Metadata: Krustpils City Orphans Court (Krustpils, Jekabpils County)
Collection
- Country:
- Latvia
- Holding institution:
- Latvian State Historical Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Latvijas Valsts vēstures arhīvs
- Postal address:
- 16 Slokas Street, Rīga, 1048
- Phone number:
- +371 20 017 505
- Reference number:
- 2453
- Title:
- Krustpils City Orphans Court (Krustpils, Jekabpils County)
- Title (official language):
- Krustpils pilsētas bāriņtiesa (Krustpils, Jēkabpils apriņķis)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Krustpils City Orphan's Court (Krustpils, Jekabpils County)
- Date(s):
- 1921/1943
- Language:
- Latvian
- Russian
- Extent:
- 152 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
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The collection contains the documents of the Krustpils City Orphans court (Krustpils, Jekabpils County). It includes applications to establish trustees over property left without an owner, lists of property; documents on expenses, minutes of court sessions, statements of receipt and transfer of documents, tax cases, correspondence with institutions on the establishment of trustees for the property of missing persons; book and list of acts of the organisation, various certificates, receipts; reviews, notifications, petitions; on the conduct of cases of forced heirship, etc.
The rest of the documents in the collection is a list of cases from the Orphans court with names and surnames, of which about a third of cases (i.e. more than 60) are Jewish names and surnames. Examples include the adoption of Khaim Kaplan by Sara Balkina; the appointment of a trustee to protect the property of the mentally ill Doba Leya Morein; appointment of guardians for Sima Basya and Esther Lat; the appointment of a guardian for the young children and property of the deceased Motel Spungin; appointment of a guardian for the young children of the deceased Abram Shlomovich; the appointment of trustees over the property of the deceased Nohum Tsivyan; appointment of a guardian for the young daughter of the deceased Khaim Morein; appointment of a guardian of the property of the deceased Pinchas, son of Borukh, Moselovich; custody of the property of the deceased Esther Kodish-Kaltgugel; the appointment of a guardian for the inheritance of the deceased Leiba Kamensky; the appointment of a guardian for the inheritance left by the deceased Meer Fishel Rabinovich; the establishment of guardianship over the inheritance of the deceased Abram Franzer; Dvoira Ioffe's petition to appoint a trustee of the inheritance of the deceased Berka Ioffe; the case of custody of Israel and Sora Paik; the case of custody of the mentally ill Boruch Levinson and his property; the case of the forced heirship of the property of Yosel Spungin, etc.
On 21 October 1925, the Krustpils Orphans court received a petition from the sisters Sima Basya and Esther Lat, in which they asked the court to appoint Wulf Lat and Schleime Itze Weide as their guardians following the deaths of their parents Yankel and Hesya Lila Lat. Wulf Lat and Schleime Itze Weide signed at the bottom of the petition that they agree to become guardians for the sisters. In the testimony of Haim Gut and Leizer Vospe, they certify that Yankel and Hesya
- Archival history:
- After World War II materials from the interwar period, along with earlier materials, were part of the Central State Archive of the Latvian SSR. In 1962 it was decided to reorganise the archive and it was renamed the Central State Historical Archives of the Latvian SSR. The materials predating the period of Soviet rule were deposited in this archive, predecessor of the current State Historical Archive.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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Orphans courts were established in cities in the Russian Empire in 1775; they were guardianship bodies designed to protect the interests of the urban estates (merchants, bourgeois, commoners, etc.). These courts began to deal with the protection of children's rights in 1889. The most important task of the Orphans court was to appoint a guardian to underage children left without parents, take care of the property of children, supervise the actions of guardians and disclose possible violations of children's rights. These orphans courts were preserved in independent Latvia from 1918 to 1940 (in 1991 the institution of the orphans court was restored and is still operative). Orphans courts in Latvia during the period 1918-1940 dealt not only with the custody of orphans, but also with custody of incapacitated citizens, as well as with issues of custody of the property of the deceased, inheritance cases, description and protection of the property of those who left it for some reason.
Krustpils (until 1917 Kreuzburg) is now the historical part of the city of Jekabpils in Latvia, located on the right bank of the Daugava River. Until 1962, it was a separate city and, unlike the left-bank part - Jekabpils itself - was part of another historical and cultural region – Latgale. The local Jewish community, formed by the late 17th century, is one of the oldest in Latgale. In 1897 3,164 Jews lived here and made up 76% of the total population of the town. By 1935, the number of Jews in Krustpils had decreased to 1,043 and made up only 28.5% of its population.
- Access points: locations:
- Krustpils
- Subject terms:
- Legal matters
- Orphans
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Jana Makarova
