Metadata: Legacy of Salo Fiszgrund
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/S/331
- Title:
- Legacy of Salo Fiszgrund
- Title (official language):
- Spuścizna Salo Fiszgrunda
- Creator/accumulator:
- Fiszgrund, Salo
- Date(s):
- 1946/1966
- Language:
- Polish
- Yiddish
- German
- Swedish
- Extent:
- 0.1 linear metre (1 box; 12 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection comprises documents belonging to Salo Fiszgrund, dated 1946-66, including:
- Correspondence between Salo Fiszgrund and Szymon Zachariasz;
- Materials regarding the court case of Lieber Gotlob, a Bund activist: motion for evidence, testimonies/evidence given.
Texts:
- A year before the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto: the Bund getting prepared for an armed rising;
- Note for Polish radio: The eleventh anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising;
- “End of separatism: a side note to the last convention of the Bund in Poland”;
- College syllabus: Workers’ movement in Poland, 1886-1904; The SDKPiL (Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania) and its struggle against opportunism and nationalism of the PPS (Polish Socialist Party);
- Report on the plenary meeting of the central board of the Social and Cultural Association of Jews (TSKŻ) in Poland, 16-17 January 1965;
- Letter from Franciszek Duszenko to the Central Jewish Social Commission in Warsaw about the monument at Treblinka; Letter from D. Słobodkin, director of the Society for Trades and Agricultural Labour (ORT), to the Central Jewish Social Aid Commission, about a tailoring course at the Old People’s Home;
- Biuletin fun der Historiszer Komisje bajm C.K. fun Bund In Pojln (Bulletin of the Historical Commission affiliated to the Central Committee of the Bund in Poland);
- Press clippings related to the unveiling of the monument at Treblinka from Stockholms-Tidningen, Svenska Dagbladet, Dagens Nyheter, Ny Dag, including translations of into German;
- Note on a talk of 12 October 1966 between J. Rutkiewicz, Undersecretary of State and Mr Jordan, Director of the Joint and Dr A. Kahane, the organisation’s representative for Poland;
- Miscellaneous: fragments of texts.
- Archival history:
- The date of the documents’ transfer to the Jewish Historical Institute Archive and the name of the person responsible remain unknown.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Salo Fiszgrund was born in 1893. In the interwar period he was active with the Krakow branch of the Bund. During World War II he stayed in the Warsaw Ghetto and was a member of the Jewish National Committee outside the ghetto. Together with Marek Edelman and Leon Fajner, he was a member of the conspiratorial central committee of the Bund and acted as its secretary. He joined the uprising in the ghetto in April 1943 as a fighter with the Jewish Fighting Organisation (ŻOB) and afterwards took part in the Warsaw Uprising of August 1944. He was one of the Bund’s leading politicians in the postwar period. He collaborated with the Polish Workers’ Party (PPR) and carried out the self-dissolution of the Bund in Poland. He joined the Polish United Workers’ Party (PZPR) in 1949. He was a member of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland (CKŻP) and from 1950-6 the Central Board of the TSKŻ. Salo Fiszgrund died in Israel in 1971.
- Access points: locations:
- Warsaw
- Access points: persons/families:
- Fiszgrund, Salo
- Gotlob, Lieber
- Zachariasz, Szymon
- Subject terms:
- Bund movement
- Correspondence
- Monuments and memorials
- Socialism
- Finding aids:
- A catalogue in Polish is accessible online.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute
- Author of the description:
- Agnieszka Reszka; Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. E. Ringelbluma; 2015
