Court of the First Instance in Warsaw Sąd Grodzki w Warszawie (Sygn.1904)
Extent and Medium
6,870 digital images, PDF
Creator(s)
- Poland. S?d Grodzki w Warszawie
Archival History
Archiwum Państwowe w Warszawie
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, Poland, Sygn. 1904. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in Nov. 2016.
Scope and Content
Selected files of the cases investigated by the Court of the First Instance, Civil Court and Criminal Court, in Warsaw, Poland, during the inter-war years. The files mainly relate to: estates (e.g. cases concerning portioning out family property), payments of rent and expulsion from apartments, as well as cases concerning dues of different kinds. Records reconstruct some aspects of everyday Jewish life during the inter-war period.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in one series: 1. Court files of civil cases. Organized chronologically.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
Corporate Bodies
- Polskie Koleje Państwowe
Subjects
- Professional associations.
- Jewish property--Poland--Warsaw.
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw--History.
- Jews--Poland--Warsaw--Politics and government--20th century.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland--Warsaw--20th century--Registers.
- Working class Jews--Poland--Warsaw--History--20th century.
- Poland
- Dispute resolution (Law)--Poland--Warsaw--20th century.
- Justice, Administration of--Poland--History--20th century.
- Courts
- Warsaw Region (Poland)--History--20th century.
Genre
- Document
- Court records.