Overview
- Description
- Contains archival material from Mauthausen and its subcamps, such as Ebensee, Gusen, Gunskirchen, Wien-Saurerwerke (Vienna), Melk, St. Aegyd am Neuwalde, Wiener Neudorf, Steyr, St. Lambrecht, Wiener Neustadt, and Schwechat. Documents include death books and prisoner lists, original maps and plans, miscellaneous correspondence, drawings and artwork, and written reports and statistical compilations. Also contains documents pertaining to the brothel in Mauthausen, sick bay reports, correspondence pertaining to medical experimentation on prisoners, and numerous transcripts of interviews with survivors.
- Date
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inclusive:
1946-1998
- Credit Line
- Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence. Testimonies. Registers. Maps. Drawings.
- Extent
-
3,738 digital images : JPEG ; 5.29 GB.
11 photocopies of architectural plans : color.
5 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- Arrangement is thematic
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. Users are required to complete a User Declaration in order to gain access to the collection.
- Conditions on Use
- No duplication or publication of records without the consent of the original archives. Details specified in the User Declaration. The user further agrees to delete digital copies of the archival material from his or her storage media after completing the research project as stated in the user declaration.
- Copyright Holder
- KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Austria. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Austrian. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Registers of dead--Austria--Mauthausen. Prostitution--Austria--Mauthausen. Human experimentation in medicine--Austria--Mauthausen. Holocaust survivors--Interviews.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the microfilms and photocopies of architectural plans via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in April 2003.
- Special Collection
-
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-09-18 18:53:36
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn513172
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- Terms of Use
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