Metadata : Births, marriages and deaths register of the Jewish Community of Szydłów. 1913-1917
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute
- Holding institution (official language):
- Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
- Postal address:
- ul. Tłomackie 3/5, 00-090 Warszawa
- Phone number:
- +48 (22) 827 92 21
- Email:
- secretary@jhi.pl
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute
- Holding institution (official language):
- Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
- Postal address:
- ul. Tłomackie 3/5, 00-090 Warszawa
- Phone number:
- +48 (22) 827 92 21
- Email:
- secretary@jhi.pl
- Reference number:
- 312/141
- Title:
- Births, marriages and deaths register of the Jewish Community of Szydłów. 1913-1917
- Title (official language):
- Księga urodzeń, małżeństw i zgonów gminy Szydłów. 1913-1917
- Creator/accumulator:
- Head of commune [wójt] of Szydłów
- Date(s):
- 1913/1917
- Language:
- Polish
- Russian
- Extent:
- 0.02 linear metres (1 archival unit)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The collection is far from complete. The Jewish Historical Institute has only one register sealed and signed by the head of commune [wójt] of Szydłów, J. Wierzbicki. The volume is damaged, the covers and the first 56 pages are missing. It contains separately grouped and individually numbered records of births, marriages and deaths. At the end of each group of records there is an alphabetical index of the files written up in a given year. They contain information such as first and last name, age or date of birth, place of birth, parents' names, mother's maiden name, date of marriage, place of residence, marital status, date of death, cause of death.
- Archival history:
- The register of births, marriages and deaths from Szydłów for the years 1913-1917 was transferred from the Nożyk synagogue to the Jewish Historical Institute on 16 October 1996.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
Jews probably settled in Szydłów at the end of the 14th century; they established a community in the first half of the 15th century. They were accused of ritual murders in the 16th and 17th centuries. In 1564, they built a stone synagogue that is still standing today. The town was one of the centres of Jewish autonomy in the structure of the Council of Four Lands. In 1787, 227 Jews constituted 23.3% of the town’s total population; this proportion increased in 1827 to 52%, and in 1921 it was about 30%. In September 1939, about 1,500 Jews lived in Szydłów. The ghetto was created on 1 January 1942, and about 2,000 people were imprisoned there, including Jews from Płock and Bodzanów. All of them were killed in Treblinka.
In the Kingdom of Poland, vital record registers were kept separately for each religion, these also served as marital status records. Each civil status file was recorded in two registers - one copy remained in place (the original), and the other was transferred to the archives of the district mortgage court (duplicate). Registers of civil divorces, marriage announcements and marriages were kept by city presidents or mayors. A civil registrar of a non-Christian denomination was designated to register the vital records of the Jewish population.
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged in chronological order.
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Agnieszka Reszka, Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, 2019
- Reference number:
- 312/141
- Title:
- Births, marriages and deaths register of the Jewish Community of Szydłów. 1913-1917
- Title (official language):
- Księga urodzeń, małżeństw i zgonów gminy Szydłów. 1913-1917
- Creator/accumulator:
- Head of commune [wójt] of Szydłów
- Date(s):
- 1913/1917
- Language:
- Polish
- Russian
- Extent:
- 0.02 linear metres (1 archival unit)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The collection is far from complete. The Jewish Historical Institute has only one register sealed and signed by the head of commune [wójt] of Szydłów, J. Wierzbicki. The volume is damaged, the covers and the first 56 pages are missing. It contains separately grouped and individually numbered records of births, marriages and deaths. At the end of each group of records there is an alphabetical index of the files written up in a given year. They contain information such as first and last name, age or date of birth, place of birth, parents' names, mother's maiden name, date of marriage, place of residence, marital status, date of death, cause of death.
- Archival history:
- The register of births, marriages and deaths from Szydłów for the years 1913-1917 was transferred from the Nożyk synagogue to the Jewish Historical Institute on 16 October 1996.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
Jews probably settled in Szydłów at the end of the 14th century; they established a community in the first half of the 15th century. They were accused of ritual murders in the 16th and 17th centuries. In 1564, they built a stone synagogue that is still standing today. The town was one of the centres of Jewish autonomy in the structure of the Council of Four Lands. In 1787, 227 Jews constituted 23.3% of the town’s total population; this proportion increased in 1827 to 52%, and in 1921 it was about 30%. In September 1939, about 1,500 Jews lived in Szydłów. The ghetto was created on 1 January 1942, and about 2,000 people were imprisoned there, including Jews from Płock and Bodzanów. All of them were killed in Treblinka.
In the Kingdom of Poland, vital record registers were kept separately for each religion, these also served as marital status records. Each civil status file was recorded in two registers - one copy remained in place (the original), and the other was transferred to the archives of the district mortgage court (duplicate). Registers of civil divorces, marriage announcements and marriages were kept by city presidents or mayors. A civil registrar of a non-Christian denomination was designated to register the vital records of the Jewish population.
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged in chronological order.
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Agnieszka Reszka, Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, 2019
