Photographs from Radom Fotografie z Radomia (Sygn. 265)

Identifier
irn47521
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.271
  • RG-15.238
Dates
1 Jan 1941 - 31 Dec 1942
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn47521

Extent and Medium

236 digital images, PDF

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.

From the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma (ŻIH), Sygn. 265. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorilal Museum International Archives Project in Sep. 2012.

Scope and Content

Contains various photographs (the size of passport photos) submitted with applications for identity cards to the Jewish Councils in Radom (Judenrat). The office of the Jewish Councils in Radom was created on November 28, 1939, mainly to execute the German administrative regulations concerning the Jewish people. In February 1941, the Council started to issue the identification cards to the Jews, as ordered by the German authorities. A part of these photographs survived in the archives of the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny in Warsaw, Poland. The identification of people on the photographs is sometimes impossible, only a part of the photographs contain name and surname on the reverse side.

System of Arrangement

Syg. number was changed from Syg. 247 to Syg. 265.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma

Subjects

  • Jewish councils--Poland--Radom--History--20th century.
  • Jews--Poland--Radom--Politics and government.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Radom.

Genre

  • Passport photographs.
  • Application forms.
  • Document
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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