Archiwum Państwowe w Katowicach - Oddział w Oświęcimiu

The State Archive in Oświęcim was organized in 1959 as local institution subordinated to the Kraków state archive. It was placed in the Block nr 1 of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz. After the local administration reform in 1975 the archive was subordinated to the Katowice State Archive. In 2015 the archive was liquidated and all its collections transferred to the archive in Bielsko-Biała.

The Oświęcim Branch of the State Archive in Katowice worked on the ground of the The Act on National Archival Records and Archives of July 14, 1983, Journal of Law, (Dziennik Ustaw) No 38, 1983.07.19 with later changes.

From the beginning of its existence, the Oświęcim archive was located in the Block nr 1 of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz (belonging to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum).

The Oświęcim Branch of the State Archive in Katowice possessed 462 collections and archival founds, which made about 85 800 units and about 1100 running meters (as for December 31, 2010). The oldest documents in the archive were municipal records and guild books dating from XVI century. The archive gathered also documents of state administration, self–government and judiciary, maps and posters.