Selected records from the Sąd Wojewódzki we Wrocławiu (SWWr), (Sygn.GK 319)
Extent and Medium
13,472 digital images, JPEG
13 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
Creator(s)
- Poland. S?d Wojewódzki we Wroc?awiu
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, Poland, Sygn. GK 319. Records created by the Provincial Court in Wrocław, Poland, and later transferred by the court’s archives to the IPN. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the IPN via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in July 2012.
Scope and Content
Selected records of trials at the district court in Wrocław, 1945‒1966, for crimes by the Germans and their collaborators. Prosecutions based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (Sierpniówka) of the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN, Polish Committee of National Liberation), one of the world's first laws on liability for crimes of World War II. Decree also applied against former partisans of the anti-Communist Armia Krajowa, or Home Army, whom Stalinist propaganda portrayed as German collaborators.
System of Arrangement
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
Subjects
- Województwo Dolnośląskie (Poland)--History--German occupation, 1939-1945.
- War crime trials--Poland--Wrocław.
- War criminals--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--Poland.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Investigations.
- War criminals--Government policy--Poland.
- Courts
- Wrocław Trials, Wrocław, Poland, 1945-1950.
- War crime trials
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Poland.
- War victims--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
- Prisoners of war--Poland--Wrocław.
- Communism--Poland--History--20th century.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
- Wrocław (Poland)
- Poland--History--World War, 1939-1945--Trials, litigation, etc.
Genre
- Document
- Protocols.
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