Overview
- Description
- Files of the Polish Red Cross documenting assistance to prisoners in the Lublin-Majdanek camp and the Lublin castle: approximately 10,400 card files (first and last names, date and place of birth, names of parents, camp numbers) of prisoners who received parcels (1943/1944), lists of prisoners receiving assistance, correspondence with families of prisoners; 150 postcards and letters of prisoners to the Red Cross; list of 2,750 prisoners who died in Majdanek camp (compiled by Lublin parish); documents related to prisoners of the Buchenwald, Dachau, Gross-Rosen, Oranienburg, Auschwitz, and Ravensbrück camps; lists of soldiers killed or wounded near Lublin in 1939; index of Polish prisoners of war; documentation of searches for refugees and other missing persons; lists of deportees from Polish territories annexed to the Reich; lists of Polish forced laborers in Germany and correspondence regarding possible assistance; lists of Polish citizens sent to camps in Germany or to Sweden; lists of children separated from parents and found at Poznań railway station; lists of foreigners appealing to Red Cross in Lublin (British, Belgians, Spaniards, Yugoslavians, others).
- Alternate Title
- Polish Red Cross, District of Lublin
- Date
-
inclusive:
1939-1946
- 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
- Polski Czerwony Krzyz?
- Reference
- Kiełboń, Janina. Akta Archiwum Państwowego Muzeum na Majdanku, „Archeion”, R. XXXVII,
1962, s. 207-228.; Tadeusz Mencel, Dokumenty zbrodni i męczeństwa w obozie na Majdanku, [In:] Majdanek 1941- 1944, Lublin 1991, s. 5-17.
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Genre/Form
- Registers.
- Extent
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114,314 digital images : JPEG ; 223 GB .
120 microfilm reels (partially digitized) ; 35 mm.
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
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Europe. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish--Registers. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, British--Registers. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Belgians--Registers. World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--History--Poland--Registers. World War, 1939-1945--Civilian relief--Poland. Refugee children--Poland--Registers. Forced labor--Germany--History--20th century--Registers. War relief--Polish--1940-1950. Polish people--History--20thy centruy.
- Geographic Name
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945--Registers. Poland
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition the Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku, Sygn. XI. Records created by the Polski Czerwony Krzyż-Okreg Lubelski, transferred to Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku in 1957. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in July 2012.
- Special Collection
-
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-03-05 15:13:50
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