Selected records from the State Archives in Poznań
Extent and Medium
2,960 digital images, JPEG
6 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
Archival History
Archiwum Państwowe w Poznaniu
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 Poznaniu (State Archives in Poznań), Poland. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the State Archive in Poznań via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in July 2012.
Scope and Content
Contains selected records of the district Starosties (Landraturen) in Konin, Ostrów, Śrem, municipal files of Czerniejewo, Gołańcz, Kłecko, Buk, Dolsk, Kostrzyń, records of the Umwandererzentralstelle (Central Office of Migration) in Poznań, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei (NSDAP) in Poznań, the collection of announcements, posters, and leaflets as well as records of the Bodenamt SS (Land Office) in Poznań. Includes records relating to displacements of people, the relationship of Germans towards Poles and Jews, registration of Jews occupied in medical service, statistics of population in Wielkopolska, Poland. Also contains official announcements and orders as well as an official letter “Amtsblatt fuer den Landkeis Konin” from 1939-1940, and post-war period records such as: lists of war damages, list of abandoned properties (including those belonging to Jews before WWII), investigations of war crimes, and memoirs.
System of Arrangement
The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in the microfilmed reels. Arranged by localities.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
Corporate Bodies
- Nazi Party
Subjects
- Census--Poland--Wielkopolska.
- Konin (Poland)
- Czerniejewo (Poland)
- Germanization--Poland--Wielkopolska--History.
- World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Poland--Poznaǹ.
- Jewish property--Poland--Poznaǹ--Registers.
- Poznaǹ (Poland)--Ethnic relations.
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Poland--Wielkopolska.
- Poznań (Poland)
- Polish property--Poland--Poznaǹ--Registers.
- Polish people--Crimes against--Poland--Poznań-History--20th century--Registers.
- Wielkopolska (Poland)--Census.
- Kłecko (Poland)
- Gołańcz (Poland)
- Wielkopolska (Poland)--Ethnic relations--Goverment policy.
- Dolsk (Poland)
- Kostrzyń (Poland)
- Ostrów (Poland)
- Buk (Poland)
- Śrem (Poland)
Genre
- Leaflets.
- Document
- Memoirs.
- Posters.
Copies
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