Selected records of the Ministry of Culture and Art. Department of Museums and Memorials Commemorating Polish Martyrdom Ministerstwo Kultury i Sztuki. Wydział Muzeów i Pomników Martyrologii Polskiej (Sygn. GK 185)

Identifier
irn98211
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2015.53
  • RG-15.363
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1962
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

8,791 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, Sygn. GK 185. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in 2015

Scope and Content

Documentation and indexes of places of execution in the Polish provinces and in the city of Warsaw ("Kroniki bestialstw niemieckich: The Chronicles of German atrocities"), lists of camps on Polish territory, questionnaires of people arrested and testimonies of witnesses of war crimes.

System of Arrangement

Selected records arranged in 12 series: 1. Records of Bialystok province; 2. Records of Gdańsk province; 3. Records of Kielce province; 4. Records of Kraków province; 5. Records of Łódź province; 6. Records of Olsztyn province; 7. Records of Pomeranian province; 8. Records of Rzeszów province; 9. Records of Szczecin province; 10. Correspondence, and statistics of underground activities and concentration camps; 11. Records of city of Warsaw; 12. General indexes of places of execution during the Second World War in Poland. Registers of places of execution and questionnaires of arrested people are organized alphabetically. 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

Subjects

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.