Oddziałowe Archiwum Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej w Szczecinie

The Institute of National Remembrance - Branch in Szczecin. Branch Office for Preservation and Dissemination of Archival Records was created in 2006.In 2016 it was renamed the Branch Archive of the Institute of National Remembrance in Szczecin.

The Branch Archive of the Institute of National Remembrance in Szczecin works on the ground of the Act on the Institute of National Remembrance of December 18, 1998, Journal of Law (Dziennik Ustaw) 07.63.424 with changes and the Act on Reveal of Information about Secret Service's Documents from 1944-1990, Journal of Law (Dziennik Ustaw) 07.63.425 with changes.

The archive possesses over 3 running kilometers of collections and archival founds. There are three kinds of holdings:

1. The files holdings:

• The operation files of Security Service (Służba Bezpieczeństwa - SB).
• The "auxilliary" operation files of SB.
• "The "auxiliary" files of SB. _ Passport files.

1. The records holdings. The biggest part of this kind of holdings are the records of civilian secret service from the former voivodships of Szczecin, Koszalin and Gorzów Wielkopolski. The archive also possesses:

• the records of military secret service (personal records of intelligencers).
• The records of the Frontiers Protection's Troops (Wojska Ochrony Pogranicza - WOP) 1945-1991.
• Records of judicial institutions (courts, public prosecutor's offices and Infringements Boards (Kolegia ds Wykroczeń) in Szczecin and Koszalin.
• Records of military judical institutions.
• Records of Prison Service: the most interesting part is concerning the "Solidarność" activists interned during Martial Law in Wierzchowo Pomorskie, Darłówko and Jaworze.

1. The archive possesses also the documents created by former District Commissions on Investigation of Crimes against Polish Nation (Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu) in Szczecin and Koszalin. There are mostly administrative records. The small part of documents concerns the Nazi crimes, concentration camps, the registers of executions in 1939-1945, information on the compulsory workers in Western Pomerania, records of SA soldiers and the members of NSDAP, fragments of informations on works of Nazi Secret Police in Koszalin.