Collection of documents from the Nazi camps Zbiór dokumentów z obozów hitlerowskich (Sygn. 209)
Extent and Medium
11,773 digital images, JPEG
11 microfilm reels, 35 mm
1 DVD-ROM, 4 3/4 in.
Archival History
Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
Acquisition
Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Source of acquisition is the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma (ŻIH), Sygn. 209. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from ŻIH via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Sep. 2009, and accretion in 2013.
Scope and Content
Contains original documents as well as copies of letters from prisoners of various camps, accounts and memoirs, camp correspondence, reports made out by the Polish underground state, articles and newspaper clippings, different post-war documents related to the commemoration of those places, as well as various name lists of prisoners from concentration camps across Europe. Documents have been collected at random and their content cannot be representative neither for the character nor for the history of particular camps; they can be treated only as supplementary records to other camp files.
System of Arrangement
Organized by the following series: Series 1. General Government, files 1-43, this part has been also supplemented by the material referring to Chełmno on Ner (Kulmhof) and other camps; Series 2. Silesia, files 44-129; Series 3. Warthegau, files 130-209; III Reich, files 210-281; Series 4. Prussia, files 282-286; Series 5. France, files 287-288; Series 6. Protectorate of Czech Republic and Moravia, files 292-293; Series 6. Reichskommisariat Ostland-Estonia, file 290; Series 7. Hungary, file 291; Series 8. Italy, files 292-293; Series 9. Other various camps, files 292-300. Series 10. unidentified campsFiles 301-302; Series 11. Sweden, file 303. In each of those series records are arranged in an alphabetical order, as per camps and their sub-camps.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland.
- Poland--Politics and government.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland.
Genre
- Reports.
- Document
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Memoirs.
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma