District Commission in Katowice to Investigate the Nazi Crimes Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Katowicach

Identifier
irn39498
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2010.16
  • RG-15.160M
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1949
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

4,603 digital images, JPEG

5 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 (IPN), Warsaw, Poland. Records were created by the District Commission in Katowice to Investigate the Nazi Crimes from 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 Katowice to Investigate the Nazi Crimes of the Silesia territory. Records are very diverse and include files of investigations of German crimes; files on wanted war criminals and verdicts of criminal trials against war criminals, including the case of the crew of KL Auschwitz and its chief officer, Rudolf Hoess; administrative files, including lists of the members of the Commission; case files of SS and Gestapo officers, German physicians, and collaborators, the verdicts of German Sondergerichte; also contains questionnaires concerning locations and facts of German crimes.

System of Arrangement

Files organized in the following order: Reel 1: 1-2; 4-6; 6a-6b; 8; 10-12; 14-16; 19-20; 22-25; 28; 31-32; Reel 2: 33; 35-36; 41-45; 49-50; 52; 57-59; 64; 76; 79-80; 82-83; 85-87; 90-97; Reel 3: 101; 103; 110; 115; 119; 123-124; 127; 129-131; 140; 144; 146-149; 152; 154; 166; 171; 174-176; 180; 186; 192; 202; 204-205; 212; Reel 4: 216; 231; 233; 236; 243; 247; 250-251; 253-255; 264; 266-267; 269; 271-274; 276; 279; Reel 5: 281; 284; 286-287; 289; 291; 297; 299. 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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