Trial against the staff of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Proces członków załogi Oświęcimia (Sygn. GK 196)

Identifier
irn502102
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1998.A.0247
  • RG-15.169M
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1948
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn502102

Extent and Medium

16,271 digital images, PDF

15 microfilm reels, 35 mm

Creator(s)

  • Poland. Najwy?szy Trybuna? Narodowy

Biographical History

The Supreme National Tribunal (Najwyższy Trybunał Narodowy, NTN) was a war crimes tribunal active in Poland from 1946 to 1948. The Tribunal's aims and purpose were defined by the State National Council in the Decrees of 22 January and 17 October 1946 and 11 April 1947. The new law was based on the earlier Decree of 31 August 1944 (Sierpniówka) issued by the new Polish pro-Soviet government, with jurisdiction over Nazi criminals and traitors to the Polish nation. The tribunal presided over seven high-profile cases (Total of 49 individuals).

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 the Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu (IPN), Warsaw, Poland, Sygn. GK 196 (NTN File116-175a, and File 548-549.). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Programs in December 1998, and accretion of digital files in 2014. The digitized collection contains the same files as sent on microfilms in 1998, except new files 548-549.

Scope and Content

Contains investigation materials and court documents relating to the trial of Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camp staff, also records on crimes in other concentration camps. Records contain court cases against many war criminals, such as Adolf Eichmann, Rudolf Hoess (Höss), Dr. Goebel, Karl Ernst Moeckel, Maximilian Grabner as well as against SS physicians accused of experimental operations on Polish women, against female SS camp guards, and other Auschwitz SS staff members. Includes documents on historical background on Nazi leadership; an illustrated SS guidebook for German personnel at Auschwitz on treatment of prisoners; explanation of SS ranks, personnel lists, organization charts; documents on sterilization and castration at Auschwitz camp hospital, death reports, lists of victims, death certificates, witness statements on medical experiments by German doctors in Auschwitz; detailed information on 2,188 Auschwitz prisoners; list of 5,271 inmates; list of victims organized by name and nationality; the United Nations War Crimes commission report: “Gestapo Executions in Concentration Camps,” 1945; testimonies on operations in Ravensbrűck, called “Experimental Rabbits”. Also contains a broad range of testimonies, and Polish songs and poetry from Auschwitz.

System of Arrangement

Registration cards on the 2,188 Auschwitz prisoners are organized in alphabetical order, and some name lists of victims are organized by the name and nationality. 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

  • Mengele, Josef, 1911-1979--Trials, litigation, etc.
  • Muhsfeldt, Erich--Trials, litigation, etc.
  • Höss, Rudolf, 1900-1947--Trials, litigation, etc.
  • Seufert, Karl, 1913--Trials, litigation, etc.
  • Münch, Hans Wilhelm, 1911-2010--Trials, litigation, etc.
  • Pohl, Oswald, 1892-1951--Trials, litigation, etc.
  • Kirschner, Hermann--Trials, litigation, etc.
  • Koch, Hans--Trials, litigation, etc.
  • Clauberg, Carl, 1898-1957--Trials, litigation, etc.
  • Liebehenschel, Artur, 1901-1948--Trials, litigation, etc.
  • Goebel, Johannes--Trials, litigation, etc.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Poland--History--World War, 1939-1945--Trials, litigation, etc.
  • War victims--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
  • War crime trials--Poland--History--20th century.
  • Involuntary sterilization--Poland--History.
  • War criminals--Poland---History--20th century.
  • Crimes against humanity--Poland.
  • Human experimentation in medicine.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Poland.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Investigations.
  • Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
  • Prisoners of war--Poland.

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