Selected records from the collection Polish Welfare Committee in Częstochowa Polski Komitet Opiekuńczy Oddział w Częstochowie (Sygn.15)
Extent and Medium
1,220 digital images, JPEG
Creator(s)
- Polski Komitet Opieku?czy w Cz?stochowie.
Archival History
Archiwum Państwowe w Częstochowie
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 Państwowe w Częstochowie, Poland, Sygn.15. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 2014.
Scope and Content
This collection contains files of the Polish Social Welfare Committee (Polski Komitet Opiekuńczy) in Częstochowa during the Nazi occupation, includes mainly records related to social welfare rendered to the poor, orphaned children, refugees, and individuals deported from the USSR during 1939-1940, or who left Warsaw after the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. Apart from the above, some file fragments refer to matters of the Jewish community.
System of Arrangement
The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in digital images. Arranged in three series: 1. Orders and reports, 1940-1942; 2. Records of the orphanage in Częstochowa,1941-1944 (Register of boys); 3. Records of the orphanage in Częstochowa,1941-1945 (Register of girls).
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
Subjects
- Social Service
- Polish people--Soviet Union--Relocation--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Forced repatriation--Poland--Częstochowa.
- Poland--Ethnic relations.
- Jews--Poland--Częstochowa--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children--Poland--Częstochowa.
- Population transfers--Polish people--History--20th century.
- Częstochowa (Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--Poland--Częstochowa.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Częstochowa (Poland)--History--20th century.
- Orphans--Care--Poland--Częstochowa--History--Registers.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Poland.
Genre
- Registers.
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Archiwum Państwowe w Częstochowie