Ludzie kresów w publikacji Archiwum Głównego Akt Dawnych Biografie kresowe (na podstawie „zabużańskich” ksiąg metrykalnych)
People of the Borderlands in the Publication of the Central Archives of Historical Records “Biografie Kresowe” (Based on “Zabużańskie” Parish Registers)

Summary/Abstract: Summary of Biografie Kresowe is a two-volume publication of the Central Archives of Historical Records, issued between 2022-2024, the source of which are the parish registers of various denominations (so-called “Zabużańskie” records) kept at Central Archives of Historical Records, containing entries of births, marriages and deaths relating to the characters of the book in question. In 2023, the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv also granted permission to use in its publication records from the section of the registers that remained in Lviv after the end of World War II. The registers originate from parishes and religious communities in the eastern and southeastern regions of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (during the interwar period, these included the Lviv, Stanisławów, Ternopil, and Volhynian voivodeships). A small number of registers come from the territories of present-day Belarus and Lithuania. The records used were primarily from Roman Catholic parishes in Lviv and the Lviv A rchdiocese (and occasionally from Przemyśl a nd Łuck dioceses ), as well as registers from Jewish communities. The parish registers that survived the ravages of war are an invaluable source of knowledge about the people without whom the history of these lands – and Poland as a whole – would be far poorer. The people who lived in these easternmost regions of the pre-war Poland, which w as i nhabited b y d iverse r eligious, n ational, a nd e thnic g roups, p layed a significant role in the history of Poland and their places of origin. Both parts of the Biografie Kresowe describe 224 individuals. Some of them who featured in the publication spent their entire lives in the Eastern Borderlands, while others’ connection to these lands was brief or even accidental. They were people of many professions, coming from diverse family and creative backgrounds (including scientists, writers, journalists, artists, actors, directors, clergy, politicians, athletes, and entrepreneurs), spanning the period from the Old Polish period to the 1920s. A separate section “Zagłada” is treated individually, describing figures who bore witness to the Holocaust through collected archival materials or their postwar activities aimed at bringing war criminals to justice. The biographies are accompanied by reproductions of various records and photographs (portraits, situational photographs, cityscapes, etc).

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