District Court in Kielce Sąd Okręgowy w Kielcach (Sygn. SOK)
Extent and Medium
10,721 digital images, JPEG
11 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
Creator(s)
- Poland. S?d Okr?gowy w Kielcach
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, Warsaw, Poland, Sygn. SOK. Records created by the District Court in Kielce during the trials held from 1945 to 1969. The court proceedings later became a part of the court’s archives. Records were transferred to the IPN and eventually became a part of the Syg. SOK.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 selected records of criminal trials conducting at the District Court in Kielce, Poland during the years 1945-1969. These trials pertain to crimes committed against Jews and Poles by Germans and their collaborators during the German occupation.Trials were based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka”), issued by the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN), concerning the punishment of German criminals their collaborators guilty of murders and persecution of civilians and prisoners of war, and the punishment of traitors to the Polish Nation. "Sierpniówka" was one of the world's first legislation on liability for war crimes committed during World War II. This decree also applied to soldiers of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa) whom the Communist propaganda in the 40’s and 50’s attempted to portray as German collaborators.
System of Arrangement
Organized in alphabetical order by the last name of defendants and court case numbers. 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
Corporate Bodies
- Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego
- Poland. Polish Army
- AK-Home Army (Poland)
Subjects
- Prisoners of war--Poland--Kielce (Voivodeship)
- War crime trials--Poland--Kielce.
- War crime trials
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--Poland--Registers.
- Courts
- War victims--Poland--Kielce (Voivodeship)--Registers.
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction & pillage--German--Poland.
- Justice, Administration of--Poland--Kielce (Voivodeship)
- War criminals--Poland--Kielce (Voivodeship)--Registers.
- Kielce (Poland)
- Kielce (Poland : Voivodeship)--History.
- Poland--Politics and government--1933-1945.
Genre
- Document
- Reports.
- Registers.
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