Overview
- Description
- This collection contains correspondence, lists of documents, copies of lawsuit files, personal files, minutes of sessions, reports, as well as materials collected in the course of the work conducted by the Main Commission such as: name lists of German officers; materials related to the notes of Sonderkommando (including snapshots) found on the area of Birkenau in 1961; writer’s studies of Stanisław Płaski, Janusz Gumkowski, Szymon Datner, Tadeusz Kułakowski, Leszczyński, Mieczysław Roman, Hubert Jan Urbasik, Leon Popławski and Stanisław Krośnicki; list of ordinances of General Government (GG) authorities, as well as the subject index to the Official Journal of GG; excerpts of the diary of Hans Frank; materials concerning German crimes committed on the territory of the Łuków county, of the Lublin and Rzeszów provinces and in Poland; materials concerning crimes committed by the Wehrmacht in September 1939; “Executions and their places,” “Registration of victims of the German terror,” and “Registration of war criminals” questionnaires; losses among teachers; press cuttings; investigation files concerning Jakob Sporrenberg; liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto; crimes committed during the Warsaw Uprising and in the transition camp of Działdowo; the fate of Polish students arrested in Lwow in 1941; copies of protocols of witnesses’ inquiry for Szlama Dragon, Henryk Tauber and Alter Feinsibler (Stanisław Jankowski), former members of the “Sonderkommando” in KL Birkenau; the investigation and accounts of eye-witnesses related to death and concentration camps located on Polish territory; files concerning mass graves discovered on the area of the former camp for POWs in Żagań; documents concerning medical experiments conducted in concentration camps; documents related to the fate of the collection of skeletons from the Institute of Anatomy in Strassburg which operated under the protectorate of “Ahnenerbe” federation; labor camp for Jews (located in Stalowa Wola and Rzeszów); the list of losses of Polish culture of 1939-1945; files concerning Mikołaj Dońcow, the chief officer of Hilfspolizei (Auxiliary Police squads) in the town of Barycz near Końskie; Stutthof Museum 1962-1964 and exhumation of dead corpses in KL Gross-Rosen; and the protection of the territory of the former death camp of Treblinka in 1945.
- Alternate Title
- Selected records of the Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland
- Date
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inclusive:
1939-1962
- Collection Creator
- Instytut Pami?ci Narodowej-Komisja ?cigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Correspondence. Diaries. Minutes. Questionnaires. Registers.
- Extent
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33,149 digital images : PDF ; 3.18 GB .
1 CD.
- System of Arrangement
- Selected records arranged in 5 series: 1. Correspondence and reports, 1945-1956; 2. Works of several authors related to German crimes in Polish hospitals and during Warsaw Uprising 1944; 3. Fragments of the Diary of Hans Frank and investigative documents against other German criminals; 4. Investigative records, questionnaires: "Executions and place of execution" and " Registration of victims of German terror", newspaper clippings relating to German crimes in the Polish territory; 5. Reports, historical analysis, various correspondence and newspaper clippings related to Germans crimes.
Records are arranged in the original order of their acquisition from the source archive. The museum has acquired only selected records from Institute of National Remembrance (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, or IPN). More information about this collection and other materials in the possession of the Institute of National Remembrance, including archival finding aids from the Archives of the Institute of National Remembrance, is available at the website: https://ipn.gov.pl
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--Atrocities--Poland--Investigations. World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Poland--Registers. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland. War criminals--Europe--Registers. War victims--Poland--Registers. Polish people--Crimes against--Poland--20th century--Registers. Human experimentation in medicine--Poland--History--20th century. Human experimentation in medicine--Germany--History--20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Geographic Name
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939--1945. Lublin (Poland)--History--20th century. Rzeszów (Poland)--History--20th century. Żagań (Poland)--History--20th century. Łuków (Poland)--History--20th century.
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 (IPN), Sygn. GK 162. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in 2015, and accretion in Feb. 2020.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-01-25 11:43:34
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