Confessions of Franz Ziereis, last commandant of Mauthausen
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
Mr. Jim Sanders
Acquisition
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Sidney D. Gell donated the material to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in May 1993.
Scope and Content
The confessions of Franz Ziereis, the last commandant of Mauthausen consists of an English translation of the confession made by Ziereis after his arrest by American forces in May 1945. In the confession, Ziereis describes the persecution of Jews in Mauthausen, atrocities committed by SS guards, the Nazi practice of euthanasia, the use of human skin to bind books and make satchels, executions, death marches, a camp brothel, and camp inmate markings.
System of Arrangement
The Confessions of Franz Ziereis is arranged in a single series.
People
- Ziereis, Franz, 1905-1945.
Corporate Bodies
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
- United States. Army. Evacuation Hospital, 131st
Subjects
- Gas chambers--Austria--Mauthausen.
- Austria.
- Death marches.
- Concentration camp tattoos.
- Executions and executioners--Austria--Mauthausen.
- Prostitution--Austria--Mauthausen.
- Human experimentation in medicine--Austria--Mauthausen.
- Jews--Persecutions.
Genre
- Personal narratives.
- Document