Overview
- Description
- Consists of administrative orders and internal reports pertaining to prisons and incarceration facilities in Polish territories occupied by the Third Reich. A preponderance of documents in this collection were issued by the Prosecutor's Office in Katowice, Poland (Kattowitz) in regard to prisons and incarceration facilities in Bielsko Biala (Bielitz) and the Prosecutor's Office in Wrocław (Breslau) in regard to prisons and incarceration facilities in Sosnowiec (Sosnowitz). Includes ordinances about treatment of political prisoners, POWs, and Polish slave laborers; reports about prisoner escapes, accidental deaths, cases of illness and injury, and other prisoner-related incidents; as well as personnel matters related to prison staff. Microfilm reels 19 and 20 contain political cases brought before the Vienna Court(Landesgericht Wien).
- Alternate Title
- Justice Ministry : Files of the State Public Prosecutor's Offices ; miscellaneous matters
- Date
-
inclusive:
1939-1945
- Collection Creator
- Austria. Justizministerium
- Reference
- Manfred Fink (editor), Das Archiv der Republik und seine Bestände – Teil 1: Das Archivgut der 1. Republik und aus der Zeit von 1938 bis 1945; Series: Informationen des Archivs der Republik, Band 4/1, Wien: Österreichisches Staatsarchiv / Horn:
Ferdinand Berger & Söhne Ges.m.b.H., 1996.
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Extent
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16,180 digital images : JPEG ; 5.55 GB.
20 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
2 DVD-ROMs ; 4 3/4 in..
- System of Arrangement
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Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. Users are required to complete a User Declaration in order to gain access to the collection. User declarations must be forwarded by USHMM once a year to Austrian State Archives.
- Conditions on Use
- Use of archival material from the Austrian State Archives is limited to personal or scholarly research or for research about the applicant’s family members. Transfer of the reproduced archival material to third persons is not permitted. Publication of archival material requires the written permission of the Austrian State Archives. The researcher agrees to cite the original archival reference and name of the source archive in any work and publications, personal data are to be published in anonymized form only, a copy of any publication in which archival material from the Austrian State Archives was used shall be sent to the Austrian State Archives free of charge.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Criminal justice, Administration of. Nazis--Legal status, laws, etc. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish--Registers. War crime trials--Poland. War crime trials--Austria. Courts
- Geographic Name
- Poland--History--German occupation, 1940-1945. Poland--Politics and government--1918 -1938. Katowice (Poland) Bielsko Biała (Poland) Wrocław (Poland) Sosnowiec (Poland) Vienna (Austria)
- Corporate Name
- Ministry of Justice (Austria)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Österreichisches Staatsarchiv
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- From the Österreichisches Staatsarchiv (Austrian State Archives); a sub-collection of a larger group of records of the Ministry of Justice (Signatur: AT-OeSTA/AVA Justiz), Public Prosecutor's Offices ,1939-1945; miscellaneous matters, cartons 4875 to 4891. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in April 2010.
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- 2023-06-20 08:53:06
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