Metadata: Organisation for the Development of Industrial, Craft and Agricultural Creativity amongst the Jewish Population in Polan
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 312/309
- Title:
- Organisation for the Development of Industrial, Craft and Agricultural Creativity amongst the Jewish Population in Polan
- Title (official language):
- Organizacja Rozwoju Twórczości Przemysłowej, Rzemieślniczej i Rolniczej Wśród Ludności Żydowskiej w Polsce (ORT)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Organisation for the Development of Industrial, Craft and Agricultural Creativity amongst the Jewish Population in Poland
- Date(s):
- 1946/1950
- Language:
- Polish
- Yiddish
- German
- English
- French
- Russian
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 15 linear metres (145 boxes; 1062 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection comprises materials generated in the years 1946-1950 by the Central Board of the Organisation for the Development of Industrial, Craft and Agricultural Creativity amongst the Jewish Population in Poland (ORT) and its branch offices within Poland.
Central Board of the ORT:
- organisational dossier: units 1-15;
- finance: units 16-55;
- personal and personnel affairs: units 56-74;
- correspondence: units 75-156;
- propaganda materials, publications: units 157-181;
- schools and educational system, courses and classes, workshops: units 182-284;
- miscellaneous: unit 285.
Branch offices:
ORT Dzierżoniów:
- organisational dossier: units 286-298;
- finance: units 299-344;
- personal and personnel affairs: units 345-367;
- correspondence: units 368-402;
- schools and educational system, courses and classes, workshops: units 403-471;
- agricultural affairs: units 472-515;
- miscellaneous: unit 516.
ORT Katowice:
- organisational dossier: units 517-519;
- finance: units 520-530;
- personal and personnel affairs: units 531-535;
- correspondence: units 536-543;
- propaganda materials, publications: units 544-551;
- schools and educational system, courses and classes, workshops: units 552-592;
- miscellaneous: unit 593.
ORT Krakow:
- organisational dossier: units 594-601;
- finance: units 602-612;
- personal and personnel affairs: units 613-622;
- correspondence: units 623-637;
- propaganda materials, publications: units 638-639;
- schools and educational system, courses and classes, workshops: units 640-666;
- miscellaneous: unit 667.
ORT Legnica:
- organisational dossier: units 668-669;
- finance: units 670-677;
- personal and personnel affairs: units 678-681;
- correspondence: units 682-686;
- propaganda materials, publications: unit 687;
- schools and educational system, courses and classes, workshops: units 688-707.
ORT Łódź:
- organisational dossier: units 708-712;
- finance: units 713-731;
- personal and personnel affairs: units 732-749;
- correspondence: units 750-778;
- propaganda materials, publications: units 779-780;
- schools and educational system, courses and classes, workshops: units 781-818;
- miscellaneous: unit 819.
ORT Szczecin:
- organisational dossier: units 820-822;
- finance: units 823-832;
- personal and personnel affairs: units 833-842;
- correspondence: units 843-852;
- schools and educational system, courses and classes, workshops: units 853-870.
ORT Walbrzych:
- finance: unit 871;
- personal and personnel affairs: units 872-873;
- schools and educational system, courses and classes, workshops: units 874-876.
ORT Warsaw:
- personal and personnel affairs: unit 877;
- correspondence: unit 878;
- schools and educational system, courses and classes, workshops: units 879-886;
ORT Wroclaw:
- organisational dossier: units 887-890;
- finance: units 891-906;
- personal and personnel affairs: units 907-924;
- correspondence: units 925-947;
- schools and educational system, courses and classes, workshops: units 948-1026;
- miscellaneous: units 1027-1028.
Photographs: units 1029-1038.
Duplicates: units 1039-1062.
- Archival history:
- After the ORT was wound up in 1950 the archives of its central board and local offices were transferred to the Central Committee of Jews in Poland (CKŻP) and, when this body was abolished in 1950, joined the Jewish Historical Institute collection. The original volume of the archive and details of initial ordering or rearrangement work and sorting out of the collection are unknown.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Established in 1880 in Russia, ORT was tasked with preparing the Jews for performing craftsmanship professions and agricultural labour. ORT was officially registered in 1906, its activities remaining limited to the territory of Russia until 1920. An office was opened in 1921 in Berlin and ORT has been international ever since. ORT initiated an initiative in Poland in 1923 to found Jewish farming and horticultural cooperatives. In March 1946 ORT started its postwar work in Poland, forming branches across the country. Jewish people were to be trained in craft-oriented and agricultural professions by means of schools (to be established), courses and training workshops; financial aid was to be provided to vocational training centres, job-oriented workshops and farmsteads, cultural events organised, knowledge promulgated (including through management of libraries, clubhouses and textbook editing and publishing). ORT was eventually dissolved based on a resolution of the general convention of ORT delegates on 29 October 1950 in Warsaw. The organisation resumed its activities in Poland in 1957 and pursued them until 1967. The headquarters of ORT’s World Organisation are located in Geneva.
- Finding aids:
-
A catalogue in Polish was compiled in 2012 and is accessible online.
It includes indices of personal names.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute
- Author of the description:
- Monika Taras; Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. E. Ringelbluma; 2015
