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1. Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camp records
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0068 | RG Number: RG-04.063M
Date:
1940-1944
Subtitle:
Abteilung I - Kommandantur
…Contains telegrams and Entlassungscheine (discharge certificates) from Auschwitz concentration camp relating to prisoner deaths, prisoner escapes…
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 … requires the written permission of the Państwowe Muzeum Oświęcim-Brzezinka. Organized: Reel 1, files 1577, 1578, and 1546, Telegrams concerning prisoner…
2. Auschwitz concentration camp records
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0069 | RG Number: RG-04.064M
Date:
1940-1944
bulk: 1943
Subtitle:
Abteilung II - politische abteilung
…Contains lists of new prisoners entering Auschwitz concentration camp in 1941, and Sterbeurkunde (death notices) for primarily Roman Catholic and…
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 …-500, List of new prisoners entering Auschwitz in 1941; Reel 2, files 2054-2057, records about prisoner deaths (Sterbeurkunde); Reel 3, file 2038…
3. Records of United States Army commands
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0056 | RG Number: RG-06.005.05M
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1949
Subtitle:
War crimes cases not tried
… file relate primarily to events in concentration camps. Other files deal with prisoners and prisoner of war camps. The earliest war crimes cases were…
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 … concentration camps. Other files deal with prisoners and prisoner of war camps. Administrative Information Restrictions on access: No restrictions on access…
4. Regional File of the U.S. War Department, Military Intelligence Division (MID)
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0109 | RG Number: RG-06.005.08M
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1944
…Prisoners and prisons.…
5. Estonian State Archives of the former Estonian KGB (State Security Committee) records relating to war crime investigations and trials in Estonia
1997.A.0109 Box 14 Folder 10 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0109 | RG Number: RG-06.026
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1987
bulk: 1950-1962
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… criminals accused of atrocities in concentration camps, mass killings of Jews,Communists, and prisoners of war in Estonia during World War II. Documents range…
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 … in concentration camps, mass killings of Jews, Communists, and prisoners of war in Estonia during World War II. Documents range in date from 1940 to…
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  • Series 12: Mere, Gerrets, and Viik (Fond 129, File 28653, Vols. 1-N/D) 1940-1971, 1960-1961 Bulk [On Campus Only]
    • File 12: Mere, Gerrets, and Viik (Fond 129, File 28653, Vol. 12) Testimony of former prisoners in Jagala camp now residing (1960) in Czechoslovakia (2 folders) 1940-1971, 1960-1961 Bulk [On Campus Only]
    6. Carl H. Knuemann photograph collection
    Document | Accession Number: 1989.325 | RG Number: RG-10.335
    Date:
    inclusive: 1935-1945
    …Prisoners--1940-1950.…
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     … release from Nazi prison in Berlin, Germany. 2 ¼ x 1 ¾ in., 1945 Sept. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information…
    7. Zentralbauleitung der Waffen-SS und Polizei Auschwitz (Fond 502)
    Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.4 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.03
    Date:
    inclusive: 1939-1944
    Alternate Title:
    Waffen-SS and Police, Central Construction Office in Auschwitz
    … created in 1940 with the commencement of construction of the concentration camp. In 1941 began construction of the prisoner of war camp. In 1943 the…
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     … cards of prisoners and workers, death notices, and list of prisoners. The records relate to the complete history of the construction and maintenance of…
    8. Archivalien des ehemaligen Heeresarchivs (Fond 1275)
    Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.13 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.13
    Date:
    inclusive: 1938-1945
    bulk: 1941-1945
    Alternate Title:
    Records of the Former Military Archive in Potsdam
    … in Poland in the WWII; essays, articles, clippings, speeches (Mussolini) related to WWII matters; diaries of a prisoner of war [Opis 5]; investigation…
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     … in Poland in the WWII; essays, articles, clippings, speeches (Mussolini) related to WWII matters; diaries of a prisoner of war [Opis 5]; investigation…
    9. Konzentrations- und Kriegsgefangenenlager in Deutschland und in den besetzen Gebieten (Fond 1367)
    Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.20 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.20
    Date:
    inclusive: 1933-1945
    bulk: 1937-1945
    Alternate Title:
    Concentration and POW camps in Germany and the Occupied Territories
    …The collection contains various documents of concentration camps and Prisoner of War (POW) camps: regulations, instructions, daily reports, lists…
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     …Konzentrations- und Kriegsgefangenenlager in Deutschland und in den besetzen Gebieten (Fond 1367) Concentration and prisoner of war camps in Germany…
    10. Dokumentarmaterial der Polizeiorgane über polnische und sowjetische Bürger, die vor dem Zeiten Weltkrieg in Deutschland lebten oder im Krieg in deutsche Kriegsgefangenschaft gerieten (sowjetische Zusammenstellung)(Fond 1164)
    Document | Accession Number: 2002.553.3 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.67
    Date:
    inclusive: 1933-1944
    Alternate Title:
    German Police Units
    …, clippings, leaflets with reports of escaped Soviet prisoners of war and civilian workers from concentration camps, prisons, and labor work places; statistics…
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     … and Polish citizens sent for forced labor camps in Germany, clippings, leaflets with reports of escaped Soviet prisoners of war and civilian workers…
    11. Generalbauinspektor für die Reichshauptstadt Berlin (Fond 1409)
    Document | Accession Number: 2004.756.6 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.77
    Date:
    bulk: 1934-1942
    inclusive: 1920-1944
    Alternate Title:
    Chief building inspector for the Reich capital, Berlin
    …: Instructions for the treatment of prisoners of war; protocols of the Reich Ministry of Labor (RAM) for the provision of prisoners of war; a list of the request…
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     … consists of various records relating to construction projects in the entire territory of German Reich: Opis 1: Instructions for the treatment of prisoners of…
    12. Zentrale Vereinigung österreichischer Emigranten, Paris (Fond 542)
    Document | Accession Number: 2006.515.7 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.89
    Date:
    inclusive: 1936-1940
    Alternate Title:
    Central Office for Austrian Emigrants, Paris
    … emigrants. Topics include the activities of Austrian expatriates, events in Austria, and the experience of Austrian prisoners in camps such as Buchenwald and…
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     … include the activities of Austrian expatriates, events in Austria, and the experience of Austrian prisoners in camps such as Buchenwald and Dachau. Types of…
    13. Case files from the Gestapo in Düsseldorf
    Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0035 | RG Number: RG-14.001M
    Date:
    inclusive: 1937-1944
    …Prisoners of war.…
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     …. Confiscations. Communism. Forced labor. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź. Jewish property. Jews--Poland. Labor camps. Poles--Crimes against. Prisoners of war. Women…
    14. Landrat des Kreises Briesen records
    Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0066 | RG Number: RG-14.004M
    Date:
    1939-1944
    …Contains information about forced labor of Poles and Soviets; police actions to control forced labor; management of prisons and prisoners; anti…
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     … control forced labor; management of prisons and prisoners; anti-Jewish ordinances; handling of prisoners of war; and young people designated for work in the…
    15. Reichssicherheitshauptamt selected records (R 58)
    Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0050 | RG Number: RG-14.016M
    Date:
    inclusive: 1933-1945
    … and literature; the combat against and the destruction of anti-Nazi organizations in the occupied and annexed territories and the treatment of prisoners…
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     … combat against and the destruction of anti-Nazi organizations in the occupied and annexed territories and the treatment of prisoners of war and foreign…
    16. Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes (VVN)
    Document | Accession Number: 2009.110 | RG Number: RG-14.096M
    Date:
    inclusive: 1920-1955
    Alternate Title:
    Records of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime
    … laborers, war criminals, and prisoners of war. Included are reports about victims; original ID-cards (Kennkarten) of German Jews with photographs and…
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     … Registration Cards (Volkskarteikarten) of German Jews 5 5 (2) Prison card index (Haftkartei) of the Secret State Police Berlin office 710 (Geheime Staatspolizei…
    17. Records of the Stadtverwaltung Weichselstadt
    Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0078 | RG Number: RG-15.004M
    Date:
    inclusive: 1939-1944
    … workers of Russian descent; punishment of Poles and Jews by police; Polish prisoners of war from Hermannsbad held in the Soviet Union; Polish officers…
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     … workers of Russian descent; punishment of Poles and Jews by police; Polish prisoners of war from Hermannsbad held in the Soviet Union; Polish officers…
    18. Records of der Landrat des Kreises Schrimm (Sygn.65)
    Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0070 | RG Number: RG-15.005M
    Date:
    inclusive: 1939-1943
    … Kreises Schrimm (Śrem, Poland); employees of the Landrat office; the Gestapo office in Poznan; apprehension of prisoners of war; activities of the rural…
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     … Landrat (district magistrate) des Kreises Schrimm (Śrem, Poland); employees of the Landrat office; the Gestapo office in Poznań; apprehension of prisoners…
    19. Records of the Kommandeur der Gendarmerie Lublin (Syg. 156)
    Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0084 | RG Number: RG-15.011M
    Date:
    inclusive: 1939-1944
    … prisoners of war; combatting partisans; and transportation (motor cycles and cars) for gendarmerie personnel.…
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     … and provisions for gendarmerie personnel; handling of prisoners of war; combatting partisans; and transportation (motor cycles and cars) for gendarmerie…
    20. Records of the Gendarmerie Kreis Schrimm (Sygn.72)
    Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0081 | RG Number: RG-15.012M
    Date:
    inclusive: 1939-1945
    inclusive: 1939-1945
    … 1942); regulations and monitoring of communication, travel, and use of postal service by Poles; pursuit and treatment of escaped prisoners; and escape of…
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     … treatment of escaped prisoners; and escape of British prisoners of war. System of Arrangement Records are arranged in the original order of their acquisition…