Overview
- Description
- Contains lists of new prisoners entering Auschwitz concentration camp in 1941, and Sterbeurkunde (death notices) for primarily Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox prisoners dating from 1940 to 1944, with the bulk of them dating from 1943. All of the records relate to the main camp, Auschwitz I.
- Subtitle
- Abteilung II - politische abteilung
- Date
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1940-1944
bulk: 1943
- Credit Line
- Cite Panstwowe Muzeum Oświęcim Brzezinka as holder of originals
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Extent
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8 microfilm reels.
- System of Arrangement
- Organized: Reel 1, files 96-500, List of new prisoners entering Auschwitz in 1941; Reel 2, files 2054-2057, records about prisoner deaths (Sterbeurkunde); Reel 3, file 2038, records about prisoner deaths (Sterbeurkunde); Reel 4, file 2039, records about prisoner deaths (Sterbeurkunde); Reel 5, file 2040, records about prisoner deaths (Sterbeurkunde); Reel 6, file 2041, records about prisoner deaths (Sterbeurkunde); Reel 7, file 2042, records about prisoner deaths (Sterbeurkunde); and Reel 8, file 2043, records about prisoner deaths (Sterbeurkunde)
Arrangement for entry lists of new prisoners is numerical by prisoner number, ranging from #8235 through #25013. Arrangement for the Sterbeurkunde is numerical by form number
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
- Any use of archival materials for purposes other than research projects required prior permission from the Museum and/or the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Users shall not to publish personal information from the archival materials including names, addresses, and other information identifying specific individuals, unless the information has been deceased for more than 30 years or is related to an historical figure or a current public figure. Otherwise users will publish the information only in anonymous form, except as permitted in writing by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.
- Copyright Holder
- Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Programs Department order microfilm copies of the documents from the Państwowe Muzeum Oświęcim-Brzezinka in 1997. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the microfilms on May 1, 1998.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:08:21
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn506419
Additional Resources
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- See Rights and Restrictions
- Terms of Use
- This record is not digitized and cannot be downloaded online.
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