Collection of materials relating to World War II Zbiór materiałów z lat i dotyczących II wojny światowej (Sygn.271)
Extent and Medium
666 digital images, PDF
Archival History
Archiwum Akt Nowych
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 Archiwum Akt Nowych, Poland, Sygn. 271. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in December 2017. Note: This is a cooperative project based on the agreement between USHMM and Yad Vashem, Israel.
Scope and Content
Various materials relating to the World War II, including patriotic and anti-German poetry, prophecies referring to the future of Poland and Europe, an open letter to the General Gub. Dr. Hans Frank, condemning the inhuman crimes of the occupiers (1940), a list of Polish citizens saved from German concentration camps as a result of the action of Count Folke Bernadotte, provisions of German police equipment (Ordnungspolizei, ORPO), and reports of the Haupttreuhandstelle Ost., HTO (1939-1942).
System of Arrangement
Arranged in three series: 1. Polish literary work, prophecies, and letters relating to German atrocities in Poland; 2. Register of Polish citizens saved from German concentration camps by the Count Folke Bernadotte; 3. German documents and reports (ORPO, HTO).
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
People
- Frank, Hans, 1900-1946.
- Bernadotte, Folke, 1895-1948.
Corporate Bodies
- Germany. Haupttreuhandstelle Ost
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel Hauptamt Ordnungspolizei
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 Atrocities--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Poland.
- Police--Germany--History--20th century.
- Polish people--Crimes against--Poland--Registers.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.