Overview
- Description
- Contains records on war crimes committed on Poles and other nationalities by Germans during War World Second in Gdańsk region, Poland. Includes testimonies of Albert Forster's (Gauleiter der Reichsgau Danzig-Westpreußen activities, lists of Poles who died in concentration camps or during forced labor in the Third Reich, materials on the gas chamber and mass grave in the Nowy Port in Gdańsk, documents on germanization of Polish children and the “educational camp” in Snopki near Pisz.
- Alternate Title
- Selected records of the District Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Gdańsk
- Date
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inclusive:
1945-1951
- Collection Creator
- Okr?gowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Gda?sku
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence. Protocols. Registers. Testimonies.
- Extent
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1,261 digital images : PDF.
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in two subject groups: 1. Protocols and evidence materials; 2. Lists of Polish people deprived of life in 1939-1945, sent to concentration camps, or deported to forced labor.
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--Gdańsk. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--Gdańsk. Crimes against humanity--Poland--History--20th century. Children--Crimes against--Poland--Gdańsk--History--20th century. Children--Pomerania (Germany and Poland)--History--20th century. War crimes investigation--Poland--Gdańsk--History--20th century. Poles--Persecutions--Poland--History--20th century. Jews--Persecutions--Poland--History--20th century.
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:
- 2022-07-28 22:01:47
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn713712
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