Files of the Żarki Commune Akta urzedu gminy Żarki (Sygn.125)
Extent and Medium
30,211 digital images, JPEG
Creator(s)
- Urz?d Gminy ?arki (Poland)
Archival History
Archiwum Państwowe w Częstochowie
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 Częstochowie, Poland, Sygn. 125. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 2014.
Scope and Content
This collection contains selected records related to everyday life of the Jewish community in the Żarki commune during the inter-war and war time period during WW II. Includes minutes of meetings of individual organs of communal authority, census, files concerning trade and craft, social welfare and the matters related to forced labor during the war. Selected materials also refer to the Polish society during the war as well as materials concerning mandatory quotas and forced labor.
System of Arrangement
The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in digital images. Arranged in four series and corresponding subseries: Series I, Municipal Board II: Subseries, 1. General Organizing Department; 2. Department of the Communal Economy; 3. Department of Social Administration; 4. Administrative Department; Series II, Municipal Board III: Subseries, 1. General Organizing Department; 2.Department of Finance and Budget; 3. Department of the Communal Economy; 3. Administrative Department; Series IV, Municipal Board IV: Subseries, 1. Administrative Department; 2. Department of Social Affairs.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
Subjects
- Forced labor--Poland--Żarki--History--20th century.
- Żarki (Poland : Gmina)
- Będzinie (Poland)
- Polish people--Żarki--History--20th century--Registers.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Poland.
- Municipal government
- Jews--Poland--Żarki--History--20th century--Registers.
Genre
- Document
- Minutes.
- Census.
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Archiwum Państwowe w Częstochowie