Selected records of the District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Radomiu (Sygn. GK 179)

Identifier
irn98210
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2015.77.1
  • RG-15.362
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1950
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

12,330 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 179. 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 selected files of the District Commission in Radom and its agencies in Busko Zdrój, Iłża, Jędrzejów, Kielce, Końskie, Kozienice, Lipsk, Opatów, Ostrowiec, Pińczów, Skarżysko-Kamienna, Starachowice-Wierzbnik, Staszów and Stopnica and includes correspondence, circular letters, ordinances, reports, indexes and reports of investigations. The records consist of questionnaires concerning executions and mass graves; statistics concerning loss of civilians by individual counties; lists of the murdered and places of crimes; investigations related to camps (of young male laborers, labor and POW’s) and sending Polish children away to the Third Reich (Lebensborn); data about people sent to forced labor or to concentration camps (name lists); protocols of witnesses’ and former prisoners’ inquiries; list of prisoners kept in 1940-1945 in the Deutsche Strafanstalt Radom; lists of war criminals; investigations of members of the Deutsches Gericht Radom and Deutsches Obergericht Radom; investigations concerning German higher officers who were employed by the Governor’s Office of the former Radom district; SS and SD officers operating in Radom; and other investigative materials and correspondence concerning Nazi crimes committed on that area. Accrreted records consists of investigation files regarding Nazi crimes committed in District Radom in the following cities: Radom, Końskie, Głowaczów, Grodzisko, Sworzyce.

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

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Genre

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.