Archives of ZIH is a major depository of archival sources on Jewish history in Poland.

The most treasured part of the collection are the Holocaust records with the Ringelblum Archives, included by UNESCO in the Memory of the World register.

The staff of ZIH's archives provides reference service in all kinds of archival searches and inquiries. Some materials are available on microfilms, more and more as digital files.

The original materials, microfilms, digital files, and online inventories are accessible exclusively on site; orders for xerox copies and microfilms are accepted.

Old records

- Synagoge Gemeinde zu Breslau (Jewish Community of Breslau) 1852-1944, (3,100 units, online inventory);

- Jewish communities in Silesia, [1742] 1869-1939 [1942], (510 u., online inventory);

- Krakow Jewish community 1822-1939, marriage registries 1877-1939 (on microfilm, including Reform Israelites, personal names register);

-Jewish organizations in Krakow: religious societies, charities, educational, professional, sports clubs in the Krakow region [1812] 1914-1939;

- collection of 3,756 Polish passports of Jews emigrating to Palestine deposited at the Polish Council in Haifa 1930-1939, (on microfilm, electronic database);

- Czestochowa Residence Bureau files, 4,122 ID applications 1930-1938, (on microfilm, electronic database);

1939-1945 Records

- Underground Archives of the Warsaw ghetto: Ringelblum Archives, [1909] 1940-March 1943; (2,063 units, online inventory + personal, geographic indices; digitilization will be completed in 2007);

- 10,055 death certificates issued in the Warsaw ghetto, 1939, 1941, (digitalized, electronic database);

- Bedzin Jewish Council, 1939-1943, (24 units, archival inventory, personal index, digitalized);

- Ausweiss applications from the Krakow Community July-August 1940 (19,905 items, digitalized, electronic database);

- registrations files of applicants for residence in the Krakow ghetto, March 1941 (16,189 items, electronic database);

- files of the inmates of Hasag-Peltzery labor camp in Czestochowa (4,736 items, digitalized, electronic database);

- files of Jewish prisoners-of-war at the camp in Lublin, Lipowa 7 (2,978 items, digitalized, electronic database);

Post-1945 Records

- Survivors' Testimonies (collection of 7,200 recorded testimonies; 4,000 have been digitalized and published in 4 volumes; online inventory, personal and geographical indices, volume 5 is almost ready for print);

- collection of 320 survivors' memoirs (online inventory, digitalized, to be published in a book soon);

- documents of the Central Committee of Polish Jews, 1944-1950, with its 15 departments, Presidium and Secretariat, Registration and Statistics Dept. (1,457 units including 280,000 registration cards of survivors on microfilm, online inventory, geogr. index), Emigration Dept., Education Dept. (1,716 units including files of children at orphanages, on microfilm, partly digitalized, personal and geographical indices);

- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1945-1949 (2,490 units, online inventory, partly on microfilm);

- Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), 1945-1949 (486 units, online inventory, personal and geogr. indices)