Central Committee of the Jews in Poland (CKŻP). Legal Department Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Prawny (Sygn.303/XVI)

Identifier
irn47892
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.280
  • RG-15.247
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1950
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • Yiddish
  • Czech
  • English
  • French
  • Hebrew
  • German
  • Italian
  • Russian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn47892

Extent and Medium

10,278 digital images, PDF

Creator(s)

  • Centralny Komitet ?ydów w Polsce. Wydzia? Prawny.

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.303/XVI. Records created by the Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce (CKŻP), and in 1950 transferred to the ŻIH Archives. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the ŻIH via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Sept. 2012.

Scope and Content

Contains financial records of the Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce (CKŻP), as well as correspondence and files related to Jewish property in Poland and other countries, war crime trials (Rudolf Höss), personal files and the files of several dozen regional offices. Includes correspondence of the Wojewódzki Komitet Żydowski we Wrocławiu relating to Jews–German citizens who stayed in Poland after the war, as well correspondence relating to aid rendered to Poles who helped Jews during the war, denouncements of people who collaborated with Germans during the occupation, requests for intervention for people imprisoned in Poland and the USSR, people waiting for repatriations, requests for taking care of children, and abandoned graves, etc.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma

People

  • Höss, Rudolf, 1900-1947.

Corporate Bodies

  • Central Committee of Polish Jews
  • American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
  • World Jewish Congress

Subjects

  • Jewish property--Europe--History--20th century.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions.
  • Jewish property--Poland----History--20th century.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
  • Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.

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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