Overview
- Description
- Contains two main components: organizational records of the record group VVN, and materials it collected on Holocaust victims and survivors, forced laborers, war criminals, and prisoners of war. Included are reports about victims; original ID-cards (Kennkarten) of German Jews with photographs and personal information; card indexes related to camps and prisons; and two volumes of a card index entitled “Prison Card Index of Office 710” from 1935 to 1937. There are also lists of Jewish victims and material on the Gestapo in Breslau, camp personnel, the murder of people with mental disabilities, and Greek prisoners of war.
- Alternate Title
- Records of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime
- Date
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inclusive:
1920-1955
- Collection Creator
- Bundesarchiv (Germany)
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Extent
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78,829 digital images : JPEG ; 288 GB .
69 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
1 CD.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. To access Bundesarchiv collections researchers must fill out a "Request for Access to Bundesarchiv Documents." German and English-language copies of the "Law on the Preservation and Use of Federal Archival Documents" are available at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives reference desk. The requirement was stipulated by the Bundesarchiv in the cooperative agreement signed with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
- Conditions on Use
- Requests for reproduction must be directed to the Bundesarchiv. A copy of all publications based on its material must be provided to the Bundesarchiv. Researchers may not publish any Bundesarchiv material on the Internet, the World Wide Web, or any other publicly accessible on-line network without permission from the Bundesarchiv.
- Copyright Holder
- Bundesarchiv (Germany)
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Forced labor--Germany. Prisoners of war--Germany--Registers. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Greek. War criminals--Germany. Aryanization--Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps. Holocaust Survivor -- Associations, institutions, etc.
- Geographic Name
- Wrocław (Poland) Zgorzelec (Województwo Dolnośląskie, Poland) Görlitz (Dresden, Germany)
- Personal Name
- Malitz, Bruno, 1905-
- Corporate Name
- Nazi Party Germany. Gestapo
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Bundesarchiv (Germany)
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv) Berlin; Record Group DY 55 and DY 54. Extracted from these files, the names of victims were registered in a database. The names of 1,090 Jews, Communists, Social Democrats, and other opponents of the Nazi regime are listed in the finding aid. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Bundesarchive via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in June 2009. The entire collection was digitized in 2013.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 08:12:50
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn37377
Additional Resources
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- Terms of Use
- This record is digitized but cannot be downloaded online.
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-
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