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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Ukrainian

  1. Häftlingskartei des SS-Wirtschaftsverwaltungs-Hauptamtes

    • SS-Wirtschaftsverwaltungs-Hauptamt prisoner card file
    • WVHA prisoner card file
    • „Hollerith-Kartei“ des SS-Wirtschaftsverwaltungs-Hauptamtes
    • SS-Wirtschaftsverwaltungs-Hauptamt „Hollerith card file“
    • KZ-Gedenkstätte Flossenbürg
    • WVHA-Häftlingskartei
    • English
    • 1944-1945
    • 148.782 record cards (digital representations) and corresponding dataset: ca. 269.000 references to concentration camp prisoner names in other documents (state: Nov 2014).

    The collection consists of 148.782 prisoners' record cards (27.351 of which were compiled for Jews) without names, digitized and matched with victims' databases (International joint project).The cards are produced in 1944 – 1945. More than 123.000 reconstructed names of concentration camp prisoners, based on entries in other documents (ca. 269.000 references). The digital images of these SS-Wirtschaftsverwaltungs-Hauptamt prisoner cards were made in: Federal Archives, Berlin (103.814), Polish Red Cross, Warsaw (44.279), State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, Oświęcim (563), State Museum Stutthof,...

  2. The Society for the Protection of Majdanek (since 1945)

    The fund numbers 993 units and includes the materials documenting the activities of the Society for the Protection of Majdanek.

  3. Polish Red Cross – Lublin District (1939-1946)

    The records of the Polish Red Cross handed over to the Archives of the State Museum at Majdanek in 1957. The materials are connected with the activity of the Polish Red Cross in the Lublin district in the years 1939-1946. They include: the personal records of the prisoners of Majdanek and the Lublin Castle, who received parcels from their families by hand of the Polish Red Cross; postcards confirming the receipt of the parcels; lists of Polish soldiers who were wounded or killed in 1939; and a register of former forced labourers, people coming back from the camps, refugees and foreigners lo...

  4. OPUS - Central Underground Care (1943-1944)

    The records of OPUS Central Underground Care include the reports from the Lublin district of the Home Army concerning the activity of the occupational authorities, such as reports from arrests of the Home Army soldiers and the financial situations of their families. This fund also includes the reports drawn up on the basis of the information about the situation in the camp provided by the Home Army soldiers imprisoned at Majdanek, and lists of prisoners’ names. The OPUS documents arrived at the Archives of the State Museum at Majdanek in 1971.

  5. Women’s Auxiliary Army Service (1942-1944)

    The records of the Women’s Auxiliary Army Service, the organization which operated from 1942 at the Headquarters of the Home Army in the Lublin District. Most documents are connected with the organizational issues of the Women’s Auxiliary Army Service.

  6. Studies

  7. Records of László Endre, 1911-1945

    • Endre László iratai, 1911-1945

    The collection contains the private records of László Endre, one of the most influential extreme right wing politicians in modern-era Hungary and one of the key perpetrators of the Holocaust. The most relevant part of the collection is his private correspondence (XIV.2.a.) with several dramatis personae of the interwar and World War II history of Hungary, many of those played roles in antisemitic and nationalistic policies, Jewish laws and the Holocaust, as well as thousands of persons representing the “Christian conservative” ruling and middle class of Hungary. The collection also holds le...

  8. The collection of photocopies

    The collection of the museum’s own materials and the ones acquired from other archives in Poland and abroad.

  9. The collection of announcements and leaflets

    Announcements, leaflets and propaganda posters issued by the occupational authorities and people’s government.

  10. The collection of materials connected with the Nazi prison at the Lublin Castle (1939-1944)

    A small collection numbering 16 units includes mainly the materials connected with the prisoners of the Lublin castle and a list of names of prison division IV, the so called Book of division IV.

  11. The collection of photographs

    The photography collection of the Archives of the State Museum at Majdanek numbers over 14 thousand photos showing: - The area of the former camp - Individual camp buildings - Camp prisoners (acquired after the war) - Crew members - Lublin in the times of German occupation A big part of the collection documents important events in the life of the museum, such as commemorative events, the Majdanek Days, exhibition opening days, visits by distinguished representatives of the world of culture and politics. Another group of photographs includes the photos which were found at Majdanek. They were...

  12. Records of the Central Endorsement Committee No.1-2 of Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County, 1945-1947

    • Pest Vármegye I.-II. sz. Központi Igazoló Bizottságának iratai, 1945-1947

    The collection holds the survived records of the Endorsement Committees established after the end of World War II in Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County. Endorsement procedures were initiated against employees of municipal and state administration, military and law enforcement officers and intellectuals, including lawyers, teachers, physicians and pharmacists. The material provides specific insight into various aspects of the political, social and economic life in Pest-Pilis-Solt –Kiskun County. It contains plenty of information on antisemitic policies and incidents, the implementation of Jewish ...

  13. The collection of microfilms

    Microfilmed documents from the museum’s own archives and other archives in Poland and abroad.

  14. Trial records

    A collection of materials connected with the trials of the Majdanek crew members, such as copies of trial records, interrogation reports, conclusions of judgments.

  15. International Military Tribunal Proceedings

    Mimeographed testimony and evidence, relating to the trials of alleged German war criminals at Nuremberg. The Hoover Institution Archives has a collection of documents from the Nuremburg Trials, but it is not complete and not indexed. You should consult the published sets of Nuremburg documents. One set, in 42 volumes, contains the proceedings of the trials and documents relating to them (such as evidence, interviews). One set, in 23 volumes contains only the proceedings. Both sets include indexes. Below are the citations to these sets, which use the official name of the entity that conduct...

  16. Constantine M. Panunzio Papers

    Writings, letters, clippings, biographies, and booklists, relating to Italian politics, fascism, church and state relations, antisemitism and racism, and Benito Mussolini. Box 2 contains an envelope entitled “Anti-Semitism and Racism” consisting of excerpts in Italian for the period 1933-1938, as well as a set of clippings from Italian newspapers for 1937-1938 on the subject. Box l2 contains a 64 page typescript of an English translation of an article by J. Evola entitled "Three Aspects of the Hebrew Problem," Rome, l936.

  17. Gesamtverband Deutscher Antikommunistischer Vereinigungen

    Writings, reports, and clippings, relating to the international communist movement and to Jews.

  18. Siegfried Bernfeld journals

    Literary journals of German and Austrian secondary schools. "Festschriften" of graduating German and Austrial secondary school classes, 1903-1914, and youth group journals, primarily literary, 1908-1909. Several issues are by Gerhart Eisler. Includes special journals in celebration of the "Matura" and "Kneipzeitungen." The specifically Jewish titles are: "Die Geschichte der Koenigin Esther," Prag, Bar Kochba, n.d.; "Der Neue Weg," Zionismus und Judenkultur, February l9l5; "Fuehrerzeitung des Juedischen Wanderbundes Blau-Weiss," Olmuetz, l9l2, several of the issues are in Hebrew (box l); "Ju...

  19. World War II pictorial collection

    Photographs and postcards, depicting a variety of scenes and personalities from World War II.Includes two collections formerly cataloged as: Breendock Concentration Camp. Photographs, n.d. l envelope. Depicts the World War II German concentration camp of Breendock (Antwerp, Belgium). Distributed by the Police Judiciaire, Anvers. Preliminary inventory. This set of 56 photographs depicts the locality, buildings, and camp structures. It does not contain photographs of people. Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Photographs, l945 46. Depicts the Buchenwald Concentration Camp and the memorial to the ...

  20. Thomas St. John Gaffney Papers

    Correspondence, writings, and printed matter, relating to international relations, the World War I war guilt question, reparations, Irish independence, American domestic politics and foreign policy, and Jews. Includes correspondence with Kaiser Wilhelm II in exile, Baron Hermann Speck von Sternberg (German ambassador to the United States), and Jules Cambon (French ambassador to Germany).