Metadata: Municipal National Council in Chojnów
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiwum Państwowe we Wrocławiu Oddział w Legnicy
- Postal address:
- al. Marszałka J. Piłsudskiego 1 59-220 Legnica
- Phone number:
- 4876 856 34 78
- Web address:
- https://www.ap.wroc.pl/legnica/kontakt
- Email:
- legnic@ap.wroc.pl
- Reference number:
- 85/61
- Title:
- Municipal National Council in Chojnów
- Title (official language):
- Miejska Rada Narodowa w Chojnowie
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administrative authorities, town records and municipal administration
- Date(s):
- 1946/1950
- Language:
- Polish
- Extent:
- 0.11 linear metres, 6 folders
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection consists of materials created and stored by the local administration in the town of Chojnów which was a collegiate legislative body for which the executive authority was the Chojnów town board (see collection 85/488).
The legal basis for the activities of this entity were: the Decree of the Polish Committee of National Liberation (PKWN) of August 21, 1944 on the procedure for appointing the general administration authority of the first and second instance and the Act of September 4, 1944 on the organization and scope of activities of the national council, and the decree of the Polish Committee of National Liberation of September 23 on the organization and scope of activities of local government.
Due to the fragmentary nature of this collection, the Judaica are few and are mainly scattered references. The following archival units are worth mentioning:
ref. no. 1 - Composition of the Municipal National Council in Chojnów, 1946-1950; among others Mieczysław Lewicki, a delegate of the Jewish Committee in Chojnów
ref. no. 2 - Minutes of the meetings of the Municipal National Council in Chojnów, 1946-1949; inter alia: mention that in 1946 Mieczysław Lewicki was a member of the Municipal National Council on behalf of the Jewish Committee, and he later signed all Municipal National Council decisions
ref. no. 3 - Minutes of the session Municipal National Council 1946-1949; among others, documents certified on behalf of the Jewish Committee by Mieczysław Lewicki
ref. no. 6 - Protocols of the Social Control Commission 1947-1950, including various inspections, in which the names of people who were Jews appear, but in order to establish their identity it is necessary to check this information against other materials, including the list available in collection 85/488 ref. no. 99.
- Archival history:
- Initially, the collection was stored together with the materials created by the Chojnów town board (see collection 85/488); they were separated only later. The materials included in the collection were handed over to the State Archives in Wrocław, Legnica Branch, in two transfers, on July 26, 1965 and October 16, 1965, from the repository of the Presidium of the Municipal National Council in Chojnów, without delivery or acquisition protocols, and without any arrangement or classification into categories. Cataloguing began in 1965 and was completed in 1966.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
The Municipal National Council in Chojnów was established on October 18, 1946. It established the following Commissions three days later:
• Regulations
• Social Control
• Financial and Budgetary
• Educational
• Organizational and Verification
• Selection
The Municipal National Council in Chojnów consisted of 24 members delegated by political parties and parties as well as social organizations. In 1950, the dual character of administrative authority (state authority structures and self-government structures) was abolished, introducing a monolithic state authority.
- Access points: locations:
- Chojnów
- Access points: persons/families:
- Mieczysław Lewicki
- Subject terms:
- Jewish political activity
- System of arrangement:
- The collection consists of books and loose materials, manuscripts, and typescripts.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is currently accessible in the reading room of the Legnica branch of the State Archives in Wrocław.
- Finding aids:
- A printed inventory compiled in 1966 by Eugeniusz Kobzdaja is available at the archive.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/zespol/-/zespol/87142
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Leszek Ziątkowski, Marcin Wodzinski University of Wrocław, 20-12-2017