Selected records of the Municipal Office in Warsaw Starostwo Miejskie w Warszawie (Sygn. 485) : Wybrane materialy
Extent and Medium
10,079 digital images,
1 digital file, PDF
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. 485. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in May 2018. A digital accretion was acquired in August 2021.
Scope and Content
The files of the Municipal Records in Warsaw relating the history of Warsaw during the occupation and the policy of the German authorities towards the Polish population. In addition to some statistical data (data on the area and residents, statistics on births and deaths, graphics depicting the economic life of the city) there are elaborates regarding the Warsaw financial situation, housing and health matters. Includes materials depicting the housing situation of the population, the occupant's economy within the German and Polish residential district, problems of health care in the city, disease statistics and others have survived. The reports of the Adam Czerniaków, Head of the Jewish Council (Judenrat), data on the health situation and epidemics in the ghetto, the matters of its organization, borders, financial problems, the census and biographies of the members of the Jewish Council, the files on illegal trade or smuggling to the ghetto, bring much to the history of the Warsaw Ghetto. Additionally numerous applications of Warsaw residents for issuing an identification card ("Kennkarte").
System of Arrangement
Arranged in ten series: 1. Office of Internal Affairs; 2. Registry Office; 3. Housing Office; 4. Financial Office; 5. Office of Building and City Cleaning; 6. Office of Health; 7. Office of Food and Agriculture; 8. Police Administrator. Pass Office; 9. Police Director; 10. Additional materials added from other sources (Sygn. 358a i 375a): Applications of Warsaw residents for issuing a identification card "Kennkarte." Organized in alphabetical order.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
People
- Czerniaków, Adam, 1880-1942.
Subjects
- Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw--History.
- World War 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--Warsaw.
- Housing and health--Poland--Warsaw--History--20th century.
- Warsaw (Poland)--Politics and government.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945 .
- Forced labor--Poland--Warsaw--History--20th century.
- Jewish councils--Poland--Warsaw--History--20th century.
- Warsaw (Poland)--Social conditions.
- Police administration--Poland--Warsaw--History--20th century.
Genre
- Reports.
- Applications.
- Statistics.
- Document
- Identification cards.