Metadata: Collection of documents from the Nazi camps
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute
- Holding institution (official language):
- Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. E. Ringelbluma
- Postal address:
- ul. Tłomackie 3/5, 00-090 Warszawa
- Phone number:
- (+48 22) 827 92 21
- Web address:
- http://www.jhi.pl/
- Email:
- secretary@jhi.pl
- Reference number:
- PL 312/209
- Title:
- Collection of documents from the Nazi camps
- Title (official language):
- Zbiór dokumentów z obozów hitlerowskich
- Creator/accumulator:
- Central Jewish Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland
- Date(s):
- 1939/1989
- Language:
- Polish
- Yiddish
- German
- English
- French
- Russian
- Hebrew
- Czech
- Italian
- Extent:
- 6.5 linear metres (317 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection of materials from the Nazi camps is composed of originals and copies. Also included is the institute's correspondence on the subject and file cards filled out by researchers. The collection cannot be considered a full documentation of these camps.
1-43. Government – general (including Bełżec, KL Lublin, KL Płaszów, Poniatowa, Sobibór, Trawniki, Treblinka): articles; original and copied documents; lists of prisoners.
44-129. Camps in Silesia (including KL Auschwitz and its sub-camps; KL Gross Rosen and its sub-camps; Wüstegiersdorf and its sub-camps: original lists of prisoners from AL Dörnhau): original and copied documents.
130-209. Wartheland (including AL Folusch; AL Grünweiler; AL Kolmar; Kutno: AL Orlahöh; AL Paulseck; AL Wiesenfurt): original lists of inmates; files of inmates who were killed/died at Kutno.
210-281. Third Reich (including KL Bergen-Belsen and its sub-camps; KL Buchenwald and its sub-camps; KL Dachau and its sub-camps; KL Flosenbürg and its sub-camps; KL Mauthausen and its sub-camps; Türkheim): documents (copies and originals); lists of inmates.
282-286. Third Reich – Prussia (including KL Stutthof): post-war documents.
287-288. France (Athis; Pithiviers).
289. Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Theresienstadt): copies of name lists.
290. Estonia (AL Klooga).
291. Hungary.
292-293. Italy.
294-309. Various camps: copies of documents; lists of inmates.
310-317. Annex (including KL Auschwitz; KL Płaszów; Pawiak): originals; photocopies/duplicates.
- Archival history:
- The collection was formed by the Central Jewish Historical Commission (CŻKH; CJHC) and its successor organisation, the Jewish Historical Institute (ŻIH; JHI). The original volume of the archive and details of initial ordering or rearrangement work and sorting out of the fund are unknown. The fund is open-ended.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The collection consists of original documents from camps and copies of materials from various research institutions. Included are lists of Jewish prisoners from forced labour and concentration camps. The goal of CJHC and then JHI was to gather the most extensive possible source material on murder of the Jews. The collection was used for research, source publications, editing diaries and literary works. It was also used in cooperation with other institutions and organisations dealing with investigation of Nazi crimes. For the Nuremberg trial the CJHC prepared the memorandum for the Polish delegation “Zagłada Żydów polskich pod okupacją niemiecką w latach 1939-1945” (Annihilation of Polish Jews under the German occupation 1939-1945).
- Access points: locations:
- Auschwitz
- Bełżec
- Gross Rosen
- Lublin
- Subject terms:
- Holocaust--Concentration camps
- Access, restrictions:
- Digitised documents are accessible in the reading room of the Jewish Historical Institute.
- Finding aids:
-
A catalogue in Polish was compiled in 2006 and is accessible online.
A geographical index is available; for some units a personal index is also available, with approximately 38,000 records.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute
- Author of the description:
- Monika Taras; Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. E. Ringelbluma; 2015
