Consists of one memoir, 111 pages, entitled "Birkenau: The Camp of Death" by Dr. Marco Nahon, originally written in June-July 1945 and translated in 1959. In the memoir, Dr. Nahon describes life in Demotika, Greece, after the German declaration of war in 1941, and his deportation to Auschwitz in May 1943 after a brief stop in Salonika. He gives a detailed description of life in Auschwitz, where, as ...

The Supreme National Tribunal (Najwyższy Trybunał Narodowy, NTN) was a war crimes tribunal active in Poland from 1946 to 1948. The Tribunal's aims and purpose were defined by the State National Council in the Decrees of 22 January and 17 October 1946 and 11 April 1947. The new law was based on the earlier Decree of 31 August 1944 (Sierpniówka) issued by the new Polish pro-Soviet government, with jurisdiction ...

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A biography of Alfred (Fredy) Hirsch, born in 1916 in Aachen. He was active there as a leader of the Jewish scout movement from 1933, and later in Düsseldorf and Frankfurt. In 1935 he became a leader of Maccabi Hatzair in Czechoslovakia (first running a camp in Slovakia; from 1936-39 he was based in Brno). In 1939 he moved to Prague, where he organized illegal transports to Palestine in the framework ...

"In the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum archives there is a unique collection of photographs representing scenes from the lives of Jewish families before the war: their daily work, weddings, children's birthdays, school classes and youth organizations, vacations with family and friends. Unfortunately the origin of this collection is not precisely know; no one can say who found the photographs or where ...

Contains telegrams, card files, card indexes, reports, registers, name lists, and various other documents relating to prisoner labor in Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Monowitz concentration camps. Select files relate to camp prisoners working as electricians and ironworkers. The records date from 1942 to 1945 with the bulk dating from 1944.

Collection analyzes three different Holocaust memorials as case studies, and how the architecture reflects the experiences of Holocaust victims.

Contains photocopies of articles from Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, newspapers dated December 12, 1963, to August 20, 1965, concerning Auschwitz-related legal proceedings. Lists of the accused, their sentences, and officers of the courts and maps of Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps are included.

The second corrected version. 210 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.

Copyright Holder: Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau

Collectie 117a: Rijksbureau voor Diamant > Taakuitvoering > Overige aangelegenheden

Copyright Holder: Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau

Contains lists of new prisoners entering Auschwitz concentration camp in 1941, and Sterbeurkunde (death notices) for primarily Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox prisoners dating from 1940 to 1944, with the bulk of them dating from 1943. All of the records relate to the main camp, Auschwitz I.

Presents a compact overview of the history of Auschwitz, pointing to all of its complex aspects. Describes the functioning of the Auschwitz concentration camp, focusing on its use for the exploitation of slave labor and for the annihilation of European Jewry. Deals with the establishment and organization of the main camp, tributary and labor camps (Birkenau, IG Farben, and Monowitz), murder experiments, ...

Memoirs of a French Jew (b. 1915), a doctor, who was arrested by the militia in Nice in April 1944. She and her fiancé, Moussa Abadi, were accused of organizing the Marcel Network that, with the aid of the mayor and the Protestant churches, rescued 500 Jewish children. Odette was interned in Drancy and deported to Bergen-Belsen with Transport 1.200. Moussa was active in the underground until the end ...

Copyright Holder: Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau

Copyright Holder: Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau

The <i> Internationale Auschwitz Komitee</i> was founded in 1952 by former inmates of the death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, with the following aims: to bear witness to the crimes of the Nazis in the camp; to fight for compensation for former inmates and their families; to work with the Auschwitz Museum to preserve the site of the camp as a permanent memorial.<br/><br/>The <i> IAK</i> became involved ...

A history of the Auschwitz memorial site, which in 1947 became the Polish State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau. Throughout 1945-79 the memory and meaning of Auschwitz and even its landscape were constructed and modified in accordance with the cultural imperatives and political exigencies of postwar Poland. Insofar as in the People's Republic Auschwitz came to symbolize Polish national martyrdom, the narrative ...

White, plaster of Paris, 1:15 sculptural model of Crematorium II and a gas chamber at Auschwitz-Birkenau (Auschwitz II) killing center, commissioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and created between 1989 and 1992 by Mieczyslaw Stobierski. “Model crematorium II – Birkenau” illustrates the entire process that killed 1.1 million people at the Auschwitz camp complex. While the model is ...

Consists of copies of Auschwitz administration records and copies of log books of prisoners' names. The documents relate to general camp operations, distribution of labor, orders from the Kommandant, transfer of prisoners to and from other camps, and biographical information concerning several Auschwitz prisoners. See RG list for titles of RG-04.013*01 through RG-04.013*06.