Overview
- Description
- Selected records of the Hauptreuhandstelle Ost. Treuhandstelle Danzig-Westpreussen (Główny Urząd Powierniczy Wschód Gdańsk-Prusy Zachodnie) include provisions regarding the rules of taking over Polish and Jewish property on the territory Gdańsk Pomerania. Included are regulations concerning the Polish State, Polish real estate, agricultural land, organizational, administrative and economic matters, financial economy, tasks of commissarial administrators and national politics, treatment of Poles and Jews in the Free City of Gdańsk; it also contains correspondence regarding matters of Polish property seized by Germany, opinions regarding nationalities (letters T-Z), and official communicates. A majority part of the collection consists of card files related to the takeover of individual companies and realties on the Gdańsk Pomerania.
- Alternate Title
- Hauptreuhandstelle Ost. Treuhandstelle Danzig-Westpreussen
Selected records of the Main Trustee Office for the East, Trustee Office for Gdańsk-West Prussia - 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
- Hauptreuhandstelle Ost. Treuhandstelle Danzig-Westpreussen
- Biography
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Hauptreuhandstelle Ost. Treuhandstelle Danzig-Westpreussen (Główny Urząd Powierniczy Wschód Gdańsk-Prusy Zachodnie; Main Trustee Office for the East, Trustee Office for Danzig-West Prussia) was established in November 1939 to take over and manage confiscated Polish state and private property in the occupied territories and include it in the Nazi military economy. Confiscated property was handed over to the receivership, lease or sale to German citizens, including repatriated from the Baltic countries and Bessarabia. Agricultural and forestry properties were excluded from the competence of the Trustee's Office. They were governed by the Reich Commissioner's Office for the Strengthening of the German. Local custodian offices in 1941 were under the supervision of the Reich Governor's Office. The custodian office in Gdańsk included the District of West Prussia. This office was in charge of the Branch Office in Gdynia and a “Man of Trust” in particular districts.
Physical Details
- Extent
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3 microfilm reels ; 35 mm ; 4,136 frames .
- System of Arrangement
- Selected records arranged in three series: 1. Regulations and opinions regarding confiscation of Polish and Jewish properties; 2. Correspondence; 3. Official publication with communicates, 1942-1945.
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--Confiscations and contributions--Poland--Gdańsk. Polish people--Crimes against--Poland--Gdańsk--History--20th century. Polish people--Nazi persecution--Pomerania. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland--20th century. Polish property--Poland--Gdańsk--History--20 century. Jewish property--Poland--Gdańsk--History--20 century.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Archiwum Państwowe w Gdańsku
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Archiwum Państwowe w Gdańsku, Poland, Sygn. 264. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in March 2018.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:17:06
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn595334
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