Marian Łomnicki
Archival and Historical Review, Vol. V, 2018, pp. 189-202
https://doi.org/10.4467/2391-890XPAH.18.011.14928The article presents the history of a national identification document in Poland in the period after the First World War. Special emphasis is put on the form adopted by the presidential resolution on March 16, 1928 On registration and control of the movement of people, that is, the single national identification document design no. 28. The text discusses differences between various forms in particular regions of Poland in the inter-war period, and provides the examples of how the forms were used by Nazi authorities during the Second World War and by the authorities after the Second World War.