District Court in Warsaw Sąd Okręgowy w Warszawie (Sygn. 654/III)

Identifier
irn73446
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2013.240
  • RG-15.269
Dates
1 Jan 1946 - 31 Dec 1956
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn73446

Extent and Medium

86,908 digital images,

Creator(s)

  • Beata Waś

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 m. st. Warszawy, Sygn. 654/III. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Dec. 2013.

Scope and Content

Contains selected files of criminal trials conducted at the District Court in Warsaw during the years 1946-1956. These trials pertain to crimes committed against Jews and Poles during the German occupation in Poland. Trials were based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka”), issued by the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN), concerning the punishment of war criminals guilty of murders and persecution of civilians and prisoners of war, and the punishment of traitors to the Polish Nation. "Sierpniówka" was one of the world's first legislation on liability for war crimes committed during World War II. This decree also applied to soldiers of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa) whom the Communist propaganda in the 40’s and 50’s attempted to portray as German collaborators.

System of Arrangement

Arranged in alphabetical order by the last name of defendants and court case numbers.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

Corporate Bodies

  • Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego

Subjects

  • Warsaw (Poland)
  • Courts
  • Justice, Administration of--Poland.
  • War crime trials--Poland--Warsaw.
  • War crimes--Poland.
  • Poles--Poland--History--1933-1945.
  • War criminals--Poland.
  • Poland--Politics and government--1933-1945.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Poland.
  • War victims--Poland.
  • War crime trials
  • Poland--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
  • Jews--Poland--History--1933-1945.

Genre

  • Reports.
  • Document
  • Protocols.
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