Underground Archives of Bialystok Ghetto (Meresik-Tenenbaum Archives) Podziemne Archiwum Getta Białostockiego (Archiwum Mersika-Tenenbauma) (Sygn. 204)
Extent and Medium
67 digital files, PDF
Creator(s)
- Pawel Śpiewak
Archival History
Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
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 is the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma (ŻIH), Sygn. 204. These documents were collected in the Bialystok Ghetto and subsequently buried outside its boundaries. They were found in summer 1945 by Dr. Lew Blumenthal, who delivered them to the Central Jewish Historical Commission in Łódz in April 1946. Originals are located in at least two Israeli archives: Yad Vashem and Kibbutz Lohame Ha-Getaot. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from ŻIH via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in July 2009.
Scope and Content
The collection is organized into two parts: originals, including 25 testimonies, 52 protocols of Judenrat meetings, and 434 announcements of the Judenrat; and copies, including personal papers, testimonies, diaries, correspondence, and documents found in the clothing of Jews murdered in Treblinka. Also included are the diary, letters, and other writings of Mordechaj Tenenbaum-Tamaroff; and personal documents of Hersz Cwi Mersik.
System of Arrangement
Organized into two Series: 1. Białystok Judenrat testimonies, protocols, announcement. 2. Personal documents of Mordechaj Tenenbaum-Tamaroff, and Hersz Cwi Mersik.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
People
- Mersik, Cwi Hersz.
- Tenenbaum, Mordecai, 1916-1943.
Subjects
- Białystok (Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground archives--Poland--Białystok.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Białystok.
- Jewish councils--Poland--Białystok.
- Treblinka (Concentration camp)
- World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Białystok.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Białystok--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Diaries.
- Document
- Testimonies.
- Announcements.
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma