World War II (1939-1945)

1935-1944, Berlin
Files of witchcraft trials compiled by employees of a special SS cell, called H-Sonderkommando.  more »

1941-1944
Announcements issued by German authorities were aimed at intimidating Polish society. They were drawn up according to one pattern, presenting "offences" for which hostages had been sentenced to death. Most often those were assassinations attempts on a clerk, a soldier or a German policeman. There were also appeals to people of Warsaw for cooperation with the occupant and not attacking Germans anymore. Otherwise there was a threat of further executions of "hostages".  more »

1942, Warsaw
Direction of Civil Combat summons Poles to collect materials on German crimes and warns Polish clerks serving Germans and taking bribes.  more »

1941-1944, Potulice
Photographs documenting building of the German Migration Center in Potulice for Polish families displaced from Pomerania.  more »

The 7th of January 1942, Lodz
One of lists which together include about 600 names of Gypsies, victims of a typhus epidemic, compiled by Department of Health (Gesundheitsamt) of City Board in Lodz.  more »

The 6th of November 1939, Cracow
A card of arrest of Tadeusz Lehr-Splawinski rector of the Jagiellonian University. Unparalleled in history of the mankind arresting and sending to a death camp Cracow scientists and academics has become commonly described with a police and Gestapo term "Sonderaktion Krakau" - Special Action Cracow.  more »

1943, 1944 Zwierzyniec, county of Zamosc
A list of children taken from a camp of the discplaced at Zwierzyniec in July-August 1943.  more »

March 1943, Majdanek
A first sheet of a list of female prisoners from Belorus transported to the Majdanek concentration camp.  more »