Records relating to Nazi genocide in Poland from the Main Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland

Identifier

irn503674

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

1991.0027
RG-15.006.01

Dates

1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1945

Level of Description

Item

Languages

German
Polish

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn503674

Extent and Medium

folders

Archival History

Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu

Acquisition

Source of acquisition is the Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu (IPN). The materials were selected to serve as a sample of the holdings of the IPN and were sent to the USHMM Archives in 1991.

Scope and Content

Contains information about executions by Nazis; laws and regulations imposed on Poles and Polish Jews by the Nazis; ghettos; and deportations to German concentration camps in occupied Poland.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is thematic 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

Corporate Bodies

Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Germany. Gestapo
Majdanek (Concentration camp)
Treblinka (Concentration camp)
Stutthof (Concentration camp)
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel

Subjects

War crime trials.
Poland (Territory under German occupation, 1939-1945)
War criminals.
Concentration camps.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--Kraków.
Jewish ghettos--Poland--Kraków.
Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)
Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.

Genre

Document

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