Selected records of the Ministry of Justice of the Government of the Republic of Poland in London Ministerstwo Sprawiedliwości Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Londynie (GK 160)

Identifier
irn713707
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2020.85.1
  • RG-15.677
Dates
1 Jan 1943 - 31 Dec 1946
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn713707

Extent and Medium

596 digital images, PDF

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. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Jan. 2020. This is a cooperative project based on the agreement between USHMM and Yad Vashem, Israel.

Scope and Content

Contains selected records of the Ministry of Justice of the Polish government-in-exile in London: interrogations of witnesses regarding German crimes during the war in Stanisławów, District of Lviv (liquidation of the ghetto), list of Gestapo members in Stanisławów (15 names), testimony of Stanisław Kocyan about SS-man in KL Auschwitz Concentration Camp. „Central registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects “prepared in 1945 and 1946.

System of Arrangement

Arranged in two subject groups: 1. Witness statements; 2. Central Registry of War Ccriminals. Registry files are arranged alphabetically.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Holocaust (1939-1945)--Poland.
  • Dzierzązna (Zgierz, Łódź, Poland)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.
  • Prisoners and prisons--Poland--Registers.
  • London (England)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Poland.
  • Lviv (Ukraine)
  • Stanisławów (Poland)
  • Oświęcim (Poland)--History.
  • War crimes investigation--Poland--History--20th century.
  • War criminals--Poland--History--20th century.

Genre

  • Document
  • Testimonies.
  • Registers.
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