Prosecutor's Office of Provincial Court in Kielce Selected records from the Prokurator Sądu Wojewódzkiego w Kielcach (Sygn. GK 461)

Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu 

Prosecutor's Office of Provincial Court in Kielce Selected records from the Prokurator Sądu Wojewódzkiego w Kielcach (Sygn. GK 461) 

5,825 digital images, JPEG 6 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm 

Selected files of investigations conducted by the Prosecutor’s Office of the District Court in Kielce during the years 1945-1950, for crimes by Germans and their collaborators. Prosecutions 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 on liability for crimes of World War II. Decree also applied against former partisans of the anti-Communist Armia Krajowa, or Home Army, whom Stalinist propaganda portrayed as collaborators. 

Copyright Holder: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu 

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