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  1. "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.

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 This sculpture is one of three replicas of a model he originally made i...

  6. Listen über Prämienauszahlungen d. KL Auschwitz-Birkenau

    1. Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslager Auschwitz
    2. Listenmaterial Auschwitz

    Listen über Prämienauszahlungen d. KL Auschwitz-Birkenau vom 01.-31.07.44 (nur Häftlings-Nummern) Listen über Prämienauszahlungen d. KL Auschwitz-Birkenau v. 19.05.44-16.01.45

  7. Verzeichnis Überlebender in Auschwitz, Birkenau und

    1. Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslager Auschwitz
    2. Listenmaterial Auschwitz

    Verzeichnis Überlebender in Auschwitz, Birkenau und Monowitz vom Poln. Roten Kreuz, A - G (Nachkriegsaufstellungen)

  8. Verzeichnis Überlebender in Auschwitz, Birkenau und

    1. Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslager Auschwitz
    2. Listenmaterial Auschwitz

    Verzeichnis Überlebender in Auschwitz, Birkenau und Monowitz vom Poln. Roten Kreuz, H - P (Nachkriegsaufstellungen)

  9. Verzeichnis Überlebender in Auschwitz, Birkenau und

    1. Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslager Auschwitz
    2. Listenmaterial Auschwitz

    Verzeichnis Überlebender in Auschwitz, Birkenau und Monowitz vom Poln. Roten Kreuz, R - Z Listen von Verstorbenen nach der Befreiung (Nachkriegsaufstellungen)

  10. Berichte ehemaliger Häftlinge des KL Auschwitz Birkenau

    1. Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslager Auschwitz
    2. Allgemeine Informationen Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslager Auschwitz

    Berichte ehemaliger Häftlinge des KL Auschwitz Birkenau (medizinische Versuche, Arbeitseinsätze, Schicksale von Angehörigen und Fremden)

  12. Intervista a Settimia Spizzichino ad Auschwitz Birkenau

    1. AV0001
    1. La bacchetta di legno di Mengele2. L'inverno nel campo3. Una famiglia distrutta4. La notte: un tavolaccio per dieci5. La coperta contesa6. La blokova7. Le latrine

  13. Intervista a Sabatino Finzi ad Auschwitz Birkenau

    1. AV0001
    1. Vagone bestiame2. Judenrampe3. Il fagotto dei neonati4. Il lavoro alla Rampa5. "Non dimenticare"6. L'immatricolazione7. 1585668. Materasso di trucioli9. La zia d'America10. La borsa di gomma per i bisogni notturni11. I suicidi contro le recinzioni elettrificate12. I polacchi13. Il ricordo dei genitori14. L'infermeria con medici italiani15. Intervento di Ruggero Gabbai

  14. Intervista a Nedo Fiano ad Auschwitz-Birkenau

    1. AV0001
    1. L'ingresso di Birkenau 2. La torre di controllo 3. Il campo e la divisione: maschile e femminile 4. L'ultimo abbraccio della mamma 5. La baracca del Kanada 6. La pulizia dei vagoni bestiame 7. La nonna e Bruno Cohen 8. Forno crematorio III 9. Intervento di Emanuele Fiano 10. Il ricordo del padre 11. Il dovere della memoria 12. Lo Strafkommando: il kommando di punizione 13. L'immatricolazione

  15. 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.

  16. Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camp records

    Contains SS (Schutzstaffel) personnel files, personnel indexes, schedule books, personnel pay books, lists of prisoners, delivery receipts, prisoner death books, and various other documents from Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps.

  17. Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp barracks

    Barracks from Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp established by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland from October 1941-January 18, 1945. Barracks were primitive wooden structures with large wooden shelves for bunkbeds. There were 36 bunks per barrack; 5 to 6 prisoners were packed on a shelf to fit over 500 prisoners per barracks. Inmates wore the same ragged clothes for work and sleep. The barracks had no insulation from the cold or heat, the wooden roofs often leaked, and the straw sometimes supplied as bedding was soon filthy and wet. The only toilet facility was a single bucket, and dia...

  18. German Extermination Camps - Auschwitz and Birkenau

    Contains a copy of a report entitled "German Extermination Camps - Auschwitz and Birkenau" written by escapees from the camp (unnamed in the report, later identified as Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler) in April 1944. The report was distributed in the United States by the War Refugee Board in November 1944.

  19. Songs from Auschwitz, Ravensbruck, Birkenau part 1

    1. Music study collection

    Program about music in the camps, possibly for Polish radio, Katowice Radio. Program host: unidentified. Includes repertoire from Auschwitz, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbrück -- but nothing from Terezin as label indicates. Music contents: 1) "Hymn" by Aleksander Kulisiewicz (based on Moorsoldaten); 2) "Moorsoldaten" (original, in German); 3) Wir schreiten fest (Esterwegen anthem); 4) "Die Gedanken sind frei" (resistance song); 5) unidentified Polish patriotic song; 6) "Im Lager Auschwitz war ich zwar"; 7) "Schwarzbraun ist die Haselnuss"'; 8) "Im Wald, im grünen Walde Da steht ein Försterhaus...

  20. Bericht über das 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

    Die medizinischen Versuche. Erwähnt sind folgende Ärzte: Delmotte, Schumann, Samuel, (Häftling) Cleubert, Weber, München, Fiderkiewicz war Häftlingsarzt, Helmersohn, Thilo, König, Mengele, Kitt Dr. Entress gab die Phenolspritzen.Weitere Angaben über Erschießungen, Vergasung und Krematorien.In der Zeit von 1942 bis 1944 sind insgesamt 3 850 000 Menschen mit Bahntransporten nach Auschwitz gekommen und über 1 000 000 mit Lastwagen.Im 03.1944 gab es 174 000 männliche numerierte Häftlinge.