Fritz Buchholz's report about Auschwitz

Identifier
irn504263
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.A.0103
  • RG-04.051
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

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folder

1

8 digital images, JPEG

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Biographical History

From Sept. 1944 to Jan. 1945, Fritz Buchholz was a prisoner in Auschwitz for having talked against Nazi Germany and having disseminated foreign news that he had heard on the radio. On 19 June 1945, Buchholz was a German prisoner-of-war in a United States Army prisoner-of-war camp in Cherbourg, France.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

In June 1945, George Cruden, a U.S. Army officer in charge of prisoners-of-war at the U.S. Army prisoner-of-war camp in Cherbourg, France, was told that Fritz Buchholz wanted to make a statement about Auschwitz. Cruden took the report and sent it to his superiors at SHAEF. In Apr. 1994, Cruden gave his personal copy of the report to the USHRIA.

Scope and Content

Fritz Buchholz's report (dated 19 Jun. 1945) describes the following in Auschwitz-Birkenau: sadistic camp guards; torture of inmates; the deaths of Jewish prisoners in gas chambers; confiscation and stockpiling of the arrivals' property; and the destruction of the camp's crematorium by the Nazi guards before the camp was overrun by the Soviet military.

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