Urząd Okręgu Warszawskiego Selected records of the Amt des Distrikts Warschau Amt des Distrikts Warschau (GK 101)
Extent and Medium
270 digital images, PDF
Archival History
Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu
Acquisition
Source of acquisition is the Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Jan. 2020. This is a cooperative project based on the agreement between USHMM and Yad Vashem, Israel.
Scope and Content
Telephone and address book of the Office of the Head of Warsaw District and subordinate German authorities and institutions in Warsaw; ordinances and circulars, reports regarding the political, economic and cultural situation in the Warsaw District at the end of March 1940. Includes official correspondence, personal files of prison guards at Rakowiecka Street in Warsaw, reports on escaped prisoners, and situational reports.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in six groups: 1.Telephone and address book; 2. Collection of orders and circulars of the District Governor and the Head of the Office; 3. Correspondence between government bodies of the GG at various levels regarding official and private property of the evacuated from the GG; 4. Personal file of the prison guard in Warsaw prison at street Rakowiecka: Leopold Winkler, Oberwachmeister; 5. Reports, interrogation protocols of guards and prisoners, correspondence relating to the escapes of prisoners from Warsaw prisons; 6. Monthly situational reports of the gendarmerie platoon (Gendarmeriezug) in Warsaw.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu
Corporate Bodies
- Nazi Party
Subjects
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Prisons.
- Warsaw (Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Poland--Warsaw.
- Prisoners and prisons--Poland--History--20th century.
- Mokotów (Warsaw, Poland)--History--20th century.
- Warsaw (Poland)--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw.
Genre
- Address books.
- Circulars.
- Reports.
- Document
- Correspondence.