District Commission in Lublin to Investigate the Nazi Crimes Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Lublinie

Identifier
irn39491
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2010.15
  • RG-15.159M
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1949
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

19,561 digital images, JPEG

19 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm

Creator(s)

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, Warsaw, Poland. Records created by the District Commission in Lublin to Investigate the Nazi Crimes between 1944 to 1949. Later, in 1998, custody of the records was transferred to the newly established 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 records of the District Commission in Lublin to Investigate the Nazi Crimes of the Lublin province. Records are very diverse and include files of investigation of German crimes; administrative files, including lists of the members of the Commission; reports and correspondence of the Commission; log books of correspondence, questionnaires with information about places and facts of German crimes; name lists of the deported, arrested and murdered people during the WWII; witnesses’ testimonies; registration cards of the wanted war criminals; name lists of the German officers of the Lublin district; documents related to the various concentration camps; also contains press materials and genuine German documentation.

System of Arrangement

Records arranged by geographical locations. 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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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.