Prison in Radom Gefängnis in Radom Wiezienie w Radomiu (Sygn. 417)

Identifier
irn523986
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2007.4
  • RG-15.112M
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1944
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn523986

Extent and Medium

25,315 digital images, JPEG

22 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm

Creator(s)

  • Wiezienie w Radomiu

Archival History

Archiwum Państwowe w Radomiu

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 Radomiu, Sygn. 417. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in January 2007.

Scope and Content

Contains 14,147 personal files of prisoners in the Radom prison imprisoned during 1939-1944. Files contain the following information: the prisioner's name, and the father name, the mother maiden name, the date and place of birth, the last domicile, the date and reason of imprisonment, prisoner’s fate. Some files include annexes in a form of reports, correspondence, court's sentences and prisoner's smuggled correspondence. Majority of prisoners were Poles (80%), others were Jews (15%), German, Roma, Russians and some others (5%).

System of Arrangement

Organized in an alphabetical order by last name: Reel 1: A-B; Reel 2: B-D: Reel 3: D-F; Reel 4: D-F; Reel 5: F-G; Reel 6: G; Reel 7: G-H; Reel 8: H-K; Reel 9: K; Reel 10: K; Reel 11: K-L; Reel 12: L-M; Reel 13: M-O; Reel 14: O-P; Reel 15: P-R; Reel 16: R-S; Reel 17: S; Reel 18: S; Reel 19: T-W; Reel 20: W; Reel 21: W-Z; Reel 22: Z

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

Subjects

  • Prisons and prisons--Poland--Radom--History.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Radom.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.
  • Radom (Poland)--Politics and government--1939-1945.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Poland--Radom.

Genre

  • Document
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