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  1. Selected records of the Collection "Z" (materials collected by the Main Commission for Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland) containing fragments of German files and post-war materials regarding the places and facts of Nazi crimes Zbiór „Z” (akt zebranych przez Główną Komisję Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Polsce) zawierający fragmenty akt niemieckich i materiały powojenne dotyczące miejsc i faktów zbrodni hitlerowskich (GK 166)

    Original documents collected by the Main Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Poland: materials on Joseph Meisinger (chief of Einsatzgruppe IV, than chief of Sipo and SD in Warsaw), materials on the crimes committed in Zamość region (“Zamojszczyzna”), files on the children's camp Dierżężnia near Łódź, reports of gendarmerie in Biłgoraj county, District Lublin, materials regarding Major Henryk “Hubal” Dobrzański, a diary from the Łódź ghetto in Yiddish, memories of Tadeusz Bednarczyk about the Warsaw ghetto, personal files of Wilhelm Koppe (SS- und Polizeiführer, SSPF in GG), testimonies...

  2. Selected records of the District Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Bydgoszcz Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Bydgoszczy (GK 170)

    Testimonies, protocols, reports, correspondence and other materials relating to crimes committed in Bydgoszcz, Starogard, Serock, Wejherowo and other places in 1939-1944, exhumation protocols in Serock and identification of victims, materials regarding General Hildebrand and others, statistics of executions carried out on Poles and Jews.

  3. Selected records of the District Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Gdańsk Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Gdańsku (GK 172)

    Contains records on war crimes committed on Poles and other nationalities by Germans during War World Second in Gdańsk region, Poland. Includes testimonies of Albert Forster's (Gauleiter der Reichsgau Danzig-Westpreußen activities, lists of Poles who died in concentration camps or during forced labor in the Third Reich, materials on the gas chamber and mass grave in the Nowy Port in Gdańsk, documents on germanization of Polish children and the “educational camp” in Snopki near Pisz.

  4. Selected records of the District Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Łódź Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Łodzi (GK 177)

    Records relating to the extermination camp in Chełmno nad Nerem (Kulmhof am Nehr): documents excavated in Chełmno, records of the investigating judge, files regarding camp in Radogoszcz and execution of a hundred people in Zgierz, the camp for Soviet prisoners of war in Ruda Pabianicka, germanization of Polish children from Łódź, investigation against Wilhelm Bittel - a former head of the ghetto in Zduńska Wola and German activities againt Jews, questioning of witnesses about German atrocities in Opoczno county, and photographs of gendarmes.

  5. Selected records of the District Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Poznań Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Poznaniu (GK 178)

    Investigation records regarding crimes committed in the territory of the Warthegau, such as hearings of witnesses, exhumation, medical and autopsy reports, examination of corpses, correspondence, reports of former concentration camp prisoners, questionnaires regarding mass graves, lists of war criminals, files of the case of Artur Greiser (Reichsstatthalter der Warthegau), a collection of files from criminal proceedings and many others. Records relate to: Poznań, Żabikowo, Chełmno (Kulmhof) Śrem, Kórnik, Łódź, Kalisz, Włocławek, Gniezno, Ostrów, Kepno, Szamotuły.

  6. Selected records of the District Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Siedlce Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Siedlcach (GK 180)

    Minutes, official correspondence, a study entitled "Losses of the Siedlce county during the Nazi occupation", a study about the Treblinka camp based on the investigation materials of the prosecutor Zdzisław Łukaszewicz, testimonies of witnesses and lists of those murdered in the Biała Podlaska, Łuków, Siedlce county, testimony of Piotr Litwiniusz on the mass execution of Jews in the Łomża Podlaska counties, materials on Soviet prisoner-of-war camps in Ostrówek, Kaliłów, Sielczyk, Suchożrebach and Wola Suchożerbska, camp for Italian and French prisoners of war in Siedlce, materials on war cr...

  7. Selected records of the District Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Warsaw Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Warszawie (GK 182)

    Reports, correspondence, hearings of witnesses regarding the action of the Polish underground in Warsaw, materials about the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 - various information, studies, accounts, notes, list of executions, situational sketches and maps, list of commanders and military units; account of German crimes committed in September 1939; investigation materials against Erich von dem Bach, Heinz Reinefarth, Otto Geibel and other German commanders suppressing the Warsaw Uprising; study on the Chełmno (Kulmhof) extermination camp; materials on the "Gęsiówka" and Pawiak prisons in Warsaw; que...

  8. Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich we Wrocławiu (GK 183)

    Contains lists of camps, lists of KL Gross-Rosen prisoners, file of the Gross-Rosen camp, interrogations of former prisoners of Gross-Rosen and sub-camps in Miłoszyce and Laskowice, inspection report of the camp, investigation of the mass grave in Rogoźnica, exhumations and examination of corpses, lists of war graves, and correspondence regarding prisoners of war.

  9. Selected records of the Legation of the Republic of Poland in Stockholm Poselstwo Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Sztokholmie (GK 186)

    Records relating to German war criminals, descriptions of crimes, description of everyday life in concentration camps in the Third Reich, territories incorporated to the Reich and in the General Government (Poland). Includes file cards of orphan children of Polish parents murdered or missing during World War II, as well as individual and collective photographs of children - depicting the help of Polish welfare committees

  10. Selected records of the Collection of Jan Sehn Archiwum Jana Sehna (GK 190)

    Archives collected by Jan Sehn, a chairman of the District Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Kraków, head of the Documentation Department of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum in Oświęcim, full secretary of the Minister of Justice for prosecuting war criminals. Consist of notes, correspondence regarding the publication of memories of Rudolf Höss, KL Auschwitz commander and other matters related to war crimes, memories of Rudolf. Hössa, his statement, account, and opinion about high-ranking SS officers.

  11. Selected records of the Special Criminal Court at the Warsaw Appeal District located in Łódź Specjalny Sąd Karny na Okręg Apelacyjny Warszawski z siedzibą w Łodzi (GK 209)

    Contains selected files of criminal trials conducted in the Special Penalty Court in Warsaw, seat in Łódź during the years 1944-1946. These trials pertain to crimes committed against Jews and Poles in Poland during the German occupation. Most of investigation were discontinued. Trials were based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka”), issued by the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN), concerning the punishment of German criminals guilty of murders and persecution of civilians and prisoners of war, and the punishment of traitors to the Polish Nation. "Sierpniówka" was one o...

  12. Selected records of the Court of Appeals in Warsaw Sąd Apelacyjny w Warszawie (GK 227)

    Contains selected files of criminal trials conducted by the Court of Appeals in Warsaw during the years 1947-1951. These trials pertain to crimes committed against Jews and Poles in Poland during the German occupation. Most of investigation were discontinued. Trials were based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka”), issued by the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN), concerning the punishment of German criminals guilty of murders and persecution of civilians and prisoners of war, and the punishment of traitors to the Polish Nation. "Sierpniówka" was one of the world's first...

  13. Selected records of the Provincial Court of the capital city of Warsaw Sąd Wojewódzki dla miasta stołecznego Warszawy 1950-1970 (GK 317)

    Contains selected files of criminal trials conducted by the Provincial Court for city of Warsaw. These trials pertain to crimes committed against Jews and Poles in Poland during the German occupation. Most of investigation were discontinued. Trials were based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka”), issued by the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN), concerning the punishment of German criminals guilty of murders and persecution of civilians and prisoners of war, and the punishment of traitors to the Polish Nation. "Sierpniówka" was one of the world's first legislation on li...

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

    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.

  15. Komendant Policji Porządkowej Dystryktu Radomskiego Der Kommandeur der Ordnungspolizei im Distrikt Radom (GK 648)

    Personal files of Polish police officers in the District of Radom during occupation of Poland. Consists of correspondence, reports, certificates and a list of employed engineers and technicians in the ammunition factory in Skarżysko Kamienna. Includes personal files of the following police officers (Volksdeutsche): Franz Bartkowiak, Bruno Bilau, Zdzisław Ciecierski, Adolf Felscher, Georg Hessler, Gustav Kapler, Ernst Lachmann, August Mittelstädt, Sigismund Radtke/Radke, Reinhold Weiss, Adolf Zelcher.

  16. Posterunek Żandarmerii w Żyrardowie Gendarmerie Posten Żyrardów (GK 657)

    Reports, correspondence, interrogation’s protocols regarding work and events with the intervention of the gendarmerie. Includes personal files of the gendarmes.

  17. Grupa Bojowa Reinefahrta w Warszawie 1944 Kampfgruppe Reinefahrt Warshau 1944 (GK 661)

    Records relating to the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. Includes German reports, information on the situation among Polish fighters and civilians in Warsaw, interrogations of Home Army officers (Teofil Suscitowski, Ryszard Jankowski, Henryk Wilczkowiak, Józef Hoffman), and documents of Sonderkomando Spilker (photocopies from the German archives).

  18. Służba Specjalna Batalion Zastępczy w Lublinie Sonderdienst Ersatz-Bataillon Lublin (GK 689)

    Personal files of SS-Sturmbannführer Anton Binner along with his private correspondence. administrative files: correspondence, service assignments, promotions, lists of members of the SS Substitute Battalion of the Special Services in Lublin, orders, reports on business travel, and financial settlements. Includes a protocol on the dissolution of Sonderdienst E-Bataillon, February 22, 1941, and photographs of the 1th company.

  19. Pluton Żandarmerii w Tarnowie Gendarmeriezug Tarnów (GK 693)

    Circular letters, reports, correspondence on the Home Army (Armia Krajowa)-Polish resistance movement.

  20. Sztafety Ochronne. Straż Wiejska w Lublinie. Inspekcja w Zamościu SS Landwach Lublin. Inspektion Nord-Zamość (GK 697)

    Orders, correspondence, protocols of interrogations, criminal reports; judgments of the Police Court SS No. VI in Lublin, name lists of members of the SS Rural Guard, and a list of men of German nationality in the commune of Miaczyn from March 1, 1944. Records relate to personal matters of the members of SS-Landwacht-Inspektion-Nord Zamosc; trainings, regulations, promotions; the search for Jewish escapees; and investigations into the death of Sonderndienstmann, Heinrich Schmidt.