Death cards from the Warsaw Ghetto Karty zgonów z getta warszawskiego (Sygn. 221/15)
Extent and Medium
17,256 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. 221. 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 death cards of the deceased in the Warsaw ghetto, which were handed over to the Jewish Historical Institute in the 1990s. This consists of more or less a tenth of all cards issued in the ghetto counting 10,052 names, while before the liquidation in 1942 about 100,000 people died. The cards were prepared by the Health Department of the Jewish Council for the Statistical Department of the City Board in Warsaw. The cards were completed and signed by Jewish doctors in the ghetto, mainly from 1941. Note: Digitized cards are available online on the JHI website. There is also the possibility to search database at: https://cbj.jhi.pl/collections/504441
System of Arrangement
Cards are arranged in alphabetical order in one series: 1. File 221/15; Death Cards A-Z.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
Subjects
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland--Warsaw.
- Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw--History.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--Warsaw.
- Getto warszawskie (Warsaw, Poland)
- Jewish ghetto--Poland--Warsaw.
- Jewish councils--Poland--Warsaw.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939--1945.
- Warsaw (Poland)
Genre
- Death registers.
- Document