Strafanstalt in Schieratz Prison in Sieradz Zakład karny w Sieradzu (Sygn. 200)
Extent and Medium
16,250 digital images, JPEG
Creator(s)
- Zaklad Karny (Sieradz)
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. 200. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 2014.
Scope and Content
This collection contains a selection of 507 cases of personal files of Jewish prisoners, who were sentenced for various “crimes” committed during the occupation, and were imprisoned in the prison in Sieradz. Typical reasons for sentencing Jews to prison were: illegally crossing the country border, illegal trade and craft manufacture, illegal slaughter, hiding goods, smuggling into the ghetto, trading foreign currency, and other crimes of economic character, leaving their whereabouts, bribery, falsification of documents, theft, receiving of stolen goods, and beggary. The files contain the following personal data: first and last name, date and place of birth, occupation, address, names and whereabouts of the next of kin, characteristic features of the defendant. The entire original record group, Sygnatura 200 consists of approximately 12,800 files.
System of Arrangement
The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved on the microfilm reels. Arranged in one series: 1. Selected files of Jewish prisoners in the Prison in Sieradz, Poland, 1939-1945.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
Subjects
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland--Łódź--History.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Jewish--Registers.
- Prisons--Poland--Sieradz--History--20th century--Registers.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland--Sieradz--History--20th century--Registers.
- Sieradz (Poland)
- Prisons.
- Sieradz (Poland)--History--20th century.
- Poland--Politics and government--1918-1945--Sources.
- Jews--Crimes against--Poland--Sieradz--History--20th century.
- Łódź (Poland)--Politics and government--1945-1980--Sources.
Genre
- Document
- Questionnaires.
- Registers.
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Archiwum Państwowe w Łodzi