Resources of the Institute of National Remembrance can be disclosed to interested people on the basis of a written application form directed to the Director of the Office for Preservation and Dissemination of Archival Records or Heads of the Branch Offices for Preservation and Dissemination of Archival Records.
Office for Preservation and Dissemination of Archival Records carries out applications in the following cases: to disclose records for scientific-research reasons to researchers representing research institutes, churches, scientific centres and to private people; to disclose records to public institutions which carry out their statutory goals on the basis of archival documents, such as Office for Combatants and the Repressed, Police offices, Internal Security Agency and Foreign Intelligence Agency, courts, public administration offices, Polish and foreign embassies and consulates; to the repressed people who either are interested in their files or need them to prove that they were discriminated against and repressed; to former agents of the security services to issue certificates about their graduation from studies, schools and courses; to employees of the Institute of National Remembrance (Public Education Office, Chief Commission for Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation) to carry out their statutory tasks.
The disclosed documents are previously properly prepared and streamlined in the reading halls of the archives at 2/4/6 Krasinskich square and at 28 Towarowa street in Warsaw.
Disclosed acts can be examined in the reading halls of the Institute of National Remembrance. They can be also photocopied, summarised or their extracts can be provided.
Access to documents takes place with safeguarding appropriate regulations on the protection of classified information as well as on the protection of personal data.
The records in possession of the Institute of National Remembrance are used in the process of certifying repatriations, cases of forced labour in the Third Reich and in the territories occupied by the Nazi as well as in the process of certifying repressions against people who acted in defence of an independent Polish State. Additionally, verified copies, extracts and reproductions of the preserved documents are issued on the basis of proper written applications. The certificates issued by the Office for Preservation and Dissemination of Archival Records constitute a basis for financial compensations e.g. from the resources of the Polish-German Reconciliation Foundation, Remembrance, Responsibility, Future or the Office of Combatants and the Repressed.
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