Reports of the Olsztyn City Management to the Presidium Office of the State National Council from 1945. Sources on the history of Polish administration on the Regained Territories after World War II Cover Image

Sprawozdania Zarządu Miejskiego miasta Olsztyna do Biura Prezydialnego Krajowej Rady Narodowej z 1945 r. Źródła do dziejów administracji polskiej na Ziemiach Odzyskanych po II wojnie światowej
Reports of the Olsztyn City Management to the Presidium Office of the State National Council from 1945. Sources on the history of Polish administration on the Regained Territories after World War II

Author(s): Robert Syrwid
Subject(s): Local History / Microhistory, Recent History (1900 till today), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Keywords: Masurian District; Polish administration; State National Council; Olsztyn City Management; reconstruction from damage; distribution of provisions among the population; settlement in cities

Summary/Abstract: The article presents three documents from the file collection of Olsztyn City Management from 1945–1950, kept in the archival collection of State Archive in Olsztyn. They are copies of reports of City Management prepared for Presidium Office of the State National Council (Krajowa Rada Narodowa – KRN) covering October, November and December 1945. According to the recommendations of the Office, the descriptive-statistical reports contained information about the most important elements of the process of reconstruction and about the living conditions of the population: financial situation of the city, distribution of provisions among the population, social welfare, housing situation, work of city institutions and public utility companies, public transport, work of state and self-government offices, sanitary situation, trade and industry, public safety, settlement action, and lacks and achievements occurring. The compiled data constitutes valuable material for research on the history of building the foundations of Polish administration and creating living conditions for the population in one of the most important Polish urban centers on the so-called Regained Territories after World War II.

  • Issue Year: 74/2019
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 129-148
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish