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Language of Description: English
Country: Germany

  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. Bequest Hermann Rössler

    Hermann Rössler (1895-1976) was born in Bohemia in 1895 and grew up in Neustrelitz in the former Free State Mecklenburg-Strelitz. He was the son of the author and actor Carl Rössler. Hermann Rössler himself was an author and translator and published, among other things, the crime novel "Expresszug des Teufels" in 1921. After the National Socialists' rise to power, Hermann Rössler emigrated to Norway and subsequently in 1940 to Great Britain. He then migrated to Canada in 1945. Hermann Rössler died in 1976. The bequest Hermann Rössler contains after description, demetallization and filing 12...

  3. Bequest Carl Bringer

    Carl Bringer was born in Dusseldorf in 1929. From 1962 to 1994, he worked as an editor for the Hessischer Rundfunk, the Hessian state radio. From 1994 to 2006, he volunteered for the psychological services of the "Fritz Bauer Haus", a detention center in Darmstadt-Eberstadt. He was friends with Fritz Bauer. Carl Bringer passed away in 2017. The bequest mostly consists of papers, linked to his friendship with Fritz Bauer and connected to Bauer's work. The bequest Carl Bringer covers after description, demetallization, and filing nine archival units with a total extent of 0.3 running meters. ...

  4. Collection of Ethnics and History of Medicine

    Initiated by Hans Fleischhacker in 1943, the collection mainly consists of more than 600 hand-, foot-, and finger-prints of mostly Jewish inmates of the Lódź Ghetto (Litzmannstadt Ghetto) in Poland. Strongly influenced by racial biology, it was the antropologists aim to use this collection for attesting the supposed morphological differences between the palms of Jews and non-Jews. It is the only collection of this kind, and testimony to the terrifying abuse of scientific methods under the National Socialists.

  5. Collection Lagergemeinschaft Auschwitz - Freundeskreis der Auschwitzer e.V.

    Werner Renz, the former archivist of the Fritz Bauer Institute transferred the collection "Lagergemeinschaft Auschwitz — Freundeskreis der Auschwitzer e. V." (Camp Community Auschwitz — friends of the Auschwitzers e. V.) to the Institute in February 2018. Werner Renz was an active member of the camp community from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. The collection Lagergemeinschaft Auschwitz — Freundeskreis der Auschwitzer e. V. covers after description, demetallization, and filing three archival units with a total extent of 0.25 running meters. It provides an insight into the internal conflict...

  6. Pre-death legacy Heimo Moßbauer

    Heimo Moßbauer was born in Judenburg, Austria on May 28, 1941. He lived in Frankfurt (Main) for a long time and worked as a cellist. The pre-death legacy Heimo Moßbauer covers after description, demetallization, and filing six archival units with a total extent of 0.15 running meters. Since the record group did not have an inner structure upon the acquisition the processor Inga Steinhauser completely reorganized the holding during indexing in December 2022. It follows the “rules for the description of personal papers and autographs” (RNA, Regeln zur Erschließung von Nachlässen und Autograph...

  9. Nachlässe

  13. Stadt Dachau

    • Dachau
    • City of Dachau

  14. Pressesammlung