us-005578-irn521584-irn521589
type: RecordSet
archival history: The punch card was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by the Technische Sammlungen Dresden.
physical characteristics and technical requirements: Black and white photo reproduction of an unused, rectangular, stiff, white paper punch card with 1 angled corner and printed data. There is German text along the edges and repeated columns of numbers, 0-9, across the middle. Each column is identified by a number, 1-60, at the top and bottom. There are 28 categories of personal identification information along one long edge; such as residential district, age, religion, occupation, and number of children.
conditions of access: No restrictions on access
conditions of use: No restrictions on use
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: deu
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn521589
is or was included in: us-005578-irn521584
record resource extent: overall: Height: 5.625 inches (14.288 cm) | Width: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm)
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: Facsimile of punch card used in the 1933 German census. This punch card was used with a Dehomag 11 tabulating system. which was the type used for processing results of the 1933 and 1939 German census during the Nazi regime (1933-1945). Dehomag [Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen] was a German based subsidiary of the US company, IBM. The Hollerith machine was a punch-card system consisting of three components, a punching machine [1990.48.3] that transmitted information onto punch cards, a sorting machine [1990.48.2] that arranged the punch cards by categories, and the tabulating machine [1990.48.1] that computed the results.
title: Facsimile of a Dehomag D11 census punch card