Overview
- Description
- Reports, correspondence, hearings of witnesses regarding the action of the Polish underground in Warsaw, materials about the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 - various information, studies, accounts, notes, list of executions, situational sketches and maps, list of commanders and military units; account of German crimes committed in September 1939; investigation materials against Erich von dem Bach, Heinz Reinefarth, Otto Geibel and other German commanders suppressing the Warsaw Uprising; study on the Chełmno (Kulmhof) extermination camp; materials on the "Gęsiówka" and Pawiak prisons in Warsaw; questioning of witnesses in the case of KL Gross-Rosen, camp Luckenwalde, KL Majdanek, KL Neuengamme, KL Auschwitz, KL Flossenburg, KL Stutthof, KL Orangeburg, KL Ravensbrück, stalag No. 333 for Soviet prisoners of war in Ostrówek, oflag Woldenberg (Dobiegniewo), camp in Pomiechówek and others. Includes also testimonies and other materials about the ghetto in Warsaw and Vilnius, extermination of Jews in Zamość and in ghettos near Zamość; round-ups of Poles for forced labor in the Reich, German crimes against civilians committed in Pruszków, Sękocin, Legionowo, Budzyń Mały, Międzborów, Podkowa, Gucin, Przyrów, Częstochowa, Rogowo, Rypin, Skarżysko and Radom; and records on crimes committed at the headquarters of the Warsaw Gestapo on Aleja Szucha and investigation files on war criminals.
- Alternate Title
- Selected records of the District Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Warsaw
- Date
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inclusive:
1944-1950
- Collection Creator
- Okr?gowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Warszawie
Physical Details
- Language
- Polish
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence. Statistics. Reports. Testimonies. Photographs.
- Extent
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11,375 digital images : PDF.
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in four groups: 1. Organizational materials, reports, correspondence, interrogation protocols, 1945-1948; 2. Materials related to the Warsaw Uprising: reports, maps, protocols of interrogations of witnesses, statistics, correspondence; 3. Investigative materials of Nazi camps and prisons; 4. Investigation files concerning German criminals. Organized in 218 digital folders.
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--Warsaw. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland. Crimes against humanity--Poland--History--20th century. War crimes investigation--Poland--Warsaw--History--20th century. War criminals--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland. Prisoners and prisons--Poland. Prisoner-of-war camps--Poland. Poles--Persecutions--Poland--History--20th century. Jews--Persecutions--Poland--History--20th century.
- Geographic Name
- Budzyń Mały (Poland) Częstochowa (Poland) Gucin (Poland) Legionowo (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland) Luckenwalde (Germany) Międzborów (Poland) Podkowa (Poland) Pomiechówek (Poland) Pruszków (Poland) Przyrów (Poland) Radom (Poland) Rogowo (Poland) Rypin (Poland) Sękocin (Poland) Skarżysko-Kamienna (Poland) Warsaw (Poland : Voivodeship) Zamość (Poland) Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. Orchówek (Lublin, Poland)
- Personal Name
- Krupp, Alfried, 1907-1967--Trials, litigation, etc. Göring, Hermann, 1893-1946--Trials, litigation, etc. Leist, Ludwig,--Trials, litigation, etc. Pohl, Oswald, 1892-1951--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Corporate Name
- Chelmno (Concentration camp) Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp) Majdanek (Concentration camp) Neuengamme (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Flossenbürg (Concentration camp) Stutthof (Concentration camp) Oranienburg (Concentration camp) Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) Pomiechówek (Concentration camp) Stalag III A Pawiak (Prison) Gęsiówka (Concentration camp)
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 06:52:02
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