us-005578-irn504263
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archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
biographical history: From Sept. 1944 to Jan. 1945, Fritz Buchholz was a prisoner in Auschwitz for having talked against Nazi Germany and having disseminated foreign news that he had heard on the radio. On 19 June 1945, Buchholz was a German prisoner-of-war in a United States Army prisoner-of-war camp in Cherbourg, France.
has beginning date: 1945-01-01
has end date: 1945-12-31
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identifier: irn504263
record resource extent: folder 1 8 digital images, JPEG
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scope and content: Fritz Buchholz's report (dated 19 Jun. 1945) describes the following in Auschwitz-Birkenau: sadistic camp guards; torture of inmates; the deaths of Jewish prisoners in gas chambers; confiscation and stockpiling of the arrivals' property; and the destruction of the camp's crematorium by the Nazi guards before the camp was overrun by the Soviet military.
title: Fritz Buchholz's report about Auschwitz