Overview
- Description
- Contains records of the District Commission in Katowice to Investigate the Nazi Crimes of the Silesia territory. Records are very diverse and include files of investigations of German crimes; files on wanted war criminals and verdicts of criminal trials against war criminals, including the case of the crew of KL Auschwitz and its chief officer, Rudolf Hoess; administrative files, including lists of the members of the Commission; case files of SS and Gestapo officers, German physicians, and collaborators, the verdicts of German Sondergerichte; also contains questionnaires concerning locations and facts of German crimes.
- Alternate Title
- District Commission in Katowice to Investigate the Nazi Crimes
- Date
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inclusive:
1945-1949
- 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.
- Collection Creator
- Instytut Pami?ci Narodowej-Komisja ?cigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu
- Reference
- Rejestr Miejsc i Faktów Zbrodni Popełnionych przez Okupanta Hitlerowskiego na Ziemiach Polskich w Latach 1939-1945 : Województwo Katowickie [Opracowanie: Główna Komisja Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Polsce przy współudziale Okręgowej
Komisji Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Katowicach. Library call No D802.P62 K38 1985.
Physical Details
- Extent
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4,603 digital images : JPEG ; 18.8 GB.
5 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- Files organized in the following order: Reel 1: 1-2; 4-6; 6a-6b; 8; 10-12; 14-16; 19-20; 22-25; 28; 31-32; Reel 2: 33; 35-36; 41-45; 49-50; 52; 57-59; 64; 76; 79-80; 82-83; 85-87; 90-97; Reel 3: 101; 103; 110; 115; 119; 123-124; 127; 129-131; 140; 144; 146-149; 152; 154; 166; 171; 174-176; 180; 186; 192; 202; 204-205; 212; Reel 4: 216; 231; 233; 236; 243; 247; 250-251; 253-255; 264; 266-267; 269; 271-274; 276; 279; Reel 5: 281; 284; 286-287; 289; 291; 297; 299.
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--Investigations. Criminal investigation--Poland--Katowice--History--20th century. Concentration camp commandants. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps. Human experimentation in medicine--Germany--History--20th century. Germanization--Poland--Katowice. Germanization--Poland--Tychy. Mass burials--Poland--Jastrzeb Dolny. War victims--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland. Execution sites--Poland--Katowice ( Voivodeship) World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Poland.
- Geographic Name
- Katowice (Poland : Voivodeship)--History--20th century.
- Personal Name
- Höss, Rudolf, 1900-1947.
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), Warsaw, Poland. Records were created by the District Commission in Katowice to Investigate the Nazi Crimes from 1944 to 1949. Later, in 1998, custody of the records was transferred to the newly established 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 17:49:50
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