Selected records of the District Court in Łomża Sąd Okręgowy w Łomży (Sygn. 2142)

Identifier
irn597099
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2018.87.1
  • RG-15.593
Dates
1 Jan 1918 - 31 Dec 1939
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • Hebrew
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn597099

Extent and Medium

45,707 digital images, PDF

Creator(s)

  • Justin Kulikowska-Melion

Archival History

Archiwum Akt Nowych

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 Akt Nowych, Poland, Sygn. 2142. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in April 2018. Note: This is a cooperative project based on the agreement between USHMM and Yad Vashem, Israel.

Scope and Content

Consist of court case files, notes, communist proclamations and newspapers, posters, postcards, arrest warrants, leaflets related to communist and anti-Polish activities of Jewish population in Łomża District after Polish independence. Jews were accused of organization of the local communist parties, participation in the plot designed to assassinate Polish independence, dissemination of anti-Polish publications, distribution of communist literature and slogans and banners, like: "Long Live Soviet Russia", "Worship to the chief of the international proletariat and peasantry, Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg and Lenin! KPP", participation in the plot of the attack on the state system of Poland, inciting the unemployed to violent appearances, and other activities supporting Communism.

System of Arrangement

Arranged in one series; Court case files of Jews accused of Communist and anti-Polish activities in the district of Łomża, 1918-1939.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

Corporate Bodies

  • Komunistyczny Związek Młodzieży Polski
  • Komunistyczna Partia Polski

Subjects

  • Kalinówka (Poland)
  • Ostrołęka (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
  • Jedwabne (Poland)
  • Courts
  • Stawiska (Radziejów County, Poland)
  • Brok (Poland)
  • Radziłów (Poland)
  • Szumów (Poland)
  • Długosiodło (Poland)
  • Goworowo (Poland)
  • Poland
  • Ostrów Mazowiecka (Poland)
  • Lubotyń-Włóki (Poland)
  • Zambrów (Poland)
  • Łomża (Poland)
  • Szczuczyn (Poland)
  • Jewish communists--Poland--Łomża--History--20th century.
  • Kolno (Łomża, Poland)
  • Łomża (Poland : Powiat)
  • Justice, Administration of--Poland--History--20th century.
  • Jews--Legal status, laws, etc--Poland.
  • Communism--Poland--History--20th century.
  • Communist parties.
  • Nowogród (Poland)
  • Zaręby Kościelne (Poland)

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.