Court of the First Instance in Zgierz Sąd Grodzki w Zgierzu (Sygn 2207)
Extent and Medium
12,368 digital images, JPEG
Creator(s)
- Poland. S?d Grodzki w Zgierzu
Archival History
Archiwum Państwowe w Łodzi
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 Łodzi, Poland, Sygn. 2207. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in August 2017. This is a cooperative project based on the agreement between USHMM and Yad Vashem, Israel.
Scope and Content
Selected files of the records so-called “Zg”. Records relate to declaring someone dead or issuing a death certificate. This includes persons who perished during the Soviet or, mainly, Nazi occupation: including persons arrested either by Soviets or Germans, deported to the USSR or the Third Reich, sent to concentration camps, murdered in ghettos or in other places of extermination. The files (app. 5-20 pages) contain an application declaring the death of a person, testimonies of witnesses filled out on standard forms, correspondence and sentences of the court. That entry enabled one to submit a request to find a person who was presumed deceased no earlier than the beginning of 1946. The remaining files relate to records of possession. The law determined those who could be determined deceased (The law: Article 14, section 1):“Those who perished while participating in military operations can be declared deceased within a year after the end of the calendar year in which the military operations were over. The law also refers to persons who perished while in the area under military operations if, according to the circumstances, it was likely that it was connected with these operations or under threat of life.”
System of Arrangement
Arranged chronologically by years 1945-1950, and names of applicants.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
Subjects
- Zgierz (Poland)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Registers of dead--Poland--Registers.
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland--Zgierz--Registers.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland--Registers.
- Poland--History--Soviet occupation, 1939-1941.
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Poland.
- Courts
- Jewish property--Poland--History--20th century.
- Death--Proof and certification--Poland--Zgierz--Registers.
- Law and legislation--Poland--Cases.
- Poland--History--German occupation, 1939-1944. .
Genre
- Document
- Questionnaires.
- Correspondence.
- Death certificates.
- Registers.