Provincial Jewish Committee in Warsaw Wojewódzki Komitet Żydowski w Warszawie (Sygn. 352)

Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma 

Provincial Jewish Committee in Warsaw Wojewódzki Komitet Żydowski w Warszawie (Sygn. 352) 

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Contains the records of the Provincial Jewish Committee in Warsaw (Wojewódzki Komitet Żydowski w Warszawie, WKŻ), which was established in September 1944 and was subordinated to the Central Committee of Jews in Poland (Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce, CKŻP). Records consist of correspondence, organizational files, testimonies, statistics, personal files from the staff, financial records relating to matters of the survivors of the Holocaust. 

Copyright Holder: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma 

Arranged into seven series: Series 1: Organization files: circular letters, minutes of sessions, resolutions, correspondence, memorials, testimonies of witnesses, lists of the staff, the materials concerning the organization events; Series 2: Files of individual departments of the Wojewódzki Komitet Żydowski w Warszawie (WKŻ): statistics, files of the Department of Youth, the Department of Social Welfare, and Department of Organization, Department of Control and Productivity; Series 3: Personal files of the WKŻ staff including resumes and personal questionnaires; Series 4: Official correspondence and correspondence with private individuals; Series 5: Materials on relief: applications, powers of attorney, card files of people who obtained help; Series 6: Financial files as reports, bills of lading, book-keeping and other documents; Series 7: Regional Jewish Committees subordinated to WKŻ in Warsaw: lists of Jews inhabiting individual counties; correspondence; minutes of sessions from Ciechanów, Góra Kalwaria, Legionowo, Ostrów Mazowiecka, Płońsk, Otwock, Płock, Siedlce, Sierpc, Węgrów, Wyszogród.