Overview
- Description
- Contains circulars, registers, lists, correspondence, and various other documents relating to the registering of the urban population in Warthegau or Wielkopolska (a Polish region annexed into the German Reich); inhabitants conscripted for service in the Wehrmacht; evacuation of Poles and Jews to the General Gouvernement territory; registration of property abandoned by Poles and Jews after evacuations; employment for newly resettled Germans; maintenance of population registry cards for inhabitants of the Hermannsbad district; identification of Polish laborers with the letter "P"; travel regulations for Poles and civilian workers of Russian descent; punishment of Poles and Jews by police; Polish prisoners of war from Hermannsbad held in the Soviet Union; Polish officers, teachers, and physicians living in Aleksandrów, Poland; registration of foreigners in Aleksandrów; American citizens in the internment camp at Liebenau, district Friedrichshafen; and registration of arms and undeveloped land parcels in the town of Weichselstadt. Also includes birth statistics for the Weichselstadt area and census data specific to Inowraclaw, Poland.
- Date
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inclusive:
1939-1944
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Statistics. Census. Registers.
- Extent
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1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- Arrangement is thematic
Records are arranged in the original order of their acquisition from the source archive. The museum has acquired only selected records from Institute of National Remembrance (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, or IPN). More information about this collection and other materials in the possession of the Institute of National Remembrance, including archival finding aids from the Archives of the Institute of National Remembrance, is available at the website: https://ipn.gov.pl
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. Researchers must complete and sign a User Declaration form before access is granted to materials from the Institute of National Remembrance (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej).
- Conditions on Use
- 1. Each researcher using the materials obtained from the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) or materials whose originals belong to the IPN must complete the registration procedure required by USHMM.
2. Publication or reproduction of documents (in the original language, in facsimile form or in the form of a translation of an excerpt or of the entire document) or making them available to a third party in any form requires the written consent of the Institute of National Remembrance (archiwumipn@ipn.gov.pl). The use of an excerpt defined as the fair use right to quote does not require obtaining consent.
3. Researchers assume all responsibility for the use of materials that belong to the Institute of National Remembrance.
4. References to documents that belong to the Institute of National Remembrance must cite the Institute of National Remembrance as the owner of the original documents and include the full reference citation of the Institute of National Remembrance in the citations. - Copyright Holder
- Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland. World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Poland. Forced migration--Poland. Jews--Relocation--Poland. Jewish property--Poland----History--20th century. Polish property--Poland--History--20 century. Prisoners of war--Germany--Registers. Prisoners of war--Soviet Union--Registers. Municipal government.
- Geographic Name
- Poland (Territory under German occupation, 1939-1945) Wielkopolska (Poland) Ciechocinek (Poland) Inowroclaw (Poland) Aleksandrów Łodzki (Poland) Weichselstadt (Poland)
- Corporate Name
- Liebenau (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu (Institute of National Remembrance-Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation). The Stadtverwaltung Weichselstadt created the records from ca. 1939 to ca. 1944. After World War II, the records were deposited in the archives of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland. The records were selected for filming from the Main Commission, Sygn. 67. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the microfilm in Apr. 1993.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-30 14:31:02
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn503611
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- Terms of Use
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