Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47011
• English
• 1946
• overall: Height: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) | Width: 13.375 inches (33.973 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting prisoners wrapped in blankets in a barrack being selected for an unknown labor detail by a Kapo and ghetto police officers at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men were marked “Nacht and Nebel”, individuals presenting a threat to German security that had been abducted in the middle...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn521466
• English
• 1945-1950
• folders 6
• Updated 1 year ago

The Abraham Lewent papers include biographical materials, correspondence, immigration materials, poems, and personal narratives documenting Abraham Lewent, the concentration camps he survived during the Holocaust, his refugee and displaced person status and job training after liberation, and his immigration to the United States. Biographical materials include a list of the places Lewent was incarcerated, a certificate documenting his detention in Dachau, an identification card from the Feldafing displaced persons camp, a membership card for the Council of Warsaw Jews in the American Zone of...

1. André Scheinmann collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn74549
• English
• 1960-2012
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of materials related to the Holocaust experiences of André Scheinmann. Born Joseph Scheinmann in 1915, André hid his Jewish identity and worked in the French Resistance and for Great Britain as a spy in France. He was arrested as a Nacht und Nebel ("Night and Fog") political prisoner and was interned at the Natzweiler-Strutthof concentration camp as a kapo, and later in the Dachau concentration camp. Includes "Call Me André," a memoir by André Scheinmann, co-authored by Diana Mara Henry, and several articles Henry wrote about Scheinmann's experiences.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47012
• English
• 1946
• overall: Height: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) | Width: 13.875 inches (35.243 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting exhausted prisoners being marched uphill while guards hit or shoot them as they return to Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men were marked “Nacht and Nebel”, individuals presenting a threat to German security that had been abducted in the middle of the night and were meant to be “...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47007
• English
• 1946
• overall: Height: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) | Width: 13.375 inches (33.973 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting prisoners carrying exhausted, injured, or dead prisoners so that the same number of men are present at the end of the day as at the beginning at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. A few of the prisoners are identified with NN (Nacht und Nebel [night and fog]) on their uniforms. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500354
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Documents (3), two from post-liberation Dachau camp, one from International Refugee Organization, all three attesting to the imprisonment of Benjamin Schepsman (Szepsman) at Dachau, and prior to that, at Natzweiler.

1. Zeugenschrifttum
2. B
3. Brachmann - Bruns

• Institut für Zeitgeschichte–Archiv
• ZS 392 / 1
• German
• 1952-1953
• 10 Bl.
• Updated 10 years ago

Sudetendeutsche Partei; Sudetendeutsche Jungenschaft; Sudetendeutsche Lage während der NS Zeit und danach; Sudetendeutsche Zeitung "Rundschau"; Konzentrationslager Sachsenhausen, Todesmarsch nach Wittstock an der Dossen; Zweiglager Heinkel-Oranienburg; Lager Natzweiler: Stellungnahme Brand zu Erklärung Peuker vom 04. Oktober 1952 zu Entschädigungsantrag von Brand, 01. März 1953.

1. Zeugenschrifttum
2. B
3. Brachmann - Bruns

• Institut für Zeitgeschichte–Archiv
• ZS 848 / 1
• German
• 1934-1945
• Updated 10 years ago

Auszug aus Interrogation, 21. August 1946, fünf Interrogations Oktober-Dezember 1946, betr. Salzwasserexperimente im Konzentrationslager Dachau; Rascher-Experimente; Fleckfieber-Experimente in Buchenwald und Natzweiler; jüdisch-bolschewistische Skeletten-Sammlung; Vernichtung von Tbc-Kranken in Polen und im Warthegau; Hauptamt für Volksgesundheit; RSHA; Blutgerinnungsversuche in Dachau und Hohenlychen; Malaria-Versuche; Persönlicher Referent Himmler; Ahnenerbe; Aufgaben des SS-Führungshauptamtes; Inspekteur der Konzentrationslager; Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn36291
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of fourteen photographs from the collection of Basil Peter Malamis, a member of the United States Army during World War II. Consists of twelve graphic photographs of corpses used for medical experimentation which were discovered at the Natzweiler concentration camp and two photographs, presumably taken by Mr. Malamis, of the crematorium at Buchenwald; these photographs are captioned.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47002
• English
• 1946
• overall: Height: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) | Width: 13.375 inches (33.973 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting prisoners, including those that had died, being accounted for during roll call at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. A few of the prisoners are identified with NN (Nacht und Nebel [night and fog]) on their uniforms. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men were marked “Nacht and Nebel”, individuals presenting a threat ...

1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn599805
• English
• 1937-1945
• 10 microfilm reels (partial), 16 mm 18,041 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

The collection contains various documents of concentration camps and Prisoner of War (POW) camps: regulations, instructions, daily reports, lists, summaries, journals, personnel files, card files, questionnaires, registers, and correspondence. Includes fragmentary compilations of records of Sachsenhausen (approximately 6,000 prisoner file cards for KL Sachsenhausen/Oranienburg), Buchenwald, Wewelsburg, Gross Rosen, Dachau, Lublin (Majdanek), Natzweiler, Neuengamme (Hamburg), Treblinka, and Esterwegen concentration camps; of POW camps III-A in Luckenwalde, I-A in Stalag, IX-C in Bad Sulza, N...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn597153
• English
• overall: Height: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm) | Width: 13.750 inches (34.925 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Portfolio cover for a set of secretly created prisoner sketches from Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, which were reproduced, engraved, and published in 1946. The originals were created by Henri Gayot and the introduction was written by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. The sketches depict daily camp life and prisoner abuse, particularly for prisoners like Gayot and LaPorte, who were marked as Nacht und Nebel (NN) [night and fog], and were meant to “vanish” in the camp. LaPorte was arrested by the German Sipo in February 1943 a...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47015
• English
• 1946
• overall: Height: 13.875 inches (35.243 cm) | Width: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting a truckload of dead prisoners being carried in to the crematorium in September 1944 at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men were marked “Nacht and Nebel”, individuals presenting a threat to German security that had been abducted in the middle of the night and were meant to be “van...

1. David Klein collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn88295
• English
• 1940-1947
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Postcards, receipts, work permits, and similar documents from multiple concentration camps and displaced persons camps, collected by Klein with explanatory notes for each item. Includes postcards from inmates at Neuengamme, Struthof (Natzweiler) and Gusen; receipts of delivery of packages for inmates at Neuengamme, Gusen, and s'Hertogenbosch; a tobacco ration card from Auschwitz; a work permit form for use in the Riga ghetto; a substitute shekel issued by the Zionist World Organization to an interned refugee at the camp in Mauritius in 1941; post-war documents issued at the Feldafing and Be...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn723126
• English
• 1940-1949
• 82,831 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Investigations conducted by the Department for Investigation of Enemy War Crimes (SRCGE) into war crimes committed either on the French mainland or involving French citizens in camps outside of France. The investigations were conducted by judiciary police starting in late 1944. They are organized alphabetically by département or by the country where they are presumed to have occurred (Germany, Austria, Poland), and also by subject matter. Investigated activities include arrest, arson, denaturalization denunciation, deportation, execution, expropriation, forced labor, homicide, internment, k...

1. Diana Mara Henry research material regarding Natzweiler-Struthof

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn74550
• English
• 1980-2010
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of research material gathered by Diana Mara Henry related to the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp. Includes copies of her own research and writings regarding the camp's history.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47004
• English
• 1946
• overall: Height: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) | Width: 13.375 inches (33.973 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting a line of prisoners pushing full wheelbarrows uphill while guards and dogs attach them at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. A few of the prisoners are identified with NN (Nacht und Nebel [night and fog]) on their uniforms. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men were marked “Nacht and Nebel”, individuals presenting a...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47005
• English
• 1946
• overall: Height: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) | Width: 13.375 inches (33.973 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting a guard preparing to drop a large rock on a prisoner that has collapsed out of a line of prisoners carrying rocks at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. A few of the prisoners are identified with NN (Nacht und Nebel [night and fog]) on their uniforms. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men were marked “Nacht and Nebel...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47006
• English
• 1946
• overall: Height: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) | Width: 13.375 inches (33.973 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting a prisoner being shot for trying to escape when a Kapo actually knocked him out of a line of prisoners moving along the perimeter fence at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. A few of the prisoners are identified with NN (Nacht und Nebel [night and fog]) on their uniforms. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men were m...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47009
• English
• 1946
• overall: Height: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) | Width: 13.375 inches (33.973 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting guards watching a group of prisoners, during an abusive exercise period, on their hands and knees being attacked and punished by Kapos and dogs at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. A few of the prisoners are identified with NN (Nacht und Nebel [night and fog]) on their uniforms. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both me...