Overview
- Description
- Notebooks, protocols and files documented result of medical tests performed on Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoners of the KL Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoners, from April 1943 to January 1945.
- Date
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inclusive:
1943-1945
- 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.
- Collection Creator
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp). Hygiene Institut der Waffen SS-und Polizei, Auschwitz
- Biography
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The Institute was established in Nov. 1942 as “Hygienische-Bakteriologische Untersuchungs Stelle der Waffen-SS und Polizei, Süd-Ost” later changed to “Hygiene Institut der Waffen SS-und Polizei, Auschwitz”. The Institute performed hygienic and bacteriological laboratory work for local SS, Wehrmacht and police units, as well as for concentration camps (the entire Auschwitz-Birkenau complex including the sub-camps, and Gross-Rosen Concentration Camp). The Institute analyzed samples of blood and other bodily fluids collected from camp prisoners, the SS garrison troops and their families, and armed SS and Wehrmacht formations stationed in the Oświęcim area. The analysis was intended to detect cases of, malaria and syphilis. The Institute was headed by SS Obersturmfuerer dr. Bruno Weber. The crucial objectives of the Institute were:
1. Attendance to the SS and police hospitals on the territory under the Institute activity, the area between Poznan and Prague, reaching Kiev in certain period.
2. Attendance to the block of Auschwitz camps, which mainly consisted in large-scale mass blood, urine and stool tests referring to the research on malaria, typhoid and other contagious diseases.
3. Attendance to the camps of civil labor.
4. Special examinations of food, water, chemical preparations and animal diseases.
5. Scientific research.
The documents from this collection are very often the only source information about prisoners of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (personal data, camp number and date of stay in the camp).
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Genre/Form
- Protocols. Medical records.
- Extent
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83,903 digital images : TIFF and JPEG ; 138 GB .
30 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in four series: 1. Main record books (Hauptbüchern), 9 volumes; 2. The subsidiary record books (Nebenbüchern), 8 volumes; 3. Various orders of medical tests and the results, 62 volumes.
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
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--History--20th century. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland--History. Human experimentation in medicine--Poland. Medical ethics--Government policy--Germany--History--20th century. Concentration camp inmates--Abuse of--Sources. Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
- Geographic Name
- Oświęcim (Poland)--History--20th century.
- Personal Name
- Weber, Bruno.
- Corporate Name
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Państwowe Muzeum Oświęcim-Brzezinka. The collection was transferred to the State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oświęcim in June 1961 from the Main Commission for Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland. The previous name of this collection was:" Bakteriologische Untersuchungstelle Sud-Ost." The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Feb. 2005, and digital accretion in 2016.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:11:05
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn516514
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