Overview
- Description
- Minutes, official correspondence, a study entitled "Losses of the Siedlce county during the Nazi occupation", a study about the Treblinka camp based on the investigation materials of the prosecutor Zdzisław Łukaszewicz, testimonies of witnesses and lists of those murdered in the Biała Podlaska, Łuków, Siedlce county, testimony of Piotr Litwiniusz on the mass execution of Jews in the Łomża Podlaska counties, materials on Soviet prisoner-of-war camps in Ostrówek, Kaliłów, Sielczyk, Suchożrebach and Wola Suchożerbska, camp for Italian and French prisoners of war in Siedlce, materials on war criminals in the counties of Biała Podlaska, Garwolin, Radzyń, and Siedlce. Files on germanization of Polish children and displacement from the Zamość region to the city and Siedlce county. Materials about the war graves of Belgian and Dutch citizens, questioning of witnesses about pseudo-medical experiences in KL Ravensbrück.
- Alternate Title
- Selected records of the District Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Siedlce
- Date
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inclusive:
1939-1950
- Collection Creator
- Okre?gowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Siedlcach
Physical Details
- Language
- Polish
- Extent
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2,446 digital images : PDF.
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in seven groups: 1. Minutes of Committee meetings; 2. Reports and publications; 3. Testimonies of witnesses concerning German crimes in various areas of Poland; 4. Archives of the camps of Soviet, Italian and French prisoners of war, 5. Correspondence and letters concerning war crimes; 6. Correspondence on the Germanization of Polish children, medical experiments in Ravensbrück, and other crimes; 7. Letters coming in and out of the office of the Regional Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes.
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- 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--Siedlce (Powiat) World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--Siedlce (Powiat) Prisoners and prisons--Poland--Siedlce (Powiat) Prisoner-of-war camps--Poland--Siedlce (Powiat) Crimes against humanity--Poland--History--20th century. Mass burials--Poland--Siedlce (Powiat) Children--Crimes against--Poland--Siedlce (Powiat)--History--20th century. War crimes investigation--Poland--Siedlce (Powiat)--History--20th century. War criminals--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland. Poles--Persecutions--Poland--Siedlce (Powiat)--History--20th century. Jews--Persecutions--Poland--Siedlce (Powiat)--History--20th century.
- Geographic Name
- Biała Podlaska (Poland) Garwolin (Poland) Kaliłów (Poland) Łomża (Poland : Powiat) Łuków (Poland)--History--20th century. Ostrówek (Poland) Radzyń (Poland) Ravensbrück (Germany) Siedlce (Poland : Powiat) Sielczyk (Poland) Suchożreby (Poland) Treblinka (Poland) Wola Suchożebrska (Poland) Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. Orchówek (Lublin, Poland)
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.
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- 2023-06-26 06:51:44
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