Selected records of the municipality Żyrardów-Wiskitki Akta gminy Żyrardów-Wiskitki (Sygn. 3)

Municipality Zyrardów-Wiskitki, the former rural municipality was existing in the years 1940-1954 in the province Warsaw, Poland. The headquarters of the municipality was Zyrardów. In the interwar period in the Błoński district, Warsaw province, there were two distinct of rural communities: a small municipality Wiskitki based in Wiskitki and much larger, the municipality Zyrardów based in Żyrardow. Municipality of Zyrardów-Wiskitki was established at the beginning of World War II by the amalgamation of municipalities Wiskitki and Zyrardów. Commune was abolished in 1954, together with the reform of reorganization of the municipalities. Municipality Zyrardów-Wiskitki was not reinstated later, however after reactivation of municipalities, the municipality Wiskitki was created, covering an area of a previous municipality Zyrardów-Wiskitki, as well as municipality Guzów.

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Source of acquisition is the Archiwum Państwowe w Warszawie Oddział w Grodzisku Mazowieckim, Poland, Sygn. 3. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 2015.