Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu
Copyright Holder: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu
Selected files from investigations by the prosecutor’s office of the district court in Lublin, 1945‒1950, for crimes by the Germans and their collaborators. Based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (Sierpniówka) of the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN, Polish Committee of National Liberation), one of the world's first laws punishing crimes of World War II .Decree also applied to former partisans of the Armia Krajowa (Home Army), whom Communism propaganda portrayed as collaborators.
14,502 digital images, JPEG 13 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
Selected records from the Prokurator Sądu Okręgowego w Lublinie (Sygn. GK 418)
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