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SOURCES FOR INVENTORY DATA

Updated:
May 15, 2020


Archivists in Poland, Ukraine, Moldova, Russia, Belarus and Lithuania who verified and added material during the verification process.

Inventories compiled by Miriam Weiner during her more than thirty years of working in these archives.

Archival inventories of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland

Archival inventories of the Urzad Stanu Cywilnego w m. st.
Warszawie, Archiwum

Published archival guides in Poland

Published archival guides in Ukraine

Published archival guides in Lithuania

Published archival guides in Moldova

Published archival guides in Romania

Published archival guides in Belarus

Lists of microfilmed documents provided by the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah

Inventories compiled by researchers and archivists on assignment for this website project
Published archival inventories from archive and genealogy websites


Publications:

________. Holocaust Survivor Testimonies Catalogue, Vol. I. Warsaw: Jewish Historical Institute, 1998.

________. Miasta polskie: Dokumentacja archiwalna. Warsaw-Lodz: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1981.

________. Urzedy Stanu Cywilnego, Informator, Czesc I. Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnetrznych: Department Spoleczno-Administracyjny. Warsaw: 1984.

Adamushko, V.I., et al. List of German Fascist Concentration Camps, Ghettos and Places Where People were Deported to During the Occupation of Belarus, 1941–1945. Minsk: State Committee and Records Management, Republic of Belarus, 1998.

Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy. Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the USSR: Ukraine and Moldova. Book 1. General Bibliography and Institutional Directory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988.

Laszuk, Anna, ed. Ksiegi metrykalne i stanu cywilnego w archiwach panstwowych w Polsce. [Metrical and civil registration documents in the State Archives in Poland]. Warsaw: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwow Panstwowych, 2000.

Peltz, Diana, ed. Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine, Lviv: Guide. Lviv/Kiev: State Committee on Archives of Ukraine, 2001.

Sallis, Dorit and Marek Web. Jewish Documentary Sources in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus: A Preliminary List. New York: The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1996.

Teller, A., ed., Guide to the Sources for the History of the Jews in Poland in the Central Archives. Jerusalem: Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, Jerusalem, 1988.

Weiner, Miriam. Jewish Roots in Poland: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories. Secaucus, NJ/New York: Routes to Roots Foundation/YIVO Institute, 1997.

Weiner, Miriam. Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories. Secaucus, NJ/New York: Routes to Roots Foundation/YIVO Institute, 1999.


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