The question of property of pre-war Jewish communities was an important issue after the war for both Jewish survivors and non-Jewish inhabitants of small towns, as well as for the public administration structures, which were slowly stabilizing. While the real estate and personal effects the Jews had left behind quickly found new residents or users the buildings which had belonged to the religious communities – synagogues, cemeteries, and mikvehs – had been and still are been much more visible signs of the former multi-denominational communities of those towns. Analyzing documents of the Department of Denominations of the Ministry of Public Administration and the documents of the Legal Section of the Central Committee of Polish Jews (Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce, CKŻP), the author describes the official mode of transfer of real estate, types of decisions made, and relations between the institutions of Jewish life and the central and local administration.