Polish Communist Party. Central Jewish Office Komunistyczna Partia Polski (KPP). Centralne Biuro Żydowskie (Sygn.158)

Identifier
irn95709
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2015.5
  • RG-15.342
Dates
1 Jan 1920 - 31 Dec 1937
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • Yiddish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn95709

Extent and Medium

396 digital images, PDF

Creator(s)

  • Komunistyczna Partia Polski

Biographical History

Komunistyczna Partia Polski (KPP). Centralne Biuro Żydowskie (Polish Communist Party. Central Jewish Office) was founded on Dec. 16, 1918 in Warsaw. The organization was a co-founder of the Communist International and acted as a section. Main newspapers published by KPP: Nowy Przegląd (The New Digest), Czerwony Sztandar (Red Banner), Głos Komunistyczny (Communist Voice), Gromada (Community) and Wiadomości (“News”). KPP activity was discontinued in August 1938, the organization began working again in 1956. The Central Jewish Office was an integral part of KPP.

Archival History

Archiwum Akt Nowych

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 Akt Nowych, Poland. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the digitized collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in Feb. 2015.

Scope and Content

Selected records of the Polish Communist Party (KPP). Central Jewish Office. The collection contains minutes, resolutions, reports, analyses, instructions, articles, correspondence of the organization, and a list of Jewish communist newspapers in Russian. General reports relate to various districts in Poland: Łódź-Częstochowa-Radom, 1935-36; Ciechanów, Płock, Włocławek. 1932, 1934-35; Wołyn, 1923; Łódź and its district, 1931-1935; Piotrków district, 1932; Radom and Lublin, 1931-1932; Siedlce, 1932, 1934, 1935; Warszawa, 1931 and 1935; Kutno, Włocławek, Płock, Mława, Ciechanów, 1931-1932; Częstochowa-Sosnowiec-Siedlce-Lublin, 1937. The reports on "Jewish work" relate to several other districts in Poland: as Łódź, Poznań, Siedlce-Łomża. Other documents relate to the Bund, Poalei Zion, a speech of Nikolai Bukharin at the VI Congress of KPP in Moscow, 1929; incidents in the sanatorium Włodzimierza Medema w Miedzeszynie, and activities of union workers.

System of Arrangement

The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved on the microfilm reels. Arranged in one series: 1. Reports, correspondence and other documents of the Polish Communist Party (KPP). Central Jewish Office.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

People

  • Bukharin, Nikolaĭ, 1888-1938.

Corporate Bodies

  • International Jewish Labor Bund
  • Komunistyczna Partia Polski

Subjects

  • Poland--Politics and government--1918-1945.
  • Jewish communists--Poland--History--20th century.
  • Communism and Judaism--Poland--History--20th century.
  • Health facilities
  • Jews--Poland--History--20th century.
  • Political parties--Poland--History--20th century.
  • Communism--Europe--History--20th century.
  • Jewish children--Institutional care--Poland--Warsaw.
  • Political parties.
  • Poland
  • Miedzeszyn (Warsaw, Poland)
  • International Jewish Labor Bund
  • Communism--Poland--History--20th century.

Genre

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.

Copies

  • Archiwum Akt Nowych

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Archiwum Akt Nowych