Prosecutor's Office of the Lublin Province Prokuratura Wojewódzka w Lublinie (Sygn. GK 464)

Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu 

Prosecutor's Office of the Lublin Province Prokuratura Wojewódzka w Lublinie (Sygn. GK 464) 

9,728 digital images, JPEG 9 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm 

Records from trials at the provincial court in Lublin, 1945‒1966, for crimes committed by the 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 Communist propaganda portrayed as collaborators. 

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

Arrangement is numerical by the court files, and names of defendants. 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