Selected records, Obóz Koncentracyjny w Buchenwaldzie Konzentrationslager Buchenwald (GK 127)

Identifier
irn713704
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2020.47.1
  • RG-15.674
Dates
1 Jan 1938 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

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

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