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    Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau w Oświęcimiu

    • Auschwitz State Museum
    • Poland
    • ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, Oświęcim, województwo małopolskie

  2. Auschwitz-Birkenau

  4. "Images from Auschwitz-Birkenau"

    Consists of a portfolio of artwork entitled "Images from Auschwitz-Birkenau: By John Wiernicki, Polish Resistance Fighter and Prisoner Number 150302." Mr. Wiernicki, who is not Jewish, was imprisoned in Auschwitz-Birkenau from September 1943 - December 1944, and in Ohrdruf from December 1944 until the liberation of the camp. The collection contains an introduction explaining Mr. Wiernicki's experiences and 20 watercolor and ink drawings of events he witnessed, both at Auschwitz and in Ohrdruf. Also includes a CD-ROM containing scanned copies of the images.

  10. KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Abteilung IV - Verwaltung

    Contains records from Auschwitz-Birkenau relating to the Office IV Department of Administration. Includes personnel paperwork, lists of the transfers of SS officers and of SS property, SS use of the tailor and cobbler services, driving permits, and the order and distribution of supplies, such as clothing, office supplies, and other miscellaneous goods. Includes lists of materials confiscated by prisoners and of the ordering of coal for the crematoria. Most of the paperwork includes the name of the member of the SS making the request.

  11. Soap issued to a concentration camp prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau

    Soap issued to Esther Moses, October-November 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Esther Zelmanovits Moses was interred in Auschwitz-Birkenau. She was given this bar of soap when she was sent to work in Hamburg on November 26, 1944. She carried it with her for the remainder of the war. Her husband, Herbert Moses hid the bar of soap in his father-in-law's, Sam Zelman, store in Kansas.

  13. Auf einen fremden planeten das lager BIIb in Auschwitz-Birkenau

    Testimony, 10 pages, typescript in German, with corresponding English translation, about author's experiences in "family camp" B II b at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

  14. "Paths of Fate, Auschwitz-Birkenau, No. B-1968"

    Contains a memoir entitled "Paths of Fate, Auschwitz-Birkenau, No. B-1968," relating to experiences in Białystok, Majdanek, Blizin, Auschwitz, and Ohrdruf.

  16. Auschwitz-Birkenau O/S / The Largest Destruction Camp of the World

    Contains a typed, mimeographed copy of an undated report, written by an unknown author; 7 pages (note: pages are numbered 2-8). Acquired by Joseph M. Washburn (donor's father) while with the US Army during WWII, where he served as a member of War Crimes Investigating Team 6829

  17. Model crematorium II – Birkenau Sculptural model of gas chamber and crematorium #2 at Auschwitz-Birkenau

    White, plaster of Paris, 1:15 sculptural model of Crematorium II and a gas chamber at Auschwitz-Birkenau (Auschwitz II) killing center, commissioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and created between 1989 and 1992 by Mieczyslaw Stobierski. “Model crematorium II – Birkenau” illustrates the entire process that killed 1.1 million people at the Auschwitz camp complex. While the model is technically accurate in the architectural construction, Stobierski employed more creative interpretation with the figures. This sculpture is one of three replicas of a model he originally made i...

  18. Testimony of Abram-Berl Sokol, born in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau

    1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

    Testimony of Abram-Berl Sokol, born in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau Murder of Jews by a shot in the back of their necks art the entrance to the gas chambers in Birkenau, 1944; burning of the murder victims' bodies; murder of Karl, the Kapo, by Jewish inmates from Wysokie Mazowieckie as revenge for his abuse [of inmates], Sukkot (early October) 1944; arrival in Auschwitz of rich Jews from Warsaw in anticipation of their being transferred abroad, autumn 1944; snatching of a gun from a German by a woman at the crematorium [should be: at the gas c...

  19. Documentation regarding the escape of Jewish inmates from Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944

    1. P.25- Archive of Erich Kulka, Historian of Czech Jewry and Author

    Documentation regarding the escape of Jewish inmates from Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944 1. Maps of the escape route of Rudolf Vrba (Walter Rosenberg) and Alfred Wetzler; 2. Documentation of the SS in Auschwitz regarding the search for the escapees Siegfried Lederer, Alfred Wetzler, Rudolf Vrba, Arnost Rosin and Czeslav-Petr Mordowic; 3. Documentation regarding the escape of Siegfried Lederer from Auschwitz, April 1944 (in the Czech language); 4. Article by Erich Kulka regarding the escape of inmates and the effort to halt the annihilation, also published in the book pertaining to the internati...

  20. Documentation from 1961-1973 regarding Rudolf Vrba and his escape from Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944

    1. P.25- Archive of Erich Kulka, Historian of Czech Jewry and Author

    Documentation from 1961-1973 regarding Rudolf Vrba and his escape from Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944 In the file: - Correspondence between Erich Kulka and Rudolf Vrba (in the Czech language), 1964-1965; - Scientific article by Rudolf Vrba on Chemistry (in English), 1964; - Sketches of the Auschwitz camps; - Newspaper surveys regarding the escape of Rudolf Vrba (in English); - Testimony of Rudolf Vrba (in English), 1961.