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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, ...

<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.</strong></span></p><p>This microfilm collection of reports and papers documents conditions at Stalag VIII B Lamsdorf and Teschen POW camps. It includes camp reports, correspondence, reports of escapes, and statements by prisoners.</p><p>Camp reports, including statistics ...

Motel Jawerbaum was born in Miedzyrzeck Podlaski, Poland on June 16, 1913. In April 1940, he was deported to a forced labor camp in Biala Podlaska, returned to the ghetto in Miedzyrzec and in the sumer of 1943 he was deported to the Majdanek concentration camp and shortly after he was transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was tatooed with number 128085. He was imprisoned in Buna ...

Edith Birkin was born in Prague in 1927. In 1941, she was sent with her parents to the ghetto of Łódź, Poland. In 1944, she was sent to Auschwitz and then to Christianstadt, a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen. In Jan. 1945, she was sent on a death march to Flossenbürg. After spending a short time there, she was transported to Bergen-Belsen, where she was at the time of its liberation. After the Holocaust, ...

Greenman was born in 1910 in London to a Jewish family; in 1913 he and his widowed father settled in Rotterdam. Greenman failed to escape to England when the war began, and in 1940 was caught by the German occupation. He lost his British identity papers and, because of bureaucratic procrastination on the part of Dutch officials and of the Swiss consulate that represented British interests, could not ...

Strafsache gegen den Lagerarzt des KZ Auschwitz III Monowitz Horst Fischer; Recherchen zu Mitarbeitern der Gestapoleitstelle Breslau; Übersicht zu Häftlingen der Konzentrationslager Ravensbrück und Auschwitz.

This report provides an account by a former Auschwitz inmate of the last days of the camp and of the subsequent fate of prisoners who ended up in Sachsenhausen.</p><p>In addition to the original typescript report, there is a transcript by the depositor and notes regarding provenance and authorship by the depositor. The report is missing at least one page and the transcript is incomplete. The partial ...

Subject: The almost unbelievable story of Denis Avey, now 92, began in 1944 when he was captured and sent to a POW work camp. He was put to work every day in a German factory, where he labored alongside Jewish prisoners from a nearby camp called Auschwitz. The stories they told him were horrifying. Eventually Avey's curiosity, kind-heartedness, derring-do, and perhaps foolhardiness drove him to suggest--and ...

17:38 Civil party Esther Majerowicz testifies regarding her arrival at Auschwitz, including having her head shaved and being tattooed; she gives specifics of her daily life in the camp, and details her subsequent transport to another camp, Kratzau, where she worked in an arms factory 17:52 President Cerdini asks Mrs. Majerowicz to give precision regarding the number of times and circumstances under ...

Dr. Ralph Bloch was the son of two physicians: Dr. Jacques Bloch M.D., a surgeon who spent most of that time in military service and Dr. Charlotte Bloch-Springer M.D. was a medical resident during the war. They resided in Zurich, Switzerland. In mid-1938 or early 1939 the Jewish Community of Zurich organized vacation programs for Jewish children from Southern Germany. Ingrid Billigheimer, born on September ...