Selected records of the Voivodeship Office in Kielce Urząd Wojewódzki Kielecki II (Sygn. 305)
Extent and Medium
4,838 digital images, PDF
Creator(s)
- Urza?d Wojewo?dzki 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. 305. 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
Diverse documentation from the Voivodeship Office in Kielce, records related to: identification of dead corpses of people who died during the World War II, war graves, removal of gravestones from pavements, security matters (assaults on Jews in the postwar period, including the Kielce pogrom of July 4, 1946 and other antisemitic riots), registers of war damages, changes of surnames, giving names to the children with unknown parents, the matters of Jewish religious associations, lists of graveyards and synagogues, lists of people of non-Catholic denomination in individual counties, various matters of Jewish people - the activity of Jewish committees, the attitude of Polish people towards Jews, lists of national minorities in numbers in individual counties of the Kielce province, materials related to the establishment of the book of Nazi atrocities, questionnaires related to the events of historic significance during 1939 to 1945 in individual counties, lists of abandoned estates, lists of war crimes.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in eight series: 1.Protocols and correspondence, 1945-1948; 2. Lists of graves and cemeteries of the victims of the German atrocities, 1948; 3. Records and documentation of war damages, 1945; 4. Change of personal names of Jewish inhabitants, 1946-1948; 5. Jewish organizations, synagogues and cemeteries, 1945-1947; 6. Lists of minorities in different districts of province Kielce, 1945-1946; 7. Questionnaires of the events of historical importance in the years 1939-1945; 8. Records and declarations of war reparations for war damage, 1945-1949.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
Corporate Bodies
- Central Committee of Polish Jews
Subjects
- Synagogues--Poland--Kielce (Poland : Voivodeship)
- Niewachlów (Poland)
- Grabina (Poland)
- Wancerzów (Poland)
- Krzepice (Poland)
- Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Kielce--History.
- Chmielnik (Poland)
- Maliszów (Poland)
- Grabówka (Poland)
- Huta Mazowszańska (Poland)
- Opatów (Poland)
- Kielce (Poland : Voivodeship)--History--20th century.
- Dźbów (Poland)
- Szaniec (Poland)
- Bardzice (Poland)
- Pogroms--Poland--Kielce--History--20th century.
- Mniów (Poland)
- Stroniec (Poland)
- War crimes--History--Poland--20th century--Registers.
- Jędrzejów (Poland)
- Chomętów Puszcz (Poland)
- Kielce (Poland)
- Communism--Poland.
- Poland--History--1945-1980.
- Jewish orphans--Poland--Kielce--History--20th century.
- Jewish organizations--Poland--Kielce--History--20th century.
- Municipal government
- Kielce (Poland)--Ethnic relations.
- Jews--Poland--Kielce--History--20th century.
- Szczecno (Poland)
- Abandoned houses--Poland--History--20th century.
- Antisemitism--Poland--Kielce--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--Kielce.
- Potok Złoty (Poland)
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland--Kielce--20th century.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
Genre
- Registers.
- Questionnaires.
- Document
- Protocols.
- Correspondence.
Copies
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