Prosecutor's Office of Provincial Court in Kielce Selected records from the Prokurator Sądu Wojewódzkiego w Kielcach (Sygn. GK 461)

Identifier
irn47309
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.109
  • RG-15.209M
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1950
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn47309

Extent and Medium

5,825 digital images, JPEG

6 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm

Creator(s)

  • Poland. S?d Okr?gowy w Kielcach

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, Poland, Sygn. GK 461. Records created by the Prosecutor's Office of the District Court in Kielce, 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 files of investigations conducted by the Prosecutor’s Office of the District Court in Kielce during the years 1945-1950, for crimes by 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

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

  • Criminal justice, Administration of.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Investigations.
  • War crime trials--Poland--Kielce.
  • War victims--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
  • War criminals--Government policy--Poland.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
  • Województwo Świętokrzyskie (Poland)
  • Poland--History--World War, 1939-1945--Trials, litigation, etc.
  • War criminals--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--Poland.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Poland.
  • Courts
  • Kielce (Poland)
  • Kielce (Poland : Voivodeship)--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
  • Communism--Poland--History--20th century.
  • Kielce Trials, Wrocław, Poland, 1945-1950.

Genre

  • Document
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.

Copies

  • Archiwum Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu

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