Selected records related to camps and prisons Zbiór akt obozowych i więziennych (Ob.)(Sygn.GK 165)

Identifier
irn47305
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.105
  • RG-15.205M
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1966
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn47305

Extent and Medium

4,256 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, Poland, Sygn. GK 165. 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 materials related to concentration camps Bełżec, Treblinka, Chełmno, Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Płaszòw, and Gross-Rosen; ghettos in Warsaw, Siedlce, and Limanowa; and the labor camps for Jews in Poznań: testimony of witnesses and suspects, photographs, postcards, letters, certificates of death, travel passes, texts of prayers, staff lists, lists of ex-prisoners, documents of Poland’s military mission in London, daily reports of the Leiter des Ordnungsdienstes (Head of Order Service) of the Warsaw ghetto.

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

Subjects

  • War victims--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--Poland.
  • Poznań (Poland)--History--World War, 1939-1945.
  • Justice, Administration of--Poland.
  • Warsaw (Poland)--History--World War, 1939-1945.
  • Communism--Poland--History--20th century.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Investigations.
  • Limanowa (Poland)--History--World War, 1939-1945.
  • Siedlce (Poland)--History--World War, 1939-1945.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Poland.
  • War criminals--Europe--History--20th century.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

Copies

  • Archiwum Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu