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Fritz Buchholz's report about Auschwitz

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 1994.A.0103 | RG Number: RG-04.051

Overview

Description: Fritz Buchholz's report (dated 19 Jun. 1945) describes the following in Auschwitz-Birkenau: sadistic camp guards; torture of inmates; the deaths of Jewish prisoners in gas chambers; confiscation and stockpiling of the arrivals' property; and the destruction of the camp's crematorium by the Nazi guards before the camp was overrun by the Soviet military.
Date: creation: 1945
Collection Creator: Fritz Buchholz
Biography: From Sept. 1944 to Jan. 1945, Fritz Buchholz was a prisoner in Auschwitz for having talked against Nazi Germany and having disseminated foreign news that he had heard on the radio. On 19 June 1945, Buchholz was a German prisoner-of-war in a United States Army prisoner-of-war camp in Cherbourg, France.

Physical Details

Genre/Form: Personal narratives.
Extent: 8 digital images : JPEG ; 12.2 MB.
Extent: 1 folder

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).

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Crematoriums. Jewish property. Confiscations. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives--Men authors. Torture. Gas chambers.
Personal Name: Buchholz, Fritz.
Corporate Name: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: In June 1945, George Cruden, a U.S. Army officer in charge of prisoners-of-war at the U.S. Army prisoner-of-war camp in Cherbourg, France, was told that Fritz Buchholz wanted to make a statement about Auschwitz. Cruden took the report and sent it to his superiors at SHAEF. In Apr. 1994, Cruden gave his personal copy of the report to the USHRIA.

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