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Obozy Koncentracyjne‐Zbiór Akt (Sygn.1333), 1940‐1947

Concentration Camps: Collection of Documents

RG‐15.092M

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archive 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024‐2126 Tel. (202) 479‐9717 Email: [email protected]

Descriptive Summary

Title: Obozy Koncentracyjne‐Zbiór Akt (Sygn.1333 ) (Concentration Camps: Collection of Documents)

Dates: 1940‐1947

RG Number: RG‐15.092M

Accession Number: 2002.12

Creator: Archiwum Akt Nowych

Extent: 3 microfilm reels (35 mm)

Repository: Holocaust Memorial Museum Archive, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024‐2126

Languages: Polish

Administrative Information

Access: No restrictions on access.

Reproduction and Use: Reproduction of more than 100 pages of copies of documents for researchers or other institutions requires a written permission of the General Director of the State Archives of the Republic of . Publication of more than 10 complete documents in an individual work requires the written authorization of the General Director. The Museum may not publish any archival material obtained from the General Director, including specific archives under its control, on the Internet, the World Wide Web, or any other publicly accessible on‐line network without the written permission of the General Director. Citation of the materials in any publication must refer to the

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Museum and the Polish State Archives and must include the name of the archival group and catalogue number of the originals.

To request written permission, contact the General Director, Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych, ul. Rakowiecka 2D, 02‐517 , Poland, Attention: General Director

Preferred Citation: RG‐15.092M, Obozy Koncentracyjne‐Zbiór Akt (Syg.1333 ), 1940‐1947. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, Washington DC., and Archiwum Akt Nowych, Poland.

Acquisition Information: Purchased from the Archiwum Akt Nowych, Poland, Sygn.1333 (Old 212). Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Accruals: Accruals may have been received since this collection was first processed, see the Archives catalog at collections.ushmm.org for further information.

Custodial History

Existence and Location of Originals: The original records are held by the Archiwum Akt Nowych, Stefana Hankiewicza 1, Warsaw, Poland 02‐517. Tel. 011 48 22 822 52 45. More information about this repository can be found at www.aan.gov.pl.

Processing History: Aleksandra B. Borecka

Scope and Content of Collection

Contains correspondence, lists of Polish prisoners, and memoirs concerning different ghettos, concentration camps, and death camps in Poland and Germany.

System of Arrangement

The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in the microfilmed reels. Organization of files: Reel 1 (File 212/I/1‐15, 212/II/1‐9; 212/III/1‐2); Reel 2 (212/III/3‐6); Reel 3 (212/III/7‐8, 212/IV/1).

Indexing Terms

Polska Partia Robotnicza. World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Concentration camps‐‐Poland. World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Concentration camps‐‐Germany World War, 1939‐1945 ‐‐ Prisoners and , Polish. Prisoners of war—Poland‐‐Registers. Correspondence. Memoirs. Registers.

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CONTAINER LIST

Reel File Description

1 File 212/I‐15

File 212/I‐9

File 212/I‐2

202/I/1 Buchenwald, 1945 Certificates, resolutions, proclamations, leaflets, newsletters, p.19

212/I/2 Buchenwald, 1942‐44 Letters from Ignacy and Jozef Mroz, one of the letters dated 24 February 1942, sent from Warsaw [see 212/I/13] p. 8

212/I/3 Dachau, 1942 Prisoner’s letter, postal remittance forms, letter from Creditanstalt‐ Bankverein Filiale Krakau regarding postal remittances, p. 19

212/I/4 Gotha, 1945 Minutes of meetings, correspondence, registration card, p. 17

212/I/5 Gross‐Rosen, 1944‐45 Prisoners’ letters, p.5

212/I/6 Gusen, 1944 Prisoners’ letters, photocopies, p. 3

212/I/7 Lublin – at the Castle, 1939‐44 Letters from Irena and Ewa Tomasik to the family. Letter from 1939 written from Lubartow, photocopies, p. 27

212/I/8 Łódź, prison at Szterling St., 1944 Prisoners’ letters, p. 12

212/I/9 Mauthausen, 1942 List of names of prisoners from transport which arrived at the camp on 25 September 1942, p. l

212/I/10 Auschwitz, 1942‐43

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Prisoners’ letters, photocopies, p. 15

212/I/11 Pomiechowek near Modlin, 1943 Prisoners’ letters, photocopies, p. 4

212/I/12 Poznan, Prison VII Fort, 1942‐44 Prisoners’ letters, p. 6

212/I/13 Warsaw, Prison at Al. Szucha, 1942‐43 Clandestinely sent notes from prisoners, photocopy, p. 37

212/I/14 Sachsenhausen‐Oranienburg, undated Plan of the camp, p. 1

212/I/15 Camp in Tauche, 1942 Letter from prisoner Bogdan Sanigorski, p. 6

212/II/l Polski Instytut Zrodlowy [Polish Institute for Source Material] in Lund, 1945‐46 Records of interrogations of former prisoners: 1) Helena Bard‐Normberg, , Majdanek, Auschwitz, Ravensbrűck 2) Stefania Hryniew, Ravensbrűck, Bergen‐Belsen 3) Ludwika Gusta, “Warownia 7” in Poznan, Dachau, Sachsenhausen‐ Oranienburg 4) Wanda Maria Jarycka, prison in , Ravensbrűck 5) Jan Karcz, Montelupich prison in Cracow, Auschwitz 6) Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski, Pruszkow, Sachsenhausen‐Oranienburg 7) Jan Wdowski, prison in Radom, Sachsenhausen‐Oranienburg

212/II/2 Court of Fist Instance in Bydgoszcz, 1946 Records of interrogation of witnesses: 1) Jan Dolny, Stuthof, Potulice 2) Antonina Jeczynska, Smukala 3) Piotr Kesling, Potulice 4) Edmund Nitkiewicz, Potulice 5) Ludwik Rochon, Smukala 6) Zofia Zastepowska, Potulice, Smukala 7) Stanislaw Zielinski, Smukala Record of inspection of former camp in Smukala, p. 10

212/II/3 District Court in Torun, 1947 Records of examination of witnesses 1) Adam Dubik, prison in Grudziadz 2) Franciszek Denter, prison in Grudziadz 3) Jozef Glas, Radzin, district of Sepolno 4) Leon Konkolewski, Potulice 5) Franciszek Kopaczewski, Jablonowo, district of Brodnica

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6) Jan Ludwikowski, Radzin, district of Sepolno 7) Waclaw Michalak, prision in Grudziadz 8) Jozef Mielcarek, Fort VII in Torun 9) Jozef Mierzwicki, Karolowo district of Wiecbork 10) Antoni Nitecki, Fort VI and “Szmalcowka” in Torun, Jablonowo district of Brodnica 11) Jan Panski, Brusy district of Chojnice 12) Adolf Strzelecki, prison in Grudziadz, Dachau, Sachsenhausen 13) Dyonizy Ulaszewski, so‐called “Szmalcowka” in Torun p. 42

212/II/4 Appellate and District Court in Warsaw, 1945 Report from the inspection of the following camps: ‐ Chełmno near Kolna ‐ Warsaw at the junction of Gęsia and Zamenhoffa streets, p. 7

212/II/5 District Commission for Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation in Warsaw Reports of initial investigations regarding criminal activities of the German authorities in the area of the Radzyń district, as well as records of questioning of witnesses: 1) Alina Brewda, Majdanek, Auschwitz 2) Tadeusz Narcyz Obrycki, Pawiak, Brzezinka, Auschwitz, p. 17

212/II/6 undated Fragment of deposition by Rudolf Reder on the subject of his detention in the Belzec , p.3

212/II/7 Presidium of the Council of Ministers, State Repatriates’ Office, Poznań, 1945 Documents on the matter of transport and settlements of prisoners of the concentration camp in Gotha, p. 2

212/II/8 Experts Commission, undated Report by expert Prof. Stanisław Mahrburg on the death camp in Ponary near Wilno, p. 12.

212/II/9 Records of hearings, 1945‐45: 1) Franciszek Zieries, SS Standartfuhrer, commendant of the Mauthausen camp 2) Siegfried Hausenpusch – concerns his stay with the medical battalion in the Oranienburg concentration camp and SS Kazeret Hohenlychen in Uckermark, p. 16

212/III/1 Prisoners’ recollections: 1) Blumental – Sobibor 2) Blaszczyk – Mauthausen, Hatheim

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3) Janina Buchholcowa (Bukolska) – Treblinka 4) Cichocki – Auschwitz, Buchenwald 5) Aldo Coradello – Stuthof 6) Mieczyslas Chodzko – Treblinka 7) Waclaw Czarnecki – Pawiak, Majdanek, Buchenwald 8) Stanislaw Demaszko – Majdanek 9) Stefan Dzwilik – Buchenwald 10) F.T. Herber – Stutthof 11) Stanislaw Jaworski – Mauthausen, p. 119

212/III/2 Prisoners’ recollections: 1) Roman Kania – Buchenwald 2) Jan Karcz – Montelupich prison in Cracow, Auschwitz, Neuengamme‐Hamburg 3) Romuald Kwapiszewski – Pawiak, Mjdanek, Buchenwald, Flosburg 4) Jozef Marcinkowski – Bergen‐Belsen 5) Stefan Plucinski – Auschwitz 6) Samuel Rajzman – Warsaw ghetto, Treblinka 7) K.M. Rys – Majdanek, p. 125

2 File 212‐III/3‐6 212/III/3‐6 Recollections Wiktor Siminski – Skrochowice, Sachsenhausen portfolio 3 – pp 1‐224 portfolio 4 – pp 225‐412 portfolio 5 – pp 413‐568 portfolio 6 – pp 569‐716

3 212/III/7 Prisoners’ recollections 1) Sabina – Pawiak, Majdanek 2) T. Sobański – Auschwitz 3) Stanisław – Pawiak, Majdanek

Józef Szpilski – Pawiak, Auschwitz, Buchenwald

4) Witold Szuman, engineer – Pruszkow, Dachau, Katznach 5) Hanna Wasilczenko – Ravensbrűck 6) Teresa Werner – Finow 7) Józef Zmij – Gusen p. 188

212/III/8 Recollections and reports from camps (no authors) and locations: Brzezinka, Działdowo, Majdanek, Nieboro, Auschwitz, Proweniszki, Sachsenhausen, prison in Poznań, executions in the forrest of zan, community of Pruszków, executions in Warsaw, recollections from labors in Germany (in Westfalia‐Hagen) p. 84

212/IV/1 Monographs, inventories and lists concerning: Camps in Neugamme, Plaszow, Turyngia (“Reimagh”), prison in

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Pawiak, martyrology of Jewish children; list of people deported from the Bielsko district, p. 121

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