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  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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 ...

  6. 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.

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  10. Institution Logo

    Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau w Oświęcimiu

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

  12. 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.

  15. 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...

  16. 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...

  17. 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...

  18. 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 ...

  19. 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...

  20. 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...