Selected records of the District Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Łódź Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Łodzi (GK 177)
Extent and Medium
416 digital images, PDF
Creator(s)
- Okr?gowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w ?odzi
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
Records relating to the extermination camp in Chełmno nad Nerem (Kulmhof am Nehr): documents excavated in Chełmno, records of the investigating judge, files regarding camp in Radogoszcz and execution of a hundred people in Zgierz, the camp for Soviet prisoners of war in Ruda Pabianicka, germanization of Polish children from Łódź, investigation against Wilhelm Bittel - a former head of the ghetto in Zduńska Wola and German activities againt Jews, questioning of witnesses about German atrocities in Opoczno county, and photographs of gendarmes.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in two groups: 1. Protocols and raports; 2. Correspondence.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu
Corporate Bodies
- Radogoszcz (Concentration camp)
- Ruda Pabianicka (Concentration camp)
- Chelmno (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Łódź (Poland)--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Zgierz (Poland)
- Chełmno (Konin, Poland)
- Łódź (Poland : Voivodeship)
- Radogoszcz (Poland)
- Children--Crimes against--Poland--Łódź--History--20th century.
- Crimes against humanity--Poland--History--20th century.
- Zduńska Wola (Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Poland--Łódź.
- Ruda Pabianicka (Łódź, Poland)
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- War crimes investigation--Poland--Łódź--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--Łódź.
- Poles--Persecutions--Poland--History--20th century.
Genre
- Reports.
- Document
- Correspondence.
- Protocols.
- Photographs.