The District Commission in Częstochowa to Investigate the Nazi Crimes Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Częstochowie

Identifier
irn39490
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2010.14
  • RG-15.158M
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1949
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn39490

Extent and Medium

1,708 digital images, JPEG

2 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 Institute of National Remembrance - Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation (IPN) Warsaw, Poland. Records were created by the District Commission in Częstochowa to Investigate the Nazi Crimes between 1944 to 1949. 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 diverse records relating to the activity of the District Commission in Częstochowa to Investigate Nazi Crimes in the Częstochowa region. Includes files related to the investigation of German crimes; administrative files, including lists of the members of the commission and day-books; questionnaires with information about places and facts of German crimes; name lists of the people sentenced for death by the German Sondergerichte; name lists of the people shot or deported from Częstochowa it's vicinity to concentration camps; name lists of the German officers of the Częstochowa town and district; copies of the journal of the prisoners on detention for the investigation purposes; also contains a copy of the study: “Z życia Częstochowy w czasie okupacji” (“From the lifetime of Częstochowa during the occupation”); and photocopies and original files, photographs, situation sketches, names of victims.

System of Arrangement

The files are organized in the following order: Reel 1: File 1, 5, 10-12, 13-13a, 14-19. Reel 2: File 20-27. 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

Corporate Bodies

  • HASAG Czestochowianka (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Prisoners of war--Soviet Union.
  • Myszków (Poland)
  • Radom (Poland)
  • Łazy Podlasie (Poland)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Poland--Częstochowa.
  • Tomaszów Mazowiecki (Poland)
  • Rawa Mazowiecka (Poland)
  • Execution sites--Poland--Czestochowa--History--20th century.
  • Mass burials--Belgians--Poland--Łazy Podlaskie.
  • Zawiercie (Poland)
  • Mass burials--Frenchman--Poland--Łazy Podlaskie.
  • Mass burials--Dutch--Poland--Łazy Podlaskie.
  • Rudniki Wielkie (Poland)
  • Concentration camp inmates--Poland--Częstochowa--Indexes.
  • War crimes--History--20th century.
  • Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--History.
  • Forced labor--Poland--Częstochowa.
  • Military sketching.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Częstochowa.
  • Polish people--Crimes against--Poland--Częstochowa--History--20th century.
  • Jews--Crimes against--Poland--Częstochowa--History--20th century.
  • Częstochowa (Poland)

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.

Copies

  • Archiwum Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu