Selected records of the Voivodeship Office in Kielce Urząd Wojewódzki Kielecki II (Sygn. 305)

Identifier
irn531845
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2016.33.1
  • RG-15.437
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1949
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

4,838 digital images, PDF

Creator(s)

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

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