Records of investigation and documentation of the Main Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Poland (B.d) Akta badawczo-dochodzeniowe Głównej Komisji Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Polsce (B.d.)

Identifier
irn39392
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2010.11
  • RG-15.155M
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1964
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

58,172 digital images, JPEG

59 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm

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 (IPN), Warsaw, Poland, the collection B.d. Records were created by the Commission to Investigate the Nazi Crimes from 1945 to 1964. Later in 1998, custody of the records was transferred to the newly established Institute of National Remembrance (IPN). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in February 2010.

Scope and Content

Contains investigation files on crimes committed by Nazi criminals in the concentration camps in Poland and Germany, as well as in ghettos, towns, and villages in Poland.

System of Arrangement

The files of Nazi criminals have mixed arrangement, no alphabetical order. 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.