"Das Krematorium in Dachau"

Identifier
irn43914
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2011.243.1
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn43914

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of D.W. Mellrath

D.W. Mellrath donated this document to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011.

Scope and Content

Consists of one original document, 2 pages, entitled "Das Krematorium in Dachau," a typed eyewitness report given by Willy Furlan-Horst shortly after the liberation of Dachau. The report describes the interior of the crematoria, the gas chambers, the procedures for torture and execution of prisoners, the duties of the crematoria Kommandos, and the facilities for housing the SS attack dogs.

Subjects

  • Concentration camps--Germany--Dachau.

Genre

  • Document
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