Selected records of the city of Skierniewice Akta Miasta Skierniewice (Sygn. 894)
Extent and Medium
5,399 digital images, PDF
Creator(s)
- Urz?d Miasta Skierniewice
Archival History
Archiwum Państwowe w Warszawie Oddział w Grodzisku Mazowieckim
Acquisition
Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Source of acquisition is the Archiwum Państwowe w Warszawie Oddział w Grodzisku Mazowieckim, Poland, Sygn. 894. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 2015.
Scope and Content
Various records of the period before World War II, as well as records from the German occupation and the postwar period, from the City of Skierniewice. Pre-war records relate to residents of Skierniewice: e.g. the register books of inhabitants, lists of owners of the properties, lists of issued passports, card files of the unemployed covered by the social welfare, lists of owners of the vehicles, an index file to the list of Skierniewice residents of 1939 (names from A to G and from S to Z), personal files of the Jews employed by the Municipal Council, besides, the plan of towns belonging to David Poznański, Janower and Grinbaum. Records relating to German occupation period: ordinances and correspondence of German authorities, transport lists of Polish people sent to the forced labor camps, correspondence with the Jewish Council related to establishment of a ghetto and forced labor for Jews (1940), a transport list of prisoners. Records from the postwar period: related to matters of abandoned properties.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in three series: Pre-war records (File 129, 133, 175, 188, 189, 271, 272, 273, 274, 304, 361, 364, 939, 940, 944) ; 2. German occupation records (File 289, 305, 306, 318, 429, 436, 437, 439, 440, 592, 593, 659, 660, 663, 956) ; 3. Postwar period records (File 682, 743, 771, 744, 811).
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
Subjects
- Polish people--Evacuation and relocation,1939-1945--Registers.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Jews--Poland--Skierniewice--History--20th century--Registers.
- Polish people--Crimes against--Poland--Skierniewice--Registers.
- Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Skierniewice--History.
- Jewish property--Poland--Skierniewice--Registers.
- World War 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--Skierniewice.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland--Skierniewice--History--20th century.
- Skierniewice (Poland)
- Jewish councils--Poland--Sierniewice--History--20th century.
- Municipal government
Genre
- Registers.
- Passport.
- Document
- Protocols.
- Correspondence.
Copies
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