Justice Ministry : Files of the State Public Prosecutor's Offices ; miscellaneous matters Justizministerium : Akten der Staatsanwaltschaften. Verschiedene Angelegenheiten
Extent and Medium
16,180 digital images, JPEG
20 microfilm reel, 35 mm
2 DVD-ROMs, 4 3/4 in.
Creator(s)
- Austria. Justizministerium
Archival History
Österreichisches Staatsarchiv
Acquisition
From the Österreichisches Staatsarchiv (Austrian State Archives); a sub-collection of a larger group of records of the Ministry of Justice (Signatur: AT-OeSTA/AVA Justiz), Public Prosecutor's Offices ,1939-1945; miscellaneous matters, cartons 4875 to 4891. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in April 2010.
Scope and Content
Consists of administrative orders and internal reports pertaining to prisons and incarceration facilities in Polish territories occupied by the Third Reich. A preponderance of documents in this collection were issued by the Prosecutor's Office in Katowice, Poland (Kattowitz) in regard to prisons and incarceration facilities in Bielsko Biala (Bielitz) and the Prosecutor's Office in Wrocław (Breslau) in regard to prisons and incarceration facilities in Sosnowiec (Sosnowitz). Includes ordinances about treatment of political prisoners, POWs, and Polish slave laborers; reports about prisoner escapes, accidental deaths, cases of illness and injury, and other prisoner-related incidents; as well as personnel matters related to prison staff. Microfilm reels 19 and 20 contain political cases brought before the Vienna Court(Landesgericht Wien).
System of Arrangement
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Corporate Bodies
- Ministry of Justice (Austria)
Subjects
- Nazis--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Wrocław (Poland)
- Vienna (Austria)
- Courts
- Katowice (Poland)
- Sosnowiec (Poland)
- Poland--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- Bielsko Biała (Poland)
- War crime trials--Austria.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish--Registers.
- Poland--Politics and government--1918 -1938.
- War crime trials--Poland.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
Genre
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Österreichisches Staatsarchiv