List of archives in formerly German or German occupied territories Looking for evidential documents former forced laborers meet many problems. For one group it is particularly difficult to even find the right place where to write to, those who had to work in formerly German territories or regions which were incorporated into the "Deutsches Reich" during the course of WWII. In order to help them, we compiled a list of archives in the respective areas. It is important to notice that not included are territories occupied by Germany, but kept in a special status such as "Generalgouvernement" (Central Poland) or the Baltic States. For the same reason of not being able to give a directory of all state archives between Cherbourg and Minsk, respectively Oslo and Florence, we left out "Ostmark" (Austria) and the Czech and Slovenian territories annexed to the Austrian "Reichsgaue". Finally we must emphasize that we do not know in each and every case whether the respective archives have German records regarding forced labor in their holdings. Recent inquiries at the state archives in Plzen (Czech Republic), Strasbourg (France), Szczecin and Wroclaw (both Poland) had encouraging results: all four reported the existence of German records which can be utilized as evidential documents for former forced laborers. We try to obtain more information from the respective foreign archives to update our list. German name district cities (recent name) of the district or region Danzig (Gdansk), Bromberg (ByDanzigdgoszcz), Thorn (Torun) Westpreussen
addresses of archives
Archiwum Panstwowe w Gdansku Ul. Waly Piastowskie 5 80958 Gdansk Polska Phone: (0048-58) 301 74 63 / 64 Archiwum Panstwowe w Bydgoszczy Ul. Dworcowa 65 85009 Bydgoszcz Polska Phone: (0048-58) 22 96 76, 22 35 11 Archiwum Panstwowe w Toruniu Plac Rapackiego 4 87100 Torun Polska Phone: (0048-56) 24754
Elsass
Strassburg (Strasbourg), Hagenau (Haguenau), Kolmar (Colmar), Muehlhausen (Mulhouse)
Eupen-Malmedy Eupen, Malmedy
Lothringen
Metz, Diedenhofen (Thionville), Saarburg (Sarrebourg), St. Avold (Saint Avold)
Luxemburg
Luxemburg (Luxembourg)
Memel
Memel (Klaipeda)
Niederschlesien
Breslau (Wroclaw), Liegnitz (Legnica)
Oberschlesien
Kattowitz (Katowice), Oppeln (Opole)
Archives du Bas-Rhin 5-9, rue Fischart 67000 Strasbourg France Phone: (0033) 03 88 45 94 54 Fax: (0033) 03 88 60 44 52 Email:
[email protected] Archives du Haut-Rhin Cité administrative 3, rue Fleischhauer 68026 Colmar France Phone: (0033) 89413641 Staatsarchiv Eupen Kaperberg 2-4 4700 Eupen Belgien Phone: (0032-87) 55 43 77 Archives de Meurthe-et-Moselle 1, rue de la Monnaie 54052 Nancy France Phone: (0033) 83 35 40 52 Fax: (0033) 83 37 81 11 Archives nationales B. P. 6, Plateau du Saint Esprit Chemin de la Corniche 2010 Luxembourg Luxembourg Fax : (00352) 474 692 Lithuanian Archives Department Mindaugo 8 2600 Vilnius Lithuania Fax: (00370) 2 652 314 Email:
[email protected]. NET Archiwum Panstwowe w Wroclawiu Ul. Pomorska 2 50215 Wroclaw Polska Phone: (0048-71) 328 81 01 Fax: (0048-71) 328 83 25 Archiwum Panstwowe w Katowicach Ul. Józefowska 104 40145 Katowice
Polska Phone: (0048-32) 204 26 26
Ostpreussen
Pommern
Koenigsberg (Kaliningrad), Allenstein (Olsztyn)
Stettin (Szczecin), Koeslin (Koszalin), Schneidemuehl (Pila)
Archiwum Panstwowe w Opolu Ul. Zamkowa 2 45016 Opole Polska Phone: (0048-77) 454 21 12 State Archives of the Kaliningrad Region 236000 Kaliningrad ul. Komsomolskaya 32 Russia Phone: (007-0112) 21 98 28 Archiwum Panstwowe w Olsztynie Ul. Partyzantow 18 10521 Olsztyn Polska Phone: (0048-89) 527 60 96 Archiwum Panstwowe w Szczecinie Ul. Sw. Wojciecha 13 70410 Szczecin Polska Phone: (0048-91) 433 50 02 Archiwum Panstwowe w Koszalinie Ul. Zyciestwa 117 75950 Koszalin Polska Phone: (0048-94) 22622
Sudetenland Wartheland
see below Posen (Poznan), Hohensalza (Inowroclaw), Litzmannstadt (Lodz)
Archiwum Panstwowe w Posznaniu Ul. 23 Lutego 41/43 61967 Poznan Polska Phone: (0048-61) 52 05 36, 54601, 54602, 54603 Archiwum Panstwowe w Lodzi Plac Wolnosci 1 90950 Lodz Polska Phone: (0048-12) 36 74 11, 32 62 01, 36 85 35
Czech state (státní oblastní archiv), county (státní okresní archiv) and municipal (archiv mesta) archives in former Sudentenland former German recent name name Ústí nad Labem Aussig
Boehmisch Leipa
Ceska Lípa
Bruex
Most
Brunntal
Brúntal
Falkenau
Sokolov
Freiwaldau
Jeseník
Gablonz an der Neisse
Jablonec nad Nisou
Karlsbad
Karlovy Vary
Karwin
Karviná
address, phone, fax Archiv mesta Ústí nad Labem Hrncírská 2/65 p.p. 100 40100 Ústí nad Labem Ceska Republika Státní okresní archiv Ceska Lípa Strelnice 3035, P.O.B. 45 47001 Ceska Lípa Ceska Republika Phone: (0042-425) 82 56 25 Státní okresní archiv Most Leose Janácka 1310/2 43401 Most Ceska Republika Phone: (0042-35) 21 58 8 Státní okresní archiv Brúntal Zahradní ul. 44 79211 Brúntal Ceska Republika Phone: (0042-646) 71 64 10 Státní okresní archiv Sokolov se sidlem v Jindrichovicich 35705 Jindrichovice 1, zámek Ceska Republika Phone: (0042-168) 69 52 54 Státní okresní archiv Jeseník Tovární 18 79001 Jeseník Ceska Republika Phone: (0042-645) 41 17 11 Státní okresní archiv Jablonec nad Nisou Turnovská 40A 46601 Jablonec nad Nisou Ceska Republika Phone: (0042-428) 22 39 6 Státní okresní archiv Karlovy Vary Nám. 17. listopadu 2 36005 Karlovy Vary - Rybare Ceska Republika Phone: (0042-17) 45 15 5 Státní okresní archiv Karviná Frystátská 40 73321 Karviná 1 Ceska Republika Phone: (0042-69) 63 12 78 01
Komotau
Chomutov
Leitmeritz
Litomerice
Maehrisch Ostrau
Ostrava
Pilsen
Plzen
Reichenberg
Liberec
TeplitzSchoenau
Teplice
Tetschen
Decín
Troppau
Opava
Troppau
Opava
Státní okresní archiv Chomutov se sidlem v Kadani Bozeny Nemcové 68 43201 Kadan Ceska Republika Phone: (0042-398) 34 21 03, 34 26 69 Státní oblastní archiv v Litomericích Krajská 1 41274 Litomerice Ceska Republika Phone: (0042-416) 2214 Fax: (0042-416) 6691 (northwestern part of former Sudetenland) Archiv mesta Ostravy Spálova 23 70219 Ostrava - Prívoz Ceska Republika Státní oblastní archiv v Plzni Sedláckova ul. 44 p.p. 312 30612 Plzen Ceska Republika Phone: (0042-19) 72 36 26 3, 73 25 73 2 Fax: (0042-19) 73 27 26 9 (western part of former Sudetenland) Státní okresní archiv Liberec Vilová 339/24 46010 Liberec 10 Ceska Republika Phone: (0042-48) 51 50 382 / 383 Fax: (0042-48) 51 50 383 Státní okresní archiv Teplice Skolni 8 41501 Teplice Ceska Republika Phone: (0042-417) 23 67 2 Státní okresní archiv Decín Dlouha jízda 1253 - zámek 40502 Decín 1 Ceska Republika Phone: (0042-412) 51 27 25 Zemsky archiv v Opave Snemovní 1 74622 Opava Ceska Republika Phone: (0042-653) 21 25 66 Fax: (0041-653) 21 25 48 (eastern part of former Sudetenland) Státní okresní archiv Opava Lidická 2a 74684 Opava
Ceska Republika Phone: (0042-653) 21 31 91, 62 60 40 Fax: (0042-653) 21 21 35 General request or uncertain cases can be directed to the Central State Archives in Prague: Ministerstvo vnitra Ceské republiky Státní ústrední archiv v Praze 11801 Praha 1 - Malá Strana Karmelitská 2 Phone: (0042-2) 57 32 03 38 Fax: (0042-2) 57 32 02 75 Email:
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