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Documentation of the administration of the ZSS (Jewish Social Self-Help) organization in Krakow and correspondence between the ZSS administration and the ZSS branches in Chlewsika, Busk, Kielce, Cmielow, Otwock, Debica, Piotrkow and Tarnow, 18 October 1940-25 March 1942 - Protocol of a meeting of the administration of the ZSS in Krakow regarding winter welfare (Winterhilfe) for Jewish refugees deported from Krakow, 18 October 1940 (pp. 2-6); - Curriculum vitae sent by Lawyer Leon Nehmer, from Krakow, to the administration of the ZSS in Krakow, 11 November 1940 (pp. 7-9); - Lists of deportees from...

File Number : 41

Type of Material : Survey Report, Letter, Correspondence, Statistical Reports

Language : Polish, German

Documentation from the trial of Ludwig Hahn, Kommandeure der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (Kds-SIPO and SD Headquarters) in Warsaw, 1944, on the charge of murder of Jews, held in the Hamburg Regional Court, November 1961-June 1962 Two documents (sent from Poland) from the office of "E.K.-Sicherheitspolizei, Kampfgruppe Reinefarth" [E.K.= Einsatzkommando], written in Warsaw on 21 and 22/08/1944, signed by Timm [SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer (captain)] containing reports on the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising; authenticity of the documents confirmed; Accompanying commentaries from 1961 containing a list of...

File Number : 54

Type of Material : Record of Survivors, Record of Persecuted Persons, Official Documentation, Legal Documentation, Testimony, Names of Perpetrators, Investigation Reports

Language : German

Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS-Jewish Self Aid) activities in the Generalgouvernement, 1939-1943

Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (ZSS-Jewish Self Aid) activities in the Generalgouvernement, 1939-1943 The Jewish Self Aid organization (in Polish: Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna [ZSS]; in German: Juedische Soziale Selbshilfe) was set up in Krakow in 1940; it went by this name until July 1942. After that date, the organization's welfare activities were cut back by order of the German authorities, and they mainly consisted of the transferring of medicines to Jews in labor camps until this activity, too, was discontinued in mid-1944. ZSS documentation includes correspondence between the administration of the...

Type of Material : List of Names, List of Jews, Statistical Data, Statistical Report, Application, Balance Sheet, Report, Correspondence, Administrative Documentation, Survey Report, Lists, Reports, Financial Accounts