Provincial Court in Kielce Sąd Wojewódzki w Kielcach (Sygn. 306)

Identifier
irn73591
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2013.262
  • RG-15.291M
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1956
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • German
  • Russian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn73591

Extent and Medium

52,239 digital images, JPEG

45 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm

Creator(s)

  • Poland. S?d Wojewódzki w Kielcach

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. GK 306. 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 the Provincial Court in Kielce during the years 1945-1956. These trials refer the Decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka”), issued by the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN), concerning the punishment of Nazi criminals and their collaborators guilty of murder and persecution of civilians and prisoners of war and the punishment of traitors to the Polish Nation. Selected files mostly refer to crimes committed against Jews, but the collection contains also files related to Polish and Russian victims. 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

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--Destruction & pillage--German--Poland.
  • War crime trials
  • Justice, Administration of--Poland--Kielce (Voivodeship)
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
  • Poland--Politics and government--1933-1945.
  • Kielce (Poland : Voivodeship)--History--German occupation, 1939-1945.
  • War crime trials--Poland--Kielce.
  • War criminals--Poland--Kielce (Voivodeship)--Registers.
  • Poland--History--German occupation, 1941-1944. .
  • World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--Poland--Registers.
  • Prisoners of war--Poland--Kielce (Voivodeship)
  • Communism--Poland--History--20th century.
  • War victims--Poland--Kielce (Voivodeship)
  • Kielce (Poland)
  • Courts

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

Copies

  • Archiwum Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu

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