Overview
- Description
- This collection contains Polish, British and American regulations concerning the research, investigation and judgement of war criminals. Voluntary testimonies of SS-Gruppenführer, Jakub Sporrenberg and SS-Hauptsturmführer, Fridel Rau concerning their activities in Lublin and other occupied territories, the case of soap making in the Institute of Anatomy in Gdańsk, protection of objects of art and archival objects stolen in Poland by Germans, Germanization of Polish children, the camp of Płaszów, texts of Polish “claims” in the case of Nazi war criminals, a copy of verdict by the court in Krakow versus Michał Weichert.
- Alternate Title
- Selected records of the United Nations War Crimes Commission. Polish Delegate to the Commission of United Nations for War Crimes
- Date
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inclusive:
1945-1948
- Collection Creator
- United Nations War Crimes Commission
- Biography
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The United Nations War Crimes Commission was established at a meeting held at the Foreign Office in London on October 20, 1943. The Commission, operating from a secretariat in London, consisted of government representatives appointed by the 17 member countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Greece, India, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, the United Kingdom, the United States and Yugoslavia. The first official meeting took place on January 11, 1944, and the Commission continued its activities until the end of March 1948, and was dissolved in May of that year. In addition to the main commission, a separate Far Eastern sub-commission was established at the suggestion of the Chinese ambassador.This sub-commission was initially based in Chongqing, and later, Nanjing, operating from November 1944 until March 1947. The primary activities of the Commission were to identify and prepare lists of alleged war criminals, and to help establish the legal machinery used by the member countries to apprehend, bring to trial and prosecute war criminals.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence. Reports. Testimonies.
- Extent
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1,977 digital images : PDF ; 161 MB .
1 CD.
- System of Arrangement
- Selected records arranged in six series: 1. Records on experiments carried out at the Institute of Anatomy in Gdańsk, Poland on production of soap from human fat, 1945-1946; 2. Voluntary testimonies of SS-Gruppenführer Jacob Sporrenberg and SS-Hauptsturmführer Friedel Rau regarding their activities in Lublin and other occupied territories, 1946; 3. 4. Looted arts, jewelry, archives, and germanization of Polish children, 1945; 5. Polish complains against Hermann Göring, Amon Göth, and others, 1945; 6. Copies of the Polish complaints against Arthur Greiser, Albert Forster and Hans Frank, and against the crew members of the concentration camps: Auschwitz, Majdanek, Stutthof, Chełmno, Sobibor, Treblinka, accused of carrying out mass and individual killings and mistreatment of prisoners, 1944-1947.
Records are arranged in the original order of their acquisition from the source archive. The museum has acquired only selected records from Institute of National Remembrance (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, or IPN). More information about this collection and other materials in the possession of the Institute of National Remembrance, including archival finding aids from the Archives of the Institute of National Remembrance, is available at the website: https://ipn.gov.pl
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--Atrocities--Poland--Investigations. World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Poland. War criminals--Europe--Trials, litigation, etc. Germanization--Poland--History--20th century. Human experimentation in medicine--Poland--Gdańsk--History--20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Geographic Name
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Personal Name
- Forster, Albert, 1902-1952. Frank, Hans, 1900-1946. Greiser, Arthur, 1897-1946. Göring, Hermann, 1893-1946. Göth, Amon, 1908-1946. Rau, Friedel. Sporrenberg, Jakob, 1902- Weichert, Michał.
- Corporate Name
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel Instytut Anatomiczny w Gdańsku
- Meeting Name
- United Nations War Crimes Commission--History.
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 (IPN), Sygn. GK 161. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in 2015, and accretion in Feb. 2020.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 12:29:57
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