Selected records of the Province of Łódź Urząd Wojewódzki Łódzki (Sygn.166)

Identifier
irn98202
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2015.60
  • RG-15.369
Dates
1 Jan 1918 - 31 Dec 1939
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • Yiddish
  • Russian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn98202

Extent and Medium

48,177 digital images, JPEG

Creator(s)

  • Urz?d Wojewódzki w ?ódzi

Archival History

Archiwum Państwowe w Łodzi

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 Łodzi, Poland, Sygn.166. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 2015.

Scope and Content

Correspondence, reports and other documents relating to granting of Polish citizenship, passport matters, religious matters, establishing cemeteries, Jewish religious community of Łódź, some hundreds of associations or federations or other Jewish organizations from Łódź and its entire province (mainly of mutual help, education and sport), as well as physicians’ personal files and from the Department of Social and Political Issues, Voivod’s reports of 1926-1939, which constitute documentation of the social and political life of the entire region of Łódź, including Polish-Jewish relations during the pre-war period.

System of Arrangement

The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved on the digital images. The original records are incomplete, whole missing files are from the Welfare and Industrial Development Departments. Files of the General Department, Military and Health are preserved in parts. The most numerous preserved files are from the Social-Political Department. Selected records are arranged in three series: 1. Records of the General Department; 2. Jewish organizations and their activities; 3. Jewish medical personnel.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

Subjects

  • Województwo Łódzkie (Poland).
  • Municipal government
  • Jewish cemeteries--Poland--Województwo Łódzkie--Registers.
  • Poland--Politics and government--1918-1945--Sources.
  • Lodz (Poland)
  • Poland--Ethnic relations--History--20th century.
  • Jewish organizations--Poland--History--20th century--Registers.
  • Jewish physicians--Poland--Łódź--History--20th century--Registers.
  • Jews--Poland--Łódź--Social conditions--20th century.
  • Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland--Łódź--History--20th century--Registers.

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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