Jews in post-war Poland in light of archives of the Department of Statistics and Records of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland

• Authors: Epsztein T.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The Department of Statistics and Records (WEiS) was one of the biggest organizational units of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland (CKZP) and also one of those that worked for the longest period of time. Its tasks focused on three areas: the keeping of records (registration of survivors), statistics, and search for missing persons (information). The registration of survivors among Polish Jews embraced over 200 000 persons, whose personal data were kept in the Central File in Warsaw and in the form of alphabetical lists compiled in the years 1945-1947 and released in three series ('Alphabetical list of Polish Jews'). At the same time, WEiS was collecting statistical materials concerning various areas of life of the Jews in Poland, including reports on the operation of local CKZP branches, and preparing aggregate statistical reports. The WEiS search and information campaigns elicited a huge volume of correspondence concerning the missing persons and containing data about tens of thousands of people. The collections of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw contain the Central File (some 280 000 cards), files and other registration lists, materials and statistical compilations as well as tens of thousand of letters from all over the world concerning the search for missing persons. In 2005, thanks to support from The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., the WEiS archives were cleaned up and catalogued.

Keywords

EN

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF JEWS IN POLAND; REGISTRATION OF & SEARCH FOR MISSING PERSONS; STATISTICS

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw, Poland
• Journal: Kwartalnik Historii Żydow
• Year: 2006
• Issue: 3(219)
• Pages: 391-406
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Epsztein T.

• T. Epsztein, Instytut Historii PAN, ul. Rynek Starego Miasta 29/31, 00-272 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06PLAAAA01653604