Metadata: Judenrat in Włoszczowa
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute
- Holding institution (official language):
- Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
- Postal address:
- ul. Tłomackie 3/5, 00-090 Warszawa
- Phone number:
- +48 (22) 827 92 21
- Email:
- secretary@jhi.pl
- Reference number:
- 312/223
- Title:
- Judenrat in Włoszczowa
- Title (official language):
- Rada Zydowska we Włoszczowej
- Creator/accumulator:
- Judenrat in Włoszczowa
- Date(s):
- 1941/1942
- Date note:
- 1940
- Language:
- Polish
- German
- Extent:
- 2 archival units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection contains:
Ref. 1 - Wloszczowa. Judenrat. Aid Committee for Refugees and the Poor. Report: Aleksander Fargel, "Social welfare project in 1940” 1941-1942, manuscript, typescript, photos (12 items). A second copy (heavily damaged) of this report is in the Ringelblum Archive, file reference number ARG I 1055.
Ref. 2 - Wloszczowa. Judenrat. Aid Committee for Refugees and the Poor. Activity report and cash report for March 1941.
- Archival history:
- The collection is vestigial. Individual documents were sent to the Jewish Historical Institute in 1951 from the legacy of Feliks Przypkowski from Jędrzejów, who received them in 1942 in Jędrzejów from Dr Henryk Beer. They were sent to the Jewish Historical Institute by Tadeusz Zastkowski, accompanied by his letter of 25 November 1951.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
The Jewish community, possibly earlier a sub-community of Przedbórz or Chęciny, was probably founded at the end of the 18th century. In 1790, 144 Jews lived in the city and 380 in the surrounding towns. In 1862, 1588 Jews constituted 63% of the total population; in 1921 the number was 2910 (53%). In the interwar period, Jews actively participated in the work of the municipal government. There were many social organisations; Agudat Israel and Zionists (including Revisionists) were popular among political factions.
The Judenrat was created on the order of the German Nazi authorities in the autumn of 1939. The ghetto was created on 10 July 1940. About 6,000 people were forced into the ghetto - local people and resettled people from Poznań and Włocławek. In September 1942, the ghetto inhabitants were deported to the Treblinka killing centre.
- Access points: locations:
- Wloszczowa
- Access points: persons/families:
- Fargel, Aleksander
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Jewish councils
- Poverty
- Refugees
- Finding aids:
- A Polish-language digital inventory (2009-2015) is available at the archive and online.
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Agnieszka Reszka, Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, 2019
