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Prokuratura Sądu Okręgowego w Warszawie (GK 453)

Document | Accession Number: 2020.50.1 | RG Number: RG-15.691

Court investigative files for crimes committed by the Germans and their collaborators. Prosecutions based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (Sierpniówka) of the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN, Polish Committee of National Liberation), one of the world's first laws on liability for crimes of World War II. Decree also applied against former partisans of the anti-Communist Armia Krajowa, or Home Army, whom Communism propaganda portrayed as collaborators.

Alternate Title
Prosecutor's Office of the District Court in Warsaw
Date
inclusive:  1944-1963
Language
Polish
Genre/Form
Correspondence.
Reports.
Extent
40,016 digital images : PDF.

About This Document

Document Creator
Poland. Prokuratura Sądu Okręgowego w Warszawie
System of Arrangement
Arranged in one subject group: 1. Investigative files against Germans and their collaborators.

Keywords and Subjects

Topical Term
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland.
War crimes investigation--Poland--History--20th century.
War crime trials--Poland--Warsaw.
War criminals--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
Collaborationists--Poland--History--20th century.
War victims--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
Geographic Name
Falenty (Poland)
Garwolin (Poland)
Głosków (Poland)
Gołąbki (Poland)
Grodzisk Mazowiecki (Poland : Powiat)
Kąpina (Poland)
Kazuń-Polski (Poland)
Konstancin-Jeziorna (Poland)
Kręgi (Poland)
Łowicz (Poland)
Łowicz (Poland)
Milanówek (Poland)
Mińsk Mazowiecki (Poland : Powiat)
Otwock (Poland)
Paluch (Poland)
Pruszków (Poland)
Skierniewice (Poland)
Sochaczew (Poland)
Warsaw (Poland : Voivodeship)
Wawer (Poland)
Wołomin (Poland)
Sulejówek (Poland)
Ursus (Poland)
Drohobycz (Ukraine)
Włochy (Poland)
Bratislava (Slovakia)
Tuchola (Województwo Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland)
Lʹviv (Ukraine)
Piaseczno (Poland)
Stanislav (Ukraine)
Wólka Dłużewska (Poland)
Królewiec (Poland)
Kalina (Poland)
Załubice Nowe (Poland)
Mrozy (Poland)
Sulejówek (Poland)
Janówek (Poland)
Dębówka (Poland)
Grójec (Poland : Powiat)
Radomsko (Poland)
Corporate Name
Auschwitz (concentration camp)
Dachau (concentration camp)
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei. Schutzstaffel.
Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego.
Sachsenburg (Concentration camp)
Stuthoff (Concentration camp)
Todt Organization (Germany)
Treblinka (Concentration camp)
Poland. Prokuratura Sądu Okręgowego w Warszawie.

Administrative History

Holder of Originals
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.

Rights and Restrictions

Copyright Holder
Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu
Conditions on Access
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Conditions on Use
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