Metadata: Judenrat in Lvov. Collection of documents concerning Lvov ghetto [Former title: Lvov Portfolio]
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute
- Holding institution (official language):
- Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
- Postal address:
- Archiwum, Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. E. Ringelbluma, ul. Tłomackie 3/5, 00-090 Warszawa
- Phone number:
- (+48 22) 827 92 21
- Email:
- secretary@jhi.pl
- Reference number:
- 312/229
- Title:
- Judenrat in Lvov. Collection of documents concerning Lvov ghetto [Former title: Lvov Portfolio]
- Title (official language):
- Rada Żydowska we Lwowie. Zbiór dokumentów dotyczących getta lwowskiego. Dawniej: Teka lwowska.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Judenrat in Lvov
- Date(s):
- 1898/1942
- Date note:
- 1945, 1979
- Language:
- German
- Polish
- English
- Extent:
- 25 archival units (0.5 linear metre)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection includes:
ref. no. 1. Proof of receipt of materials from the widow of prof. Reychman; an article from the Jewish Historical Institute Bulletin (1980, No. 2-3 / 114-115) “From ‘The Lvov Portfolio’. Documents and materials on the martyrdom of Lvov Jews in the first months of Nazi occupation” and a note on the appropriation of furniture by a certain Bernner (?);
ref. nos. 2 and 3: descriptions of cases of blackmailing Jews and requisitioning Jewish apartments, as well as abuses by the Ukrainian population;
ref. no. 4: correspondence of prof. Maurycy Allerhand (1868-1942), lawyer, professor at the Jagiellonian University, president of the Jewish community in Lvov in 1928; he died in the Janów camp;
ref. nos. 5-7: descriptions of the persecution of Jews cited by name;
ref. no. 8: memoirs of prof. M. Allerhand;
ref. no. 9: memoirs of J. Berman - a teacher of German;
ref. no. 10: memoirs of Salomon Czortkower;
ref. no. 11: Gold's memoirs;
ref. no. 12: memoirs of H.S.
All the memoirs concern the persecution of the Jewish population in Lvov.
ref. no. 13: book of vows of rabbis of the Jewish Community in Lvov for the years 1898-1928;
ref. nos. 14-20: Judenrat documents: appointment of members of the Judenrat (surnames), reports, appeal by Dr. Josef Parnas (president of the Judenrat from July to October 1941) regarding a levy of 20 million rubles imposed on Jews; appeal to the Jewish population regarding the fur confiscation campaign; a receipt signed by the president of the Judenrat, Dr. Awram Rothfeld (from October 1941) about confiscating Salomon Czortkower’s fur coat as part of the fur confiscation campaign.
ref. no. 21: charts on the provision of everyday objects and a list of the number of workers in labour camps in Lvov province;
ref. no. 22: financial statements (October 1941);
ref. no. 23: press clippings about attacks on Jews and their execution;
ref. no. 24: Judenrat financial report;
ref. no. 25: a photocopy of Filip Friedman's book Zagłada Żydów Lwowskich [Destruction of the Lvov Jews] published in 1945.
- Archival history:
- The collection was transferred to the Archives of the Jewish Historical Institute in 1979 by Danuta Reychman, the widow of prof. Jan Reychman (1910-1975), who probably took it over or received it from prof. Stefan Stasiak (1884-1962), an orientalist, professor at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lvov, who collected these materials or they were handed over to him by some underground centre. Prof. Stasiak took them with him to Warsaw when he left Lvov in 1941; from 1947 he lived in London, where he died. Prof. Reychman, also an orientalist and professor at the University of Warsaw, may have been a student and/or friend of prof. Stasiak.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
About 110,000 Jews lived in Lvov in 1939, constituting about 35% of the city's population. On 22 September 1939, the city was occupied by the Red Army, and it remained under Soviet occupation until 30 June 1941. Immediately after its capture by the Germans, a pogrom was carried out against the Jewish population, accused of collaborating with the Soviet occupier. About 2,000 Jews were murdered on 25-28 July 1941. Another 1,000 Jewish hostages were murdered despite having made a levy of 20 million rubles.
The ghetto was established in July 1941 in the poorest districts of the city. In March 1942, about 15,000 Jews were deported to the killing centre in Bełżec; about 40,000 in August 1942 and in November another 10,000 Jews were sent there. In January 1943, about 4,000 Jews were sent to the killing centre in Sobibór. In June 1943, about 10,000 Jews were killed in the city itself and several thousand were forced to the labour camp at ul. Janowska 134 (the so-called Janów camp), which existed until July 1944. From there they were deported to other camps, for example to Płaszów. It is estimated that 2,571 Jews from Lvov survived the war, most of whom moved to Poland.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Allerhand, Maurycy
- Czortkower, Salomon
- Gold
- System of arrangement:
- The material was scanned according to the old reference numbers. Therefore, in the inventory from 2010 the old reference number appears next to the new reference numbers in red; the old number should be referred to when looking for documents.
- Finding aids:
- A digital inventory (2010) in Polish is available, including online.
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Monika Taras; The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute; May 2020