Zbigniew Stettner

The Central Archives of Modern Records was created through a decree issued by chief of state Józef Piłsudski on 7 February 1919. The archive quickly became one of the largest archives, which, in 1939 was a possession of 35 kilometers of records of central state institutions

The archive in Opole in its earliest period has not been fully known so far. We can guess that in the Middle Ages there was a file repository in the Opole town hall, which stored documents containing rights and privileges important to the city, as well as documentation created as a result of the activities of the magistrate.

The establishment of the Archives of Historical Records of the City of Łódź should be considered the beginning of organized archival life in Łódź. It took place at the beginning of 1926. At a conference held on January 27, 1926, it was decided to apply for the appointment of an archival commission and for the allocation of appropriate funds that would enable the organization of an archive similar to those existing in Kraków and Lviv.

Płock has great archival traditions dating back to the 13th century. At that time, the Archive of the Płock Castle was established - one of the oldest archives in Poland. It collected files created by the chancellor and the starost. The staroste supervised the castle, managed the prince's estates and exercised judicial power over the castle. With time, he handed over his powers to municipal courts, and then to the land courts. As a result of their activity, town and land books were created. The Castle Archives functioned until the mid-17th century.

The history of the State Archives in Radom is closely related to the history of the archives existing in the city in the nineteenth and first decades of the twentieth century. In Old Polish sources there is an archive of the town, located in the restored part of the castle in Radom.

The State Archives is a network consisting of 3 archives of a central nature based in Warsaw (the Central Archives of Historical Records, the Archives of New Records and the National Digital Archives) and 30 archives with 39 subordinate branches and 3 branches located throughout Poland.

The Archdiocese of Krakow is one of the 14 Latin-rite archdioceses in the Polish Catholic Church, established in 1925.

The resource includes archives created by church institutions in the Tarnów diocese (Bishops Consistory, Diocesan Curia, curial agendas and parishes). The archive has a reference collection, including Currendy (official journal of the Tarnów diocese), Schematicisms of the Tarnów Diocese (from 1827), as well as studies on the history of the Church and archives. The Diocesan Archives in Tarnów has a research studio (reading room) and a computer room. The research lab accepts applicants where they make a research query.

The State Archives in Zamość was established in August 1950 on the basis of the order of the Minister of Education of July 21, 1950 as a district branch of the State Archives in Lublin.

The State Archive in Lublin was established in the present form in 1918. Already the Archive's beginnings continue the archival traditions of Lublin, which go back to the 16th century, when offices and courts kept systematic archives, where were held documents and municipal registers, sąd grodzki [castle court, iudicium castrensis] records and registers of Crown Tribunal sessions in Lublin, Lublin's sąd ziemski [nobles' district court] registers and chamberlain records.

The resources of the State Archives in Kielce are files of cities, communes and guilds, general and special administration, the judiciary, enterprises and economic institutions, as well as schools of social institutions, associations, estates, individuals and families. The chronological range of the resource is mainly the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, although the oldest documents date back to the fifteenth century.

The State Archives in Rzeszów was established on November 10, 1950 by the order of the then Minister of Education.

The State Archives in Toruń has thousands of digitized collections, including vital records, and these are at Szukajwarchiwach.pl. You can see all online collections from the State Archives in Toruń and its branch in Wloclawek by searching at Szukajwarchiwach.pl and filtering results by these archives.

The history of the historical archive in Katowice dates back to November 1932, when the Silesian Voivode, Dr. Michał Grażyński signed the "Temporary Regulations of the Archives of Historical Records of the Silesian Voivodeship". The organization of this institution was entrusted to a historian and archivist from Lviv, Dr. Michał Antonow (in 2012, the Scientific Center of the Head Office in Katowice was named after him). The Archives of Historical Records of the Silesian Voivodeship, the first Polish historical archive in Silesia, until 1939 operated due to the autonomous status of the Silesian Voivodeship, as an internal unit of the Silesian Voivodeship Office. Dr. M. Antonów was in charge of the Archive until 1969 with a break during the war.

The Archiwum narodowy w Krakowie / The National Archives in Krakow, together with its branches outside the city, is one of the main archives in Poland. It is located in the second largest and one of the oldest Polish cities; in the Middle Ages it also used to be the Polish capital. The Archiwum narodowy w Krakowie / The National Archives in Krakow supervises the handling of documents in nearly seven hundred institutions active in all spheres of social life: from the offices of public administration through to cultural, scholarly, educational and legal institutions, firms, state and local government organisational units, environmental institutions, health care and social service institutions.

The State Archives in Białystok, in addition to the tasks focused on collecting, storing and securing archival materials, also conducts extensive publishing, educational, popularization and promotion, digitization (aimed at making resources available online) and research. Organizes, in consultation with academic centers, apprenticeships for students, stores and secures non-archival documentation left over from liquidated workplaces, and from 2018 - also election files.

The State Archive in Poznan, which preserves more than 14.5 kilometers of current records (collected in about 1.2 million archival units), stores exceptionally valuable and unique historical sources depicting both the history of Poland and the development of European civilisation.

The State Archives in Olsztyn was founded November 15, 1948, originally operating as the Provincial State Archives in Olsztyn.

The Diocesan Archives in Włocławek have been operating under this name since 1953. Before World War II, it was called the Archives of the Włocławek Chapter, which was a legacy from earlier centuries, when bishops resided little in Włocławek, and care for the entire diocese files was entrusted to the chapter whose members permanently resided at the cathedral.

The Archives of Historical Records of the Toruń Diocese was established by the decree of the Bishop of Toruń, Andrzej Suski, on June 24, 2001. The basis for the erection of the central historical archive for the Toruń Diocese, established in 1992, were the provisions of the Code of Canon Law. The basic functions of the Toruń diocesan archive were collecting, storing and making available the archives. The bishop decree obligated the Archives to issue a statute and regulations, which were to define the rules of its operation and the use of archival materials.

The main Archive for Poznań Archdiocese was found in 1925 as a self-dependent diocesan institution. It was the very first institution of that kind in Poland. From the very beginning, seat of the new Record Archives became the former building of Lubranski Academy.

The Archdiocesan Archive of Gniezno was erected in 1960 by the Primate of Poland, card. Stefan Wyszyński. Its original stock had belonged earlier to the Metropolitan Cathedral Chapter in Gniezno. It is an archive of historical significance and its present collection is one of the largest and most valuable in Poland.

Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw is one of four Polish national archives. The archive was founded in 1808 and holds records ranging from 12th century until World War I. A large portion of the archive was destroyed during World War II in 1939 and in 1944.

The archive in Bydgoszcz was created in 1906 and stored the documentation of the liquidated Prussian General Commission for the Provinces of Posen and West Prussia.

The archives was created in November, 1939, as the Central Archives of Ancient Deeds in Lviv. It consolidated three major archives that existed in Lviv up until the Second World War,- the Archives of old deeds of the city of Lviv, the Zemsky archives, and the State archives, as well as a number of well-known corporate and private collections.

In the archives the separate documents of the XVI century are preserved: royal donatives charters and privileges, church metrical and marriage books and some documents from collection gathered by Volyn Union of Sciences Friends.

The main part of the archives documents is comprised of documents pertaining to the period when the region was a part of Russian Empire (1796-1917). First of all, these are the documents of local self-governments: the city council of Dubno, town councils and boards, documents of povit courts and courts of the peace, police headquarters, Land Surveying Commissions, educational establishments, where is the information about social and economic situation of the regional population, development of handicraft and trade.

The collection of the Archive of the pre-1939 period consist of documents from the Sacred Cathedral of the Assumption Lavra at Pochayiv (1557-1939), copies of Russian, Austrian and Prussian official acts, which relate to the first division of Poland, copies of the decrees of Empress Katherine II, concerning joining of the regions to the Russian Empire as the result of the second and third divisions of Poland (1793-1795), the Manifesto of Austrian Empress Maria-Teresa, concerning joining of the part of Polish Kingdom to Austria, copies of credentials of Polish King August II, decrees and orders of the Volyn Sacred Consistory, copy Suvorov’s reports concerning victory over French troops (1799), orders of Warsaw-Kholm and Volyn Sacred Consistories (1834), a document giving permission to Taras Shevchenko to sketch the Lavra and local countrysides (1846), documents associated with thecollection funds to construct monuments to Khmelnytskyy and Kutuzov, protocols of meetings of the Sacted Sobor (1840-1925), documents concerning typography, statistical data about Lavra, its premises, enterprises and landholdings, revision registers of serfs (1833).

The archives preserve documents about the history of the Western Ukrainian People Republic (ZUNR, 1918 – 1919) and about western Ukrainian territories in the Polish Rzech Pospolita (1752 – 1772), in the Austrian Empire (after 1867- Austro-Hungarian Empire) from 1772 to 1918), in Poland (1919- 1939), from periods of its temporary occupation by Russia in the First World War and by Germany in the Second World War, also as part of the Stanislaviv (Ivano-Frankivsk) Oblast after the reunification of Western Ukraine with the USSR (1939 – 1991), as well as а part of independent Ukraine (1991- 2006).

The Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine was created in November 1939 under the name of the Central Archive of Old Acts in Lviv on the basis of the archives that existed before the Second World War - the Archive of Old Acts of Lviv, the Zemskyi Archive, as well as a number of departmental, corporate and private collections.

The archival facility was established in February 1950 in Bielsko as a district branch of the Archives in Katowice (from March 1951 as the County State Archives in Bielsko). In February 1952, the resources of the Municipal Archives in Bielsko, which developed from the municipal registry around 1887, were added to the Archives in Bielsko.

On September 2, 1878, the National Archives of Town and Land Records began operating in Krakow, and this date is considered to be the beginning of the National Archives in Krakow. After regaining independence, on October 1, 1919, the Archives were taken over by the Ministry of Religious Denominations and Public Education as the Land Archives. In 1936 it was renamed the State Archives.

The archive in Tarnów was established on December 1, 1950. Since then, it has changed its seat many times. Currently, as the National Archives in Krakow, the Tarnów branch is located at ul. Chemiczna 16.

The archive in Bochnia was established in 1950. Since then, it has changed its seat many times. Currently, as the National Archives in Krakow, the Bochnia Branch is located at ul. Konstytucji 3 Maja 3.

The Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic establishes state central archives and state archives with regional scope.

The Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic establishes state central archives and state archives with regional scope.

The Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic establishes state central archives and state archives with regional scope.

The Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic establishes state central archives and state archives with regional scope.

The Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic establishes state central archives and state archives with regional scope.

The Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic establishes state central archives and state archives with regional scope.

The Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic establishes state central archives and state archives with regional scope.

The Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic establishes state central archives and state archives with regional scope.