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      <titlestmt>
        <titleproper>Concentration Camp Esterwegen</titleproper>
      </titlestmt>
      <publicationstmt>
        <publisher>Arolsen Archives: International Center on Nazi Persecution </publisher>
        <address>
          <addressline>Grosse Allee 5-9</addressline>
          <addressline>34454</addressline>
          <addressline>Bad Arolsen</addressline>
          <addressline>Hessen</addressline>
          <addressline>DE</addressline>
          <addressline>+49 5691-6290</addressline>
          <addressline>+49 5691-629501</addressline>
          <addressline>http://www.its-arolsen.org</addressline>
          <addressline>email@its-arolsen.org</addressline>
          <addressline>Germany</addressline>
        </address>
      </publicationstmt>
      <notestmt>
        <note>
          <p>This encoded description is derived from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution but may differ in structure and/or content from its source. The collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.</p>
        </note>
      </notestmt>
    </filedesc>
    <profiledesc>
      <creation>This file was exported automatically from the EHRI database administration tool and represents a work-in-progress.
        <date normal="20210102">2021-01-02T20:15:15.689Z</date>
      </creation>
      <langusage>
        <language langcode="eng">English</language>
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    <did>
      <unitid>DE ITS 1.1.7</unitid>
      <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Concentration Camp Esterwegen</unittitle>
      <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">2 folders

digitised

7

Originals, Photocopies</physdesc>
      <langmaterial>
        <language encodinganalog="3.4.3">GER / Latn.</language>
      </langmaterial>
      <repository>
        <corpname>Arolsen Archives: International Center on Nazi Persecution </corpname>
      </repository>
    </did>
    <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
      <p><![CDATA[The collection includes:

Report by the commander’s office of Concentration Camp Esterwegen to the Inspector of the Concentration Camps in Berlin, Prinz-Albrechtstr. 8, and record of the interrogation of the post responsible for the shooting of a prisoner on protective custody who had tried to escape on 8.5.1935,

Prisoner registration card created in Concentration Camp Esterwegen for Mr Charles Weise

For the history of Concentration Camp Esterwegen 1933-1945 cf.:http://www.gedenkstaette-esterwegen.de/]]></p>
    </scopecontent>
    <arrangement encodinganalog="3.3.4">
      <p><![CDATA[1.1.7.1 List material Esterwegen]]></p>
    </arrangement>
    <altformavail encodinganalog="3.5.2">
      <p><![CDATA[Digital copies of the ITS collections are held by]]></p>
    </altformavail>
    <altformavail encodinganalog="3.5.2">
      <p><![CDATA[Documentation and Research Centre on the Resistance,  Luxemburg, Archives Nationales, Paris, Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw, The State Archives of Belgium, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), Washington, The Wiener Library, London, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem]]></p>
    </altformavail>
    <otherfindaid encodinganalog="3.4.5">
      <p><![CDATA[Names are searchable in the ITS Central Name Index (CNI)]]></p>
    </otherfindaid>
    <custodhist encodinganalog="3.2.3">
      <p><![CDATA[The ITS collections were created and compiled to meet the requirements of the institution’s original role as tracing and contact office for survivors and the families of victims of Nazi persecution. The documents to be incorporated into the collections were registered chronologically, i.e. by their inclusion date. The organization of the concentration camp holdings grown in accordance with the principle of pertinence is to be understood as part of the developments within the organizational structure of the tracing service.

The collections contain a wide variety of types of documents including individual documents or list material. The records were either generated directly by National Socialist authorities and organizations or created at the instigation of the Allies and humanitarian organizations after liberation. While some of them were entrusted to the care of the ITS by governments, private organizations, other archives and private individuals, others were selectively acquired by ITS staff with a view to at least decreasing the gaps in the history of the pertinent individual camps – which are substantial if one considers that from, in total, 24 concentration camps with more than 1,000 external detachments in operation during the war era the prisoner names of only two ones, i.e. Buchenwald and Dachau, are registered here almost completely. Other camps are fully or partly well documented here, for some we have meagre name information or none at all.

The ITS collections include not only original documents, but also a great deal of copies. It is noteworthy and not exceptional that these copies are the only known specimens of the documents concerned. 

x.x.x.l is the reference code for list material that was assigned to the vast majority of the concentration camp records, i.e. collections of person-related documents sorted by concentration camps and filed – according to filing plan AL 4 of UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) – by GCC (German Concentration Camp), OCC (Outside Concentration Camp) or VCC (Various Concentration Camp).

Old reference codes: none]]></p>
    </custodhist>
    <relatedmaterial encodinganalog="3.5.3">
      <p><![CDATA[1.1.34 Emsland Camps (Papenburg)]]></p>
    </relatedmaterial>
    <processinfo encodinganalog="3.7.1" type="Sources">
      <p>
        <bibref><![CDATA[Buck, Kurt: Esterwegen – Das Lager. In: Bettina Schmidt-Czaia (Hrsg. im Auftrag der Gemeinde Esterwegen): Esterwegen 1223 bis 1999 – „Moor und Heide nur ringsum ...?“, Esterwegen 1999, S. 205-253.]]></bibref>
        <bibref><![CDATA[Buck, Kurt: Auf der Suche nach den Moorsoldaten. Emslandlager 1933-1945 und die historischen Orte heute, Papenburg 6. Aufl. 2008.]]></bibref>
        <bibref><![CDATA[Harpel, Henning: Die Emslandlager des Dritten Reichs. Formen und Probleme der aktiven Geschichtserinnerung im nördlichen Emsland 1955-1993. In: Studiengesellschaft für Emsländische Regionalgeschichte (Hrsg.): Emsländische Geschichte. Band 12, Haselünne 2005, S. 134-239.]]></bibref>
        <bibref><![CDATA[Knoch, Habbo: Die Emslandlager 1933-1945. In: Benz, Wolfgang/Distel, Barbara: Der Ort des Terrors. Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager. Band 2: Frühe Lager, Dachau, Emslandlager, München 2005, S. 532-570.]]></bibref>
        <bibref><![CDATA[Perk, Willy: Hölle im Moor. Zur Geschichte der Emslandlager 1933–1945, Frankfurt am Main 1979.]]></bibref>
      </p>
    </processinfo>
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          <unitid>DE ITS 1.1.7.1</unitid>
          <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">List Material Esterwegen</unittitle>
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7</physdesc>
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            <unitid>2582000</unitid>
            <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Report of the commando of KL Esterwegen to the "Inspector of concentration camps" in Berlin, Prinz-Albrechtsstr. 8" and record of the interrogation of the responsible post concerning the shooting of a ...</unittitle>
            <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Originally, 2 pages have been taken on inventory.

digitised

4

Fotokopien</physdesc>
          </did>
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            <p><![CDATA[Report of the commando of KL Esterwegen to the "Inspector of concentration camps" in Berlin, Prinz-Albrechtsstr. 8" and record of the interrogation of the responsible post concerning the shooting of a prisoner in protective custody who was trying to escape on 8.5.1935]]></p>
          </scopecontent>
          <otherfindaid encodinganalog="3.4.5">
            <p><![CDATA[Names have been included into the Central Name Index.]]></p>
          </otherfindaid>
          <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
            <p><![CDATA[Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltung, Ludwigsburg

1974-08-22]]></p>
          </acqinfo>
          <odd encodinganalog="3.6.1">
            <p><![CDATA[1]]></p>
          </odd>
        </c02>
        <c02 level="file">
          <did>
            <unitid>5932000</unitid>
            <unittitle encodinganalog="3.1.2">Prisoner personnel cards of the camp of Esterwegen - date of arrival: 29.3.1935</unittitle>
            <physdesc encodinganalog="3.1.5">Originally, 1 pages have been taken on inventory.

digitised

3

Original</physdesc>
          </did>
          <scopecontent encodinganalog="3.3.1">
            <p><![CDATA[Prisoner personnel cards of the camp of Esterwegendate of arrival: 29.3.1935]]></p>
          </scopecontent>
          <otherfindaid encodinganalog="3.4.5">
            <p><![CDATA[Names have been included into the Central Name Index.]]></p>
          </otherfindaid>
          <acqinfo encodinganalog="3.2.4">
            <p><![CDATA[Deutsche Dienststelle (WASt), Berlin

1992-10-09]]></p>
          </acqinfo>
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            <p><![CDATA[1]]></p>
          </odd>
        </c02>
      </c01>
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  </archdesc>
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