Czestochowa Judenrat records, 1940-1942. (ID: 32209)
Authorship or Source:
Rada Starszych w Czestochowie
Year:
1940-1942
Title or Main Description:
Czestochowa Judenrat records, 1940-1942.
Place Published or Holding Institution:
- Jewish Historical Institute of Poland,
- Warsaw, Poland.
Description:
- [37] leaves ; tabs ; ills ; 28cm
- Number of Names or Other Entries-- Approx. 450
Date:
1940 - 1942
Type of Work:
Typescript [Printout of microfilm]
Museum or Other Institution Holdings:
- USHMM Archives Collection: RG-15.061M, Reels 1 & 2
- In USHMM Survivors Registry Collection: Document File EE2614
- In Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland: RG-213
Provenance:
Rada Starszych w Czestochowie (Czestochowa Judenrat) created the records from ca. 1940-1942. Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland acquired the documents after World War II and placed them in record group 213. Jewish Historical Institute microfilmed the records for the USHMM Archives in 1995.
Keywords:
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Registers of dead --Poland --Czestochowa.
- World War, 1939-1945 --Deportations from Poland --Czestochowa --Registers.
- Jewish councils --Poland --Czestochowa.
- Jews --Poland --Czestochowa --Registers.
- Jewish ghettos --Poland --Czestochowa.
Abstract:
- Archival documents which contain individual names taken from the Judenrat in Czestochowa. This collection contains pages copied from the microform copy of the Czestochowa Judenrat records that have name lists on them. There about 14 separate name lists in this collection.
- The Finding aid of the USHMM Archives states that the collection "Contains administrative and statistical information from the Judenrat in Czestochowa, Poland (Rada Starszych w Czestochowie). Also contains name lists of Jews in Czestochowa; duty rosters of Jewish police activity in Czestochowa; book of "event and orders" for the Jewish police; and instructions from the Czestochowa chief of police to the Jewish police in the Czestochowa ghetto."
Language and Other Notes:
- Text in Polish and German.
- Detailed descriptions of the documents are available in an English language Finding Aid Record Group 15 available at the USHMM Archives Reference Desk.
Resource Center Cataloging Notes:
Obtained from the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland [fond 213].