Overview
- Description
- Diverse documentation from the Voivodeship Office in Kielce, records related to: identification of dead corpses of people who died during the World War II, war graves, removal of gravestones from pavements, security matters (assaults on Jews in the postwar period, including the Kielce pogrom of July 4, 1946 and other antisemitic riots), registers of war damages, changes of surnames, giving names to the children with unknown parents, the matters of Jewish religious associations, lists of graveyards and synagogues, lists of people of non-Catholic denomination in individual counties, various matters of Jewish people - the activity of Jewish committees, the attitude of Polish people towards Jews, lists of national minorities in numbers in individual counties of the Kielce province, materials related to the establishment of the book of Nazi atrocities, questionnaires related to the events of historic significance during 1939 to 1945 in individual counties, lists of abandoned estates, lists of war crimes.
- Alternate Title
- Selected records of the Voivodeship Office in Kielce
- Date
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inclusive:
1939-1949
- 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 or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Collection Creator
- Urza?d Wojewo?dzki w Kielcach
Physical Details
- Language
- Polish
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence. Protocols. Questionnaires. Registers.
- Extent
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4,838 digital images : PDF ; 1.94 GB .
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in eight series: 1.Protocols and correspondence, 1945-1948; 2. Lists of graves and cemeteries of the victims of the German atrocities, 1948; 3. Records and documentation of war damages, 1945; 4. Change of personal names of Jewish inhabitants, 1946-1948; 5. Jewish organizations, synagogues and cemeteries, 1945-1947; 6. Lists of minorities in different districts of province Kielce, 1945-1946; 7. Questionnaires of the events of historical importance in the years 1939-1945; 8. Records and declarations of war reparations for war damage, 1945-1949.
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- 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--Kielce. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland--Kielce--20th century. Pogroms--Poland--Kielce--History--20th century. Antisemitism--Poland--Kielce--History--20th century. Synagogues--Poland--Kielce (Poland : Voivodeship) War crimes--History--Poland--20th century--Registers. Abandoned houses--Poland--History--20th century. Jews--Poland--Kielce--History--20th century. Jewish orphans--Poland--Kielce--History--20th century. Jewish organizations--Poland--Kielce--History--20th century. Communism--Poland. Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Kielce--History. Municipal government
- Geographic Name
- Bardzice (Poland) Chmielnik (Poland) Chomętów Puszcz (Poland) Dźbów (Poland) Grabina (Poland) Grabówka (Poland) Huta Mazowszańska (Poland) Jędrzejów (Poland) Kielce (Poland : Voivodeship)--History--20th century. Kielce (Poland)--Ethnic relations. Krzepice (Poland) Maliszów (Poland) Mniów (Poland) Niewachlów (Poland) Opatów (Poland) Poland--History--1945-1980. Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. Potok Złoty (Poland) Stroniec (Poland) Szaniec (Poland) Szczecno (Poland) Wancerzów (Poland) Kielce (Poland)
- Corporate Name
- Central Committee of Polish Jews
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Archiwum Państwowe w Kielcach
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Archiwum Państwowe w Kielcach, Poland, Sygn. 305. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the digitized collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in Jan. 2016. This is a cooperative project based on the agreement between USHMM and Yad Vashem, Israel.
- Special Collection
-
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-01-05 13:27:33
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