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Auschwitz concentration camp records

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0070 | RG Number: RG-04.065M

Overview

Description: Contains telegrams, card files, card indexes, reports, registers, name lists, and various other documents relating to prisoner labor in Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Monowitz concentration camps. Select files relate to camp prisoners working as electricians and ironworkers. The records date from 1942 to 1945 with the bulk dating from 1944.
Subtitle: Abteilung IIIa - Arbeitseinsatz
Date: 1942-1945
bulk: 1944

Physical Details

Language: German Polish
Genre/Form: Registers Indexes
Extent: 11 microfilm reels.
System of Arrangement: Organized in the following order: Reel 1, files 273-445 and 1142-176, documents and telegrams regarding the work of prisoners; Reel 2, files 1504-775, card index of the prisoners working as electricians; Reel 3, files 1505-457, card index of prisoners working as ironworkers; Reel 4, files 1778, 1106, 1107, and 1108, daily reports about working prisoners in Auschwitz I, II, and III; Reel 5, files 2064, 2065,2066, and 2067, daily reports about working prisoners in Auschwitz I, II, and III; Reel 6, files 2068, 2069, 2070, and 2071, daily reports about working prisoners in Auschwitz; Reel 7, files 1787,1788, and 1789, register of prisoners working in the Zentralbauleitung; Reel 8, file 1759, lists of bonuses; Reel 9, file 1760, lists of bonuses; Reel 10, file 1761, lists of bonuses; and Reel 11, file 1762, lists of bonuses, and file 1142, Häftlings Personal Karte, ca. 1944
Various arrangement schemes exist throughout the collection

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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

Topical Term: Concentration camp inmates--Poland--Oświęcim--Indexes. Concentration camp inmates--Poland--Oświęcim--Registers. World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Poland--Oświęcim. Electricians--Poland--Oświęcim. Structural steel workers--Poland--Oświęcim. Ironwork--Poland--Oświęcim.
Corporate Name: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Monowitz (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Programs Department ordered microfilm copies of the documents from Państwowe Muzeum Oświęcim-Brzezinka in 1997. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the microfilm on May 1, 1998.

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