IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 517
Held at: Wiener Library
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 AND 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.
Physical characteristics:
Microfilm
Finding aids:
Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Jewish Central Information Office
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, editor, (Macmillan, New York, 1990). Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
Date(s) of descriptions: Oct 2007