Oddziałowe Archiwum Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej we Wrocławiu

The Institute of National Remembrance - Branch in Wrocław. Branch Office for Preservation and Dissemination of Archival Records was created in 2000. In 2016 it was renamed the Branch Archive of the Institute of National Remembrance in Wrocław.

The Branch Archive of the Institute of National Remembrance in Wrocław 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 the documents of following institutions:

• Communist Secret Service (Urząd Bezpieczeństwa/Służba Bezpieczeństwa), The Frontiers Protection Troops (Wojska Ochrony Pogranicza - WOP), Military Gendarmerie (Wojskowa Służba Wewnętrzna - WSW): records of the secret intelligencers, records of the secret operations, records of preparatory proceedings, personal records of the functionaries, records of the passport offices.
• Courts and public prosecutor's offices (civilian and military): records of penal and civil lawsuits, records of lawsuits concerning the invalidation of the sentences in political trials before 1989.
• Organizational units of the Prison Service: records of political prisoners, registers of prisoners settled in the prisons in Lower Silesia, the personal records of the Prison Service' functionaries.
• Records of the former District Commissions on Investigation of Crimes against Polish Nation (Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu) in Wrocław and Opole: the files of compulsory workers' death during World War II, the German war criminals, the letters between Commission and various people and institutions, documents are concerning Gestapo functionaries, registers of former prisoners of Nazi prisons and concentration camps, photo-documentation of Nazi crimes against Polish and Jewish population.
• Memoirs and testimonies about German occupation, after war-period and Communist Poland (PRL), the private collections donated to the archive, the audio records of operational announcements of Security Service (SB) and ZOMO (special troops of Militia) functionaries, leaflets, posters, and various unofficial publications The collection deserving special attention is a legacy of a historian Roman Korab-Żebryk concerning the Polish Underground State history in Vilnius District and biography of Stefan Rowecki "Grot" (Commander of the Home Army - AK).