Selected records of the District Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Siedlce Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Siedlcach (GK 180)
Extent and Medium
2,446 digital images, PDF
Creator(s)
- Okre?gowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Siedlcach
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
Minutes, official correspondence, a study entitled "Losses of the Siedlce county during the Nazi occupation", a study about the Treblinka camp based on the investigation materials of the prosecutor Zdzisław Łukaszewicz, testimonies of witnesses and lists of those murdered in the Biała Podlaska, Łuków, Siedlce county, testimony of Piotr Litwiniusz on the mass execution of Jews in the Łomża Podlaska counties, materials on Soviet prisoner-of-war camps in Ostrówek, Kaliłów, Sielczyk, Suchożrebach and Wola Suchożerbska, camp for Italian and French prisoners of war in Siedlce, materials on war criminals in the counties of Biała Podlaska, Garwolin, Radzyń, and Siedlce. Files on germanization of Polish children and displacement from the Zamość region to the city and Siedlce county. Materials about the war graves of Belgian and Dutch citizens, questioning of witnesses about pseudo-medical experiences in KL Ravensbrück.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in seven groups: 1. Minutes of Committee meetings; 2. Reports and publications; 3. Testimonies of witnesses concerning German crimes in various areas of Poland; 4. Archives of the camps of Soviet, Italian and French prisoners of war, 5. Correspondence and letters concerning war crimes; 6. Correspondence on the Germanization of Polish children, medical experiments in Ravensbrück, and other crimes; 7. Letters coming in and out of the office of the Regional Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu
Corporate Bodies
- Treblinka (Concentration camp)
- Wola Suchożebrska (Concentration camp)
- Frontstalag 316
- Kaliłów (Concentration camp)
- Wola Suchożebrska (Concentration camp)
- Siedlce (Concentration camp)
- Sielczyk (Concentration camp)
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Orchówek (Lublin, Poland)
- Ostrówek (Poland)
- Kaliłów (Poland)
- Wola Suchożebrska (Poland)
- Radzyń (Poland)
- Treblinka (Poland)
- Children--Crimes against--Poland--Siedlce (Powiat)--History--20th century.
- Prisoner-of-war camps--Poland--Siedlce (Powiat)
- Garwolin (Poland)
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Poles--Persecutions--Poland--Siedlce (Powiat)--History--20th century.
- Crimes against humanity--Poland--History--20th century.
- Prisoners and prisons--Poland--Siedlce (Powiat)
- Łomża (Poland : Powiat)
- Sielczyk (Poland)
- Siedlce (Poland : Powiat)
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Poland--Siedlce (Powiat)
- War crimes investigation--Poland--Siedlce (Powiat)--History--20th century.
- War criminals--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
- Suchożreby (Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--Siedlce (Powiat)
- Ravensbrück (Germany)
- Łuków (Poland)--History--20th century.
- Biała Podlaska (Poland)
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland--Siedlce (Powiat)--History--20th century.
- Mass burials--Poland--Siedlce (Powiat)
Genre
- Document
- Manuscripts.
- Announcements.
- Questionnaires.
- Minutes.
- Correspondence.
- Testimonies.