Dokumentationsstelle Hartheim des oberösterreichischen Landesarchivs

Hartheim Documentation Centre of the Upper Austrian State Archives

Address

Schlossstraße 1 (Schloss Hartheim)
Alkoven
Oberösterreich
4072
Austria

Web

http://www.schloss-hartheim.at/
https://www.schloss-hartheim.at/en/research/documentation-centre-hartheim

Records Management and Collecting Policies

The Documentation Centre Hartheim is situated on the second floor of Hartheim Castle. The Documentation Centre’s mission is to collect and archive materials relevant to Hartheim and the history of the castle as a National Socialist euthanasia institution from 1940 to 1944, and to make these materials available. This is to enable on-site research into Hartheim as a Nazi euthanasia centre. One major task is the project “Hartheim Memorial Book”. In this project we are attempting to record the names of all those murdered in Hartheim.

Archival and Other Holdings

For research purposes, the Documentation Centre Hartheim collects all kinds of documents, objects and artefacts with a connection to the Nazi euthanasia, particularly in Hartheim Castle. The collections are stored and cared for in accordance with scholarly standards, and are continuously being expanded.

Sources

Additional Archives only at www.ns-quellen.at [more extensive information on archives already in the Ardey Guide list is also available there]
https://www.schloss-hartheim.at/en/research/documentation-centre-hartheim

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Archival Descriptions

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Photo Collection
- Dokumentationsstelle Hartheim des oberösterreichischen Landesarchivs
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- English
- Updated 7 months ago
The collection contains photos from the history of the care home, from the Nazi era and from the renovation of Hartheim Castle in 1999–2003.
Documents Collection
- Dokumentationsstelle Hartheim des oberösterreichischen Landesarchivs
- 001841-03
- English
- Updated 7 months ago
The collection contains sources and documentation on the general history of the National Socialist euthanasia programmes “T4” and “14f13” with a particular focus on the history of the Nazi euthanasia centre Hartheim. These are mostly copies or microfilms, but there are also some originals of contemporary documents.
Collection of Personal Effects
- Dokumentationsstelle Hartheim des oberösterreichischen Landesarchivs
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- English
- Updated 7 months ago
The collection contains the personal effects of victims (e.g. glasses, toiletries, religious symbols, porcelain), waste materials from the daily operations of the institution (pots and pans, bottles, cups), and construction materials from the demolition of the Nazi euthanasia centre (clay bricks, fragments of white and red tiles, remains of electrical appliances).
Biographical Collection
- Dokumentationsstelle Hartheim des oberösterreichischen Landesarchivs
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- English
- Updated 7 months ago
The Documentation Centre Hartheim contains a collection of the personal documents and materials of the victims of the Nazi euthanasia that were provided to us by relatives and researchers. Where the relatives gave us permission to do so, we also show these documents in the exhibition station “Life traces”, where the victims can once more be seen as individual people with the diverse life stories.

Dokumentationsstelle Hartheim des oberösterreichischen Landesarchivs

Archival Descriptions

Photo Collection

Documents Collection

Collection of Personal Effects

Biographical Collection