Blueprint copies for Buchenwald
Extent and Medium
oversize folder
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Archival History
Mr. Jim Sanders
Acquisition
The copies of the Buchenwald camp plan and the copy of the intelligence report concerning the camp were duplicated from record group 319 at the National Archives in Washington, D. C. The copies were acquired by Martin Smith, a former employee of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in 1990.
Scope and Content
Includes three copies of the blueprint plans for Buchenwald concentration camp. Also included is a report by the Sixth Service Command describing conditions in Buchenwald in 1944. This report contains testimony by Henry Glass, a prisoner of Buchenwald for approximately four months, from September 1938 to January 1939. The report describes the physical layout of the camp, its administration, methods of torture practiced in the camp, and the colored markings used to identify the prisoners.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
People
- Glass, Henry.
Corporate Bodies
- Germany. Gestapo
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- United States. Army. Service Forces
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Concentration camp tattoos.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Torture--Germany.
Genre
- Document