Polish Red Cross, District of Lublin Polski Czerwony Krzyż-Okręg Lubelski (Sygn. XI)

Identifier
irn47311
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.111
  • RG-15.211M
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1946
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn47311

Extent and Medium

114,314 digital images, JPEG

120 microfilm reels (partially digitized), 35 mm

Creator(s)

  • Polski Czerwony Krzyz?

Archival History

Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku

Acquisition

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Source of acquisition the Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku, Sygn. XI. Records created by the Polski Czerwony Krzyż-Okreg Lubelski, transferred to Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku in 1957. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in July 2012.

Scope and Content

Files of the Polish Red Cross documenting assistance to prisoners in the Lublin-Majdanek camp and the Lublin castle: approximately 10,400 card files (first and last names, date and place of birth, names of parents, camp numbers) of prisoners who received parcels (1943/1944), lists of prisoners receiving assistance, correspondence with families of prisoners; 150 postcards and letters of prisoners to the Red Cross; list of 2,750 prisoners who died in Majdanek camp (compiled by Lublin parish); documents related to prisoners of the Buchenwald, Dachau, Gross-Rosen, Oranienburg, Auschwitz, and Ravensbrück camps; lists of soldiers killed or wounded near Lublin in 1939; index of Polish prisoners of war; documentation of searches for refugees and other missing persons; lists of deportees from Polish territories annexed to the Reich; lists of Polish forced laborers in Germany and correspondence regarding possible assistance; lists of Polish citizens sent to camps in Germany or to Sweden; lists of children separated from parents and found at Poznań railway station; lists of foreigners appealing to Red Cross in Lublin (British, Belgians, Spaniards, Yugoslavians, others).

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, British--Registers.
  • Poland
  • World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish--Registers.
  • Forced labor--Germany--History--20th century--Registers.
  • Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945--Registers.
  • Polish people--History--20thy centruy.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Civilian relief--Poland.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Europe.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--History--Poland--Registers.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Belgians--Registers.
  • War relief--Polish--1940-1950.
  • Refugee children--Poland--Registers.

Genre

  • Document
  • Registers.
This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

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