Selected records of the City Aleksandrów Akta Miasta Aleksandrowa (Sygn. 2133) : Wybrane materialy

Identifier
irn614139
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2018.249.1
  • RG-15.661
Dates
1 Jan 1915 - 31 Dec 1943
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

35,387 digital images, JPEG

Creator(s)

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. 2133. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in June 2018. This is a cooperative project based on the agreement between USHMM and Yad Vashem, Israel.

Scope and Content

Records of the City Aleksandrów, Poland. Consists of documents of the permanent population of the city of Aleksandrów, like as: lists of properties along with the ethnic division (1937-1939), statistics and reports on industry and commerce in the city, lists of companies in the city, including their Jewish owners; population books; passports and IDs (1926-1931), the census of 1931, files of issued ID cards (1929-1939), applications for the personal ID with photographs (1933-1939), registration books (1915-1932), documents regarding the Jewish community and execution of taxes, reports on religious issues, organization of Jewish education, industry and trade, sale of properties of Polish and Jewish population to Germans (Surnames of SS men), information on the change of the street names from Polish to German, questionnaires and other documents of births, deceased, and marriages, including legalization of illegitimate children, records of notarial deeds (1929-1932), a register of members and shares of the Merchants' and Craftsmen's Bank (1938-1939), and various German documents related to population of the City Aleksandrów (1942-1943).

System of Arrangement

Arranged in six series: 1. Statistics, population censuses and correspondence, 1926-1939; 2. Documents related to passports and identity cards, 1925-1939; 3. Registration books, 1915-1932; 4. Documents related to religious and education matters, 5. Various loose German documents regarding the city affairs and population, 1942-1943; 6. Records of notarial deeds, 1929-1932.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

Subjects

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.