District Court in Zamość Selected records from the Sąd Okręgowy w Zamościu (Sygn. GK 299)

Identifier
irn47323
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.127
  • RG-15.224M
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1956
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • Russian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn47323

Extent and Medium

13,811 digital images, JPEG

13 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm

Creator(s)

  • Poland. S?d Okr?gowy w Zamo?ciu

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, IPN (Institute of National Remembrance), Poland, Sygn. GK 299. Records created by the District Court in Zamość, 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

Records from trials at the District Court in Zamość, 1945‒1966, for crimes committed 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

Arrangement is numerical by the court files, and mainly alphabetical by names of defendants. 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

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

Genre

  • Protocols.
  • Document
  • Reports.
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

Other Connected Items