Collection of materials for the history of the Jewish population in Łódź Zbiór materiałów do dziejów ludności żydowskiej w Łodzi (Sygn.205)

Identifier
irn614019
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2018.335.1
  • RG-15.624
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

44,050 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.

Source of acquisition is the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma Poland, Sygn. 624. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in June 2018.

Scope and Content

This collection contains records relating to the history of the Jewish population in Łódź between 1939-1945. Includes bulletins, lists of various economic investments, a city administration telephone directory and correspondence, a collection of documents related to the creation of the ghetto, information leaflets (NSDP), court files in civil cases, correspondence of the Police (Gestapo. Geheime Staatspolitzei Litzmannstadt), lists of displaced people to Germany, Himmler directives, military messages from Hitler's headquarters, statistical summaries on the Łódź real estate, name lists of tenants, janitors' IDs, financial files, lists of prisoners in various categories, private correspondence and photographs, ID cards and employee name lists (index of people); documents of confiscation of property of the Jewish population, lists of persons applying for the acquisition of objects from the property of the Jewish population; financial statements; ghetto administration orders, statistics of ghetto administration, personal lists and photographs of the ghetto inhabitants, school students' files, health and sanitary statistics of the ghetto population, chronicles and reporters on the life of the ghetto, various underground appeals to the population calling for conspiracy activities, private documents and literary works and drawings (cartoons of Rumkowski), various statistics and post-war articles about the Łódź ghetto, documents of the city of Łódź, and private documents from the ghetto Archive. (See also USHMM collection: RG-15.083M: 2000.126. Przełożony Starszeństwa Żydow w Getcie Łódzkim: The elders of the Jews in the Łódź ghetto, 1939-1944)

System of Arrangement

Arranged in four series: 1. Administracja niemiecka (File 1-216); 2. Getto Lodzkie-Przełożony Starszeństwa Żydów w Łodzi (Der Älteste der Juden in Litzmannstadt (File 217-372); 3. Materiały powojenne dotyczące getta łódzkiego (File 373-414); 4. Aneksy i uzupełnienia (File 415-626).

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma

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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.