Metadata: Presidium of the District National Council / Office of the District in Dzierżoniów
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of Wroclaw, Kamieniec-Ząbkowicki branch
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiwum Państwowe we Wrocławiu, Oddział Kamieniec Ząbkowicki
- Postal address:
- Plac Kościelny 4, 57-230, Kamieniec Ząbkowicki
- Phone number:
- (+48 74) 8173540
- Web address:
- http://www.ap.wroc.pl/
- Email:
- kamieniec@ap.wroc.pl
- Reference number:
- PL 84/8
- Title:
- Presidium of the District National Council / Office of the District in Dzierżoniów
- Title (official language):
- Prezydium Powiatowej Rady Narodowej / Urząd Powiatowy w Dzierżoniowie
- Creator/accumulator:
- District administration of Dzierżoniów
- Date(s):
- 1950/1975
- Language:
- Polish
- Extent:
- 42.86 linear metres (3,354 folders)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection of the Presidium of the District National Council and the Office of the District in Dzierżoniów is large and comprises a number of Jewish-related elements. Currently only partly catalogued, the fonds consists of materials produced by the Office’s Departments (so-called referats): Budgetary, 1950–7 (file no. 1/31); budgets of subordinate units: Budgetary & Tax Accountancy Dept., 1952–5 (file no. 32-69); financial inspection records, budget delivery reports: Municipal Taxation Dept., 1954 (file no. 70/72); field budgetary income sheets: Rural Taxation Dept., 1954–5 (file no. 73/103); Central Statistical Office (GUS) reports, soil classification questionnaires: National Economy’s Finance Dept., 1953–60 (file no. 104/488); financial statements/reports and plans, balance sheets of subordinate units: General Dept., 1950–3 (file no. 489/490); Project Committee evaluation reports. The latter comprises, inter alia, lists of soldiers’ graves and grave/tomb tending, Military Department: structure, domestics and activities – inspection records, military secrecy protection, draft/recruitment, quartering, cartographic materials, military decorations, organisation of labour, registration.
The units of particular interest in terms of Jewish items include:
File no. 70: Organisations: Polish Philatelists’ Union, Polish Association of Esperantists, Association of Political Refugees from Greece, Jewish Social-Cultural Association in Poland (TSKŻ); 1957–1973.
File no. 420: Reports on school inspections, 1958.
File no. 564: Registration/list of associations/societies, 1960.
File no. 565: Registration of associations/societies, 1963.
File no. 566: Registration of associations/societies, 1965.
File no. 573: Ethnic associations, 1970.
File no. 590: Reliefs accorded to citizens. Repatriation, emigration, 1956.
File no. 591: Ethnic/nationality affairs, 1965.
File no. 592: Ethnic/nationality affairs, 1966.
File no. 593: Ethnic/nationality affairs, 1969.
File no. 594: Ethnic/nationality affairs, 1971.
File no. 599: National minority affairs, 1962.
These units include administrative orders, lists of citizens specifying the family status, profession, financial situation/material status, state of health, and social aid rendered to individuals. The collection also includes documents that refer to the functioning of the TSKŻ’s branches of Dzierżoniów and Bielawa, the Jewish Sports Clubs ‘Wolność’ and ‘Gwiazda’, concerning the team and members of the District Board as well as inspection reports, the course of elections, finance, and reports on operations. There are also records about the functioning of Jewish-speaking schools within the District of Dzierżoniów – including reports on inspections of such schools, describing the teaching staff, teaching conditions and inspectors’ recommendations.
- Archival history:
- The collection of the Presidium of the District National Council in Dzierżoniów comprises records related to the functioning of the District (Poviat) of Dzierżoniów. The files, once gathered by various departments, are presently stored at the Kamieniec-Ząbkowicki branch of the State Archive in Wroclaw.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The District National Council and its Presidium in Dzierżoniów were established under the Field Authorities of Homogeneous State Authority Act of 1950. The body functioned until new State administration bodies, the Head of the District and the Office of the District, were set up in 1973. Soon afterwards, in 1975, a two-degree administrative structure was launched in Poland, with the basic-level administration (city president [mayor], head of city, head of city district, head of commune/municipality, city and commune head) and voivodeship-level administration (voivode [province governor]). Poviats were dismissed as part of the reform.
- Access points: locations:
- Bielawa
- Dzierżoniów
- System of arrangement:
- The collection consists of units relating to the activities of the administrative bodies of the District of Dzierżoniów in the areas of education, health, social affairs, associations/societies/unions and clubs. It is composed of books/registers, reports, minutes and records, and correspondence. Typewritten and manuscript documents are included.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is available in the reading room of the State Archive of Wroclaw, Kamieniec-Ząbkowicki branch.
- Finding aids:
- A register is available at the archives.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute
- Author of the description:
- Anna Grużlewska, Leszek Ziątkowski; University of Wroclaw; 2015
