Collection of Marian Godziszewski concerning crime in Wawer Zbiory Mariana Godziszewskiego dotyczące zbrodni wawerskiej (Sygn.1583)
Extent and Medium
530 digital images, PDF
Creator(s)
- Marian Godziszewski
Archival History
Archiwum Państwowe w Warszawie
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 Państwowe w Warszawie, Poland, Sygn. 1583. 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.
Scope and Content
Materials related to the Wawer Massacre on December 27, 1939. Archives were collected by Marian Godziszewski, whose father was murdered in Wawer Massacre. The collection includes, among other materials, extracts from the trial of Max Daume accused of crimes (copies of court files), outlines of articles, exhumation descriptions, lists of executed people, including Jews, lists of people who were murdered in the first months of the war near Wawer, surveys of families of victims of Wawer massacre, correspondence with publishing houses, backstage of the book about the Wawer crime, parts of the association's file about the crime and photographs.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in three series: 1. Trial of Max Daume, 1947 (Wawer Massacre, December 27, 1939); 2. Protocols, notes, correspondence: Materials related to the publication of a book on the Wawer massacre; 3. Collection of various studies, news clippings and correspondence on the Wawer Massacre.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
People
- Daume, Max,--Trials, litigation, etc., 1894-1947.
- Wenzel, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1890-1947.
Subjects
- Trials (Crimes against humanity)--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--Wawer.
- Jews--Crimes against--Poland--20th century.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Polish people--Crimes against--Poland--20th century.
- Wawer (Poland)
- Wawer Massacre, Poland, 1939.
Genre
- Registers.
- Document
- Photographs.
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Correspondence.
- Reports.