Selected records of the County Starosty in Łódź Starostwo Powiatowe Łódzkie (Sygn. 2123) : Wybrane materialy

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych Between 1919 and 1939, the Lodz District Office functioned under the regulation of the Council of Ministers of August 28, 1919 on the temporary organization of poviat administrative authorities and the executive regulation of November 13, 1919. It was responsible for maintaining public safety and peace as well as supervising public premises, associations, assemblies, press, shows, foreigners, criminal and moral police, weapons and ammunition, order on roads and streets, matters arising from the provisions on transport of people and goods by motor vehicles, activities of the poviat council of general administration on criminal and administrative proceedings, and development of mobilization issues ordered by the voivode. Various certificates, citizenship credentials and certificates, craft cards (permits to open craft workshops), registers of factories, and factory plans. It relates also to Jews who survived the Holocaust and lived in Łódź after the war.