Selected records of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Poland Prokuratoria Generalna RP (Sygn. 347)
Extent and Medium
28,328 digital images, PDF
Creator(s)
- Poland. Prokuratura Generalna
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. 347. 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
Statements of death, with accompanying investigative documentation, issued by the Office of General Prosecutor in Kielce. Majority of records relate to Kielce Jews from the years of German occupation. Prosecutor's investigations cover the period from 1945 until 1951. Included are persecution of civilians, descriptions of the deaths of individuals and groups of people murdered by the occupier, deaths of Poles who perished in labor camps, concentration camps, and displacements, and the persecution of Jews. Most of investigations of the Attorney General (General Prosecutor) in Kielce relate to matters of the restoration of abandoned and post-German estates as per the decree of March 8, 1946 (Decree concerning abandoned and formerly German assets), as well as various non-disputable procedures in civil cases, e. g. presuming someone dead or finding someone dead.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in one series: 1. Statements of deaths and investigative documents (Files organized in alphabetical order by personal last names), 1945-1951.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
Subjects
- Executive departments.
- Poland
- Germans--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland--Kielce--History--20th century--Registers.
- War crime trials
- Polish people--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland--Kielce--History--20th century--Registers.
- Jewish property--Poland--Kielce--Registers.
- German property--Poland--Kielce--Registers.
- Kielce (Poland)--History--20th century.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland--Kielce--History--20th century--Registers.
Genre
- Death certificates.
- Document
- Correspondence.
- Statements.
Copies
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