Overview
- Description
- Records relating to Jewish property and its fate after World War II in Chmielnik, mainly in reference to abandoned property. The collection includes official correspondence, descriptions of estates, verdicts of the Court of First Instance, loans and sale of those estates, registration of war damages, birth and death files, and correspondence concerning the matter of searching for individuals who were property owners. Prior to World War II, Jews constituted about 70% of the total population of Chmielnik.
- Alternate Title
- Selected records of the City of Chmielnik
- Date
-
inclusive:
1945-1950
- 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
- Urz?d Miasta i Gminy Chmielnik
Physical Details
- Language
- Polish
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence. Registers. Statistics.
- Extent
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2,355 digital images : PDF ; 963 MB .
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in four series: 1.Administrative matters of abandoned property, 1947-1950; 2. Administration Department: Control of payment of rent for Jewish real estates, 1948-1950; 3. Files of civil status and religious matters of population in Chmielnik, 1945-1946; 4. Files of population movements, 1945-1946.
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
- Jewish property--Poland--Chmielnik--Registers. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland--Chmielnik--History--20th century. Jews--Poland--Chmielnik--History. Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Chmielnik. Municipal government
- Geographic Name
- Chmielnik (Poland)--History. Chmielnik (Poland)--Ethnic relations--History--20th century. Chmielnik (Poland)
- Corporate Name
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
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. 2129. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the digitized collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in March 2017. 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:
- 2023-08-24 13:46:48
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn557914
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