Overview
- Description
- The collection contains prisoners' correspondence, including secret letters and postcards, diaries, personal documents, as well as notices and orders from German authorities, dating from the years 1939 -1944; as well as lectures and studies about the prison that were conducted after the war. Altogether the collection includes 923 units and 3339 former prisoners’ surveys.
- Alternate Title
- Records of the Association of Former Prisoners of the Lublin Castle and the "Under the Clock" Prison
- Date
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inclusive:
1939-1991
- 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
- Stowarzyszenie By?ych Wi??niów Politycznych Zamku Lubelskiego i "Pod Zegarem"
- Reference
- Szewczyk, Roman. Mord na Zamku Krolewskim w dniu 22 lipca, 1944. Warszawa: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1946.
Rajca, Czesław and Wiśnieweska Anna. Przeżyli Majdanek. Lublin: Państwowe Musuem na Majdanku, 1980.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Memoirs. Registers. Diaries. Postcards. Letters.
- Extent
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14,926 digital images : JPEG ; 23.2 GB.
14 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in three series: Series 1. Documents (Files: 1 – 110; 62A-62O; 62P-62Ż), [Reel 1-3]; Series 2. Memoirs (Fiels 1-541, [Reel 4-10]; Series 3. Studies (Files 1-16, 17VII, 17 VVII-45, Part 1 and Part 20, Reel 11-14.
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
- Zamek Lubelski (Prison)--History--20th century. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland. Political prisoners--Poland--Lublin--Registers. Political prisoners--Poland--Lublin--Diaries. Polish people--Crimes against--Poland--Lublin--History--20th century--Registers. Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Lublin--Registers. Holocaust Survivor -- Associations, institutions, etc.
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. XXV. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Dec. 2013.
- Special Collection
-
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-03-05 15:13:50
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