Central Committee of Jews in Poland. Department of Registration and Statistics Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Ewidencji i Statystyki (Sygn. 303/V)

Identifier
irn42720
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2011.43
  • RG-15.186M
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1950
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • Yiddish
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

230,508 digital images, JPEG

200 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm

Creator(s)

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. 303/V. Records created by the Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce (CKŻP). Wydział Ewidencji i Statystyki; previously Syg. 307. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from ŻIH i via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in October 2010, additional reels accreted in May 2011, and digital files in May 2018.

Scope and Content

Minutes, reports, briefs, correspondence, personnel files, and statistics on the Jewish communities throughout Poland; the central index books and registration forms for Jewish survivors in Poland (approximately 280,000 cards); portions of the Lublin, Łódź, Gliwice, and Bielsko-Biała card files; a card file created by the Warsaw committee of the CKŻP; and a file on people sent from Lvov to Poland during the population exchange with Ukraine. Accretion of records consists of two important files: #595 and 596, the so-called Lublin Registry Books-the earliest list of Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust, 1945-1946. The alphabetical list was compiled by the District Jewish Committee in Lublin. It contains the following data about each registered person: registration number in the central card index, name and surname, parents' names, date and place of birth, sex, occupation, where he came from (that is, how he survived the Holocaust), current address.

System of Arrangement

Arranged in three series: 1. General correspondence (Files 1-40); 2. Personal files (Files 41-42); 3. Statistics of the Jewish population (Files 43-424); 4. Lublin Registry Books, 1945-1946 Files 595 and 596). The central index books and registration forms are arranged in alphabetical order.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma

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