ORT Archive documents relating to Poland.
ORT worked in Poland in 1921-1943, 1946-1950 and 1957-1968. It supported artisans and farmers and ran schools and courses, including classes in the Warsaw ghetto. The ORT online archive holds documents covering activities between 1923 and 1939. More information on activities in Poland can be found in the 1935-1967 reports submitted to World ORT's governing bodies and in the World ORT Report (formerly the ORT Yearbook). These can be found under World ORT. Our photo galleries also include more from ORT Poland, including the later periods of operation, and a brief history of ORT's activities in the country is available here.
Apprenticeship over vocational education in Wilno region, 1923.
Apprenticeship over vocational education in Wilno region, 1923.
Report by Sh. Viktorov and D. Telechnikov. Describes the state of artisanry, ORT activities and vocational education in the region, describes situation by particular locality accompanied by statistics on expenses. Covers Swieciany, Poland [now Švenčionys, Lithuania], Kurzeniec, Poland [now Kurenets, Belarus], Dzisna [Disne], Poland [now Disna, Belarus], and Iwje [Ivia], Poland [now Iwye, Belarus].
Creator: | ORT Vilna |
Extent: | 3 pages |
Date: | 1923 |
Language: | Yiddish |
Location: | Poland, Belarus, Lithuania |
General report on ORT work related to vocational education in the Wilno region, 1923.
General report on ORT work related to vocational education in the Wilno region, 1923.
By instructor Zhelezniakow [Cheliezniakow]. Discusses situation with vocational education in the region, describes institutions by locality, presents number of students, subjects, attitude of local population. Covers Swieciany, Poland [now Švenčionys, Lithuania], Kurzeniec, Poland [now Kurenets, Belarus], Dzisna [Disne], Poland [now Disna, Belarus], Nowogrodek, Poland [now Navahrudak, Belarus], and Iwje [Ivia], Poland [now Iwye, Belarus].
Creator: | ORT Vilna |
Extent: | 5 pages |
Date: | 1923 |
Language: | Yiddish |
Location: | Poland, Belarus, Lithuania |
ORT Congress in Danzig, 1923.
ORT Congress in Danzig, 1923.
Textual document.
Creator: | ORT Poland |
Extent: | 1 folder |
Date: | 1923 |
Language: | Russian |
Location: | Danzig [now Gdańsk, Poland] |
Agricultural conference at the Central Committee of ORT, 6 October 1923.
Agricultural conference at the Central Committee of ORT, 6 October 1923.
Resolution and plan of activities adopted at the conference, upon hearing reports from agronomist Feigin on Wilno region and Zeeman on Wolyn region.
Creator: | ORT Warsaw |
Extent: | 2 pages |
Date: | 1923 |
Language: | Yiddish |
Location: | Poland |
Report by Dr Lipkowski about Jewish agricultural work in Poland after WWI, c. 1923.
Report by Dr Lipkowski about Jewish agricultural work in Poland after WWI, c. 1923.
Presents a review of Jewish agriculture in the territories which came under Polish control, before, during and after the war, and describes ORT restoring activities, with statistical data, for 1921-1923.
Creator: | ORT Warsaw? |
Extent: | 39 pages |
Date: | c. 1923 |
Language: | Yiddish |
Location: | Poland |
Report on work in the regions of Grodno, Wolyn and Wilno, 9 December 1923.
Report on work in the regions of Grodno, Wolyn and Wilno, 9 December 1923.
A report by I. Epstein "To the Central Committee of ORT in Warsaw", describing his visit of agricultural entities in 3 regions with statistical data including number of trees planted.
Creator: | ORT Warsaw? |
Extent: | 2 pages |
Date: | 1923 |
Language: | Yiddish |
Location: | Warsaw, Poland |
Minutes of agricultural conference of 16-17 March, 1924.
Minutes of agricultural conference of 16-17 March, 1924.
Reflects the proceedings of conference on agricultural colonies and education.
Creator: | ORT Warsaw |
Extent: | 3 pages |
Date: | 1924 |
Language: | Yiddish |
Location: | Poland |
Meeting of the ORT Warsaw Central Committee , 30 March 1924.
Meeting of the ORT Warsaw Central Committee , 30 March 1924.
Presents proceedings of the meeting on discussing Executive Committee report, financial issues and current topics.
Creator: | ORT Warsaw |
Extent: | 2 pages |
Date: | 1924 |
Language: | Yiddish |
Location: | Warsaw, Poland |
Minutes of meeting of Executive Committee [ORT Poland ?], 31 March 1924.
Minutes of meeting of Executive Committee [ORT Poland ?], 31 March 1924.
Reflects proceedings of the meeting on agricultural issues including financing livestock, agricultural camps, Central Committee members to be in charge of agriculture.
Creator: | ORT Warsaw |
Extent: | 1 page |
Date: | 1924 |
Language: | Yiddish |
Location: | Poland |
Report by I. Epstein on visiting several agricultural colonies, 6 November 1925.
Report by I. Epstein on visiting several agricultural colonies, 6 November 1925.
Presents information on planting of fruit trees in agricultural colonies visited in October-November 1925.
Creator: | ORT Warsaw |
Extent: | 4 pages |
Date: | 1925 |
Language: | Yiddish |
Location: | Poland |
Letter to Syngalowski about new agricultural cooperatives in Poland, 29 June 1926.
Letter to Syngalowski about new agricultural cooperatives in Poland, 29 June 1926.
Describes, on Syngalowski's request, new agricultural cooperatives and their financial needs.
Creator: | ORT Warsaw |
Extent: | 4 pages |
Date: | 1926 |
Language: | Yiddish |
Location: | Warsaw, Poland |
Introduction to report of I. Epstein on work carried out in Spring 1927.
Introduction to report of I. Epstein on work carried out in Spring 1927.
Reports on work done during spring and planned work for the autumn. Cites the kinds of agricultural work and statistical data related to gardening and fruit trees in the 12 localities mentioned in the title: Dubinowo, Ignatowka-Zofiowka, Osowa, Zoludzk-Olizarka, Siedliszcze Małe, Pinsk-Iwaniki, Jeziorany, Stolowicze, Grodno and Warsaw.
Creator: | ORT Poland |
Extent: | 1 page |
Date: | 1927 |
Language: | Yiddish |
Location: | Poland |
Report of I. Epstein on gardening cooperatives in Osowa, Poland, 1927.
Report of I. Epstein on gardening cooperatives in Osowa, Poland, 1927.
Reports on visit and instruction in the Osowo cooperative, presents statistical data on production output and loan situation.
Creator: | ORT Poland |
Extent: | 4 pages |
Date: | 1927 |
Language: | Yiddish |
Location: | Osowa, Poland |
Letter to ORT Berlin re the new Polish law on artisans, 7 September 1927.
Letter to ORT Berlin re the new Polish law on artisans, 7 September 1927.
Describes the contents and specifics of a law on artisans which might impact Jewish vocational schools. Informs about a project to open vocational courses for boys in 3 towns and requests financing for that.
Creator: | ORT Warsaw |
Extent: | 2 pages |
Date: | 1927 |
Language: | Yiddish |
Location: | Warsaw, Poland |
Report on visit to gardening cooperatives in Warsaw, October 1927.
Report on visit to gardening cooperatives in Warsaw, October 1927.
By I. Epstein. Reports on visit to cooperative in Warsaw, describes the attitudes of members, plots of land rented, needs and plans; gives general pre-conclusion and conclusion of situation in Jewish cooperatives in Eastern Poland and Warsaw follwing his trip to cooperatives and colonies in the region.
Creator: | ORT Warsaw |
Extent: | 3 pages |
Date: | 1927 |
Language: | Yiddish |
Location: | Warsaw, Poland |
Report on visit to several agricultural cooperatives in [then] Poland, October 1927.
Report on visit to several agricultural cooperatives in [then] Poland, October 1927.
By I. Epstein. Reports on visits and auditing accounting in Jewish cooperatives in Eastern Poland and Warsaw [now parts of Belarus, Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine]. Presents statistical data on production output and loans; plans and needs; and describes the attitudes of members, plots of land rented, etc. Includes reports on Dubinowo [now Dubinovo, Belarus] dairy products cooperative (county Braslaw, Vilna voivodeship); Ignatowka-Zofiowka agricultural cooperative (near Lutsk, Wolyn voivodeship) [now Ignatovka and Zof'yuvka , Ukraine]; Osowo (Vilna voivodeship); Zoludzk-Olizarka (Wolyn voivodeship) [now Bol'shoy Zhëlutsk and Koloniya Olizarka, Ukraine]; Siedliszcze Małe, Wolyn voivodeship [now Male Sedlishche, Ukraine]; gardening cooperative in Pinsk-Iwaniki (Polesie voivodeship); agricultural colonies in Jeziorzany (Wolyn voivodeship) and Stolowicze (Nowogródek voivodeship); Grodno and gardening cooperatives there; and gardening cooperatives in Warsaw. Comprises Archive Ref. d06b286, d06b288, d06b289, d06b371, d06b372, d06b373, d06b374, d06b375, d06b376 and d06b377.
Creator: | ORT Warsaw |
Extent: | 28 pages |
Date: | 1927 |
Language: | Yiddish |
Location: | Poland |
Invitation to an evening devoted to ORT's work in Bialystok, Poland, 27 October 1927.
Invitation to an evening devoted to ORT's work in Bialystok, Poland, 27 October 1927.
Textual document.
Creator: | ORT Poland |
Extent: | 1 folder |
Date: | Thursday, October 27, 1927 |
Language: | Yiddish |
Location: | Bialystok, Poland |
Letter from Y. Jaszunski to ORT Warsaw about his visit to Lodz, 21 March 1930.
Letter from Y. Jaszunski to ORT Warsaw about his visit to Lodz, 21 March 1930.
Describes situation with purchase of weaving looms and payment for the building to house a weavers' cooperative in Lodz.
Creator: | ORT Warsaw? |
Extent: | 6 pages |
Date: | 1930 |
Language: | Yiddish |
Location: | Lodz, Poland |
Materials for a report on vocational education in Poland, 1931.
Materials for a report on vocational education in Poland, 1931.
Prepared by the Central Committee of ORT in Poland. Presents two lists with statistical data on institutions of vocational education in 1931. Data organised by type of institution and by locality; list # 2 concerns institutions closed in summer 1931.
Creator: | ORT Warsaw |
Extent: | 4 pages |
Date: | 1931 |
Language: | Yiddish |
Location: | Poland |
Letter from the Secretary of the WOU to B. Tabatchinsky, Bialystok, 10 September 1935.
Letter from the Secretary of the WOU to B. Tabatchinsky, Bialystok, 10 September 1935.
Textual document.
Creator: | ORT Poland |
Extent: | 1 folder |
Date: | 1935 |
Language: | Yiddish |
Location: | Bialystok, Poland |
Letter from the Secretary of the WOU to B. Tabatchinsky, Bialystok, 20 December 1935.
Letter from the Secretary of the WOU to B. Tabatchinsky, Bialystok, 20 December 1935.
Textual document.
Creator: | ORT Poland |
Extent: | 1 folder |
Date: | 1935 |
Language: | Yiddish |
Location: | Bialystok, Poland |
Letter by ORT Paris accounts and control department to ORT Warsaw, 8 March 1937.
Letter by ORT Paris accounts and control department to ORT Warsaw, 8 March 1937.
Discusses the loan to Warsaw carpentry workshop, urges timely payments of interest, states interest amounts.
Creator: | ORT Paris |
Extent: | 2 pages |
Date: | 1937 |
Language: | Yiddish |
Location: | Warsaw, Poland |
List of sums received by ORT Warsaw in 1937 for activities of institutions in Poland.
List of sums received by ORT Warsaw in 1937 for activities of institutions in Poland.
List of monetary sums received for disbursement among ORT institutions in Poland.
Creator: | ORT Warsaw |
Extent: | 1 page |
Date: | 1937 |
Language: | Yiddish |
Location: | Warsaw, Poland |
ORT Poland Central Committee 1937 Financial Report.
ORT Poland Central Committee 1937 Financial Report.
Textual document.
Creator: | ORT Poland |
Extent: | 1 page |
Date: | Friday, December 31, 1937 |
Language: | Russian |
Location: | Warsaw, Poland |
ORT Poland financial report for 1937.
ORT Poland financial report for 1937.
Textual document.
Creator: | ORT Poland |
Extent: | 3 pages |
Date: | c. January 1938 |
Language: | Russian |
Location: | Warsaw, Poland |
Letter to ORT Paris about opening metal work courses in Warsaw, 12 April 1939.
Letter to ORT Paris about opening metal work courses in Warsaw, 12 April 1939.
Reminds that an idea of such a course was discussed for a long time, provides a rationale and an outline for financing the project.
Creator: | ORT Warsaw |
Extent: | 1 page |
Date: | 1939 |
Language: | Yiddish |
Location: | Warsaw, Poland |
'A Leaf from the Warsaw Ghetto', ORT Bulletin, Vol. XVII, No. 2, May 1963, pp. 4-5.
Account by ORT staff member Rachel Gourman, in ORT Bulletin Volume XVII, No2, May 1963, pp. 4-5.
An account by former ORT Warsaw staff member, Rachel Gourman.
Creator: | Rachel Gourman |
Extent: | 2 pages |
Date: | May 1963 |
Language: | English |
Location: | Warsaw, Poland |