Satirical album on the activity of the Judenrat (Jewish Council) and major issues in the Warsaw Ghetto, most likely created by a Judenrat employee. Inscription on the cover (in Polish and German): “Der Obmann des Judenrates in Warschau. Verwaltung des Judischen Wohnbezirk in Warschau. Chairman of the Jewish Council in Warsaw. Board of the Jewish Council in Warsaw.” The satirical drawings refer to the activity of the following Judenrat departments: General Secretarial Office, Personal Secretarial Office, Personal Section, Financial and Budgetary Department, Cemetery Department, Social Services Department, Expedient Campaigns Department, Field Office, Economic Department, Hospital Department, School Department, Citizens’ Affairs Department, Resource Department, Real Estate Security Department, Post Office, Accommodation Office, Collection for the Insurance Office, Production Department, Pharmacy Department, Heating Fuel Department, and the Jewish Welfare Association.
Title: Satirical Album on the Activity of the Judenrat
Creator: Langnas (Reich-Ranicka), Teofila
Identifier: ARG I 293a
Date: after September 1941
Localization: Warsaw Ghetto
Language: polish
Contents: Satirical album on the activity of the Judenrat (Jewish Council) and major issues in the Warsaw Ghetto, most likely created by a Judenrat employee. Inscription on the cover (in Polish and German): “Der Obmann des Judenrates in Warschau. Verwaltung des Judischen Wohnbezirk in Warschau. Chairman of the Jewish Council in Warsaw. Board of the Jewish Council in Warsaw.” The satirical drawings refer to the activity of the following Judenrat departments: General Secretarial Office, Personal Secretarial Office, Personal Section, Financial and Budgetary Department, Cemetery Department, Social Services Department, Expedient Campaigns Department, Field Office, Economic Department, Hospital Department, School Department, Citizens’ Affairs Department, Resource Department, Real Estate Security Department, Post Office, Accommodation Office, Collection for the Insurance Office, Production Department, Pharmacy Department, Heating Fuel Department, and the Jewish Welfare Association.
Volume of full edition of ARG: 12
Pages in the volume: 715
Document in the volume: 155
Keywords: documents, humour, Jewish Council, Judenrat, sketch/drawing
Collection Title: Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy
Physical Description: Original work, handwritten, coloured paper, tempera, collage, Polish, 260x215 mm, fol. 32, p. 64, default order of sheets, significantly damaged.
Remarks: Page 11 features a photo of the Judenrat seat cut out from a newspaper, another building photographed on the other side. The album is included in the list of archival materials of the Oneg Shabbat from June–July 1942. Re-added to the Archive in 2012.