Overview
- Description
- Personal documents of prisoners of KL Lublin-Majdanek taken from them upon arrival: approximately 1,800 items such as identity cards, certificates, diplomas, birth certificates, work books, books, financial documents, memoirs, correspondence, photo albums, and so on. One treasure is the memoir by a woman arriving from the Warsaw ghetto.
- Alternate Title
- KL Lublin-Majdanek, Private documents of prisoners
- Date
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inclusive:
1923-1944
- Credit Line
- 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.
- Collection Creator
- Pa?stwowe Muzeum na Majdanku
- Reference
- Kiełboń, Janina. Akta Archiwum Państwowego Muzeum na Majdanku. „Archeion”, R. XXXVII, 1962, s. 207-228.
Kiełboń, Janina. Warsztat Naukowy Państwowego Muzeum na Majdanku. „Zeszyty Majdanka” 1995, t. XVI, s. 71-89.
Mencel, Tadeusz. Dokumenty zbrodni i męczeństwa w obozie na Majdanku. Lublin: [In:] Majdanek 1941-1944,1991, s. 5-17.
Physical Details
- Extent
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3,580 digital images : JPEG ; 7.58 GB .
4 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in the microfilmed reels. Arranged in two series: 1. Files of prisoners whose identity can be determined, and arranged in alphabetical order by family name; 2. Files of prisoners whose names cannot be determined, and arranged by nationality (determined by the language of the documents). The files are organized in four parts: 1, V.1 vol. 1-13; 2, V.1 vol. 14-24; 3, V.1 vol. 25-29 – V.2 vol.1-8; 4, 4 V.2 vol. 9-21.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Copying of more than several documents for a third party requires the permission of the Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku, Poland. No publication of the materials on the Internet, or any public domain without the special permission from the source archives allowed. Users may need to pay fee for material usage.
- Copyright Holder
- Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Concentration camp inmates--Poland--Lublin. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Europe.
- Geographic Name
- Lublin (Poland)--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Corporate Name
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku (Majdanek State Museum), Sygn. V. The documents were found after the war on the territory of the camp. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in July 2012.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-03-05 15:13:50
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