District Commission in Katowice to Investigate the Nazi Crimes Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Katowicach
Extent and Medium
4,603 digital images, JPEG
5 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
Creator(s)
- Łukasz Kamiński
Archival History
Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu
Acquisition
Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Source of acquisition is the Instytut Pamięci Narodowej – Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu (IPN), Warsaw, Poland. Records were created by the District Commission in Katowice to Investigate the Nazi Crimes from 1944 to 1949. Later, in 1998, custody of the records was transferred to the newly established IPN. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in February 2010.
Scope and Content
Contains records of the District Commission in Katowice to Investigate the Nazi Crimes of the Silesia territory. Records are very diverse and include files of investigations of German crimes; files on wanted war criminals and verdicts of criminal trials against war criminals, including the case of the crew of KL Auschwitz and its chief officer, Rudolf Hoess; administrative files, including lists of the members of the Commission; case files of SS and Gestapo officers, German physicians, and collaborators, the verdicts of German Sondergerichte; also contains questionnaires concerning locations and facts of German crimes.
System of Arrangement
Files organized in the following order: Reel 1: 1-2; 4-6; 6a-6b; 8; 10-12; 14-16; 19-20; 22-25; 28; 31-32; Reel 2: 33; 35-36; 41-45; 49-50; 52; 57-59; 64; 76; 79-80; 82-83; 85-87; 90-97; Reel 3: 101; 103; 110; 115; 119; 123-124; 127; 129-131; 140; 144; 146-149; 152; 154; 166; 171; 174-176; 180; 186; 192; 202; 204-205; 212; Reel 4: 216; 231; 233; 236; 243; 247; 250-251; 253-255; 264; 266-267; 269; 271-274; 276; 279; Reel 5: 281; 284; 286-287; 289; 291; 297; 299. 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
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu
People
- Höss, Rudolf, 1900-1947.
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp)
- Reichswerke Aktiengesellschaft für Erzbergbau und Eisenhütten "Hermann Göring"
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Investigations.
- Mass burials--Poland--Jastrzeb Dolny.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Criminal investigation--Poland--Katowice--History--20th century.
- Execution sites--Poland--Katowice ( Voivodeship)
- War victims--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
- Germanization--Poland--Tychy.
- Concentration camp commandants.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Germany.
- Human experimentation in medicine--Germany--History--20th century.
- Germanization--Poland--Katowice.
- Katowice (Poland : Voivodeship)--History--20th century.
Genre
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu