Overview
- Description
- Contains diverse records relating to the activity of the District Commission in Częstochowa to Investigate Nazi Crimes in the Częstochowa region. Includes files related to the investigation of German crimes; administrative files, including lists of the members of the commission and day-books; questionnaires with information about places and facts of German crimes; name lists of the people sentenced for death by the German Sondergerichte; name lists of the people shot or deported from Częstochowa it's vicinity to concentration camps; name lists of the German officers of the Częstochowa town and district; copies of the journal of the prisoners on detention for the investigation purposes; also contains a copy of the study: “Z życia Częstochowy w czasie okupacji” (“From the lifetime of Częstochowa during the occupation”); and photocopies and original files, photographs, situation sketches, names of victims.
- Alternate Title
- The District Commission in Częstochowa to Investigate the Nazi Crimes
- Date
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inclusive:
1944-1949
- Credit Line
- Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Reference
- Library: Call No. D802.P62 C97 1986; Rejestr miejsc i faktów zbrodni popełnionych przez okupanta hitlerowskiego na ziemiach polskich w latach 1939-1945 : województwo lczęstochowskie / [[opracowanie Główna Komisja Badania Zbrodni Przeciwko
Narodowi Polskiemu, Instytut Pamięci Narodowej przy współudziale Okręgowej Komisji Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Katowicach].
Physical Details
- Language
- Polish
- Genre/Form
- Questionnaires. Photographs. Sketches. Correspondence. Daybooks. Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Extent
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1,708 digital images : JPEG ; 8.11 GB.
2 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- The files are organized in the following order: Reel 1: File 1, 5, 10-12, 13-13a, 14-19. Reel 2: File 20-27.
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--Poland--Częstochowa. War crimes--History--20th century. Concentration camp inmates--Poland--Częstochowa--Indexes. Polish people--Crimes against--Poland--Częstochowa--History--20th century. Jews--Crimes against--Poland--Częstochowa--History--20th century. Forced labor--Poland--Częstochowa. World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Poland--Częstochowa. Prisoners of war--Soviet Union. Mass burials--Belgians--Poland--Łazy Podlaskie. Mass burials--Frenchman--Poland--Łazy Podlaskie. Mass burials--Dutch--Poland--Łazy Podlaskie. Execution sites--Poland--Czestochowa--History--20th century. Military sketching. Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--History.
- Geographic Name
- Częstochowa (Poland) Rawa Mazowiecka (Poland) Radom (Poland) Tomaszów Mazowiecki (Poland) Łazy Podlasie (Poland) Myszków (Poland) Rudniki Wielkie (Poland) Zawiercie (Poland)
- Corporate Name
- HASAG Czestochowianka (Concentration camp)
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 Institute of National Remembrance - Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation (IPN) Warsaw, Poland. Records were created by the District Commission in Częstochowa to Investigate the Nazi Crimes between 1944 to 1949. Later, in 1998, custody of the records was transferred to the newly established Institute of National Remembrance (IPN). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in February 2010.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 17:51:33
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