Historical Committee of the Temporary Social Insurance Board in Warsaw Komisja Historyczna Tymczasowej Rady Zakladu Ubezpieczeń Społecznych w Warszawie (Sygn.158)
Extent and Medium
6,007 digital images, PDF
Creator(s)
- Zak?ad Ubezpieczen? Spo?ecznych
Biographical History
The Social Insurance Institution (Polish: 'Zakład Ubezpieczeń Społecznych, ZUS') is a Polish state organization responsible for social insurance matters, operating since 1934. ZUS is supervised by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy. The Historical Commission was established in 1946 by the resolution of the Temporary Council of the Social Insurance Institution, its task was to develop the history of social insurance in Polish lands in 1939-1944.
Archival History
Archiwum Akt Nowych
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 Archiwum Akt Nowych, Poland, Sygn. 158. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in December 2017. Note: This is a cooperative project based on the agreement between USHMM and Yad Vashem, Israel.
Scope and Content
Questionnaires and analyses of the Historical Committee of the Temporary Social Insurance Board in Warsaw. The Committee conducted special surveys directed to insurance workers. The collection contains the responses of the insurance workers to the questionnaire on the fate and activity of social insurance during the occupation and its summary and analyses. Answers to the questionnaire concern the following data: place of work and the position of the author of the answer; organizational changes in insurance investments; staffing; healthcare; property and financial matters. Included are workers' memories and comments.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in three series: 1. Register of participants of the questionnaires and minutes of the Committee meetings; 2. Answers to the survey about the fate and activity of social insurance during the occupation; 3. Summaries and analyses of collected data on the fate and activity of social insurance during the occupation. Note: List of survey participants are organized in numerical order. Questionnaires are organized in alphabetical order by localities.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
Subjects
- Labor laws and legislation--Poland--20th century.
- Insurance, Health--Poland--History--20th century.
- Poland--Social conditions--History--20th century.
- Charity -- Associations, institutions, etc.
- Insurance--Poland--History--Research--20th century.
- Social security--Poland--20th century.
- Poland
Genre
- Questionnaires.
- Registers.
- Statistics.
- Document