Records relating to Breendonck concentration camp
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The donor assembled materials relating to Breendonck that he had collected from a variety of sources. He sent them to Linda Harris of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Department in ca. Jun. 1992. That department turned over the textual material to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, retaining a videotape of interviews with ex-prisoners, etc. Mr. Linthout subsequently signed a donor agreement.
Scope and Content
Relates to the persecution, deportation, and killing of Jewish and non-Jewish inmates of Breendonk concentration camp in Belgium. Included are copies of letters sent to donor by Simon Wiesenthal.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
People
- Wiesenthal, Simon.
- Schöwetter, Karl.
- Prauss, Arthur.
- Linthout, R.
- Kantschuster, Hans.
Corporate Bodies
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Bund Jüdischer Verfolgter des Naziregimes. Dokumentationszentrum
- Breendonk (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Antisemitism.
- War crime trials.
- Belgium.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations.
- War crimes.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- War criminals.
- Torture.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art.
- Executive departments.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.
This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.