Records of the Gendarmerie Kreis Hermansbad (, ) (Sygn. 71), 1939-1944

RG-15.013M

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024-2126 Tel. (202) 479-9717 Email: [email protected]

Descriptive Summary

Title: Records of the Gendarmerie Kreis Hermansbad (Ciechocinek, Poland) (Sygn. 71)

Dates: 1939-1944

RG Number: RG-15.013M

Accession Number: 1993.A.0016

Creator: Gendarmerie Kreis Hermannsbad. Germany. Geheime Staatspolizei.

Extent: 4 microfilm reels (35 mm)

Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126

Languages: German and Polish

Administrative Information

Restrictions on access: Researchers must complete and sign a User Declaration form before access is granted to materials from the Institute of National Remembrance (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej).

Restrictions on reproduction and use: 1. Each researcher using the materials obtained from the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) or materials whose originals belong to the IPN must complete the registration procedure required by USHMM.

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2. Publication or reproduction of documents (in the original language, in facsimile form or in the form of a translation of an excerpt or of the entire document) or making them available to a third party in any form requires the written consent of the Institute of National Remembrance. The use of an excerpt defined as the fair use right to quote does not require obtaining consent. 3. Researchers assume all responsibility for the use of materials that belong to the Institute of National Remembrance. 4. References to documents that belong to the Institute of National Remembrance must cite the Institute of National Remembrance as the owner of the original documents and include the full reference citation of the Institute of National Remembrance in the citations.

Preferred bibliographic citation: Group reference, group name, extreme dates, archive name. The owner of the original documents (IPN, ref. XXXXX)

Preferred footnote/endnote citation: Archive name, group reference, group name, extreme dates, information identifying the documents (original documents' reference; IPN, ref. XXXXX)

Acquisition Information: Purchased from the Instytut Pamięci Narodowej–Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, Poland, Sygn. 71. 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.

Accruals: Accruals may have been received since this collection was first processed, see archives catalog at collections.ushmm.org for further information.

Custodial History

Existence and location of originals: The original files and the copyright to them are held by the Institute of National Remembrance - Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation (Institute of National Remembrance), ul. Wotoska 7, 02-675, Poland. Phone no. + 48 22 581 85 00.

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 their website: https://ipn.gov.pl

Processing History: Aleksandra B. Borecka

Scope and Content of Collection

Contains information about the persecution of Jews and Gypsies; resettlement of Polish and German nationals; homosexuals placed in preventive custody; deportations of Jews and non-Jews; Jewish communities; Jews transported to Chelmno killing center in April 1942; Jewish labor battalions; escaped prisoners of war; political prisoners; statistics on Jewish populations; expropriation of Jewish property; killing of Jews who tried to escape from Inowroclaw (a.k.a Hohensalza) Ghetto; transports;

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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; and compulsory and slave labor, Reel 1 contains collections of newsletters or Meldbläter for police offices in Hohensalza, Litzmannstadt (Łódź), and Posen (Poznań).

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

This collection is arranged thematically.

Indexing Terms

Germany. Geheime Staatspolizei. Chelmno (Concentration camp) Gendarmerie. Kreis Hermannsbad. Inowrocław (Concentration camp) Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Inwrocław. Jews—Poland--Inowrocław--Registers. Jews --Poland--Warsaw. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Inowrocław. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw. Polish people--Crimes against--Poland. Romanies --Nazi persecution. Cichocinek (Poland) Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. Warsaw (Poland)—History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943. Newsletters. Registers.

CONTAINER LIST

Reel File Description

1 1 Collection of bulletins entitled Meldblatt der Kriminalpolizeistelle Hohensalza, nos. 1-9, 11-13 for 1940; nos. 1-3, 5-18 for 1941; nos. 1-4,

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6-11 for 1942. 355 pages.

2 Collection of bulletins entitled Meldblatt der Kriminalpolizeistelle Litzmanstadt (Lodz), nos. 3-10 for 1940; nos. 11-14 for 1941. 163 pages.

Collection of bulletins entitled Meldblatt der Kriminalpolizeistelle 3 Poznań nos. 1-6, 8-13 for 1940; nos. 2-3, 10-12, 16-17, 20-21, 24 for 1941. 180 pages.

Police station in Aleksandrów - District Hermannstadt, county 4 Hohensalza: weekly and biweekly situation reports. November 1939 - February 1941. 85 pages.

2 5 Rural police station - Hermannsbad: monthly reports from police stations in Alexandrów, Koneck, Ciechocinek, Służew, Radziejów, Osienciny, Bytom, Dobre, Piotrków Kujawski. 1940 - 1943. 44 pages.

Rural police station in Hermannsbad: monthly and quarterly reports of 6 individual police stations. 1941 -1942. 137 pages.

Collection of situational monthly and quarterly reports for 8 August 7 1940 - 1 January 1943 prepared for the authorities in Inowrocław. 1940 - 1943. 79 pages.

Periodic situational reports and telegrams concerning unusual events 8 such as political affairs and sabotage from subordinate police posts. 1942 - 1943. 82 pages.

Rural police station Petrikau, District Aleksandrów/Wisła (on the 9 ), county Hohensalza: report of the commandant of the police concerning the robbery murder in the village of Dembolenko. 1940. 3 pages.

1Police district Hermannsbad, county Hohensalza: Denouncements and 10 reports of the rural police stations about the detection of criminal and political activities. 1940 - 1943. 384 pages.

Rural police district Hermannsbad: Collection of telegrams received 11 from police posts from the Inowrocław region concerning POWs, POW camps, etc. January 1943 - December 1943. 204 pages.

3 12 Letter of the commanding officer at the district presidents' office concerning the introduction of changes in the printed report forms. 1942 - 1943. 9 pages.

13 Report concerning border traffic. 1941 - 1942.2 pages.

14 Report for the traffic police concerning traffic control carried out on 12-

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13 May 1940. 3 pages.

15 Reports of the rural police posts about executed traffic controls. 1941 - 1942. 4 pages.

16 Letter of the Higher SS and police chiefs with the governor of Poznan (Posen) concerning the controls of vehicles going over the speed limit. 1941 - 1942. 2 pages.

17 County police Aleksandrów, district Hermannsbad: letter concerning the removal of Michal Blacz from the village of Biale blota. 1943. 2 pages.

Anonymous denouncements to German authorities about smuggling 18 and bootlegging by the inhabitants of the village of Boguszyce and Boguszycki. 1942 - 1943. 4 pages.

Situation report from the district Nieszawa. 1939. 3 pages. 19

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