Selected records of the District Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Warsaw Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Warszawie (GK 182)
Extent and Medium
11,375 digital images, PDF
Creator(s)
- Okr?gowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Warszawie
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
Reports, correspondence, hearings of witnesses regarding the action of the Polish underground in Warsaw, materials about the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 - various information, studies, accounts, notes, list of executions, situational sketches and maps, list of commanders and military units; account of German crimes committed in September 1939; investigation materials against Erich von dem Bach, Heinz Reinefarth, Otto Geibel and other German commanders suppressing the Warsaw Uprising; study on the Chełmno (Kulmhof) extermination camp; materials on the "Gęsiówka" and Pawiak prisons in Warsaw; questioning of witnesses in the case of KL Gross-Rosen, camp Luckenwalde, KL Majdanek, KL Neuengamme, KL Auschwitz, KL Flossenburg, KL Stutthof, KL Orangeburg, KL Ravensbrück, stalag No. 333 for Soviet prisoners of war in Ostrówek, oflag Woldenberg (Dobiegniewo), camp in Pomiechówek and others. Includes also testimonies and other materials about the ghetto in Warsaw and Vilnius, extermination of Jews in Zamość and in ghettos near Zamość; round-ups of Poles for forced labor in the Reich, German crimes against civilians committed in Pruszków, Sękocin, Legionowo, Budzyń Mały, Międzborów, Podkowa, Gucin, Przyrów, Częstochowa, Rogowo, Rypin, Skarżysko and Radom; and records on crimes committed at the headquarters of the Warsaw Gestapo on Aleja Szucha and investigation files on war criminals.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in four groups: 1. Organizational materials, reports, correspondence, interrogation protocols, 1945-1948; 2. Materials related to the Warsaw Uprising: reports, maps, protocols of interrogations of witnesses, statistics, correspondence; 3. Investigative materials of Nazi camps and prisons; 4. Investigation files concerning German criminals. Organized in 218 digital folders.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu
People
- Leist, Ludwig,--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Göring, Hermann, 1893-1946--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Krupp, Alfried, 1907-1967--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Pohl, Oswald, 1892-1951--Trials, litigation, etc.
Corporate Bodies
- Gęsiówka (Concentration camp)
- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Oranienburg (Concentration camp)
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
- Pawiak (Prison)
- Chelmno (Concentration camp)
- Neuengamme (Concentration camp)
- Pomiechówek (Concentration camp)
- Stalag III A
- Flossenbürg (Concentration camp)
- Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp)
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Podkowa (Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland.
- Orchówek (Lublin, Poland)
- Rypin (Poland)
- Pomiechówek (Poland)
- Zamość (Poland)
- Rogowo (Poland)
- Częstochowa (Poland)
- Budzyń Mały (Poland)
- War crimes investigation--Poland--Warsaw--History--20th century.
- Radom (Poland)
- Sękocin (Poland)
- Prisoner-of-war camps--Poland.
- War criminals--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland--History--20th century.
- Legionowo (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
- Gucin (Poland)
- Przyrów (Poland)
- Prisoners and prisons--Poland.
- Międzborów (Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Poland--Warsaw.
- Skarżysko-Kamienna (Poland)
- Luckenwalde (Germany)
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Crimes against humanity--Poland--History--20th century.
- Warsaw (Poland : Voivodeship)
- Pruszków (Poland)
- Poles--Persecutions--Poland--History--20th century.
Genre
- Document
- Testimonies.
- Statistics.
- Photographs.
- Correspondence.
- Reports.