Buchenwald concentration camp: miscellaeous documents (microfilm)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1556 WL 517
Held at	: Wiener Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/ ›
Full title	: Buchenwald concentration camp: miscellaeous documents (microfilm)
Date(s)	: 1941-1945
Level of description	: collection
Extent	: c350 frames
Name of creator(s)	: Buchenwald concentration camp authorities

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Buchenwald concentration camp, one of the largest in Germany with its 130 satellite camps and units, was situated 5 miles north of Weimar in Thüringen. It was established in July 1937 when the first group of 149 mostly political prisoners and criminals was received. Some 238,980 prisoners passed through Buchenwald from 30 countries. 43,005 were killed or perished there.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

This collection of miscellaneous documents includes: correspondence between the camp authorities and the Gestapo, Holland, regarding the belongings of dead Dutch prisoners, 1941-1942; statistics on exterminations, unnatural deaths and transports to death camps, April 1945; list of surviving prisoners, March 1945.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
German

System of arrangement:

Arranged by material type.

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

Finding aids:

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Jewish Central Information Office

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, editor, (Macmillan, New York, 1990). Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Oct 2007