Selected records from the State Archives in Łowicz
Extent and Medium
1,300 digital images, JPEG
2 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
Archival History
Archiwum Państwowe w Warszawie Oddział w Łowiczu
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 Oddział w Łowiczu. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Dec. 2013.
Scope and Content
Records created during the WWII by the German occupation authorities, and after the war by the Polish municipal authorities. Contains selected files of town Łowicz, communes (Bolimów, Kiernozia, Bielawy, Jeziorko), county in Łowicz, Prison in Łowicz, as well as the files of School Office (Schulamt) in Łowicz. Includes a rich collection of German posters and flyers, records related to anti-Jewish orders, forced labor, lists of inhabitants of Jewish origin (in Łowicz and Bolimie, from 1940), lists of children evacuated from Warsaw located in individual villages 1944, and German ordinances of tasks and duties of Polish schools The files from post-war period contain information about the Holocaust survivors, as well as real estate that belonged to Jews and Germans before the war.
System of Arrangement
The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved on the microfilm reels. Arranged in eleven series by localities and a form of materials: 1. Więzienie w Łowiczu 1922-1943 (Sygn. 30); 2. Zbiór afiszów (Sygn. 239): 3. Akta miasta Łowicza (Sygn. 7): 4. Akta gminy Bolimów (Sygn. 14); 5. Akta gminy Kiernozia (Sygn. 14); 6. Starostwo powiatowe łowickie w Łowiczu (Sygn. 2); 7. Zbiór afiszów (Sygn. 239); 8. Akta miasta Łowicz (Sygn. 239); 9. Akta gminy Bielawy (Sygn. 15); 10. Akta gminy Jeziorko z siedzibą w Chąśnie (Sygn. 18); 11. Schulamt in Lowitsch, 1941 (Sygn. 147).
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
Subjects
- Kiernozia (Poland)
- Łowicz (Poland)
- Prisons.
- Jeziorko (Poland)
- World War,1939 -1945--Confiscations and contributions--Poland--Łowicz.
- Prisoners of war--Poland--Łowicz--Registers.
- Jews--Poland--Łowicz--Social conditions--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Poland--Łowicz.
- Prisoners and prisons--Poland--Łowicz--Registers.
- Bolimów (Poland)
- Holocaust survivors--Poland--Registers.
- Bielawy (Poland)
- Jews--Poland--Łowicz--History--20th century.
- Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
Genre
- Minutes.
- Document
- Flyers.
- Registers.
- Posters.
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Archiwum Państwowe w Warszawie Oddział w Łowiczu