Overview
- Description
- This collection contains a variety of documents of the German police and SS offices from the western territories of Poland, incorporated into the Third Reich following 1939, including: BdO and Kriminalpolizeileitstelle Danzig (Gdańsk), Der Polizeidirektor in Thorn (Toruń), KdS und des SD in Bromberg (Bydgoszcz), Der Höhere SS-und-Polizeiführer Posen (Poznań), SS-Oberabschnitt Warthe (Warta), Polizei-Revier Posen (Poznań), Gendarmerieposten from Lobau/Luboń near Poznań, Gendarmerie Posten Wollstein, Krmiminalpolizeileitstelle Litzmannstadt (Łódź) and others. There are also lists of gendarmes; matters related to the Germanization of the Polish population; legal regulations for criminal procedures applied to Poles, Russians and Jews; information about German prisons, ordinances, budgets, and investigative files. Also contains situational reports within the Białystok District, personal files of gendarmes, name lists of prisoners, creation and liquidation of camps, lists of members of the Ukrainian Selbstschutzlegion Battalion 31, extermination of Jews.
- Alternate Title
- Collection of documents of SS and German Police
- Date
-
inclusive:
1939-1945
- Collection Creator
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel. Hauptamt Ordnungspolizei.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Reports. Correspondence. Registers.
- Extent
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4,814 digital images : PDF ; 850 MB .
1 CD.
- System of Arrangement
- Selected records arranged in one series: 1. Reports, correspondence and statistics of German Police, its activities during WWII in Poland.
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. Germanization--Poland--History--20th century. Police administration--Germany--History, 1939-1945--Registers. Polish people--Crimes against--Poland--Sieradz--Registers. Jews--Persecutions--Poland--Łódź--History--20th century. Russians--Persecutions--Poland--History--20th century. Ukrainians--Crimes against--Germany--History--20th century. Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Europe--History.
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, Poland, Sygn. 91. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 2014, and accretion in Feb. 2020.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 12:30:53
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn98215
Additional Resources
Finding Aids (2)
Download & Licensing
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- Terms of Use
- This record is digitized but cannot be downloaded online.
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