Archival Descriptions

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Language of Description: English
Country: Poland
  1. Relacje i wspomnienia

    • Testimonies and Memoirs

    Muzeum gromadzi wspomnienia (niemal 1500) i relacje (ponad 3500) byłych więźniów, członków obozowej i przyobozowej konspiracji, robotników przymusowych zatrudnionych przez niemieckie zakłady przemysłowe wykonujące prace na rzecz obozu. Większość tych dokumentów spisana jest w języku polskim, choć występują też wspomnienia i relacje w językach: niemieckim, angielskim, francuskim, rosyjskim, czeskim, hebrajskim i innych. Uzupełniają one dokumentację obozową i są ważnym materiałem pomocniczym w opracowywaniu historii KL Auschwitz.

  2. Historia Mówiona

    • Oral History

    The collection contains the spoken testimonies of the inhabitants of Lublin registered since 1969.

  3. Ubezpieczalnia Społeczna w Zamościu

    • Social Insurance Institution in Zamość

    The insurance institution documents rare in Polish collections providing evidence of employment of Jews: named notifications and labour record cards for the area covered by a given Arbeitsamt (Labour Office), as well as a range of circulars and correspondence on Jewish-related matters dating from 1940-1942.

  4. Krajowy Zakład Leczniczy w Międzyrzeczu - Obrzycach

    • Landesheilanstalt Meseritz-Obrawalde
    • Regional Treatment Institute in Międzyrzec-Obrzyce
  5. Akta miasta Góry Kalwarii

    • Files of the town of Góra Kalwaria

    The collection contains i.a. postwar documentation regarding Jewish real estate.

  6. Akta miasta Grójca

    • Files of the town of Grójec

    The collection contains i.a. cases of forced labour, execution of fines and other dues; files containing records and inspection reports on population movements; business, revenue and currency matters; correspondence regarding expulsion of the Jews and confiscations of their real estate; files on apartment and house searches and sanitation issues; statistics; lists of Jewish shops, industrial plants and farms; German propaganda documents.

  7. Akta miasta Piaseczna

    • Files of the town of Piaseczno

    The collection contains i.a. German circulars and orders; files on social welfare; correspondence in connection with the establishment of the ghetto in Piaseczno; lists of real estate owned by Jews; population records; goods confiscated from Jewish shops.

  8. Akta miasta Mogielnicy

    • Files of the town of Mogielnica

    The collection contains i.a. correspondence with parties including the Judenrat; cases concerning real estate.

  9. Wydział Powiatowy w Piotrkowie

    • County Department in Piotrków Trybunalski

    The collection contains i.a. many documents and information on the state of health of the Jews during the occupation and the struggle with infectious diseases; the personal details of Jewish physicians; correspondence concerning social welfare, sanitation issues, Jewish cemeteries and burial of the dead; and many other statistical and personal data

  10. Akta miasta Rozwadowa

    • Files of the town of Rozwadów

    The collection contains i.a. the breakdown of the assets belonging to Jews (1941), rent and apartment ledgers, a register of abandoned real estate, and a ledger in which are recorded expropriations of former Jewish assets.

  11. Akta miasta Węgrowa

    • Files of the town of Węgrów

    The collection contains i.a. general information on the situation of the Jews during the occupation, orders and circulars, tribute payment collection ledgers for the years 1940-1941 (in which the address is recorded alongside the name) and 1941-1942 (in this section there is an alphabetical list of the Jews of Węgrów).

  12. Zarząd Policji w Polanicy Zdroju

    • Amtsbezirk Altheide Bad,Kreis Glatz
    • Police Board in Polanica Zdrój

    The collection contains i.a. orders issued by the authorities regarding foreigners and Jews, issue of passports to Jews, orders, and lists of Jews issued with Kennkarten, correspondence in various matters affecting and concerning Jews;

  13. Dokumenty niemieckie z okresu okupacji hitlerowskiej

    • German documents from the Nazi occupation period

    The documents of special importance to the history of the Holocaust are those gathered in Section I, among them: call no. 200 – Traktowanie Polaków i Żydów w tzw. Kraju Warty (różne zarządzenia) oraz sprawy wysiedleń z lat 1939-1943 (Treatment of Poles and Jews in the “Wartheland” [various orders], and resettlements in the years 1939-1943) call no. 398 – Przesiedlanie Polaków i Żydów do GG (Resettlement of Poles and Jews to the GG), call no. 699 – “Judentransportliste nr 1” (Jewish transport list) dated 13 December 1939; a list of 768 people deported from the camp at Główna Street in Poznań...

  14. Gdynia-Ameryka. Linie Żeglugowe S.A

    • Gdynia-America Shipping Lines

    The surviving files include i.a. contracts for transport of Jewish passengers on the Palestine line, official correspondence regarding people of Jewish birth being smuggled on the MS Piłsudski in the years 1935-1937, collective lists of passengers and named lists (e.g. of those travelling to Buenos Aires), passenger traffic statistics, and personal files of some passengers, including Jews from Poland and Germany.

  15. Polsko-Brytyjskie Towarzystwo Okrętowe S.A.

    • Polish-British Shipping Company

    Files include official correspondence regarding reservations, copies of tickets, lists of émigré passengers, among whom were large numbers of Jews, and shipping documents. These materials are an interesting source for research into emigration of Jews from Poland on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. They contain considerable information on mutual aid campaigns by Jewish organizations, which assisted with all the formalities surrounding emigration. There is also a large volume of correspondence regarding reservations and information.

  16. Akta miasta Piotrkowa

    • Files of the town of Piotrków Trybunalski

    The subcollection "Commissar and Administration of the town of Piotrków 1919-1945" in addition to documents generated by the German administration, also contains files of the Rada Starszych Gminy Żydowskiej (Committee of Elders of the Jewish Community). The documentation contained in this collection is extremely extensive and concerns all aspects of the daily life of the Jews under the German occupation of the town, their internal organization, and their attrition and exploitation through forced labour.

  17. KL Lublin Administration 1941-1944

    Records created by the offices of the concentration camp at Majdanek in the years 1941-1944. The fund numbers 318 units, in which 17700 various documents are stored, such as: personal records of the prisoners and crew members, orders of release, reports of incoming transports, lists, prisoners’ sickness cards and work cards, cloths and money registers, and death books.

  18. Einsatz Reinhardt – Materiallager Chopinstr. 27

    The fund numbers 13 units, most of which contain the books of the warehouses at 27 Chopin Street, where stolen Jewish property was stored as well as the lists of valuables and money taken away from the Jews imprisoned at Majdanek. Apart from the books, the fund includes the orders placed by occupational offices and individual people for different things stored in the warehouses as well as the receipts.

  19. Private documents of crew members and German soldiers (1939-1944)

    They include official identification cards, military IDs, private correspondence and diaries with some notes inside. While this collection was being compiled, it turned out that most documents did not belong to the camp crew, but to the German soldiers who were taken prisoners by the Soviets during Lublin battles. They were kept in a makeshift POW camp organized on one of the prisoner fields at Majdanek.

  20. The Archives of Prisoner Organizations (1942-1944)

    A significant part of the collection is secret letters, mainly addressed to families, written by prisoners in the years 1942-1944. Apart from illegal correspondence, the collection includes official postcards, which were allowed from spring 1943. The materials in this collection were handed over by the former prisoners and their families. They document the situation in the camp at different times of its functioning as well as prisoner self-help and camp resistance movement.