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Unknown Documents from the Underground Archive of Warsaw Ghetto (Ringelblum Archive)

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Epsztein T.

Kwartalnik Historii Żydow

2008

issue 3(227)

343-365

More than 95% of the known documents produced and collected by Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum's research team (Oneg Shabat) at the Warsaw ghetto in the years 1940-1943, which were subsequently saved from destruction, is currently kept in the collections of the Ringelblum Archive (ARG) at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw (AZIH). Over 130 documents are kept in two public collections. The first small collection (several documents) is kept in the set of documents of the Delegates of the Government in Exile at Home (Delegatura Rzadu RP na Kraj) at the New Documents Archive (AAN), and the other in the Hersz Wasser Collection (HWC) at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York. An in-depth study of the archive documents from AAN and YIVO only became possible after the completion of work on the new ARG inventory in the years 2001-2003. The documents kept at the archives of Delegates of the Government in Exile at Home were smuggled to the 'Aryan' side before the 'Oneg Shabat' collection was buried. On the other hand, the materials kept at HWC come from the first part of the Ringelblum Archive, which was dug up in 1946. These collections are important for the whole of ARG as they also contain documents which AZIH lacks. From this point of view, HWC is especially valuable; it can be divided into four groups of archive documents: a) documents coming from 'Oneg Shabat' collections, whose identical counterparts (copiers) are held at AZIH (56 documents); b) documents coming from 'Oneg Shabat' collections, other variants (copies) of which are kept at AZIH (9 documents); c) documents coming from 'Oneg Shabat' collections that have no equivalents at AZIH (62 documents); d) documents not related to ARG (114 documents).

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

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Epsztein T.

Kwartalnik Historii Żydow

2006

issue 3(219)

391-406

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.

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Unknown Documents from the Underground Archive of Warsaw Ghetto (Ringelblum Archive)

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