Court Grodzki in Warsaw, file Zg.1946 Sąd Grodzki w Warszawie, akta Zg.1946 (Sygn. 655)

Identifier
irn73447
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2013.241
  • RG-15.270
Dates
1 Jan 1946 - 31 Dec 1950
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

157,582 digital images, PDF

Archival History

Archiwum Państwowe w Warszawie

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 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, Sygn. 655. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Dec. 2013, and accretion in May 2014.

Scope and Content

This collection contains selected files, so-called “Zg.” of the Sąd Grodzki w Warszawie, i.e. contains cases of establishing somebody as deceased or issuing a death certificate. Cases apply to those who had perished (99 per cent of cases) during the Soviet or, mainly, Nazi occupation: who were arrested either by the Soviets or Germans, deported to the USSR or the Third Reich, sent to concentration camps, or murdered in ghettos or places of extermination. The files (app. 5-20 pages) contain an application for establishing that someone had died, testimonies of two witnesses on standard forms, related correspondence, and the sentence of the court. The law determined who could be declared as deceased ( Article 14, section 1): “Those who perished while participating in military operations can be declared/found dead after a year from the end of the calendar year in which the military operations had ceased. The same refers to individuals who had perished while remaining in the area during military operations if, according to the circumstances, it was likely that this was connected with these operations or under life threatening conditions.”

System of Arrangement

The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in digital images. Arranged chronologically by years 1946-1956. The inventory to the collection contains the following data: Call No, last name, first name (the title of a file), remarks of various kind, names of the parents of other relatives, the year and place of birth of the person in question, the year and place of death, the last whereabouts of the deceased, occupation, circumstances of the death, personal data of the witnesses.

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.