Overview
- Description
- The collection contains several hundred of memoirs, testimonies and diaries of former prisoners of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, collected over several decades after World War II. This collection provides personal insights into the experiences of prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The collection is open, memoirs and testimonies are still being collected.
- Alternate Title
- Memoirs
- Date
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inclusive:
1945-1946
- 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.
- Reference
- Bibliografia KL Auschwitz za lata 1942-1980, opracowała Anna Malcówna, Wydawnictwo Państwowego Muzeum w Oświęcimiu: Oświęcim, 1991.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Personal narratives. Memoirs. Diaries.
- Extent
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56,133 digital files : PDF ; 117 GB.
91 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in the microfilmed reels. The memoirs are organized by author names and memoir title in 251 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--Poland--Oświęcim. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Polish. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish. Polish people--Crimes against--Poland--Oświęcim--History--20th century. Holocaust survivors--Poland.
- Geographic Name
- Poland--World War,1939-1945--Atrocities--Personal narratives. Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Corporate Name
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (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, Poland (State Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau). Memoirs were contributed by former prisoners of the Auschwitz-Birkenau, written after the end of the war, and collected by the Archives at the State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oświęcim. The collection is open, which means that memoirs and testimonies are still being collected. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in April 2007. This is an ongoing project.
- Special Collection
-
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-01-25 11:38:43
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