pl-003102
is or was holder of: pl-003102-materiały audio i wideo
name: Miejsce Pamięci i Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau. Były niemiecki nazistowski obóz koncentracyjny i zagłady
is or was holder of: pl-003102-dokumenty obozowych kancelarii
is or was holder of: pl-003102-dokumenty zentralbauleitungu
opening hours: The archive is open Monday-Friday 8.00 - 14.00.
is or was holder of: pl-003102-akta procesowe
is or was holder of: pl-003102-kopie list transportowych
is or was holder of: pl-003102-materialy dotyczace innych obozow koncentracyjnych
history: The State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oświęcim came into existence in 1947, according to the Decree of Polish Parliament (Sejm). The archive is a part of the Museum. It gathers, preserves and makes accessible the documents are concerning the history of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp and other Nazi concentration camps. In the organizational structure of the archive works An Office for the Former Prisoners (Biuro ds. Byłych Więźniów). It issues certificates for the former prisoners and their families are concerning the inprisonment. Its task is also a coordination of contacts between former prisoners.
administrative structure: Some 1,100,000 European Jews from Hungary, Poland, France, the Netherlands, Greece, Bohemia and Moravia, Slovakia, Belgium and many other countries , as well as many prisoners of other nationalities and Soviet prisoners of war, perished in KL Auschwitz-Birkenau. From 1942 the Birkenau camp operated as an extermination camp. In spite of the destruction, the documentation from KL Auschwitz-Birkenau constitutes one of the best preserved bodies of camp files, running to more than 200 linear metres of original documents. The surviving materials have been divided into the following collections (all files are ordered by issuer): • Akta Oddziału I – Kommandantur (Files from Department I – camp commandant’s office): orders (more than 230), files relating to the SS (around 3 linear metres of personnel files), files concerning prisoners (mail, releases, escapes – including telegrams sent after escaped prisoners). • Akta Oddziału II – Politische Abteilung (Files from Department II – Political Dept.) , the camp Gestapo: transport lists dating from 1941 and the lists of some transports of Jews from 1942 (Zuganglisten – arrivals lists) – around 3 linear metres, prisoners’ personal files (Häftlingspersonalbogen) – around 3 linear metres, personal files of Soviet POWs (48) and Greek Jews, records of deaths (Sterbebücher) – 46 volumes, and disciplinary reports on “crimes” committed by prisoners. • Akta Oddziału III – Schutzhaftlagerführung (Files from Department III – camp director): a few of the main record books (including two books from the Roma family camp), the record book for the penal company, the bunker record book, the card files for Soviet POWs (around 3.5 linear metres), two volumes of the Stärkebuch (the records of the daily counts), the main Nummerbuch (book of numbers), two record books for Blocks 16 and 4, a card file for prisoners in Block 11, and punishment reports. • Akta Oddziału IIIa – Arbeitseinsatz (Files from Department IIIa – labour details): correspondence (3…
general description: The holdings of the archive in Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum is composed from six parts: - Original documents created by the camp's offices. - Original documents created by the prisoners KL Auschwitz beyond of formal structure of the camp's administration (e.g: documents of the camp's resistance movement). - Copies of the documents conected with KL Auschwitz received from other institutions. - Documents created after 1945 (trials' records, reports and memories of former prisoners). - The pictures' collection. - The audio-visual collection. The archival holdings were be discovered in the camp's area and in the places of their secret preservation. The archive also received the documents from the former prisoners, their families and various factories which exploited job of the prisoners. The original documents preserved in the archive are only a part of documents which were be created in the camp's offices. The significant part of records were be transfered to Germany. The other part were taken over by Soviet Army and relocated to the USSR. They are preserved in the archives in Russia and post-soviet countries. The archive possesses the following kinds of documents: I) Documents of the camp's offices. The original camp's documents were created between spring 1940 and January 1945 in the offices of six departments: 1) 1st Department (The Camp Commander): the personal records of SS-soldiers and the camp's staff, a collection of commander's orders (1941-1944), telegrams on the escapes from the camp, telegrams to the prisoner's families about the death of a prisoner, the remarks books of the officers of duty (Fuhrer vom Dienst) from May 18, 1941 to March 2, 1943). 2) 2nd Department (Political): the checklists of the new arrived prisoners, personal charters of prisoners, the prisoner's death-registers, the reports with motions on a punish for the prisoners. 3) 3rd Department (the Camp Management): a register-book of the Gipsy Camp, the day condition's book, the book of the bunk…
sources: Mémorial/YV/ClaimsCon'06/online search
is or was holder of: pl-003102-dokumenty z powojennych szpitali
is or was holder of: pl-003102-fotografie
is or was holder of: pl-003102-relacje i wspomnienia
is or was holder of: pl-003102-materialy obozowego ruchu oporu
is or was holder of: pl-003102-dokumenty dotyczace podobozow
is or was holder of: pl-003102-korespondencja wiezniow
sources: Alina Skibińska (ed)
agent has or had location: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/institutions/pl-003102/locations/1
has or had agent name: Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau. Former German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp
is or was holder of: pl-003102-dokumentacja instytutu higieny ss
type: Institution