Piotrkov Trybunalski Relief Association
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Brief Description: Box 1: Minute book, in Yiddish, 1970-1974. Cashbooks, 1965-1974. Ledger for member payments (dues, grave reservations, monuments, raffle books), 1968-1978. Records related to purchase of Israel Bonds (correspondence, donor lists, receipts, clippings, texts of speeches delivered at Purim Parties), in English and Yiddish, 1970-1978. Check stubs, 1966-1973. Box 2: Receipt books (carbon copies) for member payments (donations, dues), 1964-1975. Box 3: Minutes, report to membership, in Yiddish, 1965. Meeting notices, in English and Yiddish, 1961, 1965-1978. New Bulletin, December 2002. Piotrkov and Vicinity Society in New York Bulletins, and letters to membership, in Yiddish and English, 1965-1978. Correspondence with Piotrokov Trybunalski and Vicinity Association in Israel, in Yiddish, with some Polish, 1963-1967, in part concerning yizkor book. Essay on Moshe Feinkind, in Yiddish. Piotrokov Trybunalski and Vicinity Association in Israel notices and newsletters, in Hebrew and Yiddish, 1957, 1965-1968. Clippings, in Yiddish, concerning German reparations for Holocaust victims, 1961, 1963. Letter to World Federation of Polish Jews, in Yiddish, 1970. Acknowledgement from Chaim Sheba Medical Center for donation of plaque, 1976. Invitations, 1975-1978. Blank forms. Miscellaneous printed materials. Box 4: Certificate of incorporation, 1959. Petrokover Ladies Circle certificate of incorporation, 1941, and certificate of service from the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York. Drawings related to engraving of the martyrs monument at Beth Israel Cemetery, circa 1968-1969. Box 5: Photographs (memorial meeting in New York, circa 1960s; old synagogue, memorial site, Poland). Unidentified negatives. Clippings, in Yiddish and English, with some Polish, 1965-1970, mainly related to Holocaust history and commemoration, and activities of Jewish Nazi Victims Organization. Box 6: Stone fragment. Box 7 (oversize): Group photographs, 1973. Photograph of martyrs monument at Beth Israel Cemetery, circa 1969. General ledger (probably relates to a different society; includes member dues, expenses, sick and funeral benefits, payments to Baron de Hirsch Cemetery), 1931-1939.
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YIVO Online Guide
Record Series Number: RG 1909/RG 1909
Created by: Piotrkov Trybunalski Relief Association (New York, N.Y.)
Volume: 1.96 Linear Feet
Acquired: 09/24/2009.
Subject Index
Benevolent Societies
Cemeteries
Charitable Societies
Fraternal Societies
Immigrant Societies
Israel
Ladies Auxiliaries
Landsmanshaftn
Mutual Aid Societies
Poland
Survivors, Holocaust
United States
Languages of Materials
English
Yiddish
Hebrew
Polish
Acquisition Notes: Henry Rosenstein; ACC 15/09
Finding Aid Revisions: 12/28/2012; VL
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