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  1. Central Committee of the Jews in Poland (CKŻP). Department of Youth Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Młodzieżowy (Sygn.303/XI)

    Records of the Wydział Młodzieżowy of the Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce (CKŻP) ( Department of Youth of the Central Committee of the Jews in Poland), regarding efforts such as boarding houses, vocational courses, scholarships, Jewish sports clubs, and the like. Records include: organizational files, circular letters, meeting minutes, reports, work plans, correspondence; personnel files, scholarship applications, lists of scholarship recipients; financial files such as budgets and cash records; publications including the Bulletin, clippings, materials of Ojfgang, the Bulletin’s successor;...

  2. Central Committee of the Jews in Poland (CKŻP). Productivity Department Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Produktywizacji (Sygn. 303/XII)

    Records of the Wydział Produktywizacji of the Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce (CKŻP) (Central Committee of Polish Jews): employment offices, vocational courses, production co-ops, individual workshops, farms, financial aid for enterprises, and statistics.

  3. Selected records from the State Archives in Zamość (Sygn. 499)

    Selected records of pre-war, wartime, and postwar files of various offices in Zamość: prewar and wartime (into 1943) tax office records (including real estate); the (Jewish) schools inspectorate; social welfare (lists of employees, work books), including some material from the occupation; files from the towns of Szczebrzeszyn, Tomaszów Lubelski, and Zamość (including municipal council minutes, registries of several synagogue districts, lists of voters, statistics). Files for rural communes of Izbica, Krasnystaw, Łopiennik, Rudnik, Bełżec, Ulhówek, Mokre, Potoczek, Radecznika, Sitno, Zamość,...

  4. Selected records from the State Archives in Kalisz

    Pre-World War II files (starting with 1918) of the Starosties (county chiefs) in Odolanów, Ostrów Wielkopolski, Ostrzeszów, Pleszewo, Koźmin, and Kalisz, and of the towns of Kalisz, Kępno, Kobylin, Krotoszyn, Ostrzeszów, Pleszewo, Pogorzel, Stawiszyn, Sulmierzyce and Zduny: religious matters of the Jewish communities, cemeteries, and real estate belonging to communities, as well as communal elections, organizations, associations, political parties, sport clubs, foundations, and schools. Collection also includes records of the Jewish press, lists of inhabitants, legal acts, and correspondenc...

  5. Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), Poland Hebrajskie Stowarzyszenie Pomocy Imigrantom (HIAS) (Sygn.351)

    This collection includes postwar files from the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) and its branch offices in Poland. Records include organizational files, Information bulletins, news releases, correspondence abroad and with branch offices, monthly reports on activities, personal files and indices of staff relating to emigration, personal search files, indices, and cards relating to efforts to trace survivors and family members.

  6. District Court in Siedlce, branch Biała Podlaska Sąd Okręgowy w Siedlcach. Wydział Zamiejscowy w Białej Podlaskiej (Sygn. GK 284)

    The collection contains selected files of the trials from the District Court in Siedlce-Biała Podlaska during the years 1945-1956. These trials pertain to crimes committed against Jews and Poles in Poland during the German occupation. Most of the investigation was discontinued. Trials were based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka”), issued by the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN), concerning the punishment of German criminals guilty of murders and persecution of civilians and prisoners of war, and the punishment of traitors to the Polish Nation. “Sierpniówka” was one o...

  7. District Court in Zamość Selected records from the Sąd Okręgowy w Zamościu (Sygn. GK 299)

    Records from trials at the District Court in Zamość, 1945‒1966, for crimes committed by the Germans and their collaborators. Prosecutions based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (Sierpniówka) of the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN, Polish Committee of National Liberation), one of the world's first laws on liability for crimes of World War II. Decree also applied against former partisans of the anti-Communist Armia Krajowa, or Home Army, whom Stalinist propaganda portrayed as collaborators.

  8. Prosecutor's Office of the Lublin Province Prokuratura Wojewódzka w Lublinie (Sygn. GK 464)

    Records from trials at the provincial court in Lublin, 1945‒1966, for crimes committed by the Germans and their collaborators. Prosecutions based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (Sierpniówka) of the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN, Polish Committee of National Liberation), one of the world's first laws on liability for crimes of World War II. Decree also applied against former partisans of the anti-Communist Armia Krajowa, or Home Army, whom Communist propaganda portrayed as collaborators.

  9. Prosecutor's Office of a Special Appeal Court in Lublin Prokurator Specjalnego Sądu Apelacyjnego w Lublinie (Sygn.GK 377)

    The collection contains selected files of the prosecutor’s investigations from the Prosecutor’s Office of Special Appeal Court in Lublin during the years 1945-1956. These investigations pertain to crimes committed against Jews and Poles in Poland during the German occupation. Most of the investigation was discontinued. These investigations were based on the decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka”), issued by the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN), concerning the punishment of German criminals guilty of murders and persecution of civilians and prisoners of war, and the punishment o...

  10. Selected records from the State Archives in Poznań

    Contains selected records of the district Starosties (Landraturen) in Konin, Ostrów, Śrem, municipal files of Czerniejewo, Gołańcz, Kłecko, Buk, Dolsk, Kostrzyń, records of the Umwandererzentralstelle (Central Office of Migration) in Poznań, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei (NSDAP) in Poznań, the collection of announcements, posters, and leaflets as well as records of the Bodenamt SS (Land Office) in Poznań. Includes records relating to displacements of people, the relationship of Germans towards Poles and Jews, registration of Jews occupied in medical service, statistics of ...

  11. Selected records from the State Archives in Poznań, Branch Archives in Piła

    Contains records relating to Jewish communities in the cities of Chodzież, Piła, Szamocin, and Trzcianka, in Poland. Included are mainly correspondence, regulations relating to marriages, schools, cultural institutions, and religious objects for Jews. Also contains a name lists of the French prisoners of war and Polish and German workers working in German factories.

  12. KL Lublin-Majdanek, Private documents of camp personnel Dokumenty Prywatne Personelu Obozowego (Sygn. III)

    Contains various documents from concentration camp KL Lublin-Majdanek, e.g. identification cards (Personalasweis), soldier’s identification cards (Soldbuch), private and official correspondence, certificates and calendars.

  13. Central Committee of the Jews in Poland (CKŻP). Personnel Department Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Personaly (Sygn. 303/III)

    This collection includes the records of the Personnel Department of the Centralny Komitet Żydὀw Polskich (CKŻP). Contains documentation relating to employees of CKŻP, e.g. job applications, questionnaires (comprising of resumes and photographs), cards of the staff, insurance papers, certificates and statements, holiday leave, roll cards, sick leave, reports concerning the current number of employees, etc.

  14. Maurice Laserson collection

    This collection includes personal papers of Maurice Laserson, a social worker involved with the resettlement of Jewish refugees. The papers reflect his work with the Obshchestvo remeslennogo i zemledelʹcheskogo truda sredi evreev (Soviet Union) (ORT) and his connections with the Australian Jewish colleagues. Includes reports, newspaper clippings, writings and publications by J.M. Machover, Walter Lippmann, Rabbi Schenk and his articles from 1937-57, as well as correspondence on the plight of German Jewish refugees, including James McDonald's correspondence about the Jews in Europe,1933-1934.

  15. Cyril Pearl collection

    Contains the research papers and original sources used by Cyril Pearl in writing his book on the Dunera ship ("The Dunera Scandal: Deported by Mistake") and the records on the internment camps in Australia. In 1940 German refugees seeking asylum in England were sent to Australia as an enemy alien aboard the Dunera ship and interned in Australia at the Hay internment camp for a year and a half. In 1942, England realized their mistake in holding these refugees and they were released. Records include ephemera from the Hay camp, newspaper clippings about the Dunera affair,1941-1983, hansard ext...

  16. Dr. Wolf (Bill) Matsdorf collection

    This collection contains the papers of Wolf (Bill) Matsdorf, a social worker and one of the originators of the Australian Jewish Welfare Society Sheltered Workshop, established in 1955. He was also involved in other activities within the Jewish community including the Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism and the Society for the Rescue of European Jewry. Papers include: documents of the Australian Jewish Welfare Society, the Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism, the Australia-Israel Society for Cultural Exchange; the Kimberley plan; personal records and papers on ...

  17. Magen David Adom and Ben Zion Patkin records

    Contains records of the Magen David Adom (a "Jewish Red Cross" founded in Tel Aviv in 1930 as a First Aid Society) collected by Benzion Patkin. Includes annual reports, correspondence, newspapers, and photographs and relates to the Magen David Adom assistance to Palestine, and to Jews in Europe and Shanghai.

  18. Records from the Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and anti-Semitism

    Contains records of the Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism, including correspondence, minutes, annual reports, newspaper clippings, pamphlets and magazines.

  19. Max and Fritzi Adler collection

    Consists of correspondence and photographs related to the family of Max and Fritzi Lustig Adler, who were able to emigrate from Prague to England and later to Canada in 1939. Includes pre-war photographs of the Adler and Lustig families, and wartime and post-war photos of Max, Fritzi, and daughter Doris, who was born in 1940 in Canada. Also includes correspondence from 1939-1940 from Max's sister, Marianne, and mother, Emma, both of whom later perished in the Holocaust.

  20. Robert Marchik collection

    Consist of approximately 16 photographs taken of the Gardelegen atrocity by Robert Marchik, a member of the United States Army. The photographs depict the burial of corpses and of the Gardelegen cemetery.