Metadata: Bequest of Henryk Kroszczor
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/S/344
- Title:
- Bequest of Henryk Kroszczor
- Title (official language):
- Spuścizna Henryka Kroszczora
- Creator/accumulator:
- Kroszczor, Henryk
- Date(s):
- 1946/1979
- Language:
- Polish
- Yiddish
- German
- English
- Hebrew
- Czech
- Extent:
- 254 archival units (2 linear metres)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection consists mainly of notes, articles and a bibliography collected by Henryk Kroszczor in connection with his journalistic and academic work. The collection includes:
ref. nos. 1-25: articles about the Bersohns and Baumans’ Children’s Hospital; articles on hospital and health care in the Warsaw ghetto; memoirs of doctors and former employees of the Bersohns and Baumans’ Children’s Hospital; articles written in collaboration with Ryszard Zabłotniak on doctors, the Jewish Society for Tuberculosis "Briyus", the Society for Health Protection; articles about health care facilities by various researchers;
ref. nos. 26-28: articles and report on the Society of Friends of Children in Warsaw;
ref. nos. 29-36: articles and brochures about educational institutions: Society for the Care of Jewish School and Working Youth; Mother and Child Care Station; An educational home for small children; The Jewish Academic House in Warsaw;
ref. nos. 37-47: articles, brochures, studies on Jewish social organisations: Jewish organisations helping Jewish victims of World War I; Society for the Evacuation of Homeless Jews; Council of Jewish Philanthropic Institutions; The Jewish Committee for Sanitary Aid in Warsaw;
ref. nos. 48-50: lists of Jewish associations and unions operating until 1939; studies, articles on Jewish foundations, e.g. Foundation for the Main Shelter for the Elderly and Orphans; The Baron Maurycy Hirsch Foundation (including the founder’s profile);
ref. nos. 51-69: articles, excerpts from studies mainly concerning the history of Warsaw Jews: Great Synagogue on Tłomackie Street, Main Judaic Library, Institute of Jewish Studies, Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, Jewish holidays, Jews in the January 1863 Uprising
ref. nos. 70-74: bibliographic materials collected for a guide (correspondence, articles, photos of tombstones) to the Jewish cemetery at ul. Okopowa in Warsaw;
ref. nos. 75-78: materials on other Jewish cemeteries and synagogues (including the synagogue at Jagiellońska Street in Warsaw)
ref. nos. 79-82: brochures, notes on the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising;
ref. nos. 83-85, 92-96: articles, studies, incl. list of entries for the Polish Biographical Dictionary (PSB), editorial material "Pages from the history of Jews in Warsaw”;
ref. nos. 97-99: press clippings, single issues of the newspaper Słowo Żydowskie, etc .;
ref. nos. 100-246: biographies of outstanding and distinguished Jewish activists and social activists: doctors, scholars, philanthropists, booksellers and publishers, writers, rabbis, politicians, artists, educators, lawyers, engineers, parliamentarians, soldiers;
ref. nos. 247-253: private correspondence of Henryk Kroszczor, his photographs and books.
Another noteworthy part of the collection is the extensive collection of index cards and press clippings in four boxes (ref. no. 254), which often contain detailed information about Jewish organisations, associations, institutions and social campaigns conducted by them.
Some of the materials (ref. nos. 86-91) have been excluded, and included in other groups.
- Archival history:
- The documents were transferred to the collections of the Jewish Historical Institute archive after the death of Henryk Kroszczor in 1979. There is no information as to how they were acquired.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Henryk Kroszczor was born on 16 June 1895 in Warsaw. He graduated from one of the commercial schools in Warsaw. In 1916, he became a member of the newly established Society of Friends of Children. From 1924, he was the administrative director of the Bersohns and Baumans’ Children's Hospital of in Warsaw. After the ghetto was established, he worked on behalf of the Judenrat as a supervisor at the hospital. He stayed in the ghetto until February 1943, when he, together with his wife and daughter, succeeded to escape thanks to the help of Polish friends. After the war, he became the administrative director at the CKŻP. He actively participated in the creation of the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes. Then he worked in various economic institutions until his retirement in 1970. His interests included the protection of Jewish cemeteries in Poland. He published many articles in Fołks Sztyme and Biuletyn ŻIH devoted to the history of Jewish institutions and biographies of prominent Jewish activists. Kroszczor died on 10 July 1979 in Warsaw. He is buried at the Jewish cemetery at ul. Okopowa in Warsaw.
- Access points: locations:
- Warsaw
- Access points: persons/families:
- Kroszczor, Henryk
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Aid and relief--Philanthropy and charity
- Cemeteries
- Children
- Education
- Elderly
- Health and medical matters
- Health and medical matters--Hospitals
- Historical research
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Ghettos
- Memoirs
- Orphans
- Professions
- Professions--Scholars (secular), scientists, and academics
- Synagogues
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged thematically.
- Finding aids:
- A printed inventory (2001) in Polish is accessible in the reading room.
- 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; April 2020