Announcements and orders of the German occupation authorities, 1939–1945

Collection description

Announcements and orders of the German occupation authorities, 1939–1945

Collection

Country:: Poland

Holding institution:: The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

Holding institution (official language):: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. E. Ringelbluma

Postal address:: ul. Tłomackie 3/5, 00-090 Warszawa

Phone number:: (+48 22) 827 92 21

Web address:: http://www.jhi.pl/

Email:: secretary@jhi.pl

Reference number:: PL 312/241

Title:: Announcements and orders of the German occupation authorities, 1939–1945

Title (official language):: Zbiór obwieszczeń władz okupacyjnych z lat 1939-1945

Creator/accumulator:: Jewish Historical Institute

Date(s):: 1939/1945

Language:: Polish Yiddish German Ukrainian

Extent:: 2 linear metres (606 archival units)

Type of material:: Textual material

Physical condition:: good

Scope and content:: This residual collection of announcements or notices of German occupational authorities is arranged according to orders and instructions concerning Jewish residents and issued in various towns/cities. Each file number is preceded by the fund reference number ‘241/ …’.

Berlin: 1

Czestochowa – announcements/notices signed by the County (Grodzki) Starost and Municipal Starost: 2-15;

Dębica – announcements/notices signed by the County (Powiatowy) Starost: 16;

Falenica – announcements/notices signed by the mayor: 17-21;

Announcement issued by the General Board of Eastern Railways: 22;

Kalisz – issued by the President of the Regency of Kalisz: 25;

Krakow: 26-193;

Krosno: 276a;

Lublin – dispositions issued by the Labour Office, Head of District, and Jewish Council: 194-201;

Lwów – dispositions issued by the President of the City of Lwów (Lemberg), Governor of the District of Galicia, and the Jewish Council of Lwów: 202-218;

Ostrów-Mazowiecka: 220;

Otwock – dispositions signed by the mayor: 221-226;

Płock: 227;

Przemyśl: 228;

Radom – announcements/notices signed by County (Grodzki) Starost, Municipal Starost, Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Elders of the Jewish People in the District of Radom: 229-247;

Radzyń-Podlaski: 248;

Rzeszow: 250;

Sanok: 251-254;

Skierniewice: 249-255;

Sokołów-Podlaski: 256;

Tarnow: 257-260;

Tomaszów-Mazowiecki: 261;

Warsaw – announcements/notices issued by the Governor and the President of the City of Warsaw: 262 -267;

Wieliczka: 268;

Zawiercie: 269-270;

Łódź (Litzmannstadt) – Ghetto announcements/notices: 277-600.

Archival history:: This collection of announcements, notices, orders and dispositions issued by German occupation authorities with respect to the Jews, including posters printed in the ghettoes on the orders of Nazi authorities, was formed thanks to the endeavours of the Central Jewish Historical Commission. The resource was made part of the Jewish Historical Institute Archive in 1947. The notices signed by the Superior of the Jewish Elders in the Łódź Ghetto and by the Municipal Starost of Krakow have been excluded from of these institutions’ collections of records. The collection has also absorbed notices or announcements offered through donation or purchase.

Administrative/biographical history:: This collection comprises documents issued by various institutions and illustrates primarily the increase and accumulation of anti-Jewish restrictions and repressive measures, such as bans on using some streets in cities and towns, curfews, compulsory armbands, formation of ghettoes, obligatory registration for coerced labour and preventive vaccinations, calls for handing over property or belongings, property confiscations, food rationing and calls for displacement. The announcements and notices featured show the ways in which the occupational institutions, both German and Jewish, functioned in larger and smaller cities, and what their roles were.

Access points: locations:: Berlin
Lublin
Lwów
Tarnov
Tarnów
Warsaw

Subject terms:: Antisemitism
Antisemitism--Antisemitic measures
Holocaust
Holocaust--Ghettos
Legal records

Access, restrictions:: Digitised documents are accessible in the reading room of the Jewish Historical Institute.

Finding aids:: A catalogue in Polish is accessible online.

Yerusha Network member:: Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

Author of the description:: Agnieszka Reszka; Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. E. Ringelbluma; 2015