Provincial Court in Kielce Sąd Wojewódzki w Kielcach (Sygn. 306)
Extent and Medium
52,239 digital images, JPEG
45 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
Creator(s)
- Poland. S?d Wojewódzki w Kielcach
Archival History
Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu
Acquisition
Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Source of acquisition is the Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, Sygn. GK 306. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Dec. 2013.
Scope and Content
Contains selected files of the Provincial Court in Kielce during the years 1945-1956. These trials refer the Decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka”), issued by the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN), concerning the punishment of Nazi criminals and their collaborators guilty of murder and persecution of civilians and prisoners of war and the punishment of traitors to the Polish Nation. Selected files mostly refer to crimes committed against Jews, but the collection contains also files related to Polish and Russian victims. The “Sierpniówka” was one of the world's first legislation on liability for war crimes committed during World War II. This decree also applied to soldiers of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa) whom the Communist propaganda in the 40’s and 50’s attempted to portray as German collaborators.
System of Arrangement
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
- Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego
Subjects
- Kielce (Poland)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
- Communism--Poland--History--20th century.
- Poland--History--German occupation, 1941-1944. .
- World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--Poland--Registers.
- War crime trials
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction & pillage--German--Poland.
- Justice, Administration of--Poland--Kielce (Voivodeship)
- War crime trials--Poland--Kielce.
- Prisoners of war--Poland--Kielce (Voivodeship)
- Courts
- Kielce (Poland : Voivodeship)--History--German occupation, 1939-1945.
- Poland--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- War victims--Poland--Kielce (Voivodeship)
- War criminals--Poland--Kielce (Voivodeship)--Registers.
Genre
- Reports.
- Document
- Photographs.
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu