Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich. Prezydium i Sekretariat.

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1 Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce (CKŻP). Prezydium i Sekretariat (Sygn. 303/I) Central Committee of the Jews in Poland (CKŻP). The Presidium and Secretariat RG United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC Tel. (202) reference@ushmm.org Descriptive summary Title: Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce (CKŻP). Prezydium i Sekretariat (Sygn. 303/I) Central Committee of the Jews in Poland (CKŻP).The Presidium and Secretariat Dates: Accession number: Creator: Extent: Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich. Prezydium i Sekretariat. 39,309 digital files Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC Languages: Polish, Yiddish, English, French, Hebrew, Spanish, German, Russian, and Italian. Scope and content of collection Contains reports, name lists, minutes of sessions, domestic and foreign correspondence, e.g. with the American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) and World Jewish Congress, personal files of the staff and others, records relating to pogroms of Jewish people in Kielce and other places, religious matters, graveyards, and exhumations, newspaper clippings, and documentation of various commissions of the Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce (CKŻP): the Centralna Komisja Międzypartyjna, Centralna Komisja Mieszana, Komisja Mieszkaniowa, Centralna Frakcja Polskiej Partii Robotniczej (PPR), Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza (PZPR), Związek Walki Młodych, Związek Zawodowy Pracowników Instytucji Społecznych, as well as other documents and photographs of the CKŻP staff. Administrative Information Restrictions on access: No restrictions on access.

2 Restrictions on reproduction and use: Publication or copying of more than several documents for a third party requires the permission of the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny imienia Emanuela Ringelbluma. Preferred citation: for guidance. Preferred citation for USHMM archival collections; consult the USHMM website Acquisition information: From the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma (ŻIH), Sygn. 303/I. Records created by the Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce (CKŻP), and 1950 transferred to the ŻIH Archives. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received t Existence and location of originals: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma Processing history: Processed by Aleksandra Borecka, 2012 Historical note The Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce, CKŻP (Central Committee of Jews in Poland) was the most prominent official Jewish institution in Poland following the Holocaust. CKŻP attended to the needs of Jews from fall 1944 until It sponsored a variety of Indexing terms Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich. Prezydium i Sekretariat. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. World Jewish Congress. Jews--Poland--History--20th century. Pogroms--Poland--Kielce--History--20th century. Antisemitism--Poland--History--20th century. Holocaust, Jewish ( )--Poland. Reports. Minutes. Correspondence. Photographs. Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) INVENTORY AND GUIDE FOLLOWS

3 Archive of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute Tadeusz Epsztein Inventory of the Archive of the Presiding Office and Secretariat of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland Call No 303\I Warsaw 2011 Content 1. Preface Abbreviations Review of the content of the inventory Inventory Annexes personal indexes to the archival units Personal index (comprehensive) Geographical index...104

4 Preface There were different organization units that used to perform managerial and administrative tasks under the names of the Presiding Office and Secretariat. The most important was the Presiding Office as a collective body grouping members of the main board of the Committee and controlling its activity in general. Considering that no documents from the initial months of the Temporary Committee of Jews in Poland (Central Committee of Jews in Poland) survived, we do not exactly know when the first Presiding Office was brought into being. We cannot exclude that no sooner that in early 1945, during the plenary assembly of (Central Committee of Jews in Poland), i.e. on February 2, 1945 in Lublin. Then, the following persons were elected among the (Central Committee of Jews in Poland) members: Dr. Emil Sommerstein (Chairman), dr Abraham Berman (vice- Chairman), Marek Bitter (vice-chairman), Dr. Szlomo Herszenhorn (vice-chairman), Paweł Zelicki (Sekretary General), Mordka Zonsztajn (Treasurer), Icchak Cukierman 1. Its composition was subject to numerous changes, however some of the persons were the members until In the 2 nd half of 1946 there were following members of the Presiding Office: dr Emil Sommerstein, dr Abraham Berman, Marek Bitter, Salo Fiszgrund, eng. Abram Rozenmann, Professor Józef Sack, Hersz Smolar, and Julian Łazebnik assumed the post of the Sekretary General 2. The members of the Presiding Office used to be elected among the (Central Committee of Jews in Poland) staff. At the beginning of February 1945, there were 15 people who represented diverse organizations and Polishitical parties: Polish Labor Party, Poalej Syjon merged with the CS Democratic Zionists Ichud, Poalej Syjon (the leftist wing), Bund, Jewish Combat Organization (ŻOB), Hechaluc Pioner, Haszomer Hacair and the Union of Jewish Partisans. The members of the Presiding Office used to meet at least once a month for session, in which the essential resolutions conc. the activity of the Committee, were made. One can say that that body assumed the role of quasi parliament of (Central Committee of Jews in Poland), as all decisions were taken in a democratic procedure in the result of voting of all members of the Presiding Office, whereas the Secretariat functioned as the Committee executive. Initially it was divided into two units: the Secretary General office chaired by the Secretary General of (Central Committee of Jews in Poland) with the help of the (Central Committee of Jews in Poland) Director and the Secretariat itself. The Secretary General used to take direct care of the current entire activity of the Committee. This function was performed in the years of by different persons. Julian Lazebnik, who was a successor of Paweł Zelicki, (fall 1946) held that office the longest time and was the Secretary till the liquidation of (Central Committee of Jews in Poland) in He had Secretariat was his disposal, i.e. a broad administration and office unit dealing with current correspondence 1 Presiding Office, units 315, number of pages. 4; already in the report for 1945, new people anumber of pageseared in the Presiding Office: Gustaw Alef and Józef Sack (members of the Presiding Office), but Cukierman wasn t there anymore, see WOiK, unit 14, number of pages 2. 2 Zarys działalności Komitetu Żydów w Polsce za okres od 1 stycznia do 30 czerwca 1946 r., Warsaw 1947, p 6.

5 and collection of files (archives). Entire current correspondence of (Central Committee of Jews in Poland) was registered in the journal of correspondence of the Secretariat. Letters sent from the Committee were segned by a Secretary General. During the full growth of (Central Committee of Jews in Poland) in 1946 there were some dozen people working there (14) 3. Józef Teszner was the secretary office manager till February 1950, several months later he was replaced by A. Truskier for several months. Polishitical changes in Polishand after 1948 affected also (Central Committee of Jews in Poland), then the Committee tried to remove some of Polishitical activists, e.g. Adolf Berman. An Executive Office, which took over the duties of the Presiding Office was set up in slightly changed composition. A new organigram of (Central Committee of Jews in Poland) set up on the turn of 1949, one unit under the name of Presiding Office remained but its task was different it was to be an office to serve the Secretary General of (Central Committee of Jews in Poland) 4. In practice however, the name of a Secretariat survived, as an office for the Secretary General while the Presiding Office didn t existed any more as separate unit of the Committee in The Archive of the Presiding Office and Secretariat and the Principles of the Files Arrangement. Current files collected in the secretary office of the TKŻP, then in CKŻP were the origin of the Presiding Office and Secretariat. Unfortunately the files from initial months of the TKŻP and CKŻP existence didn t survive in the JHI Archives. We don t even know if the complete archive existing initially had been incorporated to the rest of files relocated on the occasion of the transfer of the Committee premises from Lublin to Warsaw or left in Lublin. At any rate, the Mayor part of documentation concerning the CKŻP activity comes from spring 1945 when the Committee already worked in Warsaw. The only exception were the minutes from sessions of the Presiding Office which survived in full set since the beginning of 1945 two months preceding the relocation to Warsaw. Detailed fate of the documets files of TKŻP and CKŻP since the origin of the Committee through its relocation to Warsaw require further research. Neither we know if any separate archival collections related to the activity of both organization units emerged before the liquidation of CKŻP. It is possible that since its origin, the Presiding Office shared the repository of files with the Secretariat. Minutes of its sessions of are the direct fruit of the Presiding Office activity. There is only a single copy of minutes of 1950 that survived and we don t know if plenary sessions of the authorities of the Committee were organized then at all. The minutes not only provide the account concerning the current activity of the Committee but also document all decisions and resolutions undertaken by the members of the Presiding Office. Numerous enclosures to minutes additionally illustrate the variety of aspects of the CKŻP activity (e.g. normative documents, circular letters, memorials, reports of activity, financial reports, and the like). After the liquidation of CKŻP and conducting initial arrangement of the Committee archive the entire a/o documentation (the minutes along with their enclosures) reached the archive of the 3 WOiK, unit 9, number of pages WOiK, unit 8, p 1.

6 Presiding Office. The fate of the Secretariat files was more complicated. The Secretariat ran correspondence registers of the out-and-incoming correspondence. However, due to the vast volume of those files, all departments ran separate registers and the correspondence received separate register numbers. It was likely that, only few documentary files remained in the archive of Secretariat, particularly during During two last years of the CKŻP activity, due to the gradual liquidation of some of the organization units (departments) of the Committee the role of the Secretariat was growing. The Secretariat had separate tasks, e.g. its staff ran the Division (Department) of Parcels from Abroad during , which also left a vast volume of documentation (correspondence). Generally however the documentation collected in the Secretariat used to have its counterpart copies in other specialized units of the Committee, e.g. the files conc. running records were collected in the archive of the Department of Records and Statistics or the Department of Organization and Control; the Personnel Department ran the matters ref. to the employees, normative files were run by the Department of organization and Control. Present collection consists of diverse materials. Part of the documentation was, during the first rearrangement, directed to the storehouse, the remaining files coming from different collections which were separated during the gradual rearrangement of the CKŻP archives in , e.g. the collection of minutes/protocols was completed from the holdings scattered among the archives of other Departments. Without having any documentation of delivery and acceptance we cannot state for sure what did the initial register of the Secretariat look like. Therefore the current picture of the archives of both units might vary from the real arrangement of files in some way. At the same time we cannot be sure which CKŻP materials (including the files of the Presiding Office and the Secretariat) had been scranumber of pagesed or scattered elsewhere after The survived documentation makes only a fraction of the initial one. Numerous organizational changes that had place within the Committee structure in also contributed to the further mess. Gradual liquidation of the CKŻP Departments led to the takeover of successive tasks by the Secretariat, e.g. after the closing down of the Department of Emigration, its duties were taken over by the very Secretariat. The growing role of the Secretariat during the two final years of the Committee is also evident in the volume of general correspondence that survived from that time. The files of the Presiding Office and Secretariat were rearranged after 1950 but we do not know when exactly. As a result of the works conducted then both units received separate archives; the Presiding Office comprising the collection of minutes along with the enclosures only. During the current rearrangement, it has been decided upon the merger of both collections due to their similar character and the difficulties in full classification of the survived files. The files were divided into several groups. The first one consists of Organization files, including a vast collection of the minutes of Presiding Office CKŻP with enclosures. Initially it consisted of minutes solely, which, already during the existence of CKŻP, were bound as separate volumes containing documents of a few months. They became accompanied by minutes, which had been scattered among other collections of CKŻP (e.g. The Department of Organization and Control, Legal Department or the Department of Coulture and Propaganda). Thanks to such a grouping many minutes could be found,

7 which were not included to bound volumes; particularly precious are the supplements conc. 1945, in which a lot of document had been missing. Save the minutes of the Presiding Office, the first group comprises minutes of sessions and conferences of other organization units of CKŻP. It has been supplemented by the vast domestic and foreign correspondence arranged chronologically and acc. to their subject. We can find there scattered pieces of information conc. the entire activity CKŻP Dividing of the correspondence into recipients and senders allows to acquaint with main directions of contacts and cooperation of the organizations. The correspondence referring to particular matters (e.g. children and Sweden, anti-semitic riots in Poland, etc.) The next group (IV) comprises personal files of the staff in general (V), including a/o a collection of various cerificates/statements and authorizations/powers of attorney, correspondence, and namelist/indexes. For some of the documents it was sometimes impossible to state their origin (e.g. the indexes of archival units Nos ) and we don t know if they had been used by Secretariat, or by another CKŻP unit. In the group conc. substantial relief (VI), we can find vast correspondence of the Division of Parcels from Abroad. The last (broader) group of files comprises of documents of diverse committees and social and political organizations operating at CKŻP (VIII). Szczególnie obszerne są akta Komisji Mieszanej, która zajmowała się przydziałem macy dla ludności żydowskiej, but the Jewish Committeese exerted care over graveyard and exhumations. Also a lot of materials connected with the activities of the factions of PPR and PZPR as well as the unit of the Trade Union of Employees of Social Institutions at CKŻP. As for the languages, Polish definitely prevails in the files of the Presiding Office and Secretariat, however English, Yiddish and other languages, in very few cases, occur there, too. The files survived in generally good technical condition. After the last arrangement, the archive comprises 278 archival units of the volume of 4.10 running meters. The materials of the Presiding Office and Secretariat of CKŻP were marked by a call No 303\I in the Archive of JHI. Description of Files in the Inventory. Description of an archival unit in the inventory consists of several segments. It opens with the general features of the given group of files. The next segment contains the essential characteristics of the files, e.g. minutes, reports, name lists 5, correspondence, etc. In some cases supplementary information about the content were given in brackets. Finally, the information about the index of people (Index of people) 6 was made out for the given archival unit. The external description of the materials contains: the first and the last dates of documents included in the given unit, kind of the record (manuscript, typescript, print, photograph, photocopy), the language, form of keeping (loose files or bound copy), number of pages in the given unit and eventually the physical condition (preservation) of 5 On order to make the inventory browsing easier all comprehensive name lists were described as lists (name lists, list of people, etc.). We also followed that procedure in case of conducting and editing inventories of other collections in the holding of the Archive of JHI. 6 In cases of making out of an index of the given archive unit, it is enclosed under the archival unit at the end of the inventory, look up into Annexes personal indexes to the archival units.

8 them. Sometimes old Call Nos. given while arranging the files in the 20th century, were quoted. Archival Finding Aids For the sake of inventory, indexes of people were additionally made out for most of the units containing personal materials (a/o the documents containing collective name lists have been excluded) and the comprehensive index of people (over 1370 items). Also the geographical index of people of the place that were mentioned in the inventory. *** The works over new inventory of the archive of the Presiding Office and the Secretariat of CKŻP were conducted in two stages: the initial arrangement of files was conducted in (with the help of Agnieszka Jarzębowska from the Archive of JHI). The completion of arrangement and preparation of the inventory had place from November 2010 through January All the works were conducted thanks to the financial support of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Bibliography: The files of the Presiding office and Secretariat of CKŻP and other departments of CKŻP in the Archive of JHI. Abbreviations AJDC - American Joint Distribution Committee CKŻP - Central Committee of Jews in Poland Call No Encl.- enclosed/enclosure JHI the Jewish Historical Institute/the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute KŻ Jewish Committee/s OKŻP - District Jewish Committee PKŻP County Jewish Committee PPR Polish Workers Party (till 1948) PZPR Polish Unitited Workers Party (the successor of PPR since 1948) Number of pages page/s Ref. refers/referred to TKŻP Temporary Committee of Jews in Poland TOZ The Society for the Health Care of Jews at the CKŻP Unit/s archival unit/s

9 WKŻP Provincial Jewish Committee ŻIH Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw? dubious information Review of the Content of the Inventory I General organization files - units a. Minutes of the Presiding office of CKŻP units 7-36 b. Diverse minutes units c. Correspondence domestic and foreign units IV Personal files of the staff - units V Personal files units VI Substancial relief units a. A section of Parcels from Abroad units VII Financial files units 234 VIII Commissions and organizations: social and political operating at the CKŻP Inter-party Central Commission units 235 a. Mixed Central Commission units b. Housing Commission at the CKŻP units c. Central Faction of NUMBER OF PAGESR at the CKŻP units d. PZPR unit 266 e. The Union of the Youth Combat at the CKŻP - unit 267 f. Związek Zawodowy Pracowników Instytucji Społecznych przy CKŻP units g. Other matters units IX Photographs units X Miscellaneous units Inventory of the Archive of the Presiding Office and Secretariat of the Central Committee of Jews in Polishand in I. Organization files 1. Presiding Office. Organization files. The Statute of CKŻP in Poland. 1946, typescript, typescript copied, Polish, number of pages, old Call No:

10 2. Presiding Office. Organization files. The Statute of the Association of Jews in Poland 7 No date, typescript, Polish., number of pages 2. Old Call No: 3. Presiding Office. Organization files. Circular letters, orders, prints ( Biuletyn Informacyjny of r.) , No date, typescript, typescript copied, print, Yiddish, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: 4. Presiding Office. Organization files. Rules and regulations (a/o Rules and regulations conc. the work in CKŻP Departments; the Commission of Inspection at the CKŻP). 1947, No date, typescript, Polish, numerous damages, page/s, old Call No: 5. Presiding Office. Organization files. Lists of addresses of the Jewish Committees, institutions and organizations: domestic and foreign , manuscript, typescript, typescript copied, English, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: 6. Presiding Office. Organization files. Address index. No date, manuscript, Polish, a bound copy, damages, page/s old Call No: a. Minutes of Sessions of the CKŻP Presiding Office 7. Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the sessions of the Presiding Office and the plenary assembly of CKŻP. (January 1-December 27, 1945) 8 Encl. various documents. 1945, manuscript, typescript, Polish, Yiddish, a bound copy, minor damages and losses of text, number of pages 186, old Call No: 1 8. Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the sessions of the Presiding Office and the plenary assembly of CKŻP. (January12 - June 30, 1945) 1945, manuscript, typescript, Polish, number of pages old Call No: 9. Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the sessions of the Presiding Office and the plenary assembly of CKŻP. (July 15-September 29, 1945) Encl. various documents. 1945, typescript, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: 7 Page 1 is missing 8 The volume does not incorporate all minutes of 1945, a part of the missing ones is included in units 8-10

11 10. Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the sessions of the Presiding Office and the plenary assembly of CKŻP. (October 1- December 28, 1945) Encl. various documents. 1945, typescript, English, Polish, number of pages old Call No: 11. Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the sessions of the Presiding Office of CKŻP (January 3- June 25, 1946) Encl. various documents. 1946, manuscript, typescript, Polish, a bound copy, minor damages and losses of text, pp 175, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the sessions of the Presiding Office of CKŻP (July 1- October 31, 1946) Encl. various documents. 1946, manuscript, typescript, Polish, a bound copy, minor damages and losses of text, pp 214. Old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the sessions of the Presiding Office of CKŻP. (November 15 - December ) Encl. various documents. 1946, manuscript, typescript, typescript copied, Polish, a bound copy, pp 175. Old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the sessions of the Presiding Office of CKŻP (January 3 April 29, 1946). Encl. various documents. 1946, manuscript, typescript, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: 15. Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the sessions of the Presiding Office of CKŻP (May 2- June 25, 1946). Encl. various documents. 1946, manuscript, typescript, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: 16. Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the sessions of the Presiding Office of CKŻP. (July 2-25 June 25, 1946). Encl. various documents. 1946, manuscript, typescript, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: 17. Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the sessions of the Presiding Office of CKŻP (August 5 -September 25, 1946). Encl. various documents. 1946, manuscript, typescript, Polish, number of pages, old Call No:

12 18. Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the sessions of the Presiding Office of CKŻP. (October 3- October 31, 1946). Encl. various documents. 1946, manuscript, typescript, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: 19. Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the sessions of the Presiding Office of CKŻP (November 5- December 25, 1946). Encl. various documents. 1946, manuscript, typescript, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: 20. Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the sessions of the Presiding Office of CKŻP (January 3 -April 30, 1947) Encl. various documents. 1947, manuscript, typescript, typescript copied, Polish, a bound copy, pp 271, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the sessions of the Presiding Office of CKŻP (May 2 -August 27, 1947) Encl. various documents. 1947, manuscript, typescript, Polish, Yiddish, a bound copy, pp 219, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the sessions of the Presiding Office of CKŻP. (September 1-December 22, 1947) Encl. various documents. 1947, manuscript, typescript, Polish, Yiddish, a bound copy, pp 218. Old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the sessions of the Presiding Office of CKŻP. (January 4-5 November 5, 1947) Encl. various documents. 1947, typescript, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: 24. Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the sessions of the Presiding Office of CKŻP. (January 5 - May 29, 1948) 1948, manuscript, typescript, Polish, a bound copy, pp 417, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the sessions of the Presiding Office of CKŻP. (June 1- December 29,1948) 1948, manuscript, Polish, a bound copy, pp 382, old Call No: 14

13 26. Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the sessions of the Presiding Office of CKŻP. (January 5, March 1, 1948) Encl. various documents. 1948, manuscript, typescript, typescript copied, Polish, Yiddish, a bound copy, pp 236, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the sessions of the Presiding Office of CKŻP. (April 7-May 29, 1948) Encl. various documents. 1948, manuscript, typescript, typescript copied, Polish., Yiddish, a bound copy, pp 148, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the sessions of the Presiding Office of CKŻP. (June 1, September 27, 1948) Encl. various documents. 1948, manuscript, typescript, typescript copied, Polish, Yiddish, a bound copy, pp 240, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the sessions of the Presiding Office of CKŻP. (April 26 and May 29, 1948). Encl. Fragment of minutes of 1948 conc. the matters of budgeting 9 ; a division conc. the matters of budgeting Encl. to the minutes of June 16, , typescript, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: 30. Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the sessions of the Presiding Office of CKŻP. (October 1-December 29,1948) Encl. various documents. 1948, manuscript, typescript, Polish, a bound copy, pp 233, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the sessions of the Presiding Office of CKŻP. (January 5, March 31,1949) Encl. various documents. 1949, typescript, Polish, a bound copy, pp 129, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the sessions of the Presiding Office, plenary assembly and Executive Office of CKŻP (April 5 - June 30,1949) Encl. various documents. 1949, typescript, typescript copied, Polish, a bound copy, pp 159, old Call No: 16 9 Page 1 is missing

14 33. Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the sessions of the Presiding Office, and Executive Office of CKŻP (July 5-23 September 23, 1949) Encl. various documents. 1949, typescript, Polish, a bound copy, pp 59, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the sessions of the Presiding Office, and Executive Office of CKŻP (October 7-December 31, 1949) Encl. various documents. 1949, manuscript, typescript, typescript copied, Polish, Yiddish, a bound copy, pp 112, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the sessions of the Presiding Office, and Executive Office of CKŻP (January 28-December 16, 1949) 1949, manuscript, typescript, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: 36. Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the plenary session of CKŻP of March 11, , typescript, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: b. Various Minutes 37. Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the meetings of chairmen, secretaries and delegates of Jewish Committees. (10 October 10, 1945-November 13, 1946) , manuscript, typescript, Polish, a bound copy, pp 136, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the meetings of chairmen, secretaries and delegates of Jewish Committees as well as managers and the staff of of the CKŻP Departments. (October 10, 1945-June 20, 1946). Enclosures , manuscript, typescript, Polish, number of pages old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the meetings of chairmen, secretaries and delegates of Jewish Committees as well as managers and the staff of of the CKŻP Departments. (July 10-December 30, 1946) Encl. Resolutions passed at the conference in October and November , manuscript, typescript, English, Yiddish, Polish, number of pages old Call No:

15 40. Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the meetings of delegates of Jewish Committees as well as managers CKŻP Departments. (January 29 -December 31, 1947) Encl. Resolution passed at the home conference of Jewish Committees in Warsaw on and , typescript, typescript, Yiddish, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: 41. Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of breefing of the staff of the Secretariat and the Section of Parcels from Abroad of October 12, , typescript, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: 42. Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of meetings of Jews in the Lower Silesia in August 1949 the action organized by CKŻP in order to protest against defamatory campaign of the foreign press. 1949, manuscript, typescript, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes and resolutions of December 1948 and January1949 of the meetings with representatives of Jews in Poland, which sunumber of pagesorted political changes in Jewish Committees , manuscript, typescript, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: Department of Productivity, units Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the press conference in CKŻP on January 26,1946. Encl. Documents concerning the situation of Jews in Poland (population, victims of violece, repatriation and the like). 1946, typescript, English, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: 45. Presiding Office. Organization files. Minuted of the conference with AJDC representatives. 1947, No date, manuscript, typescript, j. Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: 46. Presiding Office. Organization files. Minutes of the celebrations commemorating Dawid Guzik, which had place on April 4, , typescript, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: 47. Presiding Office. Organization files. Plan of works of CKŻP for May 1945 r. Encl. the agenda of sessions of departments in May , typescript, Polish, number of pages, old Call No:

16 48. Presiding Office. Organization files. Statistic report of the activities of CKŻP in the 1 st half of 1946; the report of the two-year acitivity of CKŻP , typescript, English, Polish, number of pages old Call No: 49. Organization files. The report of repatriation of Polish Jews from the Soviet Union 10 (with enclosures). 1946, typescript copied, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: 50. Organization files. An outline of the plan of works of CKŻP for 1949 (organization and finances). Encl. reports of the activities of individual departments, e.g. the Department of Productivity and the Department of Culture and Propaganda for , typescript, j. Yiddish, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: 51. Organization files. Minutes of the General Assembly of the Solidarność Economic Enterprise, the Cooperative Ltd. of February 21,1946 in Warsaw. Resolution of the 1st Home Convention of Jewish Cooperatives (April 8-9, 1947) Encl. Circular letters , typescript copied, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: 52. Presiding Office. Organization files. Name list of delegates from Łodź for the National Convention of Jewish Committees and Soccial Organization during February 26-27, 1949 in Warsaw. Personal questionnaires of the delegates. 1950, manuscript, typescript, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. Resolutions for the closure of the plenary session of CKŻP. 1947, No date, typescript copied, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: 54. Presiding Office. Organization files. Memorials of CKŻP (conc. the settlement of Jews on the territory of the Lower Silesia (June 23, 1945), ref. to the problem of safety of Jews in Poland. Encl. reports of the Division for the Matter of Aid for Jews at the Ministry of 10 Doubled files (4 copies) of that report in the archive of the Department of Repatriation, unit 6.

17 Labor and Social of April and August , typescript, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: 55. Presiding Office. Organization files. Memoranda, resolutions, appeals, reports, open letters, interviews, studies, press cuttings, prints, flyers, notes , No date, manuscript, typescript, typescript copied, print, English, French, German, Polish, Russian, Yiddish, number of pages old Call No: 56. Presiding Office. Organization files. Index of Jewish people (in numbers) in Poland for January 1, , typescript, Polish, number of pages, old Call No 57. Presiding Office. Organization files. The list of places where various institutions of CKŻP were situated (pension houses, orphanages, boarding houses for schoolchildren and students and asylums for the disabled). The list of Jewish cooperatives in Poland (made out by trades), the number of the staff, 1948, typescript, Polish, number of pages, old Call No 58. Presiding Office. Organization files. The list of Jewish newspapers and magazines published in Poland with the addresses of the editorial offices, staff and publishers. No date, typescript, Polish, number of pages, old Call No 59. Presiding Office. Organization files. The report of the celebration commemorating Emanuel Ringelblum on the second anniversary of his death on March 7, Encl. Notes conc. the Ringelblum Archive; an invitation for the celebration on the occasion of the third anniversary of the Ringelblum s death. Przełom periodical, 1948, No 17 (with the report of the academic session in JHI on the fourth anniversary of the Ringelblum s death) , manuscript, print, j. Yiddish, Polish, number of pages, old Call No 60. Presiding Office. Organization files. The address of Szymon Rogoziński and Anatol Wertheim on the celebration

18 commemorating the second anniversary of the formation of WKŻ in Łódź. (February 1947) 1947, typescript, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. Various newspapers and magazines (e.g. Freie Arbeiter Stimme, of October 22,1948), press cuttings (e.g. the article of N. Kenig conc. the situation of Jews in the Soviet Union during the war; the article of Józef Wulf about the celebration of the Warsaw ghetto uprising of Encl. Translations into Polish , typescript, print, Yiddish, Polish, number of pages, old Call No c. Domestic and Foreign Correspondence 62. Presiding Office. Organization files. The journal of outcoming correspondence registered letters (April - June 1945) 1945, manuscript, Polish, a bound copy, number of pages, old Call No 63. Presiding Office. Organization files. Alphabetic indexes to the journals of general correspondence. 1946, manuscript, Polish, a bound copy, number of pages, old Call No: 64. Presiding Office. Organization files. Alphabetic indexes to the journals of general correspondence. 1947, manuscript, Polish, a bound copy, number of pages, old Call No: 65. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming). (February-September 1945) 1945, manuscript, typescript, j. German, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming). (October-December 1945) 1945, manuscript, typescript, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: 67. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming). (January-December 1946) 1946, manuscript, typescript, English, Polish. Yiddish, number of pages old Call No: 68. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming).

19 , manuscript, typescript, typescript copied, print, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: 69. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming). (April -July 1947). Out-coming correspondence, the journal Nos.: , manuscript, typescript, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: 70. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming). (April-July 1947). Out-coming correspondence, the journal Nos.: , manuscript, typescript, typescript copied, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: 71. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming), (August -December 1947). Outcoming correspondence, the journal Nos.: , manuscript, typescript, print, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: 72. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming). (August-December 1947). Outcoming correspondence, the journal Nos.: , manuscript, typescript, typescript copied, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: 73. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming). (August-December 1947). Outcoming correspondence, the journal Nos.: , manuscript, typescript, Polish, Russian, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: 74. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming). (August-December 1947). Outcoming correspondence, the journal Nos.: , manuscript, typescript, typescript copied, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: 75. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming). (January-February 1948) Outcomming correspondence, the journal Nos.: , manuscript, typescript, typescript copied, print, English, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No:

20 76. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming). (January-February 1948) Outcomming correspondence, the journal No: , manuscript, typescript, typescript copied, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call Nos.: 77. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming). (1948) 1948, manuscript, typescript, Polish., Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: 78. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming). (December 1948-March, 1949) , manuscript, typescript, print, Czech, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming). (March 1949-April 1949) 1949, manuscript, typescript, print, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming). (May 1949-September 1949) 1949, manuscript, typescript, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: Sekretariat. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming). (September-December 1949) 1949, manuscript, typescript, English, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming). (January-March 1950) 1950, manuscript, typescript, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming). (March - June 1950) 1946, 1950, manuscript, typescript, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming). (July-October 1950) 1950, manuscript, typescript, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No:

21 85. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (incoming) with the Department of Organization and Control , manuscript, typescript, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: 86. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with the Society for the Health Care (TOZ). (1948-January-October 1949) , manuscript, typescript, Yiddish, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. Correspondence ref. to the liquidation of Society for the Health Care (TOZ). 1950, manuscript, typescript, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: 88. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with the Polish headquarters of American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC). ( ) , typescript, print, English, Polish, number of pages old Call No: 89. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with the Polish headquarters of American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC). (January-December 1949) 1949, manuscript, typescript, English, Polish., Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with the Polish headquarters of American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC). (January-November 1950) 1950, manuscript, typescript, English, Polish, number of pages old Call No: 91. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with Orphanages in Otwock, Soplicowo and Zatrzebie. Encl. name list of the staff in the Orphanage in Soplicowo (November, 1947) , manuscript, typescript, Polish, number of pages old Call No: 92. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) z ministrie (January-December 1948) , manuscript, typescript, typescript copied, Polish, number of pages, old Call No:

22 93. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with ministries. (January-December 1948) , manuscript, typescript, print, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: 94. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with ministries. (January-December 1949) 1949, manuscript, typescript, j. French, Polish., Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: 95. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with ministries and head state offices. (February-December 1949) 1949, manuscript, typescript, English, Polish., Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: 96. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with ministries. (January-December 1950) , manuscript, typescript, print, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: 97. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with representatives foreign countries and institutions in Poland (1947) 1947, manuscript, typescript, photocopies, English, French, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: 98. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with Jewish Committees in Poland (Bielsko, Dąbrowa, Gliwice, Kalisz, Olsztyn, Piotrków, Poznań, Przemyśl, Włocławek) , manuscript, typescript, typescript copied, Yiddish, Polish., number of pages, old Call No: 99. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with Jewish Committees w Polishsce. (January-December 1950) 1950, manuscript, typescript, j. Yiddish, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: 114

23 100. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with Jewish Committees in Białymstok. Encl. minutes , manuscript, typescript, photograph/s, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with WKŻ in Bydgoszcz. (January 1949-January 1950) , manuscript, typescript, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with WKŻ in Częstochowa (February 1945-December 1946) , manuscript, typescript, Polish., number of pages, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with WKŻ in Częstochowa. Encl. minutes of the sessions of WKŻ (January-December January-November 1950) , manuscript, typescript, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: 104. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with WKŻ in Gdańsk. (February 1946; January 1949-December 1950) , manuscript, typescript, typescript copied, print, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence with KŻ in Katowice. (1946) Encl. the flyer of the Jewish Citizens Committee of the Silesia-Dąbrowa Jewish Citizens Committee for the idea of National Loan , typescript, print, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: 106. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with Katowice. (January-December 11 3 copies

24 1950) 1950, manuscript, typescript, Polish, Russian, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: 107. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) Jewish Committees in Krakow. (January-June 1950.) Encl. minutes i reports, name lists, payrolls , manuscript, typescript, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) of Jewish Committees in Krakow. (July-December 1950) Encl. minutes and reports. 1943, , manuscript, typescript, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) Jewish Committees in Lublin. (February-September 1950.) Enclosures. 1950, manuscript, typescript, photograph/s, Yiddish, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: 110. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with Jewish Committees in Lublin. (January-December 1948) 1948, manuscript, typescript, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: 111. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with Jewish Committees in Łódź. (January-June 1949). Encl. name lists. 1949, manuscript, typescript, print, Polish, number of pages old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with Jewish Committees in Łódź. (July-December 1949) 1949, manuscript, typescript, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with Jewish Committees in Łódź. (January-December 1950) , manuscript, typescript, print, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: 120

25 114. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with Jewish Committess in Szczecin. (January-December 1949) 1949, manuscript, typescript, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with Jewish Committees in Warsaw. (July-December 1946) , manuscript, typescript, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages 116. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with Jewish Committees in Warsaw with Jewish Committees and other institutions in the area of their activity (January-December 1949) , manuscript, typescript, typescript copied, print, Polish., Yiddish, number of pages old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with Jewish Committees in Warsaw (January-December 1950) 1950, manuscript, typescript, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with Jewish Committees in Włocławek. (January 1949-December 1949) 1949, manuscript, typescript, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (incoming) with Jewish Committess in Rychbach (Dzierżoniow). Encl. minutes and reports of their activity. 1945, typescript, Polish, number of pages, old Call No: 120. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with Jewish Committess in Wrocław (May-July 1947) , manuscript, typescript, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: 121. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with Jewish Committes in Wrocław

26 (May-July 1947) 1947, manuscript, typescript, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: 122. Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with Jewish Committes in Wrocław (July-October 1947) 1947, manuscript, typescript, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with Jewish Committes inwrocław. (October-December 1947, January 1948) , manuscript, typescript, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with Jewish Committes in Wrocław. (January-April 1949) Encl. name lists of people registered in the Committee; people, who received emigration certificates , manuscript, typescript, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with Jewish Committes in Wrocław (April-June 1949) Encl. People registered in the Committee; people who received emigration certificates. 1949, manuscript, typescript, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with Jewish Committes in Wrocław (July-October 1949) Encl. name lists of eople registered in the Committee; people who received emigration certificates. 1949, manuscript, typescript, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: Presiding Office. Organization files. General correspondence (out-and-incoming) with the committees in Lower Silesia. (January-December 1947) , manuscript, typescript, Polish, Yiddish, number of pages, old Call No: 53