Selected records of the city of Skierniewice Akta Miasta Skierniewice (Sygn. 894)

Identifier
irn180181
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2015.135.1
  • RG-15.404
Dates
1 Jan 1921 - 31 Dec 1948
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

5,399 digital images, PDF

Creator(s)

Archival History

Archiwum Państwowe w Warszawie Oddział w Grodzisku Mazowieckim

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 Grodzisku Mazowieckim, Poland, Sygn. 894. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 2015.

Scope and Content

Various records of the period before World War II, as well as records from the German occupation and the postwar period, from the City of Skierniewice. Pre-war records relate to residents of Skierniewice: e.g. the register books of inhabitants, lists of owners of the properties, lists of issued passports, card files of the unemployed covered by the social welfare, lists of owners of the vehicles, an index file to the list of Skierniewice residents of 1939 (names from A to G and from S to Z), personal files of the Jews employed by the Municipal Council, besides, the plan of towns belonging to David Poznański, Janower and Grinbaum. Records relating to German occupation period: ordinances and correspondence of German authorities, transport lists of Polish people sent to the forced labor camps, correspondence with the Jewish Council related to establishment of a ghetto and forced labor for Jews (1940), a transport list of prisoners. Records from the postwar period: related to matters of abandoned properties.

System of Arrangement

Arranged in three series: Pre-war records (File 129, 133, 175, 188, 189, 271, 272, 273, 274, 304, 361, 364, 939, 940, 944) ; 2. German occupation records (File 289, 305, 306, 318, 429, 436, 437, 439, 440, 592, 593, 659, 660, 663, 956) ; 3. Postwar period records (File 682, 743, 771, 744, 811).

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

Subjects

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.