Prison in Kielce Więzienie w Kielcach (Sygn. 186)

Identifier
irn531838
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2016.30.1
  • RG-15.434
Dates
1 Jan 1919 - 31 Dec 1944
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn531838

Extent and Medium

124, 866 digital images, PDF

Creator(s)

  • Wi?zienie w Kielcach

Archival History

Archiwum Państwowe w Kielcach

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 or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Source of acquisition is the Archiwum Państwowe w Kielcach, Poland, Sygn.186. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the digitized collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in Jan. 2016. This is a cooperative project based on the agreement between USHMM and Yad Vashem, Israel.

Scope and Content

Prison daily orders and ordinances, circular letters of the Minister of Justice, files concerning the staff of the prison, finances, budgets, food supply for inmates, economic matters, transport of prisoners, health care, prisoner-professional workers, escapes and disciplinary violations of the prisoners, personal files and registers of the prisoners.

System of Arrangement

Arranged in five series: 1. File 1-255: Prison daily records concerning staff and prisoners, and the card file “Escapees from the prison” with names of Jewish inmates; 2. File 256-840: Personal files of inmates in alphabetic order, 1919-1939; 3. File:1133-1153: Personal files of inmates in alphabetic order, 1939-1944; 4. File 256-840: Indexes and repertories, 19381-1945; 5. File 1399-1919 [1-521]: Personal files in alphabetic order; 6. File 1920-1922 [522-524]: Lists with names of the arrested, 1940-1941.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

Subjects

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

Genre

  • Document
  • Registers.
  • Reports.
  • Circular letters.
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.

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