Metadata: Central Liquidation Commission of the Kingdom of Poland
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiwum Główne Akt Dawnych w Warszawie
- Postal address:
- ul. Długa 7, 00-263 Warszawa
- Phone number:
- (22) 831-54-91
- Web address:
- www.agad.archiwa.gov.pl
- Email:
- sekretariat@agad.gov.pl
- Reference number:
- 1/ 220
- Title:
- Central Liquidation Commission of the Kingdom of Poland
- Title (official language):
- Komisja Centralna Likwidacyjna Królestwa Polskiego
- Creator/accumulator:
- Financial administration of the state
- Date(s):
- 1797/1842
- Language:
- Polish
- Russian
- French
- German
- Extent:
- 0.55 linear metres (60 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The main part of the collection are the liquidation lists of losses incurred in the then departments of the Duchy of Warsaw - collectively for counties and several towns (including Nieszawa, Chełm, Krasnystaw). They concern delivery of food supplies, wagon transports, horse feed, and the rental of military quarters. There are receipts in the records regarding claims of the Chełm Jewish communities authorities regarding the supply of horses for the Polish army. By order of the authorities, the kahals were to pay for the provision of horses for the army, in proportion to the kosher and candle tax paid. The Chełm Jewish community paid 5,652 zlotys in taxes, so it was expected to provide 28 horses.
A copy of an oath has been preserved that was made by representatives of the Chełm Jewish community to confirm that the horses were delivered equivalent to the sum of PLN 675 (No. 9). Kalman Kribenbaiser from Grójec gave flour for bread for the Westphalian army, and Austrian soldiers took tobacco, pipes and silk handkerchiefs, estimated by the owner at PLN 252 (No. 24, 37), from Moses Landau's shop in Częstochowa. Icek Herszkowicz from Jasienica provided the Russian army with draft animals and carts for PLN 697, which was sworn to by two Christian witnesses (No. 55). The documents in the Central Liquidation Commission collection, despite its fragmentary state, give a picture of the exploitation of Polish lands by the armies of various countries during the Napoleonic Wars. They also show the participation of Jews in the delivery of supplies (often in place of other people or communities, e.g. villages) and the related economic and social conflicts.
- Archival history:
- After the dissolution of the Central Liquidation Commission, its records were transferred to the Debt Section of the Duchy of Warsaw operating at the Government Revenue and Treasury Commission. By 1844, a large part of the records of settled matters were destroyed. After the dissolution of the Treasury Commission, the separate archive of the Debt Section was transferred to the Warsaw Tax Chamber in 1876, and from 1919 it was stored in the Treasury Archive, where it was only partially put in order. During World War II, the files were almost completely destroyed. The surviving remnant of the collection was separated from the loose materials that were transferred to the AGAD after the war.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Central Liquidation Commission (KCL) was established in 1824 in order to finally determine the amount of claims of the inhabitants of the Kingdom to the state treasury for the supplies provided to the army fighting in the Polish territory during the period of the Duchy of Warsaw. The Treasury took over these claims and settled accounts with foreign countries. The commission was officially subordinate to the Minister of the Treasury. To perform its duties, it inherited the records of several earlier commissions operating from 1808. The provincial administrative authorities were obliged to provide it with evidence of losses, which it examined in terms of the legality and legitimacy of the claims. By the outbreak of the November Uprising, settlements with Russia, Prussia, Austria and Saxony were completed. Billing for deliveries to Napoleon's army was never completed. The Commission was dissolved in early 1841.
- Access points: locations:
- Chełm
- Czestochowa
- Grójec
- Jasienica
- Access points: persons/families:
- Herszkowicz, Icek
- Kribenbaiser, Kalman
- Landau, Moses
- System of arrangement:
- The preserved fragments of the collection include accounting documents from the departments of the Duchy of Warsaw (in alphabetical order), followed by individual claims addressed to the Commission.
- Finding aids:
- M. Kośka, Komisja Centralna Likwidacyjna Królestwa Polskiego [Central Liquidation Commission of the Kingdom of Poland] [in:] Archiwum Główne Akt Dawnych w Warszawie, Przewodnik po zasobie, vol. 2: Epoka porozbiorowa, ed. F. Ramotowska, Warszawa 1998, pp.317-319.
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Małgorzata Kośka, Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw, 2020