Documents related to the Holocaust in Lviv (Lwow) and Lviv (Lwow) Region, The Lviv Collection, personal narratives, 1941-1944

Collection Overview

Title: Documents related to the Holocaust in Lviv (Lwow) and Lviv (Lwow) Region, The Lviv Collection, personal narratives, 1941-1944

Predominant Dates:1942, 1942

ID: RG-89/RG-89

Creator: Maurycy Allerhand, Professor of Jurisprudence, the former Chairman of the Lviv Jewish Community, out (1868 -- 1942)

Extent: 1.0 Boxes

Languages: Polish [pol], German [ger]

Abstract

This a collection of documents, collectively know as Teka Lwowska or the Lwow (Lviv) Collections. It comprises the wartime accounts of distinguished functionaries of the Jewish Community of Lviv (Lwow). There documents comprising diaries and testimonies of Professor Maurycy Allerhand, namely his narration of the interview with German Colonel Stefens on July 2, 1941. There are a number of eye-witness testimonies of day-to-day ghetto occurances, round ups, actions and the service of Ukrainian auxiliary police in regard to executing Nazi-German policy and actions in the ghetto of Lviv (Lwow). They are contained in testimonies of four other authors: Solomon Czortkower - anthropologist, assistant of the same university; Berman, who was the teacher of German language in Lwow; Gold, who did not leave any more information about himself and a person who signed his relations with the initials “H.S.”. In addition, we can find here a few copies of the reports on the activities of the Judenrat (Jewish Council) in Lviv, the list of smaller labor camps near Lwow, newspaper clippings from the period of the occupation and the book of hiring contracts of Lvov Jewish Religious Community between years 1898-1928.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The core documents of this collections are listed below,

Maurycy Allerhand, narrative, letter to Colonel Steffens, Juli 1941;

Maurycy Allerhand, chronicle of days in Lviv, 1942;

M. Allerhand, Chronicle, Lviv, 1942; In addition there a number of sub-divided documents from Maurycy Allerhand written narrative in regard to the life in German-occupied Lviv (Lwow) and in the ghetto.

There is series of personal diary-like narrative written by J. Berman, an employee of the Jewish Council established by the German administration of Lviv (Lwow). These narratives largely relate to the actions of Ukrainian militia in late June, early July of 1941 and then to the day-to-day occurrences with Ukrainian auxiliary police and German police.

Accounts written by Polish scholar of Jewish descent, Salomon Czortkower relate to the actions of German authorities in regard to Jewish population of the ghetto, implemented by Ukrainian and German police.

The documents of this collection largely relate to the Jewish community under German occupation in Lviv (Lwow), in 1941, 1942.

In addition to the narratives of Maurycy Allerhand, J. Berman, Salomon Czortkower, there are a number of accounts of day-to-day round ups, actions and other atrocities imposed of Jews in the ghetto of Lviv (Lwow). The actions of perpetrators, largely Ukrainian police and German police are well described. There are also accounts in regard to the functionaries of Jewish Community of Lviv (Lwow) in prewar and wartime.

Biographical Note

Professor Maurycy Allerhand, born in 1868 in Rzeszow, died in 1942 in Lviv (Lwow)

Professor Allerhand gained doctorate in Vienna University in 1892. In 1909 received habilitation of the Lwow University for a scholarly volume. He remained professor of Lviv (Lwow) University until the time of German occupation. Professor Allerhand published over one thousands scholarly works. In 1929, Professor Allerhand served as Chairman for the Executive Office of Lviv Jewish Community. He also held official and public offices related to jurisprudential activity.

In October 1941, he and his wife were forced to live in the Lviv ghetto. On September 10, 1942, Professor Allerhand and his wife were transported to Janowska Road Concentration Camp in Lviv. They both were murdered in the camp. His son Joachim (1897 – 1970), son’s wife Zina (1908 – 1978) and grandson Leszek (born in 1931) survived the Holocaust.

Box and Folder Listing

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-89.01, Jewish Historical Institute, analysis of collection, Martyrdom of the Lviv Jews, 1941 -- 1943

This documents is an article published in the Bulletin of the ZIH (Jewish Historical Institute of Warsaw) in regad to archival and bibliographical description of the Teka Lwowska, the collection of the documents related to the martyrology of Jewish population in Lwow (Lviv) in the period of German occupation, 1941 -- 1944. It is a chrlonoologically divised article comprising recollections of wintesses and survivors, as well as diaries and chronicles from the Lwow (Lviv) ghetto.

Subject/Index Terms:: Holocaust in Lviv (Lwow), 1941 -- 1944; Holocaust in Poland; The Holocaust in General Government (German-occupied Poland); Publication of Teka Lwowska in Bulletin of ZIH (Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw), 1979; Teka Lwowska (The Lviv Collection), wartime documents in regard to Jews, archival documents; Teka Lwowska, arrangements by Dr. Zygmunt Hoffman, ZIH, publication, 1979; Chronology of the extermination of Jewish in Lviv (Lwow), 1941 -- 1943; Extermination of Jews in Lviv (Lwow), discourse and narrative, postwar; the Lwow (Lviv) ghetto chronicle, 1941 -- 1943; Lwow (Poland); Lviv (Ukraine); Eastern Galicia (Poland: Region); Documents in Polish language; Narratives in Polish language; General Government (German-occupied Poland), 1939 -- 1945; District Galizien (Eastern Galicia), German administrative unit of occupied Poland

Creators:: Dr. Zygmunt Hoffman, Jewish Historical Institute (1980); Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-89.02, A document, Lviv, December 1941

A series of documents comprising the Chronicle of the Lwow (Lviv) ghetto in 1941 -- 1943. It relates to atrocities of German and Ukrainian police and local population.

Subject/Index Terms:: Lviv (Ukraine); Lwow (Poland); Teka Lwowska (The Lviv Collection), wartime documents in regard to Jews, archival documents; Teka Lwowska, arrangements by Dr. Zygmunt Hoffman, ZIH, publication, 1979; Confiscation of Jewish property without German authorization; Jewish Community in Lviv (Lwow); Liquidation of older Jews in Lviv, 1941; Situation of Jews in Lviv (Lwow), 1941-1942; Everyday life of Jews in Lviv (Lwow), 1941-1942; Maurycy Allerhand, Professor of Law at the Jan Kazimierz University of Lwow (Lviv), 19th, 20th c.; Narratives in Polish language; Documents in Polish language; the Lwow (Lviv) ghetto chronicle, 1941 -- 1943; Eastern Galicia (Poland: Region); General Government (German-occupied Poland), 1939 -- 1945; District Galizien (Eastern Galicia), German administrative unit of occupied Poland

Creators:: Maurycy Allerhand, Professor of Jurisprudence, the former Chairman of the Lviv Jewish Community, out (1868 -- 1942)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 3: RG-89.03, Jews in Lviv, 1942, Ukrainian police

A document from the Lwow (Lviv) ghetto chronicle narrated by Maurycy Allerhand, former Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Jewish Community in Lwow (Lviv). The document relates to atrocities and perpetration committed by German Police, Ukrainian Police and local population in 1941 -- 1943

Subject/Index Terms:: Lviv (Ukraine); Lwow (Poland); Publication of Teka Lwowska in Bulletin of ZIH (Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw), 1979; Teka Lwowska (The Lviv Collection), wartime documents in regard to Jews, archival documents; Teka Lwowska, arrangements by Dr. Zygmunt Hoffman, ZIH, publication, 1979; Ukrainian auxiliary police in Lviv and Lviv region, 1941 -- 1944; Ukrainian auxiliary police in anti-Jewish actions, Lviv and Lviv region, 1941 -- 1944; Jewish Order Police; Extortion of cash payments from Jews by Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, wartime, Lviv (Lwow); Confiscation of Jewish property without German authorization; Situation of Jews in Lviv (Lwow), 1941-1942; Everyday life of Jews in Lviv (Lwow), 1941-1942; Liquidation of older Jews in Lviv, 1941; Jewish Community in Lviv (Lwow); Documents in Polish language; Narratives in Polish language; Eastern Galicia (Poland: Region); the Lwow (Lviv) ghetto chronicle, 1941 -- 1943; General Government (German-occupied Poland), 1939 -- 1945; District Galizien (Eastern Galicia), German administrative unit of occupied Poland

Creators:: Maurycy Allerhand, Professor of Jurisprudence, the former Chairman of the Lviv Jewish Community, out (1868 -- 1942)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 4: RG-89.04, Jews in Lviv, 1941, Expropriation of property by Ukrainians

A document from the Lwow (Lviv) ghetto chronicle relating to atrocities and abuses committed by German Police, Ukrainian Police and local population in 1941 – 1943

Subject/Index Terms:: Publication of Teka Lwowska in Bulletin of ZIH (Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw), 1979; Teka Lwowska (The Lviv Collection), wartime documents in regard to Jews, archival documents; Teka Lwowska, arrangements by Dr. Zygmunt Hoffman, ZIH, publication, 1979; Lviv (Ukraine); Lwow (Poland); Documents in Polish language; Narratives in Polish language; the Lwow (Lviv) ghetto chronicle, 1941 -- 1943; Eastern Galicia (Poland: Region); District Galizien (Eastern Galicia), German administrative unit of occupied Poland; Extortion of cash payments from Jews by Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, wartime, Lviv (Lwow); Resettlements of Jews in Lviv (Lwow), 1941 -- 1942; Jewish District in Lviv (Lwow); Exploitation of Jews in Lviv (Lwow), 1941 -- 1942; Confiscation of Jewish apartments in Lviv (Lwow), 1941 -- 1942; The Ghetto in Lviv (The Lwow Ghetto)

Creators:: Maurycy Allerhand, Professor of Jurisprudence, the former Chairman of the Lviv Jewish Community, out (1868 -- 1942)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 5: RG-89.05, Maurycy Allerhand, narrative, letter to Colonel Steffens, July 1941