Selected records of the Municipal Office in Warsaw Starostwo Miejskie w Warszawie (Sygn. 485) : Wybrane materialy

Identifier
irn611484
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2018.168.1
  • RG-15.599
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1944
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

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

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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.