Metadata: Central Special Commission of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland
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 312/303/XVIII
- Title:
- Central Special Commission of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland
- Title (official language):
- Centralna Komisja Specjalna Centralnego Komitetu Żydów w Polsce
- Creator/accumulator:
- Central Special Commission of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland
- Date(s):
- 1946/1947
- Language:
- Polish
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 0.25 linear metres (3 boxes; 74 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection contains materials produced in 1946-47 by the Central Special Commission and its local branches, as follows:
Organisational dossier (drafts, instructions, minutes and records, correspondence): units 1-16.
Personnel files (lists of names, applications): units 17-19.
Personal files (including list of names of victims killed in Poland, 1946): units 20-21.
Financial dossier (estimate budgets, accounts and bills): units 22-24.
Local branches’ alphabetical dossier (reports, minutes and records, situation plans, correspondence, personnel and personal files, financial dossier, reports): units 25-74.
- Archival history:
- As the Central Committee of Jews in Poland (CKŻP) was abolished in 1950, the dossiers of the Central Special Commission joined the Jewish Historical Institute (ŻIH) collection. The original volume of the archive and details of the sorting out of the collection are unknown. The collection was first arranged and paginated before the CKŻP was wound up.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Central Special Commission was set up on 10 July 1946 in the aftermath of the Kielce pogrom, tasked with organising a Jewish self-defence structure in order to ensure the security of the Jewish people. The security authorities of the People’s Republic of Poland consented to the formation of commission units affiliated to Jewish committees, with sentry troops (protection guard) or Civic Militia Voluntary Reserve (ORMO) troops being subordinate to them. Commission staff had the right to hold firearms. Their tasks included amassing information on public sentiments and anti-Jewish statements or addresses. As the situation in Poland stabilised, the commission was dissolved on 6 March 1947 by decision of the presidium of CKŻP.
- Access points: locations:
- Kielce
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Jewish self-defence and resistance
- Finding aids:
-
A catalogue in Polish was compiled in 2008 and is accessible online.
It includes indices of personal and geographical names.
See also:
Alina Cała, Ochrona bezpieczeństwa fizycznego Żydów w Polsce powojennej. Komisje Specjalne przy Centralnym Komitecie Żydów w Polsce, Warszawa 2014, s. 461
- Yerusha Network member:
- Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute
- Author of the description:
- Monika Taras; Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. E. Ringelbluma; 2015
