Polish Red Cross, District of Lublin Polski Czerwony Krzyż-Okręg Lubelski (Sygn. XI)
Extent and Medium
114,314 digital images, JPEG
120 microfilm reels (partially digitized), 35 mm
Creator(s)
- Polski Czerwony Krzyz?
Archival History
Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku
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 the Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku, Sygn. XI. Records created by the Polski Czerwony Krzyż-Okreg Lubelski, transferred to Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku in 1957. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in July 2012.
Scope and Content
Files of the Polish Red Cross documenting assistance to prisoners in the Lublin-Majdanek camp and the Lublin castle: approximately 10,400 card files (first and last names, date and place of birth, names of parents, camp numbers) of prisoners who received parcels (1943/1944), lists of prisoners receiving assistance, correspondence with families of prisoners; 150 postcards and letters of prisoners to the Red Cross; list of 2,750 prisoners who died in Majdanek camp (compiled by Lublin parish); documents related to prisoners of the Buchenwald, Dachau, Gross-Rosen, Oranienburg, Auschwitz, and Ravensbrück camps; lists of soldiers killed or wounded near Lublin in 1939; index of Polish prisoners of war; documentation of searches for refugees and other missing persons; lists of deportees from Polish territories annexed to the Reich; lists of Polish forced laborers in Germany and correspondence regarding possible assistance; lists of Polish citizens sent to camps in Germany or to Sweden; lists of children separated from parents and found at Poznań railway station; lists of foreigners appealing to Red Cross in Lublin (British, Belgians, Spaniards, Yugoslavians, others).
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku
Corporate Bodies
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
- International Committee of the Red Cross
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--History--Poland--Registers.
- Refugee children--Poland--Registers.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Europe.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, British--Registers.
- Poland
- Forced labor--Germany--History--20th century--Registers.
- World War, 1939-1945--Civilian relief--Poland.
- War relief--Polish--1940-1950.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish--Registers.
- Polish people--History--20thy centruy.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Belgians--Registers.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945--Registers.
Genre
- Registers.
- Document
Copies
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