Overview
- Description
- German court cases of the District Court in Łódź, Civil Department, relating to the confiscation of Polish and Jewish property, Germanization of Polish children, sending youth to the Reich for forced labor, as well as personal data of the Nazi officials, which was useful for the investigation of the Main Commission for Investigation of Nazi Crimes, especially the Commission of Łódź. Majority of records relete to Germanization of Polish children in Łódź. The collection is incomplete and lack of general files, as well as repertories and indexes of cases, it consists only records of one of five departments of the District Courts in Łódź: the Civil Department.
- Alternate Title
- Selected records of the District Court in Łódź
Amtsgericht in Litzmannstadt - Date
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inclusive:
1940-1945
- Credit Line
- 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.
- Collection Creator
- Amtsgericht in Litzmannstadt.
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Genre/Form
- Certificates. Legal notices. Questionnaires. Registers.
- Extent
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30,337 digital images : JPEG ; 33.8 GB .
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in two series: 1. Court cases of the District Court in Łódź, Civil Department related to confiscation of properties; 2. Court cases of the District Court in Łódź, Civil Department related to Germanization of Polish children.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Reproduction of more than 100 pages of copies of documents for researchers or other institutions requires a written permission of the General Director of the State Archives of the Republic of Poland. Publication of more than 10 complete documents in an individual work requires the written authorization of the General Director. The Museum may not publish any archival material obtained from the General Director, including specific archives under his control, on the Internet, the World Wide Web, or any other publicly accessible on-line network without the written permission of the General Director. Citation of the materials in any publication must refer to the Museum and the Polish State Archives and must include the name of the archival group and catalogue number of the originals.
- Copyright Holder
- Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--Łódź. World War, 1939-1945--Economic conditions--Poland--Łódź. Polish people--Poland--Łódź--History--20th century--Registers. Jews--Poland--Łódź--History--20th century--Registers. Germanization--Poland--Łódź--History--20th century. Polish children in the Holocaust--Poland--Łódź--History--20th century. Orphans--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland--Łódź--History--20th century. Jewish property--Poland--Łódź--Registers. Forced labor--Poland--Łódź--History--20th century. Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Łódź--History. Courts
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Archiwum Państwowe w Łodzi
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Archiwum Państwowe w Łodzi, Poland, Sygn. 899. Digitization of selected records was completed as a cooperative project of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) and Yad Vashem. The USHMM Archives received the digital collection via the USHMM International Archival Programs Division in Jan. 2016.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-27 07:24:51
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