Overview
- Description
- Contains 258 transcripts of interrogations related to KL Lublin, KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, death camps in Sobibór, Bełżec and Treblinka, labor camps in Kalilow and Budzyń, Janów Lubelski and other Nazi camps and prisons. The interrogations were taken of former prisoners of KL Majdanek by the Polska Misja Wojskowa w Berlinie (Polish Military Mission), Prokurator Wojewódzki w Warszawie (Provincial Prosecutor), Specjalny Sąd Karny w Lublinie (Special Criminal Court ), and other commissions in charge of documentation of Nazi crimes. Includes testimonies of German and Russian prisoners of war, testimonies deposed in Düsseldorf during the trial of former KL Majdanek staff (they constitute the largest group), testimonies of Lublin residents (the quarters of Wieniawa and Dziesiąta), who were displaced and sent to the camp. Includes also a name list of prisoners died in Majdanek.
- Alternate Title
- Records of interrogations of the former prisoners of KL Majdanek
- Date
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inclusive:
1944-1984
- 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
- Polska Misja Wojskowa w Niemczech.
Poland. S?d Karny w Lublinie.
Prokurator Wojewódzki w Warszawie. - Reference
- Grudzińska, Marta (red.), Przewodnik po zbiorze relacji i pamiętników znajdujących się w zasobie Państwowego Muzeum na Majdanku, Lublin: Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku, 2011.
Kiełboń, Janina . Akta Archiwum Państwowego Muzeum na Majdanku, “Archeion,” R. XXXVII, 1962, s. 207-228.
Janina Kiełboń, Warsztat naukowy Państwowego Muzeum na Majdanku, “Zeszyty Majdanka” 1995, t. XVI, s. 71-89.
Tadeusz Mencel, Dokumenty zbrodni i męczeństwa w obozie na Majdanku, [In:] Majdanek 1941-1944, Lublin 1991, s. 5-17.
Rajca, Czesław and Wiśnieweska Anna. Przeżyli Majdanek. Lublin: Państwowe Musuem na Majdanku, 1980.
See also the collection, USHMM Archives: RG-15.271M, Zbiór Pamiętników, Relacji i Ankiet Byłych Więźniów (Sygn. VII).
Physical Details
- Extent
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1,222 digital images : JPEG ; 1.88 GB.
2 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved on the microfilm reels. Selected records are arranged by a place and date of interrogation.
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--History--20th century. World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Poland. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--Lublin (Voivodeship)--Investigations. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German. Prisoners of war--Poland--Budzyń. Prisoners of war--Poland--Kalilow. Polish people--Crimes against--Poland--History--20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Lublin.
- Geographic Name
- Poland--History--German occupation, 1939-1945.
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. 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
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-03-05 15:13:50
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