Metadata: Judenrat in Jasło
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:
- PL 312/215
- Title:
- Judenrat in Jasło
- Title (official language):
- Rada Żydowska w Jaśle.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Judenrat in Jasło
- Date(s):
- 1941/1942
- Language:
- Polish
- German
- Extent:
- 1 archival unit
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains: Ref. no. 1 - 1. Jasło. Judenrat. Cash flow book (01/01/1941-30/07/1942).1941-1942, manuscript, German, Polish, bound copy, pp. 302. The cash flow register records the receipts and expenses of the Judenrat in Jasło. Its revenue (income) came from donations and subsidies from the American Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish Social Self-Help, entrance fees to slaughterhouses, fees for dinners, and religion tax. This income was intended for the purchase of drugs, medical assistance, renovation of buildings, accommodation for refugees, material assistance for the poor and refugees, salaries, office maintenance, costs of mail, telephones and telegraphs, cleaning products and others.
- Archival history:
- The collection is fragmentary. The register was kept by the Judenrat in Jasło, and it was transferred to the Jewish Historical Institute from the Provincial Jewish Committee in Kraków. On page 1 of the book there is a note: "I found [this register] in March 1950 in Jasło and handed it over to the disposal of the Provincial Jewish Committee in Kraków, [signature] Rachel Reifer née Silber, Kraków 17 May [1] 950."
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
The few Jews who settled in Jasło were evicted in 1589. A new settlement was established after 1867 and a separate community was established in 1891. In 1900, 1,524 Jewish inhabitants constituted 23% of the town's population; in 1939, there were about 2,639 Jews who made up about 25% of the population. In 1905, a new Reform synagogue was built, but most of the local Jews were Hasidim followers of the Bobowa tzadik.
The Judenrat was established by order of the occupying German authorities in autumn 1939. In April 1940, the District Judenrat in Jasło was established, to which 16 nearby Judenrats were subordinated, namely those from Gorlice, Biecz, Krosno, Żmigród, Bobowa, Brzostek, Rzepiennik Strzyżowski, Biecz, Jedlicze, Dukla, Frysztak, Korczyna, Osiek, Ołpiny, Kołaczyce, Jodłowa. Its chairman was Jakub Goldstein, with Wolf Auerbach, Dr. Leon Berger, Jakub Franzblau, Beno Goldstein and Chaim Schild. In September 1940, the District Jewish Welfare Committee was established in Jasło as a statutory body of the Jewish Social Self-Help, with departments for accounting and childcare, health, work and economy assistance, as well as departments of food aid, organisation and personnel matters.
The ghetto, established in the spring of 1942, held over 3,000 Jews from the town and the entire Jasło County. In July 1941, about 450 people from the town of Jedlicze were forced to settle in Jasło. The inhabitants of the ghetto were cleaning up the city. The Nazis carried out numerous executions. The bodies are buried in mass graves at the Jewish cemetery in Jasło. In August and September 1942 some of the people were shot in the woods in Warzyce and some of the men were taken to the camp in Przemyśl; most of the people from the ghetto died in the killing centre in Bełżec.
- Access points: locations:
- Jasło
- Subject terms:
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Ghettos
- Access, restrictions:
- Scanned documents are accessible on computers in the archive and reading room of the Jewish Historical Institute, as well as online: https://cbj.jhi.pl/documents/635358/2/.
- Finding aids:
- A digital catalogue (2009-2015) is available in Polish.
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Agnieszka Reszka; The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute; October 2019
