Metadata: District Liquidation Office in Białystok
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- State Archives in Białystok
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiwum Państwowe w Białymstoku
- Postal address:
- Adama Mickiewicza 101, 15-257 Białystok
- Phone number:
- +48 85 743 56 03
- Web address:
- http://www.bialystok.ap.gov.pl/
- Reference number:
- 4/87
- Title:
- District Liquidation Office in Białystok
- Title (official language):
- Okręgowy Urząd Likwidacyjny w Białymstoku
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Liquidation Office in Białystok
- Date(s):
- 1945/1949
- Date note:
- 1945/1949 (1951)
- Language:
- Polish
- Extent:
- 9.0 linear metres (2537 folders)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection of the Liquidation Office in Białystok comprises documentation from 1945-1949 in matters related to: securing vacant and abandoned property, control and preparation of inventories of these properties, rental and lease of these properties, and sale of movable property. The office dealt mainly with abandoned property, which was - according to the Act of 1945 - property which, due to the war as of 1 September 1939, was not in the possession of an owner or his/her legal successors. The records of the District Office provide a relatively accurate register of real estate belonging to Jews before 1939. The register includes real estate in Białystok, county towns in the erstwhile Białystok Province and in other towns and some villages. However, the name of the last owner was not always listed. The restitution of the possession of abandoned properties took place in court or administratively. The collection includes a large series of court cases concerning the restitution of property heard before common municipal courts. There is also correspondence between the Jewish Committee in Białystok and the authorities regarding the restitution of the property of the Jewish Community in Białystok.
Below are some examples of the cases therein:
4/87/0/3/31 - Lists of abandoned properties / owners - Jews murdered by the occupation authorities / located in the town of Białystok;
4/87/0/4/108 - The case of restitution of real estate of the former Jewish community in Białystok;
4/87/0/6/164 Records granting Basia-Gitla Białobrzecka possession of an abandoned property in Augustów;
4/87/0/6/165 Records granting Izaak Wolf Białobrzecki possession of an abandoned property in Augustów;
4/87/0/6/166 Records granting Izaak-Wolf Białobrzecki possession of an abandoned property in Augustów;
4/87/0/6/179 Records granting Frydenberg Josel possession of an abandoned property in Augustów;
4/87/0/6/180 Records granting Mejer Frydman possession of an abandoned property in the village of Moczydły and in the town of Raczki, Augustów region;
4/87/0/6/187 Records granting Całko Kapulera possession of an abandoned property in the town of Raczki, Augustów region;
4/87/0/6/188 Records granting Całko and Ida Kapulera possession of an abandoned property in the town of Raczki, Augustów region;
4/87/0/6/189 Records granting Tatiana Kiper possession of an abandoned property in Augustów;
4/87/0/6/190 Records granting Tatiana Kiper possession of an abandoned property in Augustów;
4/87/0/6/206 Records granting Hirsz Nussbaum possession of an abandoned property in the town of Raczki, Augustów county;
4/87/0/6/207 Records granting Hirsz Nussbaum possession of an abandoned property in Raczki, Augustów county;
4/87/0/6 / 209-213 Acts of introducing Mordchaj and Lejba Rechtman into the possession of an abandoned property in Augustów;
4/87/0/6/467 – Records granting Motel-Mordchaj Barasz possession of an abandoned property in Białystok, ul. Żydowska 18;
4/87/0/6/468 – Records granting the Provincial Jewish Committee possession of an abandoned property in Białystok, ul. Nadrzeczna 14;
4/87/0/6/469 – Records granting the Provincial Jewish Committee possession of an abandoned property in Białystok, ul. Kupiecka 18;
4/87/0/6/470 – Records granting the Provincial Jewish Committee possession of an abandoned property in Białystok, ul. Zamenhof;
4/87/0/6/471 – Records granting the Provincial Jewish Committee possession of an abandoned property in Białystok, ul. Nowy Świat;
4/87/0/6/780 – Records granting the Jewish Religious Association possession of an abandoned property in Białystok, ul. Piękna 3 (former synagogue);
4/87/0/6/781 – Records granting the Jewish Religious Association possession of an abandoned property in Białystok, ul. Piękna;
4/87/0/6/782 – Records granting the Jewish Religious Congregation possession of an abandoned property in Białystok, ul. Piękna 3, in the town of Knyszyn and the town of Sokółka.
- Archival history:
- The records of the District Liquidation Office in Białystok were taken over in part by the Financial Department of the Presidium of the Provincial National Council (WRN), and partially by the Financial Department of the Presidium of the Municipal National Council (MRN) in Białystok. They were stored in the records of these Departments together with the records of regional liquidation offices. In 1962, the records of these groups were transferred to the State Archives in Białystok. They were registered in the book of acquisitions under entry numbers 219 to 230, according to which they totalled 693 archival units. In the records of the resources of the State Archives, all the groups are filed under the name "District Liquidation Office in Białystok". When the records of the liquidation offices were organised, this collection was separated out and labelled no. 87.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- There are three organisational periods in the history of the District Liquidation Office in Białystok: from May 1945 to the second quarter of 1946 - the Provisional State Board, the Provincial Board in Białystok; in the years 1946-1948 - the District Liquidation Office; in 1949, the District Liquidation Office as the second instance of regional liquidation offices. The legal basis for the organisation and operation of the District Liquidation Office was the decree of 2 March 1945 and the Act of 6 May 1945 on vacant and abandoned property. For the purposes of the Act, abandoned property was defined as property that was not in the possession of an owner or his/her legal successors when the war broke out on 1 September 1939; property abandoned - on the other hand - was property belonging to the German state, German citizens or persons who had fled to the enemy. The Act of 18 November 1948 on changes in the organisation and scope of operation of liquidation offices created district liquidation offices as the authorities of the second instance in relation to the newly created regional liquidation offices. The District Liquidation Office in Białystok as the authority of the second instance was organised on 3 January 1949. The liquidation offices were abolished as a result of the resolution of the Council of Ministers of 17 March 1951. The agendas of district offices were taken over on 1 July 1951 by the financial departments of the presidiums of the provincial national councils.
- Subject terms:
- Legal matters
- Plunder
- Real estate
- Restitution and compensation
- World War II
- Finding aids:
- A printed inventory is available at the State Archives in Białystok.
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Urszula Gierasimiuk; December 2020