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  1. Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau w Oświęcimiu

    • Auschwitz State Museum
    • Poland
    • ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, Oświęcim, województwo małopolskie
  2. Brown leather belt worn by a Dutch Jewish political prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau

    1. Arie Torner collection

    Leather belt worn by Arie Torner during his internment in various ghettos, labor camps, and concentration camps in German-occupied Poland from October 1941 through May 8, 1945. While being held, Arie had to add seven hand-cut holes to the belt to compensate for all of the weight he lost due to malnutrition and the small quantity of food provided to prisoners. Arie was born in Wloclawek, Poland, but was living with his family in Rotterdam, Netherlands by 1940. His parents Chaim and Malka, his sister, and his five brothers were all killed when the German Luftwaffe bombed the city on May 14, 1...

  3. Bar of soap stamped RIF issued to an inmate of Auschwitz-Birkenau

    1. Margo and Rudolf Selby family collection

    Soap bar received by 21-year old Rudy Zelmanovics when he was imprisoned in Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland in 1945. Rudy was living in Nagybanya, Hungary, when it was occupied by German soldiers in March 1944. In early 1945, Rudy was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and tattooed with prisoner number A-13161. At the end of the month, the inmates were sent on a death march to Buchenwald. They arrived in March, but a few weeks later, were forced on another death march. Rudy and a few inmates escaped and found a place to hide. On April 23, 1945, they were discovered and liberated by Ame...

  4. 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 This sculpture is one of three replicas of a model he originally made i...

  5. Trial against the staff of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau Proces członków załogi Oświęcimia (Sygn. GK 196)

    Contains investigation materials and court documents relating to the trial of Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camp staff, also records on crimes in other concentration camps. Records contain court cases against many war criminals, such as Adolf Eichmann, Rudolf Hoess (Höss), Dr. Goebel, Karl Ernst Moeckel, Maximilian Grabner as well as against SS physicians accused of experimental operations on Polish women, against female SS camp guards, and other Auschwitz SS staff members. Includes documents on historical background on Nazi leadership; an illustrated SS guidebook for German personn...

  6. Memoirs of Tzvia (Woller) Elbaum, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Krakow Ghetto and in Plaszow camp, Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz-Birkenau and more

    1. O.39 - Collection of memoirs written by survivors as part of a competition held by Yad Vashem, 1957
    • Moje wspomnienia z obozow

    Memoirs of Tzvia (Woller) Elbaum, born in Tarnow, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Krakow Ghetto and in Plaszow camp, Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz-Birkenau and more Life before the war; move to Krakow, 1937; life in Krakow; attends the Hebrew high school. Life in the Krakow Ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto, 1943; deportation to Plaszow camp together with her father, 13 March 1943; escape of her mother together with her sister to the Aryan side; life of her mother and her sister on the Aryan side of Krakow until the end of the war; life in Plaszow camp; standing for hours at ro...

  7. Testimony of Szyje Bartnowski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Pruzana, as a partisan, in Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Blechhammer and in other places

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

    Testimony of Szyje Bartnowski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Pruzana, as a partisan, in Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Blechhammer and in other places Deportation from the Bialystok Ghetto to Pruzana with his family, October 1941; life in Pruzana until December 1941; escape into the forests in Bialowieza with two Polish Communists; joins a Soviet partisan battalion; works at providing clothing from the Pruzana Ghetto to the partisan battalion with help from the Judenrat; move back to the ghetto when he contracts typhus; deportation of the Jews f...

  8. Bestand van de Vereniging van ex-politieke gevangenen van Auschwitz-Birkenau, kampen en gevangenissen van Silezië.

    • Fondation Auschwitz / Auschwitz Stichting
    • BE / Stichting Auschwitz-Fondation Auschwitz / Bestand van de Vereniging van ex-politieke gevangenen van Auschwitz-Birkenau, kampen en gevangenissen van Silezië
    • Dutch
    • ca. 2000 stukken (15 dozen).

    Dit bestand bevat stukken die getuigen van de interne werking en activiteiten van de vereniging. Het gaat om documenten die typisch zijn voor verenigingsarchief zoals statuten, briefwisseling, omzendbrieven, boekhoudkundige stukken, diverse administratieve documenten, documentatie, dossiers, enz. Voor de jaren 1957-1980 is een quasi volledige reeks notulen van vergaderingen aanwezig. De stukken hebben vooreerst betrekking op contacten met andere organisaties zoals patriottische verenigingen (vb. Comité La Flamme), verschillende oud-gevangenencomités (vb. uit Frankrijk en Nederland, maar ook...

  9. Testimony of Chiel Szedler, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Janina, Buchenwald and other places

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

    Testimony of Chiel Szedler, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Janina, Buchenwald and other places Life in the Bialystok Ghetto including work as an electrician and a sorter and repairer of Soviet weapons that fell into German hands; smuggling weapons parts into the ghetto by Szendler and other workers; arrival of weapons parts into the hands of the partisans through a Soviet officer; smuggling a radio station [receiver?] into the ghetto; attitude of Schulz, the German policeman; help of Jewish inmates to Soviet POWs worki...

  10. Testimony of Michl Orszanski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1905, regarding his experiences in Bialystok, Stutthof, Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna and other places

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

    Testimony of Michl Orszanski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1905, regarding his experiences in Bialystok, Stutthof, Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna and other places Deportation with 40 men and 150 women from the prison in Bialystok to Stutthof, late November 1943; escape attempt en route to Stutthof; murder of the escapees; life in Stutthof for seven weeks; transfer of the inmates to Auschwitz, 12 January 1944; transfer of the inmates to Block 13 in Birkenau; life in Birkenau including abuse of the inmates by a Jewish Kapo; deportation of Jews from Bedzin to Birkenau, 29 January 1944; murder of the ...

  11. 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...

  12. 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.

  13. Testimony of Eli Ulicki, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1910, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Auschwitz; Birkenau; Mauthausen and other places

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

    Testimony of Eli Ulicki, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1910, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Auschwitz; Birkenau; Mauthausen and other places First "Aktion" in the Bialystok Ghetto, 05 February 1943; hiding of Jews in hiding places in the ghetto; discovery of the hiding places; deportation of approximately 3,000 Jews to Malkinia by train; attempts to escape from the train; suicide on the trains; deportation of the Jews to Auschwitz via Warsaw; arrival in Auschwitz, 07 February 1943; selection; transfer of Jews to the crematorium; transfer of Jews to the labor camp; life in B...

  14. 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...

  15. Letters written by Elly Schőn to her husband Erich during his detention in Brno by the Gestapo, 1939; letter written in Auschwitz, 1944; letter written by Erich Schőn from Auschwitz-Birkenau to his sister-in-law Olga Kulka from Nový Hrozenkov, 1944

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

    Letters written by Elly Schőn to her husband Erich during his detention in Brno by the Gestapo, 1939; letter written in Auschwitz, 1944; letter written by Erich Schőn from Auschwitz-Birkenau to his sister-in-law Olga Kulka from Nový Hrozenkov, 1944 - Letter (original) written by Elly Schőn to her husband Erich during his detention in the city of Brno by the Gestapo, 20 July 1939; - Copy of a letter written by Erich Schőn (later Kulka) from Auschwitz-Birkenau to his sister-in-law (and future wife) Olga, 02 August 1944; - Copy of the farewell letter written by Elly Schőn to her husband Erich ...

  16. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Detailed report regarding Auschwitz-Birkenau submitted by Walter Rosenberg (Rudolph Vrba) and Alfred Wexler (Josef Lanik) who succeeded in escaping from the camp

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Detailed report regarding Auschwitz-Birkenau submitted by Walter Rosenberg (Rudolph Vrba) and Alfred Wexler (Josef Lanik) who succeeded in escaping from the camp Detailed report regarding Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1942-1944, submitted by Walter Rosenberg (Rudolph Vrba) and Alfred Wexler (Josef Lanik) who succeeded in escaping from the camp, 07 April 1944, and arriving in Slovakia Also in the file: - Gestapo telegram regarding the escape of these two inmates, 09 April 1944; Two Gestapo telegrams regarding the escape of inmates from Auschwitz: Siegfried Lederer, Cz...

  17. Documentation from 1978-1994 regarding the establishment and work of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau and the revolt of the Sonderkommando workers, 07 October 1944

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

    Documentation from 1978-1994 regarding the establishment and work of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau and the revolt of the Sonderkommando workers, 07 October 1944 1. Zalman Gradowski and his notes, some of which were discovered by the Soviets who liberated the camp, and some of which were acquired from a Pole by Chaim Wolnerman; 2. Testimony of the SS man, Dr. Horst Fischer; 3. Testimony of the Polish inmate, Stanislaw Gwidzka; 4. "The Auschwitz Scrolls", a production evaluation report regarding Dr. Miklosz Nyiszli's book; 5. Documentation regarding the Sonderkommando Project based...

  18. Memoirs of Herrmann Heinz, born in Opava, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding his experiences in Terezin and Auschwitz-Birkenau, translated to Hebrew and titled "Mein Kampf versus the Final Solution", 1984

    1. P.62 - Peter Erben Collection: Documentation regarding the Jews of Czechoslovakia, and specifically the Jews of Ostrava, during the Holocaust period

    Memoirs of Herrmann Heinz, born in Opava, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding his experiences in Terezin and Auschwitz-Birkenau, translated to Hebrew and titled "Mein Kampf versus the Final Solution", 1984 The essay was originally called "Mein Kampf gegen die Endloesung"; it was translated to Hebrew by Yehudit Beichler and can be found in the Yad Vashem Library.

  19. German Democratic Republic postage stamp, 35 marks, depicting the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial

    1. David Pearlman collection

    Commemorative, 35 Mark, postage stamp depicting the International Monument dedicated to the victims of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp issued by the Postal Office of the German Democratic Republic in 1982.

  20. Nicht angeführt (Schwangere Frauen im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau).

    1. Card index of the “general documents” of the collection Incarceration and Persecution
    2. Konzentrationslager
    3. Konzentrationslager Allgemeines
    4. Pseudo-medizinische Versuche

    Oben Genannte wurde im 05.1944 verhaftet und in das Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau eingeliefert. Dort wurde ihr 7 jähriges Kind vernichtet. Sie mußte im Hospital bei den schwangeren Frauen arbeiten. Dort erlebte sie, daß Frauen, bei denen die Spritzen nicht wirkten, umgebracht wurden.Frauen die lebende Kinder zur Welt brachten, mußten diese teilweise selbst erwürgen, sonst wurden sie selbst umgebracht oder bekamen tagelang kein Essen.(Auszugsweise übersetzter Text in russ. Sprache).