Selected records, Obóz Koncentracyjny w Buchenwaldzie Konzentrationslager Buchenwald (GK 127)
Extent and Medium
19,569 digital images, PDF
Archival History
Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu
Acquisition
Source of acquisition is the Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Jan. 2020. This is a cooperative project based on the agreement between USHMM and Yad Vashem, Israel.
Scope and Content
Orders of the camp commandant, statistics, alphabetical list of refugees, interrogations of prisoners, personal files, list of clerical prisoners, transport lists, Effektenkammer files, lists of deceased prisoners, daily reports of the camp hospital, name lists of prisoners numbers: 43001-51000; 59001-121400; 128401-140068; a fragment of the personal files of Polish prisoners who arrived at the camp in April 1945, card files of prisoners No. 1-1201; Veraenderungsmeldungs (reports on changes in the number of prisoners in the camp).
System of Arrangement
Arranged in fifteen groups: 1. Collection of orders from the KL Buchenwald commando office; 2. Disciplinary investigation files; 3. Personal files of SS Unterscharffuhrer August Helmi; 4. Correspondence related to prisoners; 5. Statistics of transports of prisoners arriving at KL Buchenwald; 6. Personal files of prisoners; 7. List of clergy prisoners from Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the Protectorate and Poland; 8. List of 908 Jewish prisoners selected for work; 9. List of commanders and their addresses, November 6, 1944, KL Buchenwald commando; 10. List of women prisoners in the commando in Wolfen; 11. “Effektenkammer” files containing personal data on the fate of prisoners and their deposits (Organized alphabetically); 12. Daily reports of the camp hospital; 13. Name lists of prisoners; Volume 1-23 (Number 0001-140068); 14. Fragments of personal files of prisoners of Polish nationality who came to the camp in April 1945 (Number 1-1201); 15. Variuos notifications, 1942.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu
Corporate Bodies
- Nazi Party
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1914-1918--Concentration camps--Germany.
- Prisoners and prisons--Europe--History--20th century.
- Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- World War (1939-1945)--Prisoners and prisons, Germany.
- Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)
- Wolfenbüttel (Germany)
Genre
- Document
- Ordinances.
- Statistics.
- Reports.
- Registers.
- Correspondence.