Records of the Gendarmerie Kreis Schrimm (Sygn.72)

Identifier
irn507366
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1993.A.0081
  • RG-15.012M
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/irn507366

Extent and Medium

4 microfilm reels, 35 mm

Creator(s)

  • Łukasz Kamiński

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 (Institute of National Remembrance-Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation). Gendarmerie Kreis Schrimm (Śrem, Poland) created the records from ca. 1939 to ca. 1945. After World War II, the records were deposited in the archives of the Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, Sygn.72. Filming of the records took place in 1992. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the microfilms in Apr. 1993.

Scope and Content

Contains information about activities of Gendarmerie personnel in Schrimm (Srem), Poland; use of Poles from the Schrimm area for labor; activities of the SS, Gestapo, and local police in Poznań, Poland; treatment of POWs; treatment and persecution of Roma; members of the Reinefarthe Gruppe (police personnel from Schrimm) taking part in the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; participation of the gendarmerie in the expulsion of Poles from their homes and settlement of Germans in their places; Polish orphans transferred to the camp at Łódź, Poland; establishment of a youth camp at Łódź (01 Dec 1942); regulations and monitoring of communication, travel, and use of postal service by Poles; pursuit and treatment of escaped prisoners; and escape of British prisoners of war.

System of Arrangement

This collection is arranged thematically. 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

  • Waffen-SS
  • Germany. Gestapo
  • Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel

Subjects

  • Forced labor--Poland.
  • Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--Śrem.
  • Łódź (Poland)
  • Warsaw (Poland)--History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943.
  • Poznań Region (Poland)
  • Poznań (Poland)
  • Prisoners of war--Poland--History.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Deportations--Poland--Registers.
  • Poland (Territory under German occupation, 1939-1945)
  • Police--Poland--Śrem.
  • Polish orphans--Poland--Łódź.
  • Polish people--Crimes against--Poland--Poznań Region.
  • Romani Genocide, 1939-1945.

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