Records relating to Breendonck concentration camp

Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0108.1 | RG Number: RG-04.026.01

Relates to the persecution, deportation, and killing of Jewish and non-Jewish inmates of Breendonk concentration camp in Belgium. Included are copies of letters sent to donor by Simon Wiesenthal.

Date: 1940-1991
Language: French
Dutch
English
Genre/Form: Photographs.
Extent: 3 folders

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System of Arrangement: Arrangement is thematic
Topical Term: Antisemitism.
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
World War, 1939-1945--Deportations.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art.
Holocaust survivors.
Torture.
War crimes.
War criminals.
War crime trials.
Geographic Name: Belgium.
Personal Name: Kantschuster, Hans.
Linthout, R.
Prauss, Arthur.
Schöwetter, Karl.
Wiesenthal, Simon.
Corporate Name: Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Belgium. Ministère de la justice. Commission des crimes de guerre.
Breendonk (Concentration camp)
Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Bund Jüdischer Verfolgter des Naziregimes. Dokumentationszentrum.
Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The donor assembled materials relating to Breendonck that he had collected from a variety of sources. He sent them to Linda Harris of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Department in ca. Jun. 1992. That department turned over the textual material to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, retaining a videotape of interviews with ex-prisoners, etc. Mr. Linthout subsequently signed a donor agreement.
Conditions on Access: There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
Conditions on Use: The Museum is in the process of determining the possible use restrictions that may apply to material(s) in this collection.
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