23: Contain digital images reproduced from microfilm reels #167-535; DVD #24: Contains digital images reproduced from microfilm reels # 544, 547-557, 559, 560, 562-573; DVD #25-31: Contain digital images reproduced from microfilm reels #574-711; DVD # 32: Contains digital images reproduced from microfilm reels #695B, 697B; DVD #33-34: Contain digital images reproduced from microfilm reels #712-756; DVD #35, Contains digital images reproduced from microfilm reels #1663 -1671(North African records).

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Bet lohame ha-geta'ot

People

  • Kornianski, Josef.
  • Berman, Adolf-Abraham, 1906-
  • Tene, Benjamin, 1914-1999.

Corporate Bodies

  • World Union OSE

Subjects

  • Jewish ghettos--Poland.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Personal narratives.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
  • Jewish ghettos--Ukraine.
  • Jewish ghetto--Lithuania.
  • France
  • War criminals--Germany.
  • Holocaust victims.
  • Jewish ghettos--Slovakia.
  • Museums.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

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