Edicts for the Lands of the Generalgouvernement – Designation of the Responsibilities of Officeholders in the ...

Edicts for the Lands of the Generalgouvernement – Designation of the Responsibilities of Officeholders in the Warsaw Ghetto – Krakow, April 1941

"Verordnungsblatt für das Generalgouvernement" [Page of Regulations (or decrees) for the Territories of the Generalgouvernement], Issue No. 35. Published by the "Amt für Gesetzgebung in der Regierung des Generalgouvernements" [Office for Legislation in the General Governing Authority], Krakow, April 28, 1941. German and Polish.
A set of edicts issued by the Generalgouvernement (the general governing authority ruling over the occupied territories of Poland) dealing with the responsibilities of officeholders in the Warsaw Ghetto, recognition of the Catholic and Methodist Churches, and other matters.
The first edict in the present paper is signed (in print) by the governor-general of the Generalgouvernement (Hans Michael Frank) and includes a number of paragraphs pertaining to officeholders in the Warsaw Ghetto, specifically the designation of the responsibilities of the Governor of the Warsaw District, Dr. Ludwig Fischer, and of the Commissioner of the Warsaw Ghetto, Heinz Auerswald; the responsibilities and sources of funding for the "Transferstelle" (Transfer Authority) – the authority responsible for the financial relations between the Warsaw Jewish Ghetto and the other parts of the city; the subordination of the chairman of the Judenrat to the District Governor and Ghetto Commissioner; and the chairman's responsibility for the Judenrat's budget.
[4] ff. (pp. 211-17), 19.5 cm. Good condition. Fold lines. Minor stains to edges. Several minor tears. Markings in pencil.