Selected records of the Court of the First Instance in Grodzisk Mazowiecki Sąd Grodzki w Grodzisku Mazowieckim (Sygn. 1648) : Wybrane materialy

Identifier
irn715992
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2020.192.1
  • RG-15.813
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1950
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

13,187 digital images, PDF

Archival History

Archiwum Państwowe w Warszawie Oddział w Grodzisku Mazowieckim

Acquisition

Source of acquisition is the Archiwum Państwowe w Warszawie Oddział w Grodzisku Mazowieckim, Poland. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Feb. 2020. This is a cooperative project based on the agreement between USHMM and Yad Vashem, Israel.

Scope and Content

Selected files of the Sąd Grodzki w Grodzisku Mazowieckim, records so-called “Zg”. Records of "Zg" relate to declaring someone dead or issuing a death certificate. This includes persons who perished during the Soviet or, mainly, Nazi occupation: either including persons arrested by Soviets or Germans, deported to the USSR or the Third Reich, sent to concentration camps, murdered in ghettos or in other places of extermination. The files (approximately 5-20 pages) contain an application declaring the death of a person, testimonies of witnesses filled out on standard forms, correspondence and sentences of the court. That entry enabled one to submit a request to find a person who was presumed deceased no earlier than the beginning of 1946. The remaining files relate to records of possession. The law determined those who could be determined deceased (The law: Article 14, section 1):“Those who perished while participating in military operations can be declared deceased within a year after the end of the calendar year in which the military operations were over. The law also refers to persons who perished while in the area under military operations if, according to the circumstances, it was likely that it was connected with these operations or under threat of life.”

System of Arrangement

Arranged in one subject group: Court files of civil cases and applications.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

Subjects

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.