Overview
- Description
- Correspondence relating the employment of Poles by Germans, mattaers of NSDAP party, statistics on various nationalities, resistance movement, church matters, displacement of Poles and Jews, extermination of civilians, racial policy, and gremanization of Polish orphans in Kalisz and Kirchdorf. Includes a register book with names of Poles, Jews and Russians murdered by gendarmerie and Gestapo, 1939-1945 (Wieluń, Wieruszowa, Ostrzeszowa, Pajęczno), and a name list of prisoners from the labor camp in Wąsowo, Poland.
- Alternate Title
- Namiestnik Rzeszy w Okregu Kraju Warty w Poznaniu
Selected records of the Der Reichsstatthalter im Reichsgau Wartheland Posen - Date
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inclusive:
1939-1945
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence. Registers. Reports. Statistics.
- Extent
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2,260 digital images : PDF.
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in eight groups: 1. Correspondence regarding employment of Poles by Germans; 2. Documents on NSDAP matters; 3. Statistics of the ethnic and quantitative structure of the population in the District of the Warta Region; 4. Reports of the resistance movements (Armia Krajowa and Miecz i Pług); 5. Documents on liquidation of Polish Catholic Churches and other religious matters; 6. Cases of displacement and extermination of civilians, Poles and Jews; 7. Lists of prisoners of the forced labor camp Wąsowo (Hardt); 8. Germanization of Polish orphans.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. Researchers must complete and sign a User Declaration form before access is granted to materials from the Institute of National Remembrance (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej).
- Conditions on Use
- 1. Each researcher using the materials obtained from the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) or materials whose originals belong to the IPN must complete the registration procedure required by USHMM.
2. Publication or reproduction of documents (in the original language, in facsimile form or in the form of a translation of an excerpt or of the entire document) or making them available to a third party in any form requires the written consent of the Institute of National Remembrance (archiwumipn@ipn.gov.pl). The use of an excerpt defined as the fair use right to quote does not require obtaining consent.
3. Researchers assume all responsibility for the use of materials that belong to the Institute of National Remembrance.
4. References to documents that belong to the Institute of National Remembrance must cite the Institute of National Remembrance as the owner of the original documents and include the full reference citation of the Institute of National Remembrance in the citations. - Copyright Holder
- Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Poland--Wielkopolska. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--Wielkopolska. Deportation--Poland--Poznań (Voivodeship) Polish children--Germanization. Jews--Persecutions--Poland--Poznań (Voivodeship)--20th century. Poles--Persecutions--Poland--Poznań (Voivodeship)--20th century. Russians--Persecutions--Poland--History--20th century. Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945) Forced labor--Poland--Wąsowo--History--20th century.
- Geographic Name
- Kalisz (Poland)--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. Ostrzeszowa (Poland) Pajęczno (Poland) Poland--Economic conditions--1918-1945. Poznań (Poland : Voivodeship) Wąsowo (Poland) Wielkopolska (Poland)--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. Wieluń (Poland) Wieruszowa (Poland)
- Corporate Name
- Nazi Party AK-Home Army (Poland)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Jan. 2020. This is a cooperative project based on the agreement between USHMM and Yad Vashem, Israel.
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- 2023-06-01 15:06:44
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