County Prosecutor's Office in Lublin Prokuratura Powiatowa w Lublinie (Sygn. 522)
Extent and Medium
806 digital images, JPEG
1 microfilm reel (digitized), 35 mm
Creator(s)
- Poland. Prokuratura Powiatowa w Lublinie
Archival History
Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu
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 Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, Sygn. 522. 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
This collection contains selected files created by the County Prosecutor’s Office concerning Articles 1 and 2 of the decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka”). These inquiries did not find their way to trial because the perpetrator could not be found, was found dead, or had escaped abroad, or the evidence was not sufficient to bring the case to the court, etc. The files of each case contains: information about the crime/offence, correspondence, protocols for arrest, protocols for search, protocols of inquiry of witnesses and suspects, motions of evidence and motions of inquiry, letters from the suspect and his family, decisions to discontinue the inquiry along with the justification, correspondence concerning the suspect’s release, death or disappearance. The “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 by the file numbers of court cases. Records are arranged in the original order of their acquisition from the source archive. The museum has acquired only selected records from Institute of National Remembrance (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, or IPN). More information about this collection and other materials in the possession of the Institute of National Remembrance, including archival finding aids from the Archives of the Institute of National Remembrance, is available at the website: https://ipn.gov.pl
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu
Corporate Bodies
- Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--Lublin (Voivodeship)--Investigations.
- War crime trials
- War criminals--Legal status, laws, etc.
- War victims--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
- Poland--History--World War, 1939-1945--Trials, litigation, etc.
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Poland.
- Lublin Trials, Lublin, Poland, 1945-1946.
- Lublin (Poland)
- Lublin (Poland)--History--20th century.
- Communism--Poland--History--20th century.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
- Lublin (Voivodeship)--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
Genre
- Correspondence.
- Protocols.
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu