Stadtverwaltung Litzmannstadt records

Identifier
irn507358
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1992.A.0091
  • RG-05.008M
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn507358

Extent and Medium

30 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm

digital images,

Creator(s)

  • Stadtverwaltung Litzmannstadt

Archival History

Archiwum Państwowe w Łodzi

Acquisition

Stadtverwaltung Litzmanndstadt created the records during the operation of the ghetto in Łódź, Poland. The Polish State Archives filmed selected files at the request of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in Feb. 1992. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection in June 1992.

Scope and Content

These documents relate to the Stadtverwaltung Litzmannstadt (Łódź) Poland, and the Kriminalpolizeistelle Litzmannstadt, Kriminalkommissariat Getto. They concern the general administration of the city and the ghetto. Subjects include the establishment of the ghetto; food supplies in the ghetto; public welfare; hospital administration; forced labor of Jews and Poles; police activities in the ghetto; "Germanization" of Polish orphans and their adoption by German families; confiscation of Jewish property by the ghetto police; birth and death statistics for the Jews in the ghetto; murder of Jews; suicides and arrests in the ghetto; and Jewish criminal activity in the ghetto.

System of Arrangement

The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in the microfilmed reels. Reel 1-9 contain monthly reports, statistics and correspondence; Reels 10-30 contain records created exclusively by the Staatliche Kriminalpolizei, Kriminalpolizeistelle-Litzmannstadt, Kriminalkommissariat-Getto. Files filmed out of numerical order. Arrangement within the files is chronological.

People

  • Rumkowski, Mordecai Ḥayim.
  • Marder, Karl.

Corporate Bodies

  • Germany. Kriminalpolizei

Subjects

  • Łódź (Poland)--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
  • Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź--Administration.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Łódź.
  • Polish people--Poland--Łódź--Registers.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--Łódź.
  • Jewish Councils--Poland--Łódź.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda.
  • Jews--Poland--Łódź--Registers.
  • Jews--Segregation--Poland--Łódź.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects--Poland--Łódź.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Poland--Łódź.
  • Polish orphans--Poland--Łódź--Registers.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

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