Documentation of the Dachau concentration camp
Extent and Medium
112 files
Archival History
In the collection there are files from the Dachau concentration camp which were transferred to Yad Vashem by the Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Occupied zone.
Scope and Content
In the collection there is administrational documentation including a few files kept by the camp administration. In many of the files there are forms for payment and insurance of the inmates.In other files there is personal documentation such as passports and photographs of inmates as well as the central card index file of the camp inmates (along with a separate card index file of the Jews from Hungary who arrived at the camp). In the collection there is also personal documentation of citizens from various countries which has been entered in the files beginning with File No. 501 (these files were formerly recorded by hand, beginning with File No. 1and following; they also listed the names of the above citizens, who had been identified in each of the files, in a special catalogue which was scanned).
Finding Aids
Description of the files are available on IDEA ALM system at Yad Vashem Archives reading room/
Existence and Location of Originals
YV archives
Archivist Note
JL according to the RG description in the YV system
Dates of Descriptions
2013-05-19