Overview
- Description
- This collection contains fragmentary files relating to forced labor and camp administration at Buchenwald; administrative matters and construction files of Flossenbürg; medical experiments at Mauthausen; and inmates’ forced labor at Natzweiler. Also included are a small number of files relating to Dachau, Gross-Rosen, Neuengamme, and the SS-Sonderlager Hinzert.
- Date
-
inclusive:
1933-1945
- Reference
- Bestand NS 4, call number: CD1227.N4 1963
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Extent
-
95,966 digital images : JPEG ; 658 GB.
2,919 microfiche.
52 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- Records on microfiches arrange in twelve groups: 1. Auschwitz: NS4/Bu, File1- (2196 microfiche); NS4/Au, File 1-17 (30 microfiche); 2. Dachau: NS4/Da, File 1-47 (147 microfiche); 3. Gross-Rosen: NS4/Gr, File 1-10 (21 microfiche); Herzogenbusch: NS4/He, File 1-2 (3 microfiche);4. Lichtenburg: NS4/Li, File 1-2 (4 microfiche); 5. Lublin: NS4/Lu, File 1-5 (9 microfiche); 6. Mauthausen: NS4/Ma, File 1-57 (156 microfiche); 7. Natzweiler, File 2-103 (241 microfiche); 8. Neuengamme: NS4/Ne, File 1 (2 microfiche); 9. Ravensbrück: NS4/Ra, File 1 (4 microfiche); 10. Stutthof: NS4/St, File 1-3 (4 microfiche); 11. Sachsenhausen: NS4/Sa, File 1-8 (9 microfiche); 12. Annex: NS4/Anh, File 1-42 (9 microfiche). Records on microfilm reels arranged in one group: Flossenbürg: NS4/Fl, File 1-436 (Reel 1-52; Reel 9 is missing; Reel 51 contains two rolls).
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. To access Bundesarchiv collections researchers must fill out a "Request for Access to Bundesarchiv Documents." German and English-language copies of the "Law on the Preservation and Use of Federal Archival Documents" are available at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives reference desk. The requirement was stipulated by the Bundesarchiv in the cooperative agreement signed with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
- Conditions on Use
- Requests for reproduction must be directed to the Bundesarchiv. A copy of all publications based on its material must be provided to the Bundesarchiv. Researchers may not publish any Bundesarchiv material on the Internet, the World Wide Web, or any other publicly accessible on-line network without permission from the Bundesarchiv.
- Copyright Holder
- Bundesarchiv (Germany)
Keywords & Subjects
- Geographic Name
- Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- Corporate Name
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Dachau (Concentration camp) Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp) Vught (Concentration camp) Lichtenburg (Concentration camp) Majdanek (Concentration camp) Mauthausen (Concentration camp) Struthof (Concentration camp) Neuengamme (Concentration camp) Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) Stutthof (Concentration camp) Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) Flossenbürg (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Bundesarchiv (Germany)
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv), Collection NS 4. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's International Programs Divisions acquired the collection from the Bundesarchiv in Berlin, Germany in Apr. 2000. The United States Holocaust Museum Archives received 2,196 microfiche in Sept. 2000, accretion of 723 microfiche in 2004, and accretion of 52 microfilms in 2012. The entire collection was digitized in 2019.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-02 08:46:27
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