Michael Zylberberg

Title: Michael Zylberberg

Inclusive Dates: 1939-1945

ID: RG 493

Extent Information

2'1"; 3 5"ltr;2 5"lgl

Arrangement

Organization: folders numbered sequentially

Arrangement: The collection is divided in the following manner: I) Extermination & Resistance (pp. 1-532); II) Reports on the Domestic Situation (533-819); III) Polish Underground Press (820-1198); IV) Polish-Jewish relations in occupied Poland (1199-1393); V) Correspondence between Jewish Circles in Poland & Abroad (1394-1624); VI) The Polish Government in Exile - Relations with Jewish circles (1625-1854); VII) The Polish Government in Exile & Palestine (1855-2184); VIII) Jews in the Polish Armed Forces (2185-2993); IX) Jews in the Soviet Union (2994-3100)

Creators

Zylberberg, Michael

Administrative/Biographical History

Journalist, YIVO representative in London. Zylberberg researched the Wladyslaw Sikorski Archives which holds the records of the Polish Government-in-Exile and the archives of the Instytut Polski Podziemnej (Institute of the Polish Underground) with inclusive dates from 1939 to 1945.

Subjects (links to similar collections)

Antisemitism
England
Ghettos, Holocaust
Great Britain
Holocaust and Aftermath
Israel
Jewish Labor Bund
Military service
Palestine
Poland
Politics and Political Parties
Resistance, World War II
Scholarship
Soviet Union
USSR
Writers

Finding Aid Information

Inventory: English, 61 pp., typed

Administrative Information

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Description: Typewritten copies of records of the Polish Government-in-Exile relating to Jewish affairs during the Holocaust period. This documentary survey of the Polish repositories in London covers a wide range of topics pertaining to the situation of Polish Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland and to Polish Jewish refugeees in the Soviet Union and Palestine. The collection is divided into the following subject series: Extermination and resistance. Reports and messages from the Polish underground to London about the situation of the Jewish population, persecutions, deportations, antisemitic propaganda, liquidation of the ghettos, operations of the death camps, organization of resistance movements, uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto. Extracts from 'Reports on the Domestic Situation,' issued by the Ministry of the Interior of the Polish Government-in-Exile, 1939-1944. Periodic analysis of the annihilation of Polish Jews. Polish Underground Press. Reports and comments about the extermination and resistance published in *Barykada Wolnosci*, *Biuletyn Informacyjny*, *Glos Pracy*, *Informator*, *Kadra*, *Kurier*, *Nowe Drogi*, *Glos Warszawy*, *Prawda*, *Rada Narodowa*, *Warszawski Glos Narodowy*, *Wschod*. Polish-Jewish Relations in occupied Poland. Attitudes toward the Jews by various Polish political groups. Activities of the *Rada Pomocy Zydom* (Council for Aid to Jews), 1942-1944. Relations between the Polish and Jewish underground movements. Contacts between Jewish groups in Poland and abroad: Bund and Poale-Zion in the Warsaw Ghetto and in London and Tel Aviv. Letters from Szymon Gotesman in Krakow to Ignacy Schwarzbard in London, Adolf Berman and Emanuel Ringelblum in Warsaw to YIVO and Yiddish P.E.N. Club in New York. Relations between the Polish Government-in-Exile and Jewish groups. Protests of Jewish groups against antisemitism in the Polish army and in the government. Contacts with Jewish organizations in the U.S. Polish Government-in-Exile and Palestine: reports on recruitment of Jews to the Polish Army in Palestine, 1942. Intelligence reports from Palestine, 1943. Jews in the Polish Armed Forces. General Sikorski's order condemning antisemitism in the Polish army, 1940. Reports, minutes of the Special Investigation Commission on the desertion of Jewish soldiers from the Polish army, 1943-1944. Miscellaneous printed matter from the Jewish Documentation Office, London, 1940-1945, about annihilation of Jews in Poland. News bulletins on situation in Poland. Clippings about Jews in Poland. Jews in the Soviet Union: Erlich-Alter affair, 1941. Situation of Polish Jews in the Soviet Union, 1942-1943.