Fragmenty pamietnika ... krematorium nr. 2 w Brzezinka = fragment of a diary recovered from crematoria number 2 at Birkenau in July 1961

Identifier
irn502025
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1998.A.0135
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Yiddish
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folders

2

1 microfilm reel,

Archival History

Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu

Acquisition

Officials of the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camp memorials recovered the original diary fragments from a metal in an ash pit at crematoria nr. 2 in Birkenau concentration camp on July 28, 1961. Main Commission for the Investigation of Crimes Against the Polish Nation -Institute of National Memory in Warsaw, Poland, acquired the diary fragments shortly after its recovery. The Main Commission and Museum of Auschwitz and Birkenau made photocopies and microfilm copies in 1961. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives purchased a duplicate of the microfilm and photo prints of some of the manuscript's more legible pages in June 1998. The Archives received the microfilm and photographs in July 1998.

Scope and Content

Contains a microfilm copy and black and white photoprints of fragments of a Yiddish-language diary recovered from an ash pit at crematoria nr. 2 in Birkenau concentration camp. An unknown writer compiled the diary. It describes life in the Łódź ghetto. (See Acc. 1998.A.0135 for transcription of diary).

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