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SOURCES ON POLISH JEWRY AT THE CENTRAL ARCHIVES FOR THE HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE , JERUSALEM Part II : General – Regions - Communities M - Ż An update of the 2004 edition which was compiled and edited by Hanna Volovici, Witold Medykowski, Hadassah Assouline and Benyamin Lukin Update prepared by Benyamin Lukin and Olga Shraberman The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People 2012 Sources on Polish Jewry at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People Table of Contents Introduction p. 3 The Guide p. 3 Acknowledgments p. 4 Abbreviations p. 5 Abbrevations of Archives and Record Groups p. 6 German Equivalents of Polish Place Names p. 11 Glossary p. 12 Poland – General p. 14 Regions p. 19 Communities M - Ż p. 22 2 Sources on Polish Jewry at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People Introduction We take pleasure in presenting a digital and somewhat updated, version of our guide to sources on Polish Jewry at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People. In the year 2004 the Central Archives published the second edition of its guide to sources on Polish Jewry, in the original and in microfilm, which had been catalogued by the Central Archives until the end of 2000. While the first edition, published in 1988, presented the relatively poor pre-Glasnost scope of East-European archival documentation, the 2004 edition summarized the first decade of survey and research in archives of the former Soviet Union. The second edition represented extensive work in former Polish, Austrian and German government archives, situated in the former Soviet Union, relating to approximately 1000 cities, towns and villages and ranging from the 14 th to the 20 th centuries. The guide was published together with Avotaynu Foundation Inc., and has been acclaimed by researchers and genealogists alike. As mentioned above, the 2004 printed version describes material obtained by the Central Archives until the end 2000. Twelve years have passed since then. Millions of documents relating to Polish Jewry have been obtained by the Central Archives in various media since then, especially material relating to the Jews of Galicia and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. However, the most important change is not in the quantitative aspects. The new millennium has been accompanied by new methods of making data available to the public. We have thus decided to place a digital version of the Guide on the internet. We preferred to devote our limited personnel to mounting full fledged catalogue entries on the web, rather than investing much time in a full revision of the guide, which would become out dated the day after we published it. The basis of this version remains the 2004 printed edition, with two important additions. 1) Hundreds of new communities have been added; and 2) special reference was made to entries containing genealogical material. The Guide This guide is arranged geographically, beginning with material relating to the Jews of Poland as a whole, followed by regional entries and then by individual entries for each community, in alphabetical order. Each town name is accompanied by district (powiat) and province (województwo) to which it belongs. When a particular town is itself the seat of its district, only the province name is noted. The material consists of originals, xerox or photocopies, microfilms and digital copies. Virtually all of the originals are of Jewish provenance, while the photocopies, microfilms and scans are generally of non Jewish provenance. Some Jewish material was located and microfilmed in official repositories (such as the Centrum Judaicum in Berlin and state archives in Lwów, Kraków and Łód ź). The descriptions are arranged by record groups, in chronological order. The material within each record group is described in chronological order as well. The borders of Poland by which material is arranged in the Central Archives and in the guide are those which were in effect between the two World Wars. Thus prominent contemporary Polish cities such as Wrocław (Breslau), Szczecin (Stettin) and Gda ńsk 3 Sources on Polish Jewry at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (Danzig), which were not in Poland between the Wars, are absent from the guide, while Lwów and Wilno, today in the Ukraine and Lithuania respectively, do appear. Poland was partitioned three times (in 1772, 1792 and 1795) between Austria, Prussia and Russia, and disappeared as a political entity until after World War I. Material on Polish Jews can therefore be found in Austrian, German, Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian as well as in Polish archives. Many documents are accordingly in Polish, German, Russian and Ukrainian. The names of the archives and of the cities in which they are located are cited as they are today. Lwów, for instance, is written Lviv and the archives in this city bear Ukrainian names. The names of the archival record groups, on the other hand, remain in their original languages. The names of the entries, however, are given in their Polish form. German equivalents of Polish names are provided in an appendix. The languages of the files are given in square brackets. Most of the files are entirely in Polish, in which case, no language is cited. The first, 1998 edition, was edited by (now Prof.) Adam Teller. The 2004 edition, on which the digital version is based, was compiled and edited by Hanna Volovici, Witold Medikowski, Hadassah Assouline and Benyamin Lukin, with the assistance of (now Prof.) Rachel Manekin and Olga Shraberman. Olga Shraberman has integrated the corrections and updates to this 2012 edition, which were edited by Benyamin Lukin. Acknowledgments We are grateful for the support received for this project from: • The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany • The Jewish Galicia and Bukovina Project • Hanadiv Foundation • The late Mr. Danek Gertner of Vienna • The Center for Research on the History and Culture of Polish Jews at the Hebrew University Finally, great thanks are due to the various archives and their staffs, which graciously and patiently enabled the conduct of the survey and microfilming activities, which made this guide possible. May this guide serve as a memorial to the Jews and communities which once flourished on Polish soil, and are no more. Yochai Ben-Ghedalia, Director Jerusalem, Tevet 5773 December 2012 4 Sources on Polish Jewry at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People Abbreviations Arch. Archiwum Bibl. Biblioteka Castr. Castrensia EKOPO Evreiskii komitet Obshchestva pomoshchi zhertvam voiny HIAS Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society IKG Israelitische Kultusgmeinde Inscr. Inscriptiones JDC Joint Distribution Committee JTS Jewish Theological Seminary, New York Kgl.Reg. Königliche Regierung m. Miasto Man. Manualia n.d. no date Obl. Oblata, oblatarum Oddz. Oddział OPE Obshchestvo rasprostraneniia prosveshcheniia sredi evreev Rossii OSE Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants OŻPP Ogólno-Żydowska Partia Pracy Pow. Powiat Prow. Prowincja Rel. Relationes Woj. Województwo Zb. Zbiór, zbiory Languages [E] English [F] French [G] German [H] Hebrew [L] Latin [P] Polish [R] Russian [Rt] Ruthenian [U] Ukrainian [Y] Yiddish 5 Sources on Polish Jewry at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People Abbrevations of Archives and Record Groups Archives in Poland Archives and Full Name Record Groups AGAD Archiwum Główne Akt Dawnych AGWAO Archiwum Gospodarcze Wilanowskie Administracji Opatowskiej AP Archiwum Pa ństwowe ASK Archiwum Skarbu Koronnego CWW Centralne Władze Wyznaniowe DP Dokumenty Papierowe i Pergaminowe GUW Gubernialny Urz ąd Wło ścia ński GZ Ż Gubernialny Zarz ąd Żandarmerii IT Inwentarz Tymczasowy KCWWK Komisja Cywilno-Wojskowa Województwa Krakowskiego KP Kancelaria Prezesa KrzPiS Komisja Rz ądowa Przychodów I Skarbu KRzSW Komisja Rz ądowa Spraw W ęwn ętrznych MK Metryka Koronna ML Metryka Litewska MSW Ministerstwo Spraw Wewn ętrznych NP Naczelnik Powiatu OK Ż Okr ęgowy Komitet Żydowski PAN Polska Akademia Nauk PP Policja Pa ństwowa RO Rada Opieku ńcza ROGK Rada Opieku ńcza Guberni Kaliskiej ROPK Rada Opieku ńcza Powiatu Kaliskiego RsiRMKW Rada Stanu i Rada Ministrów Ksi ęstwa Warszawskiego RSKP Rada Stanu Królestwa Polskiego SSKP Sekretariat Stanu Królestwa Polskiego UW Urz ąd Wojewódzki WA Wydział Administracyjny WCPL Władze Centralne Powstania Listopadowego WKNZNP Wy ższe Kursy Nauczycielskie Zwi ązku Nauczycielstwa Polskiego we Lwowie WP Wydział Prawny ŻIH Żydowski Instytut Historyczny Archives in France Archives Full Name AIU Alliance Israélite Universelle [F] 6 Sources on Polish Jewry at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People Archives in Belorussia Archives Record Groups Full Name NARB Natsional’nyi Arkhiv Respubliki Belarus’ [R] NIAB Natsional’nyi Istoricheskii Arkhiv Belarusi [R] “ Direktsiia narodnykh Direktsiia narodnykh uchilishch Minskoi uchilishch… gubernii [R] “ Kantseliariia Kantseliariia minskogo grazhdanskogo minskogo gubernatora gubernatora [R] Archives in Lithuania Archives Full Name LCVIA Lietuvos Centrinis Valstybinis Istorijos Archyvas [Lithuanian] LCVA Lietuvos Centrinis Valstybinis Archyvas [Lithuanian] Archives in Russia Archives Record Groups Full Name GAOmO Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Omskoi oblasti [R] GARF Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii [R] “ Bomash Lichnyi arkhiv Meira Bomasha, chlena Gosudarstvennoi Dumy [R] Departament Departament politsii Ministerstva vnutrennikh politsii… del [R] “ Katsenel’son Lichnyi arkhiv Aleksandra Katsenel’sona, evreiskogo obshchestvennogo deiatelia [R]