The archive of Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw is one of the richest resources for the research on the history of Jews in Poland. Its Holocaust Documentation constitutes its most important part. The Archives contain documentation regarding victims of the Holocaust. It issues certificates and considers applications for the awarding of the title Righteous Among the Nations of World. (A form is available from the Jewish Historical Institute.)
With the Archives are:
A collection of personal documents concerning the awarding of the title Righteous Among the Nations of World. Detailed accounts contain documents, grouped into personal files, concerned with individual stories of rescue. They are in two archival collections – 349 and 301.
A collection of stories of Holocaust Survivors (around 7,200 records; digitised stories 1-4000 appear in a book form [volumes I-IV]. There is also electronic personal and geographic index)
A collection of 320 diaries from Holocaust Survivors.
Documents of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland (1944-1950); among others, documents from the Department of Registration and Statistics e.g. registration cards of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, the Emigration Department (1945-1951); the Education Department containing. cards of Jewish children registered after the War by their parents, foster-parents or wartime careers.
Contacts to the Department of Documentation of Victims of the Holocaust:
Halina Grubowska
e-mail: hgrubowska@jhi.pl
tel. (22) 827 92 21, internal number 130
Education
In the traditional Jewish culture all boys embarked on education, which was associated with the religious obligations of men. In Poland cheders for boys from 4-5 to 13 years of age functioned. In some cities the Talmudic schools (yeshivas) operated. All religious schools were private, paid for by parents. For the poorest and orphans religious schools, supported by Jewish communities (Talmud-Torah),(...)
Holocaust
[English, from the Greek holokaustikós = "burnt whole"]
A term used in English to describe the extermination of European Jewry during the Second World War; other languages have also adopted it. The expression has been rejected by many Jewish scholars and theologians because of its religious context, who prefer to use the Hebrew word Shoa instead.
Gabriela Zalewska
Holocaust
[English, from the Greek holokaustikós = "burnt whole"]
A term used in English to describe the extermination of European Jewry during the Second World War; other languages have also adopted it. The expression has been rejected by many Jewish scholars and theologians because of its religious context, who prefer to use the Hebrew word Shoa instead.
Gabriela Zalewska
Holocaust
[English, from the Greek holokaustikós = "burnt whole"]
A term used in English to describe the extermination of European Jewry during the Second World War; other languages have also adopted it. The expression has been rejected by many Jewish scholars and theologians because of its religious context, who prefer to use the Hebrew word Shoa instead.
Gabriela Zalewska
Warsaw
[Yiddish, Varshe, Varsha, Varshoy]
The earliest Jewish settlement in Warsaw dates back to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In the first half of the fifteenth century, Warsaw had a "Jewish Street", synagogue and cemetery. The first mention of Jews being expelled from the city dates back to 1483. In 1527, Sigismund I the Old confirmed Warsaw's de non tolerandis Judaeis privilege,(...)
