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Fritz Buchholz's report about Auschwitz

Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0103 | RG Number: RG-04.051

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

About This Document

Document 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.

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

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.

Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
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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).

 
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