Memoirs. Contest: "Preserve Memory Project" Wspomnienia. Materiały konkursowe "Zachować pamięć"
Extent and Medium
23,808 digital images, PDF
Archival History
Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie
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 Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (FPNP, Foundation for Polish-German Reconciliation).The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Dec. 2013.
Scope and Content
Collection of 589 Polish testimonies along with photographs, letters and other personal documents. It contains accounts of Polish victims of WWII, their experiences of German atrocities in Poland and as forced laborers in Germany. The testimonies were sent for the contest "Pomóżcie Nam Zachować Pamieć" organized by the Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (FPNP) and Polska Unia Ofiar Nazizmu in 2005. Contains also other WWII materials collected by the foundation: as photographs, audio and video records. The most interesting materials were published by FPNP in two volumes under a title: “Zachować pamięć.”
System of Arrangement
The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved on digital images. Arranged in two series: 1. Audio and written testimonies, photographs and letters; 2. Documentation of the contest "Pomóżcie Nam Zachować Pamieć." Written testimonies are arranged by names of the testimony authors.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie
Corporate Bodies
- Foundation for Polish-German Reconciliation
Subjects
- Germany--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Germany.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Polish.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.
- Forced labor--Germany--History--20th century.
- Polish people--Germany-History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
- Polish people--Crimes against--Poland--History--20th century.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document
- Sound recordings.
- Testimonies.
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie