Selected records from the State Archives in Łowicz

Identifier
irn73595
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2013.257
  • RG-15.286M
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1946
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn73595

Extent and Medium

1,300 digital images, JPEG

2 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm

Archival History

Archiwum Państwowe w Warszawie Oddział w Łowiczu

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 Oddział w Łowiczu. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Dec. 2013.

Scope and Content

Records created during the WWII by the German occupation authorities, and after the war by the Polish municipal authorities. Contains selected files of town Łowicz, communes (Bolimów, Kiernozia, Bielawy, Jeziorko), county in Łowicz, Prison in Łowicz, as well as the files of School Office (Schulamt) in Łowicz. Includes a rich collection of German posters and flyers, records related to anti-Jewish orders, forced labor, lists of inhabitants of Jewish origin (in Łowicz and Bolimie, from 1940), lists of children evacuated from Warsaw located in individual villages 1944, and German ordinances of tasks and duties of Polish schools The files from post-war period contain information about the Holocaust survivors, as well as real estate that belonged to Jews and Germans before the war.

System of Arrangement

The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved on the microfilm reels. Arranged in eleven series by localities and a form of materials: 1. Więzienie w Łowiczu 1922-1943 (Sygn. 30); 2. Zbiór afiszów (Sygn. 239): 3. Akta miasta Łowicza (Sygn. 7): 4. Akta gminy Bolimów (Sygn. 14); 5. Akta gminy Kiernozia (Sygn. 14); 6. Starostwo powiatowe łowickie w Łowiczu (Sygn. 2); 7. Zbiór afiszów (Sygn. 239); 8. Akta miasta Łowicz (Sygn. 239); 9. Akta gminy Bielawy (Sygn. 15); 10. Akta gminy Jeziorko z siedzibą w Chąśnie (Sygn. 18); 11. Schulamt in Lowitsch, 1941 (Sygn. 147).

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

Subjects

  • Jeziorko (Poland)
  • Jews--Poland--Łowicz--History--20th century.
  • Prisoners and prisons--Poland--Łowicz--Registers.
  • Łowicz (Poland)
  • Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
  • Prisons.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Poland--Łowicz.
  • Kiernozia (Poland)
  • World War,1939 -1945--Confiscations and contributions--Poland--Łowicz.
  • Bolimów (Poland)
  • Holocaust survivors--Poland--Registers.
  • Prisoners of war--Poland--Łowicz--Registers.
  • Bielawy (Poland)
  • Jews--Poland--Łowicz--Social conditions--20th century.

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.

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