Konzentrationslager (NS 4)
Extent and Medium
95,966 digital images, JPEG
2,919 microfiche,
52 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
Archival History
Bundesarchiv (Germany)
Acquisition
Source of acquisition is the German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv), Collection NS 4. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's International Programs Divisions acquired the collection from the Bundesarchiv in Berlin, Germany in Apr. 2000. The United States Holocaust Museum Archives received 2,196 microfiche in Sept. 2000, accretion of 723 microfiche in 2004, and accretion of 52 microfilms in 2012. The entire collection was digitized in 2019.
Scope and Content
This collection contains fragmentary files relating to forced labor and camp administration at Buchenwald; administrative matters and construction files of Flossenbürg; medical experiments at Mauthausen; and inmates’ forced labor at Natzweiler. Also included are a small number of files relating to Dachau, Gross-Rosen, Neuengamme, and the SS-Sonderlager Hinzert.
System of Arrangement
Records on microfiches arrange in twelve groups: 1. Auschwitz: NS4/Bu, File1- (2196 microfiche); NS4/Au, File 1-17 (30 microfiche); 2. Dachau: NS4/Da, File 1-47 (147 microfiche); 3. Gross-Rosen: NS4/Gr, File 1-10 (21 microfiche); Herzogenbusch: NS4/He, File 1-2 (3 microfiche);4. Lichtenburg: NS4/Li, File 1-2 (4 microfiche); 5. Lublin: NS4/Lu, File 1-5 (9 microfiche); 6. Mauthausen: NS4/Ma, File 1-57 (156 microfiche); 7. Natzweiler, File 2-103 (241 microfiche); 8. Neuengamme: NS4/Ne, File 1 (2 microfiche); 9. Ravensbrück: NS4/Ra, File 1 (4 microfiche); 10. Stutthof: NS4/St, File 1-3 (4 microfiche); 11. Sachsenhausen: NS4/Sa, File 1-8 (9 microfiche); 12. Annex: NS4/Anh, File 1-42 (9 microfiche). Records on microfilm reels arranged in one group: Flossenbürg: NS4/Fl, File 1-436 (Reel 1-52; Reel 9 is missing; Reel 51 contains two rolls).
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Bundesarchiv (Germany)
Corporate Bodies
- Vught (Concentration camp)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Neuengamme (Concentration camp)
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
- Flossenbürg (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Struthof (Concentration camp)
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
- Stutthof (Concentration camp)
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp)
- Lichtenburg (Concentration camp)
- Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.
- Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- Concentration camps--Germany.
Genre
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Bundesarchiv (Germany)