Jewish National Fund. Head Office in Poland, Łódź Żydowski Fundusz Narodowy. Biuro Centralne w Polsce, Łódź (Sygn. 627)

The Jewish National Fund is a Jewish financial institution established in 1901 at the 5th Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland. The fund raised funds for the purchase of land and the settlement of Palestine. The JNF is a non-profit organization. By 2007, it owned 13% of the total land in Israel. Since its inception, the JNF says it has planted over 240 million trees in Israel. It has also built 180 dams and reservoirs, developed 250,000 acres (1,000 km2) of land and established more than 1,000 parks. In 2002, the JNF was awarded the Israel Prize for lifetime achievement and special contribution to society and the State of Israel.

Archiwum Państwowe w Łodzi

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 Archiwum Państwowe w Łodzi (State Archives in Łódź), Sygn. 627. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the State Archives in Łódź via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in March 2013.