Legacies and papers of Chaim Finkelsztejn (Sygn. S/346)

Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma 

Chaim Finkelsztejn was born in 1899 in Warsaw and worked before World War II as a journalist in the Zionist newspaper “Haynt;” between 1936 and 1939, he was its director. In 1938, his book Palestyna w pracy i walce (Palestine in Tail and Fight) was published. In 1939. As a deputy from Poland, he traveled to Geneva to attend the World Zionist Congress and remained in Paris once the war broke out. In November 1939, he traveled to New York. After the war, he worked as an administrator and Holocaust researcher in the Institute of Jewish Research in New York. 

Legacies and papers of Chaim Finkelsztejn (Sygn. S/346) 

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Contains personal documents of Chaim Finkelsztejn; correspondence, both official and personal from 1939 to 2001; reports, notes, projects, and papers (including a short biography of Chaim Finkelszejn); books, brochures, newspapers, newspaper clippings; invoices, tickets, stamps, and notes; and photographs. 

Copyright Holder: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma 

The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved on the digital files. Arranged in six series: I. Personal documents of Chaim Finkelsztejn; II. Correspondence: 1. Correspondence 1939-1943: a) Private letters from family in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1939-1942 and letters of Chaim Finkelsztejn to his wife Rywka and his two daughters, Estera and Awiwa, b) Other private letters from 1939 till 1941, c) Official letters 1939-1943. 2. Correspondence 1945-2001: a) Various letters from 1945, b) Private correspondence 1955-2000, c) Official letters 1945-2001; III. Reports, notes, projects, papers (including short biography of Chaim Finkelszejn); IV.Books, brochures, newspapers, press cuts; V. Invoices, tickets, stamps, notes etc.; VI. Photographs.