Directory: Jews with (former) Polish citizenship who were expelled from the German Reich to the German-Polish border in October 1938 and registered in Zbąszyń (Bentschen) (1938/1939)

Scope and content

Contains:
Index with details of 4,560 Jews with (former) Polish citizenship who were expelled from the German Reich to the German-Polish border on October 28 and 29, 1938, and registered in the local reception camp Zbąszyń (Bentschen), undated (1938/1939).

The list contains the following information or questions (23 fields in total):
1. Sequential number
2. First name and surname (and possibly maiden name)
3. Parents' first name and surname (mother's maiden name)
4. Date and place of birth
5. Confession
6. Marital status
7. Current address
8. Military service (including rank)
9. Profession
10. Degree of proficiency in Polish language
11. Place and date of issuing the passport, issuing authority and passport series and number
12. Validity of the passport
13. Address before expulsion
14. Last place of residence or stay in Poland, indicating the district. Date of departure: Date of expulsion from Germany.
15. Name, date and registration number of the authority which established the citizenship
16. Asset abroad
17. Asset in Poland
18. Current means of living
19. Do you have relatives in the country who can guarantee you maintenance? (name, surname and address of these relatives)
20. Address after discharge from Zbąszyń 21. Do you have in Germany wife, husband, children, parents or family members with whom you have lived in a house community?
22. First name, surname, age and address of the persons mentioned in No. 20.
23. What do you intend to do for your livelihood in the future?

Existence and location of originals

Institute of National Remembrance (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, IPN)