Overview
- Description
- Private collection of Stanisław Dobosiewicz. Includes various materials mostly collected by Dobosiewicz among the former prisoners of the KL Mauthausen-Gusen: biographical materials, studies and own texts by Stanisław Dobosiewicz, letters and correspondence, memories and accounts of former prisoners of the Mauthausen-Gusen camp relating to resistance movement inside the camp, attempts to escape and ways to preserve life and dignity; comments of former prisoners to Stanisław Dobosiewicz's books, archival materials relating to the cultural, artistic and self-educational activities of prisoners of KL Mauthausen-Gusen: drawings, graphics, poems, camp poetry, songs; photographs from the prisoners' life in the camp, photographs taken after the war, documenting the veterans' activities of former prisoners (meetings, visits to the camp); materials about the Mauthausen-Gusen camp (establishing and organization of the camp, pseudo-medical experiments) and testimonies of German camp officials.
Note: Most of this materials was published by Stanisław Dobosiewicz in four books. - Date
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inclusive:
1927-2005
- Collection Creator
- Stanisław Dobosiewicz
- Biography
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Stanisław Dobosiewicz (1910-2007) graduated from Polish Studies at the University of Warsaw, before the war he worked as a teacher. Dobosiewicz was arrested on April 6, 1940 in an action against the Polish intelligentsia and was imprisoned in Działdowo camp. On April 17, he was sent to the Dachau camp and at the end of May to Gusen I, a sub-camp of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp complex, where he was one of the first prisoners with the camp number 166. He survived in the camp until liberation in spring of 1945. After the war, he continued to work as a teacher, for many years he was the chairman of the Warsaw community of former prisoners of Mauthausen.
- Reference
- Dobosiewicz Stanisław, Mauthausen-Gusen obóz zagłady, Warszawa 1979.
Dobosiewicz Stanisław, Mauthausen-Gusen: poezja i pieśń więźniów, Warszawa 1983.
Dobosiewicz Stanisław, Mauthausen-Gusen: samoobrona i konspiracja, Warszawa 1980.
Dobosiewicz Stanisław, Mauthausen-Gusen: w obronie życia i ludzkiej godności, Warszawa 2000.
Physical Details
- Extent
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5,240 digital images : JPEG ; 23.5 GB .
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in seven series: 1. Biographical materials; 2. Correspondence; 3. Memories; 4. Comments of former prisoners; 5. Artistic documentation; 6. Photographs; 7. Materials about administration of the Mauthausen subcamp Gusen.
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
- Fair use only. The third party must obtain permission from the Foundation for Polish-German Reconciliation for any commercial use of the documents.
- Copyright Holder
- Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Polish people--Crimes against--Poland--20th century. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Austria. World War, 1939-1945--Literature and the war. World War, 1939-1945--Music and the war. Prisoners of war--Poland. Prisoners of war--Austria. Anti-Nazi movement--Austria. Prisoners' writings, Polish--History and criticism. Polish poetry--20th century--History and criticism. Music--Poland--History and criticism.
- Geographic Name
- Austria--Politics and government--20th century. Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945 .
- Personal Name
- Dobosiewicz, Stanisław.
- Corporate Name
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp) Gusen (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie, Poland. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in May 2018.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:18:04
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