Overview
- Description
- Selected reports by Kreishauptmann, Sonderdienstkommando, and gendarmerie, orders concerning police hours, identity and cards (Kennkarte), as well as records relating to administrative borders, propaganda, changes of names of towns and streets, appointments of mayors, heads of communes and villages, name lists of employees of offices, confiscation and housing assignments, matters of organization, maintenance, training and duties of the Polish Police, matters of confiscated properties including those relating to buildings in the Warsaw ghetto, confiscation of Jewish assets, as well as cases of prisoners of war and forced laborers, both Poles and Jews.
- Alternate Title
- Kreishauptmannschaft Warschau
Selected records of the County Starosty in Warsaw - Date
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inclusive:
1939-1945
- 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
- Kreishauptmannschaft Warschau-Land
Physical Details
- Extent
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4,877 digital images : PDF ; 2.83 GB .
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in six series: 1. Der Kreishauptmann, Sonderdienst and gendarmerie: Reports, 1939-1944; 2. Office of the Interior: Reports, registers, posters and correspondence of the Kommander des Sonderdienstes; 3. Office of the Affairs of the Population and Social Care; 4. Office of the Housing Affairs: Confiscation of Jewish property; 5. The Labor Office: Transports of Poles for forced labor; 6. Administration of the Municipal Association Construction and Planning Department: Plans of Warsaw ghetto, reports and correpondence regarding Jewish properties in the region, 1939-1941.
Note. Missing files: 4, 65, 136, 174, 1170, 1873, 2041, and 4877.
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. World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Poland. Polish people--Crimes against--Poland--20th century--Registers. Jews--Persecution--Poland--20th century. Forced Labor--Poland--History--20th century. Jewish property--Poland--Warsaw. Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)
- Geographic Name
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Archiwum Państwowe w Warszawie
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Archiwum Państwowe w Warszawie, Poland, Sygn. 486/II. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in December 2017.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:16:59
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