Prosecutor's Office of a Special Appeal Court in Lublin Prokurator Specjalnego Sądu Apelacyjnego w Lublinie (Sygn.GK 377)
Extent and Medium
3,800 digital images, JPEG
4 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
Creator(s)
- Poland. S?d Apelacyjny w Lublinie.
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, Warsaw, Poland, Sygn. GK 377. Records created by the Prosecutor’s Office of a Special Appeal Court in Lublin, 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
The collection contains selected files of the prosecutor’s investigations from the Prosecutor’s Office of Special Appeal Court in Lublin during the years 1945-1956. These investigations pertain to crimes committed against Jews and Poles in Poland during the German occupation. Most of the investigation was discontinued. These investigations 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), which the Communist propaganda in the 40’s and 50’s attempted to portray as German collaborators.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is numerical by the court files, and 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
- Poland--History--World War, 1939-1945--Trials, litigation, etc.
- War crime trials--Poland--Lublin.
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Poland.
- Województwo lubelskie (Poland)--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- War victims--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
- Lublin (Poland)
- Courts
- Polish people--Crimes against--Poland--Lublin (Voivodeship)--History--20th century.
- War crime trials
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- War criminals--Government policy--Poland.
- War criminals--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
- Communism--Poland--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Investigations.
Genre
- Reports.
- Protocols.
- 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