District Court in Białystok (SOB) Sąd Okręgowy w Białymstoku (SOB), Sygn. GK 205
Extent and Medium
9,885 digital images, JPEG
9 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
Creator(s)
- Poland. S?d Okr?gowy w Bia?ymstoku
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, Warsaw, Poland - Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation (IPN) Warsaw, Poland, Sygn. GK 205 (SOB). Records created by the District Court Bialystok during the trials held from 1945 to 1969. The court proceedings later became a part of the court’s archives. Records were transferred to the IPN and eventually became a part of the records group SOB.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 selected files from trials in the District Court in Białystok from 1945 to 1969. These trials pertain to crimes committed against Jews and Poles during the German occupation. 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 liability for war crimes committed during World War II. This decree also applied to soldiers of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa) whom the Communist propaganda in the 40’s and 50’s attempted to portray as German collaborators.
System of Arrangement
Organized by the court case numbers. 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
- Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Registers.
- War victims--Poland--Białystok--Registers.
- Województwo Białystockie (Poland)--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Justice, Administration of--Poland--Białystok.
- Poland--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- War crime trials
- Poland--History--German occupation, 1939-1944. .
- Prisoners of war--Soviet--Poland--Białystok.
- World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--Poland--Białystok.
- Courts
- War criminals--Poland--Białystok--Registers.
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction & pillage--Poland--Białystok.
- War crime trials--Poland--Białystok.
- Białystok (Poland)--History.
- BiałystokTrials, Białystok, Poland, 1945-1950.
- Białystok (Poland)
Genre
- Reports.
- Registers.
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu