Selected records from the Sąd Okręgowy w Rzeszowie (SOR), (Sygn. GK 283)
Extent and Medium
12,238 digital images, JPEG
11 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
Creator(s)
- Poland. S?d Okr?gowy w Rzeszowie
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), Poland, Sygn. GK 283. Records created by the Sąd Okręgowy w Rzeszowie (SOR) (District Court in Rzeszὀw), Poland, and later transferred by the court’s archives to the IPN. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the IPN via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in July 2012.
Scope and Content
Selected records from trials at the district court in Rzeszὀw, 1945‒1966, for crimes by the Germans and their collaborators. Prosecutions based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (Sierpniówka) of the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN, Polish Committee of National Liberation), one of the world's first laws on liability for crimes of World War II. Decree also applied against former partisans of the anti-Communist Armia Krajowa, or Home Army, whom Stalinist propaganda portrayed as collaborators.
System of Arrangement
The collection is arranged alphabetically by the name of the defendant. The case file numbers are included following the file name, together with the abbreviation “SOR”, which is the Polish abbreviation for the District Court of Rzeszὀw, e.g, “Buszta, Andrzej…. (SOR 137) 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
- War criminals--Government policy--Poland.
- War victims--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
- Courts
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Poland.
- Communism--Poland--History--20th century.
- War crime trials
- Rzeszὀw Trials, Częstochowa, Poland, 1945-1950.
- Województwo Podkarpackie (Poland)--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Investigations.
- Poland--History--World War, 1939-1945--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Rzeszów (Poland)
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
- War crime trials--Poland--Rzeszὀw.
- Prisoners of war--Poland--Rzeszὀw.
- War criminals--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
Genre
- Document
- Protocols.
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