Selected records of the Municipal Council and Municipal Government in Łódź Miejska Rada Narodowa i Zarząd Miejski w Łodzi (Sygn. 222)
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Archival History
Archiwum Państwowe w Łodzi
Acquisition
Source of acquisition is the Archiwum Państwowe w Łodzi, Poland, Sygn. 222. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in January 2020. This is a cooperative project based on the agreement between USHMM and Yad Vashem, Israel.
Scope and Content
Reports, correspondence, registers, declarations, financial reports, statistics, application and permits relating to survivors of the war, Jews and Poles. Includes documents on medical assistance for returning and repatriates, the fate of real estate belonging to Jews before the war (so-called abandoned property), population statistics, permits for running and liquidating Jewish enterprises, construction and activity of the Jewish theater, matters of Jewish religion (choice of rabbi, ritual slaughter). In addition, includes documents from various associations and organizations: the Health Protection Society (TOZ), the Association of Former Prisoners, the Jewish Historical Commission, the Association of Jewish Journalists and Writers and others.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in nine groups: 1. National City Council; 2. Presidium; 3. Social Welfare Department; 4. Department of Health; 5. Technical Department; 6. Economic Department; 7. Statistical Department; 8. Department of Approval and Trade; 9. Administrative Department. Each group has separate reference numbering of files.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
Corporate Bodies
- TOZ (Organization : Poland)
Subjects
- Committees.
- Poland
- Łódź (Poland)
- Jewish communities (ushmm)
- War victims--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
- Łódź (Poland : Voivodeship)
- Holocaust Survivor -- Associations, institutions, etc.
- Municipal government.
- Jewish property--Poland--Łódź--History--20th century.
- Emigration and immigration--Poland--20th century.
- Jewish organizations--Poland--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Poland.
Genre
- Statistics.
- Reports.
- Permits.
- Applications.
- Document
- Financial statements.
- Correspondence.