Materials relating to Jehovah’s Witnesses in Auschwitz
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Overview
- Description
- This collection is comprised of photocopied documents and copy print photographs detailing the fates of Jehovah’s Witness from the villages of Wisła and Ustroń, in Cieszyn County, Poland during the Holocaust. Materials include name lists of men and women from Wisła and Ustroń who were interned and murdered at KZ Auschwitz and their corresponding death records as copied from the Nazi death log (sterbebuch). Other name lists include children from Wisła sent to Łódź as part of the German youth camp (Jugenverwahrlager Litzmannstadt). Associated with the name lists is a series of copy prints of prisoner mugshots depicting many of the named individuals, photocopies of outgoing correspondence from some of the prisoners, and photocopies of primary source documents detailing the biographical information for many included on the lists. Documents have stamped citations from the host archives, which includes Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum and the State Archives in Katowice.
- Date
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inclusive:
1995
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Registers. Death records. Photographs. Research papers.
- Extent
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1 box
12 folders
- System of Arrangement
- These materials related to Jehovah’s Witnesses in Auschwitz are arranged as two series:
• Series 1: Documents, 1995
• Series 2: Photographs, undated
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The donor, source institution, or a third party has asserted copyright over some or all of these material(s). The Museum does not own the copyright for the material and does not have authority to authorize use. For permission, please contact the rights holder(s).
- Copyright Holder
- Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Jehovah's Witnesses--Nazi persecution--Poland. Holocaust victims--Poland--Wisła. Holocaust victims--Poland--Ustroń. Children--Poland--Wisła--20th century.
- Geographic Name
- Wisła (Poland). Ustroń (Poland). Cieszyn (Województwo Śląskie, Poland). Łódź (Poland).
- Corporate Name
- Auschwitz (Concentration Camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- These materials relating to Jehovah’s Witnesses in Auschwitz were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Robert Buckley.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:05:54
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn501106
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