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Language of Description: English
Country: Poland

  1. Rejencja Katowicka

    • Regierung Kattowitz
    • Katowice Regional Administration

    The collection contains large quantities of information on the fate of the Jews, such as statistics; public identification (oznakowanie); special transportation regulations; forced labour; the prescript to add the first names Israel and Sara; matters connected with the ghettos in Sosnowiec, Będzin, Dąbrowa and Czeladź; expropriation and administration of Jewish property (assets, land, businesses); Jewish cemeteries; and police documents and reports on the action to “cleanse the lands of the Region of Jews” and many others.

  2. Rejencja Opolska

    • Rejencja Opolska
    • Opole Regional Administration

    The collection comprises i.a.the extensive correspondence in connection with the destruction and liquidation of synagogues during the Kristallnacht, 9-10 November 1938, and other antisemitic incidents; documents of the Związek Żydów Polskich (Union of Polish Jews) and other materials (file with the call no. 1963, Wydział I [Department I]).

  3. Sąd Specjalny w Katowicach

    • Sondergericht Kattowitz
    • Special Court in Katowice

    The collection contains the files of the criminal cases investigated by the court refer to common offences and those committed in violation of German war legislation, including theft, fencing, illegal slaughter (including ritual slaughter for the needs of the Jewish community), crimes defined as defiling the German race (Rassenschande), possession of firearms, listening to the radio, and other misdemeanours; these files include several dozen criminal cases against Jews in the Silesia region.

  4. Bank Drezdeński Filia w Katowicach

    • Dresdner Bank Filiale Kattowitz
    • Dresden Bank, Katowice Branch

    The collection contains information on accounts belonging to Jews, reports on liquidation of Polish and Jewish economic institutions, information on Jewish firms under German trustee administration, information on liquidation and expropriation of assets in Jewish accounts, and files of firms employing Jews, including those in the ghetto in Sosnowiec

  5. Prezydent Policji w Sosnowcu

    • Der Polizeipräsident in Sosnowitz
    • President of the Police in Sosnowiec

    The collection contains extensive statistical and demographic data, and documents on religious matters such as the fate of the cemetery, as well as an accurate list of Jewish prayer houses, forced labour, the introduction of the curfew, correspondence regarding arrests and deportations of Jews to the camps, lists of the names of those arrested in the Sosnowiec and Będzin ghettos, a map of the Czeladź ghetto, documents regarding the liquidation of the ghetto in August 1943, and police situation reports.

  6. Rada Starszych Żydowskiej Gminy Wyznaniowej w Dąbrowie Górniczej

    • Aeltestenrat der jüdischen Kultusgemeinde in Dombrowa
    • Committee of the Jewish Community Organization in Dąbrowa

    This record group contains information about the organization of the communities, reports on the work of the financial and social welfare divisions of the organization, various compilations of statistics and budgets, lists of names of people working in the Jewish community organizations, and materials on employment and work among the Jews.

  7. Starosta Powiatowy w Sanoku

    • Der Kreishauptmann in Sanok
    • Sanok County Governor

    The collection contains anti-Jewish orders, propaganda pamphlets and public announcements regarding confiscation of property, and lists of Jewish registry books from several locations (Lesko, Sanok, Ustrzyki Dolne).

  8. Akta miasta Przemyśla

    • Files of the town of Przemyśl

    The collection contains i.a. materials on the establishment of the ghettos and Jewish community assets, correspondence regarding the Jews, German orders, and a list of administrators of the assets of the Jewish community in Przemyśl.

  9. Akta miasta Przeworska

    • Files of the town of Przeworsk

    The collection contains i.a. materials on the establishment of the ghettos and Jewish community assets, population records, correspondence regarding the Jews, German orders, as well as a summary list of the Jews in Przeworsk from 1940 to February 1942. There is also a file entitled “Administracja majątkiem pożydowskim” (Administration of former Jewish assets), which contains lists of large numbers of businesses, houses and other real estate.

  10. Naczelna Rada Starszych Ludności Żydowskiej Dystryktu Radomskiego w Radomiu. Dział Dowodów Osobistych

    • Supreme Council of the Jewish Population in the Radom District – Personal Identification Division

    This is a collection of several thousand applications by Radom Jews for identity documents, which contains a vast quantity of personal data, as well as the photographs submitted for the issue of these Kennkarten.

  11. Akta miasta Rzeszowa

    • Files of the town of Rzeszów

    The collection contains i.a. items including German bills and public announcements; information on the establishment of the ghetto and forced labour for Jews; confiscations of property and its administration; death sentences; lists of deceased Jews for the years 1935-1942; an incomplete list of the Jews of Mielec (1941); lists of licences issued and tribute payments by residents in the years 1941-1943; registers of houses and lists of names of the tenants of various real properties; records of personal identity documents issued; alphabetical card files on population movements ; and the orig...

  12. Urząd Metrykalny Izraelicki w Rzeszowie

    • Israelite Registry Office in Rzeszów

    The collection contains i.a. records and registry files from the years of the occupation: marriage certificates (Trauungsscheine), birth certificates, death certificates, as well as various other certificates, personal identity documents, residence registration documents, etc.

  13. Gmina Wyznaniowa Żydowska w Czudcu

    • Jewish Community in Czudec

    In addition to registry files, there are also minutes of meetings of the Jewish Council dating from 1940, records including numbers of Jews before the war and in May 1940, number of people resettled, the community budget, other economic and business matters, social welfare, lists of people paying subscriptions to the community organization, the cash ledger, insurance documents for the bathhouse and synagogue, correspondence with the Joint and the Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna (ŻSS, Jewish Self-Help), orders issued by the German authorities, lists of forced labourers, lists of Jews receiving ...

  14. Podziemne Archiwum Getta Warszawskiego

    • Archiwum Ringelbluma
    • Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy
    • Oneg Szabat (cryptonime)
    • Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto: the Ringelblum Archives

    RING. I I. Oneg Shabat records – call no. 1-4. II. General studies on the situation of the Jewish population during the war: 1. Plans and drafts of works, questionnaires – call no. 5-22. 2. Oneg Shabat bulletins – call no. 23-38. 3. Studies, scholarly works, reports – call no. 39-70. 4. Autonomous collections: – the “Kalisz letters” – call no. 71-163, – the “Płock letters” – call no. 164-178. III. Warsaw and the Warsaw ghetto: 1. Documents generated by the German authorities and institutions – call no. 179-193. 2. Documents generated by other institutions and organizations – call no. 194-19...

  15. Rejencja Szczecińska

    • Regierung Stettin
    • Szczecin Regional Administration

    Of greatest significance are the files of the Wydział Prezydialny (Presidium Department), and within these issues connected with supervision of communes, the ruin of Jewish trade, anti-Jewish demonstrations, looting of property, arrests, and name changes

  16. Akta miasta Grodziska Mazowieckiego

    • Files of the town of Grodzisk Mazowiecki

    The collection contains i.a. the list of farms owned by Jews; German public announcements and ordinances affecting or concerning Jews; documents of the Zarząd Komisaryczny Nieruchomościami Żydowskimi (Jewish Real Estate Trustee Administration Board); a list of names of Jews assigned for forced labour; files on specific real estate owned by Jews; personal files of some people from Grodzisk, among them Bernard Kampelmacher, later a cooperator with Oneg Shabat in the Warsaw ghetto;

  17. Akta miasta Pruszkowa

    • Files of the town of Pruszków

    The collection contains i.a. the partially preserved files of the Zarząd Komisaryczny Nieruchomości Żydowskich miasta Pruszkowa (Jewish Real Estate Trustee Administration Board of the city of Pruszków) dating from 1941-1944; also a list of real estate owned by Jews; summary population censuses of Pruszków; lists of abandoned real estate; and registered address ledgers for some real estate, for periods including the occupation.

  18. Akta miasta Sochaczewa

    • Files of the town of Sochaczew

    The collection contains i.a. documents of Sochaczew city governor’s office, including lists of shops owned by Jews; ordinances from the period of the occupation concerning or affecting Jews, including some concerning the establishment of a Jewish quarter in January 1941; correspondence of the Judenrat concerning forced labour and food ration cards; lists of Jews by labour details.

  19. Akta miasta Skierniewic

    • Files of the town of Skierniewice

    The collection contains i.a. the materials on forced labour; correspondence with the Rada Żydowska (Judenrat, Jewish Council) regarding the establishment of the ghetto (1940); a list of names of wealthier Jews; postwar documents on issues including property rights cases;

  20. Akta miasta Rawy Mazowieckiej

    • Files of the town of Rawa Mazowiecka

    The collection contains i.a. lists of commercial and artisan enterprises including the addresses and names of their proprietors; postwar documents on the synagogues and the cemetery.