Selected records of the Końskie Town Akta miasta Końskie (Sygn. 519)
Extent and Medium
32,083 digital images, PDF
Creator(s)
- Urz?d Miasta i Gminy Ko?skie
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. 519. 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
Minutes, correspondence, statistics, organizational files, lists of war damages, as well as records related to matters of social welfare, insurance, and the like. Files of the City Council, 1918-1939 relate to the election to the City Council, sessions of the council, budget commission, taxes, social welfare, emigration, industry, migration; included are books of permanent inhabitants. Files of the City Board, 1939-1945 refer to matters of property, finances, road and construction works (“Baudienst”) and taxes. Included are also lists of German and Jewish inhabitants who survived, announcements and correspondence of German authorities, data concerning camps, as well as the files of societies, associations and committees. Before WWII, the population of the town of Końskie was approximately 9,000, including about 6,500 Jews.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in two series: 1. Records of the City Council, 1918-1939; 2. Records of the City Board, 1939-1945.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--Końskie.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Germans--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland--Końskie--History--20th century.
- Municipal government
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland--Końskie--History--20th century.
- Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Końskie--History.
- Polish people--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland--Końskie--History--20th century.
- Końskie (Poland)
Genre
- Document
- Registers.
- Financial records.
- Statistics.
- Minutes.
- Correspondence.
Copies
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