Prosecutor's Office of the District Court in Warsaw Prokuratura Sądu Okręgowego w Warszawie (GK 453)

Identifier
irn713726
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2020.50.1
  • RG-15.691
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1963
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn713726

Extent and Medium

40,016 digital images, PDF

Creator(s)

  • Poland. Prokuratura S?du Okr?gowego w Warszawie

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

Court investigative files for crimes committed by the Germans and their collaborators. Prosecutions based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (Sierpniówka) of the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN, Polish Committee of National Liberation), one of the world's first laws on liability for crimes of World War II. Decree also applied against former partisans of the anti-Communist Armia Krajowa, or Home Army, whom Communism propaganda portrayed as collaborators.

System of Arrangement

Arranged in one subject group: 1. Investigative files against Germans and their collaborators.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

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

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Włochy (Poland)
  • Pruszków (Poland)
  • Wólka Dłużewska (Poland)
  • War criminals--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
  • Kalina (Poland)
  • Gołąbki (Poland)
  • Dębówka (Poland)
  • Sochaczew (Poland)
  • Łowicz (Poland)
  • Ursus (Poland)
  • Mińsk Mazowiecki (Poland : Powiat)
  • Radomsko (Poland)
  • Głosków (Poland)
  • Garwolin (Poland)
  • Drohobycz (Ukraine)
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
  • Skierniewice (Poland)
  • Kąpina (Poland)
  • Piaseczno (Poland)
  • Falenty (Poland)
  • Warsaw (Poland : Voivodeship)
  • Stanislav (Ukraine)
  • Grodzisk Mazowiecki (Poland : Powiat)
  • Lʹviv (Ukraine)
  • Otwock (Poland)
  • Królewiec (Poland)
  • War crime trials
  • Sulejówek (Poland)
  • Tuchola (Województwo Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland)
  • Kręgi (Poland)
  • Collaborationists--Poland--History--20th century.
  • Załubice Nowe (Poland)
  • Sulejówek (Poland)
  • Milanówek (Poland)
  • War victims--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
  • Wołomin (Poland)
  • Warsaw (Poland)
  • Paluch (Poland)
  • Mrozy (Poland)
  • Konstancin-Jeziorna (Poland)
  • Kazuń-Polski (Poland)
  • Bratislava (Slovakia)
  • War crime trials--Poland--Warsaw.
  • Grójec (Poland : Powiat)
  • Wawer (Poland)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland.
  • Janówek (Poland)
  • War crimes investigation--Poland--History--20th century.

Genre

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