Overview
- Description
- Telephone and address book of the Office of the Head of Warsaw District and subordinate German authorities and institutions in Warsaw; ordinances and circulars, reports regarding the political, economic and cultural situation in the Warsaw District at the end of March 1940. Includes official correspondence, personal files of prison guards at Rakowiecka Street in Warsaw, reports on escaped prisoners, and situational reports.
- Alternate Title
- Urząd Okręgu Warszawskiego
Selected records of the Amt des Distrikts Warschau - Date
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inclusive:
1940-1944
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Address books. Circulars. Correspondence. Reports.
- Extent
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270 digital images : PDF.
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in six groups: 1.Telephone and address book; 2. Collection of orders and circulars of the District Governor and the Head of the Office; 3. Correspondence between government bodies of the GG at various levels regarding official and private property of the evacuated from the GG; 4. Personal file of the prison guard in Warsaw prison at street Rakowiecka: Leopold Winkler, Oberwachmeister; 5. Reports, interrogation protocols of guards and prisoners, correspondence relating to the escapes of prisoners from Warsaw prisons; 6. Monthly situational reports of the gendarmerie platoon (Gendarmeriezug) in Warsaw.
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--Destruction and pillage--Poland. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Poland--Warsaw. Prisoners and prisons--Poland--History--20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw. Prisons.
- Geographic Name
- Mokotów (Warsaw, Poland)--History--20th century. Warsaw (Poland)--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. Warsaw (Poland)
- Corporate Name
- Nazi Party
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. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Jan. 2020. This is a cooperative project based on the agreement between USHMM and Yad Vashem, Israel.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-07-06 08:23:11
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