Records of the Association of Former Prisoners of the Lublin Castle and the "Under the Clock" Prison Zbiór akt Stowarzyszenia byłych Więźniów Zamku Lubelskiego i Więzienia "Pod Zegarem" (Sygn. XXV)
Extent and Medium
14,926 digital images, JPEG
14 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
Creator(s)
- Stowarzyszenie By?ych Wi??niów Politycznych Zamku Lubelskiego i "Pod Zegarem"
Archival History
Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku
Acquisition
Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Source of acquisition is the Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku (Majdanek State Museum), Sygn. XXV. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Dec. 2013.
Scope and Content
The collection contains prisoners' correspondence, including secret letters and postcards, diaries, personal documents, as well as notices and orders from German authorities, dating from the years 1939 -1944; as well as lectures and studies about the prison that were conducted after the war. Altogether the collection includes 923 units and 3339 former prisoners’ surveys.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in three series: Series 1. Documents (Files: 1 – 110; 62A-62O; 62P-62Ż), [Reel 1-3]; Series 2. Memoirs (Fiels 1-541, [Reel 4-10]; Series 3. Studies (Files 1-16, 17VII, 17 VVII-45, Part 1 and Part 20, Reel 11-14.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku
Subjects
- Political prisoners--Poland--Lublin--Registers.
- Zamek Lubelski (Prison)--History--20th century.
- Political prisoners--Poland--Lublin--Diaries.
- Poland--History--German occupation, 1939-1945.
- Katyń Massacre, Katyń, Russia, 1940.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.
- Lublin (Poland)
- Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Lublin--Registers.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland.
- Polish people--Crimes against--Poland--Lublin--History--20th century--Registers.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland.
- Holocaust Survivor -- Associations, institutions, etc.
- Lublin (Poland)--German occupation, 1939-1945.
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku