Justice Ministry : Files of the State Public Prosecutor's Offices ; miscellaneous matters Justizministerium : Akten der Staatsanwaltschaften. Verschiedene Angelegenheiten

Identifier
irn39702
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2010.37
  • RG-17.033M
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn39702

Extent and Medium

16,180 digital images, JPEG

20 microfilm reel, 35 mm

2 DVD-ROMs, 4 3/4 in.

Creator(s)

  • Austria. Justizministerium

Archival History

Österreichisches Staatsarchiv

Acquisition

From the Österreichisches Staatsarchiv (Austrian State Archives); a sub-collection of a larger group of records of the Ministry of Justice (Signatur: AT-OeSTA/AVA Justiz), Public Prosecutor's Offices ,1939-1945; miscellaneous matters, cartons 4875 to 4891. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in April 2010.

Scope and Content

Consists of administrative orders and internal reports pertaining to prisons and incarceration facilities in Polish territories occupied by the Third Reich. A preponderance of documents in this collection were issued by the Prosecutor's Office in Katowice, Poland (Kattowitz) in regard to prisons and incarceration facilities in Bielsko Biala (Bielitz) and the Prosecutor's Office in Wrocław (Breslau) in regard to prisons and incarceration facilities in Sosnowiec (Sosnowitz). Includes ordinances about treatment of political prisoners, POWs, and Polish slave laborers; reports about prisoner escapes, accidental deaths, cases of illness and injury, and other prisoner-related incidents; as well as personnel matters related to prison staff. Microfilm reels 19 and 20 contain political cases brought before the Vienna Court(Landesgericht Wien).

System of Arrangement

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Corporate Bodies

  • Ministry of Justice (Austria)

Subjects

  • Poland--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
  • Poland--Politics and government--1918 -1938.
  • Katowice (Poland)
  • Nazis--Legal status, laws, etc.
  • Wrocław (Poland)
  • Vienna (Austria)
  • Courts
  • War crime trials--Austria.
  • War crime trials--Poland.
  • Bielsko Biała (Poland)
  • Sosnowiec (Poland)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish--Registers.
  • Criminal justice, Administration of.

Genre

  • Document
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