Selected records of the Provincial Information and Propaganda Office in Łódź Wojewódzki Urząd Informacji i Propagandy w Łodzi (Sygn. 641)
Extent and Medium
325 digital images, PDF
Archival History
Archiwum Państwowe w Łodzi
Acquisition
Source of acquisition is the Archiwum Państwowe w Łodzi, Poland, Sygn. 641. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in January 2020. This is a cooperative project based on the agreement between USHMM and Yad Vashem, Israel.
Scope and Content
Records relating to German war crimes committed in the Łódź province. Includes reports on committed crimes, lists of graves of soldiers and murdered people, copies of the "Biuletyn Żydowskiej Agencji Prasowej (ŻAP) from 1945-1946, memories of Mieczysław Słowikowski from KL Auschwitz (born on 4th Sept. 1900 in Suwałki, prisoner number 5363).
System of Arrangement
Arranged in four parts: 1. Post-war reports on crimes in the province of Łódź, including murders of Poles hiding Jews or Jews trying to escape from the ghettos; 2. Lists of graves of Polish, Soviet and Jewish soldiers killed in the war and people murdered by Germans in the province of Łódź in the years 1939-1944, 1945-1946; 3. Copies of the Biuletyn Żydowskiej Agencji Prasowej, 1945-1946; 4. Memories Mieczysław Słowikowski; including evidence of the murder of 200 Jews by soldiers in Soviet uniforms.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
People
- Słowikowski, Mieczysław.
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (concentration camp)
- Jewish Press Agency
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Poland--Łódź.
- Soldiers--Poland--History--20th century.
- Łódź (Poland : Voivodeship)
- Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--Łódź.
- Łódź (Poland)
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust--Poland--Łódź.
Genre
- Registers.
- Document
- Diaries.
- Reports.