Auschwitz concentration camp records Abteilung IIIa - Arbeitseinsatz
Extent and Medium
11 microfilm reels,
Archival History
Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau
Acquisition
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Programs Department ordered microfilm copies of the documents from Państwowe Muzeum Oświęcim-Brzezinka in 1997. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the microfilm on May 1, 1998.
Scope and Content
Contains telegrams, card files, card indexes, reports, registers, name lists, and various other documents relating to prisoner labor in Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Monowitz concentration camps. Select files relate to camp prisoners working as electricians and ironworkers. The records date from 1942 to 1945 with the bulk dating from 1944.
System of Arrangement
Organized in the following order: Reel 1, files 273-445 and 1142-176, documents and telegrams regarding the work of prisoners; Reel 2, files 1504-775, card index of the prisoners working as electricians; Reel 3, files 1505-457, card index of prisoners working as ironworkers; Reel 4, files 1778, 1106, 1107, and 1108, daily reports about working prisoners in Auschwitz I, II, and III; Reel 5, files 2064, 2065,2066, and 2067, daily reports about working prisoners in Auschwitz I, II, and III; Reel 6, files 2068, 2069, 2070, and 2071, daily reports about working prisoners in Auschwitz; Reel 7, files 1787,1788, and 1789, register of prisoners working in the Zentralbauleitung; Reel 8, file 1759, lists of bonuses; Reel 9, file 1760, lists of bonuses; Reel 10, file 1761, lists of bonuses; and Reel 11, file 1762, lists of bonuses, and file 1142, Häftlings Personal Karte, ca. 1944 Various arrangement schemes exist throughout the collection
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Electricians--Poland--Oświęcim.
- Concentration camp inmates--Poland--Oświęcim--Indexes.
- Structural steel workers--Poland--Oświęcim.
- Concentration camp inmates--Poland--Oświęcim--Registers.
- Ironwork--Poland--Oświęcim.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Poland--Oświęcim.
Genre
- Indexes
- Document
- Registers
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Państwowe Muzeum Oświęcim-Brzezinka