Metadata: Card catalogue of soldiers in the People’s Army of Poland
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 312/374
- Title:
- Card catalogue of soldiers in the People’s Army of Poland
- Title (official language):
- Kartoteka Żołnierzy Ludowego Wojska Polskiego
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Committee in Lublin
- Date(s):
- 1944
- Language:
- Polish
- Extent:
- 812 units; 1 linear metre
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The catalogue of soldiers and nurses of the People's Army of Poland has 812 cards containing the following information: first name and last name; family name; date and place of birth; parents' names and mother's maiden name; marital status; military rank; profession; pre-war address; place of stay during the war; military unit number; personal data of relatives living abroad.
- Archival history:
-
The card catalogue of soldiers and nurses of the People's Army of Poland was created using the reverse of the completed cards of the Board of Trustees (Treuhandverwaltung) for the Lublin district (card catalogue of confiscated real estate of the Jewish population from 1940-1943; the Trust Board is a part of the collection of documents from ghettos and camps in Central and Eastern Europe, Lublin , ref. no. 253/2). The catalogue of confiscated real estate of the Jewish population consists of 1,517 cards, and the personal data of soldiers and nurses were recorded on 812 of them.
The collection was sent to the Jewish Historical Institute by the Jewish Committee in Lublin on 27 July 1947. The records of the soldiers of the Polish People's Army received the separate ref. no. 374.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
On 10 August 1944 the first meeting of the Jewish population after the Second World War took place in Lublin, during which the Committee to Aid Jews was established, which on 14 August 1944 was renamed the Jewish Committee (KŻ) in Lublin. Its chairman was Abraham aka Adolf Rozenman, who was replaced on August 29 by Lejb Aronzon. In the statute of the Committee, prepared by Ludwik Gutmacher, it was written that the aim of the committee was to provide material and moral help to Jews. In March 1945 the name was changed to the Municipal Jewish Committee and on 23 August 1945 the committee merged with the Regional Jewish Committee (established in March 1945 and constituting a local branch of the Central Committee of Polish Jews), adopting the latter’s name.
One of the priority tasks of the emerging Jewish institutions was the registration of Holocaust survivors. The card catalogue of the Polish People's Army soldiers, drawn up by the Jewish Committee in Lublin, is one of the first to be created on liberated Polish lands. It is a valuable supplement to the Central File of Jews in Poland (reference number 303 / V / 425) and to lists compiled by local Jewish committees.
- System of arrangement:
- The order of the arrangement is random, making use of the digital database necessary.
- Finding aids:
- There is a digital database of names for the collection.
- 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; February 2018
