Selected records of the Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland Główna Komisja Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Polsce (Sygn. GK 162)

Identifier
irn98209
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2015.76.1
  • RG-15.361
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1962
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

33,149 digital images, PDF

1 CD,

Creator(s)

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 (IPN), Sygn. GK 162. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in 2015, and accretion in Feb. 2020.

Scope and Content

This collection contains correspondence, lists of documents, copies of lawsuit files, personal files, minutes of sessions, reports, as well as materials collected in the course of the work conducted by the Main Commission such as: name lists of German officers; materials related to the notes of Sonderkommando (including snapshots) found on the area of Birkenau in 1961; writer’s studies of Stanisław Płaski, Janusz Gumkowski, Szymon Datner, Tadeusz Kułakowski, Leszczyński, Mieczysław Roman, Hubert Jan Urbasik, Leon Popławski and Stanisław Krośnicki; list of ordinances of General Government (GG) authorities, as well as the subject index to the Official Journal of GG; excerpts of the diary of Hans Frank; materials concerning German crimes committed on the territory of the Łuków county, of the Lublin and Rzeszów provinces and in Poland; materials concerning crimes committed by the Wehrmacht in September 1939; “Executions and their places,” “Registration of victims of the German terror,” and “Registration of war criminals” questionnaires; losses among teachers; press cuttings; investigation files concerning Jakob Sporrenberg; liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto; crimes committed during the Warsaw Uprising and in the transition camp of Działdowo; the fate of Polish students arrested in Lwow in 1941; copies of protocols of witnesses’ inquiry for Szlama Dragon, Henryk Tauber and Alter Feinsibler (Stanisław Jankowski), former members of the “Sonderkommando” in KL Birkenau; the investigation and accounts of eye-witnesses related to death and concentration camps located on Polish territory; files concerning mass graves discovered on the area of the former camp for POWs in Żagań; documents concerning medical experiments conducted in concentration camps; documents related to the fate of the collection of skeletons from the Institute of Anatomy in Strassburg which operated under the protectorate of “Ahnenerbe” federation; labor camp for Jews (located in Stalowa Wola and Rzeszów); the list of losses of Polish culture of 1939-1945; files concerning Mikołaj Dońcow, the chief officer of Hilfspolizei (Auxiliary Police squads) in the town of Barycz near Końskie; Stutthof Museum 1962-1964 and exhumation of dead corpses in KL Gross-Rosen; and the protection of the territory of the former death camp of Treblinka in 1945.

System of Arrangement

Selected records arranged in 5 series: 1. Correspondence and reports, 1945-1956; 2. Works of several authors related to German crimes in Polish hospitals and during Warsaw Uprising 1944; 3. Fragments of the Diary of Hans Frank and investigative documents against other German criminals; 4. Investigative records, questionnaires: "Executions and place of execution" and " Registration of victims of German terror", newspaper clippings relating to German crimes in the Polish territory; 5. Reports, historical analysis, various correspondence and newspaper clippings related to Germans crimes. 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

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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.