Accounts, memories and materials of soldiers from the Peasant Battalions Relacje, wspomnienia i materiały żołnierzy Batalionów Chłopskich
Extent and Medium
82,240 digital images, JPEG
Archival History
Zakład Historii Ruchu Ludowego w Warszawie. Fundacja Rozwoju
Acquisition
Source of acquisition is the Zakład Historii Ruchu Ludowego w Warszawie. Fundacja Rozwoju, Poland. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in May 2018. This is a cooperative project based on the agreement between USHMM and Yad Vashem, Israel.
Scope and Content
Reports, memories and other materials relating to peasant underground movement, labor camps, prisons and concentration camps, such as lists of the dead, organizational structures of the Peasant Battalions (BCH), reports of BCH members' meetings, correspondence, copies of secret messages written in the camp, speeches, descriptions, surveys and others concerning the territories of occupied Poland.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Zakład Historii Ruchu Ludowego w Warszawie. Fundacja Rozwoju
Corporate Bodies
- Poland. Polskie Siły Zbrojne. Bataliony Chłopskie
Subjects
- Olkusz (Poland)
- Węgrów (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
- Sandomierz (Poland)--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Zamość (Poland)
- Lublin (Poland)--German occupation, 1939-1945.
- Brzozowy Kąt (Poland)
- Cassino, Battle of, Cassino, Italy, 1944.
- Montecassiano (Italy)
- Krasnystaw (Poland)
- Piotrków (Poland)
- Pińczów (Poland : Powiat)
- Złota (Poland)
- Garwolin (Poland)
- Rawa Mazowiecka (Poland : Powiat)--History.
- Swierże (Poland)
- Chełm (Lublin, Poland : Powiat)
- Skierniewice (Poland)--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--Poland.
- Peasants--Poland--Political activity--History--20th century.
- Oświęcim (Poland)--History--20th century.
- Opoczno (Poland)
- Underground movements--Poland--́́History--20th century.
- Łowicz (Poland)--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Kielce (Poland)
- Polish people--Crimes against--Poland--20th century.
- Komarówka (Poland)
- Lviv (Ukraine)
- Siedlce (Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Underground movements--Peasants--Bataliony Chłopskie.
- Dorohusk (Poland)
- Opatów Kielecki (Poland)
- Kraków (Poland)--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Polish.
- Częstochowa (Poland)
- Kielce (Poland)
- Warsaw (Poland)--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945 Atrocities--Poland--Warsaw.
- Turka (Poland)
- Polish people--Crimes against--Poland--20th century.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Minsk Mazowiecki (Poland)
Genre
- Reports.
- Correspondence.
- Memoirs.
- Statistics.
- Registers.
- Document