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http://collections.ushmm.org Contact [email protected] for further information about this collection Wspomnienia, 1945 Memoirs RG‐15.117M 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: Wspomnienia (Memoirs) Dates: 1945 RG Number: RG‐15.117M Accession Number: 2007. 41 Extent: 91 microfilm reels (35 mm); 56,133 digital images (PDF) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archive, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024‐2126 Languages: Polish, German, Hebrew, Slovak, Yiddish Administrative Information Access: No restrictions on access. Reproduction and Use: Reproduction of more than 30 pages of documents for the third party requires the written permission of the State Museum Auschwitz‐Birkenau in Oswiecim. Preferred Citation: RG‐15.117M, Wspomnienia, 1945. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, Washington, DC. Acquisition Information: Memoirs were contributed by former prisoners of Auschwitz‐Birkenau, written after the end of the war, and collected by the Archives at the State Museum Auschwitz‐Birkenau in Oświęcim. The collection is open, which means that memoirs and testimonies are still being collected. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the 1 http://collections.ushmm.org http://collections.ushmm.org Contact [email protected] for further information about this collection United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in April 2007. 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 Państwowe Muzeum Oświęcim‐Brzezinka, ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32‐603, Oświęcim, Poland. Tel. 011 48 33 843 20 77. More information about this repository can be found at www.auschwitz.org.pl. Related Materials Malcówna, Anna. Bibliografia KL Auschwitz za lata 1942‐1980, Wydawnictwo Państwowego Muzeum w Oświęcimiu: Oświęcim, 1991. Processing History: Aleksandra B. Borecka Scope and Content This collection of “Memoirs” from the Archives of the Auschwitz Museum contains more than 1000 memoirs and testimonies of several hundreds of the former prisoners of KL Auschwitz‐ Birkenau, collected in 251 volumes. Some of the prisoners give testimonies several times, so the texts some of the people might be located in several volumes. Information gathered in this collection concerned all possible aspects of life in the camp, including slave labor and extermination. Almost all memoirs were written after the liberation of the camp in January 1945. Since the opening of the Museum on January 2, 1947, the Museum’s staff has encouraged former prisoners to write memoirs and send manuscripts to the archives. Not all of the memoirs were actually put into written form by the survivor’s themselves, but rather the survivors sometimes gave testimony before archival staff who recorded their testimony in writing. This collection is one of the most precious archival sources concerning the history of KL Auschwitz‐Birkenau. The collection is open, which means that memoirs and testimonies are still being collected. System of Arrangement The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in the microfilmed reels. The memoirs are organized by author names and memoir title in 251 volumes. Indexing Terms Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Poland‐‐Oświęcim. World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Personal narratives, Polish. World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Prisoners and prisons, Polish. 2 http://collections.ushmm.org http://collections.ushmm.org Contact [email protected] for further information about this collection Holocaust survivors‐‐Poland. World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Atrocities. Poland‐‐World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Atrocities‐‐Personal narratives. Poland‐‐History‐‐Occupation, 1939‐1945. Personal narratives. Memoirs. Diaries. CONTAINER LIST Note: Some of memoirs from this collection were published; however the large majority of them haven’t been published yet. Therefore this collection is not yet the source of published material, for the most part. Each microfilm unit contains table of content of particular volumes. In order to use the collection efficiently, it will be necessary to prepare index of the author names. Reel List, page 3‐11 Description of Content in Polish, page 11‐120 Reel 1: Microfilm numbers: 2390, 2391, 2392 Volume of memoirs: 1, 2, 3 Reel 2: Microfilm numbers: 2393, 2394, 2395, 2396 Volume of memoirs: 3a, 4, 5, 6 Reel 3: Microfilm numbers: 2397, 2398, 2399, 2400, 2401, 2402, 2403 Volume of memoirs: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 Reel 4: Microfilm numbers: 2404, 2405, 2406, 2407, 2408 Volume of memoirs: 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 Reel 5: Microfilm numbers: 2409, 2410, 2411, 2412 Volume of memoirs: 19, 20, 21, 22 Reel 6: Microfilm numbers: 2413, 2414, 2415, 2416 Volume of memoirs: 23, 24, 25, 26 3 http://collections.ushmm.org http://collections.ushmm.org Contact [email protected] for further information about this collection Reel 7: Microfilm numbers: 2417, 2418, 2419, 2420, 2421 Volume of memoirs: 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 Reel 8: Microfilm numbers: 2422, 2423, 2424, 2425, 2426 Volume of memoirs: 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 Reel 9: Microfilm numbers: 2427, 2428, 2429, 2430, 2431 Volume of memoirs: 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 Reel 10: Microfilm numbers: 2432, 2433, 2434, 2435 Volume of memoirs: 43, 44, 45, 46, 46a Reel 11: Microfilm numbers: 2436, 2437, 2438 Volume of memoirs: 47, 48, 48c Reel 12: Microfilm numbers: 2439, 2440, 2441, 2442 Volume of memoirs: 48a, 48b, 49, 50, 52 Reel 13: Microfilm numbers: 2443, 2444, 2445 Volume of memoirs: 53, 54, 54a Reel 14: Microfilm numbers: 2446, 2447, 2448, 2449 Volume of memoirs: 55, 56, 57a, 58 Reel 15: Microfilm numbers: 2450, 2451, 2452 Volume of memoirs: 59, 60, 61 Reel 16: Microfilm numbers: 2453, 2454 Volume of memoirs: 62, 63 Reel 17: Microfilm numbers: 2455 Volume of memoirs: 64, 64a, 64b, 64c Reel 18: Microfilm numbers: 2456, 2457 Volume of memoirs: 65, 66 4 http://collections.ushmm.org http://collections.ushmm.org Contact [email protected] for further information about this collection Reel 19: Microfilm numbers: 2458, 2459, 2460 Volume of memoirs: 67, 67a, 68, 69 Reel 20: Microfilm numbers: 2461, 2462, 2463 Volume of memoirs: 70, 71, 72 Reel 21: Microfilm numbers: 2464, 2465 Volume of memoirs: 73, 73b Reel 22: Microfilm numbers: 2466, 2467 Volume of memoirs: 74, 75 Reel 23: Microfilm numbers: 2468, 2469 Volume of memoirs: 76, 77 Reel 24: Microfilm numbers: 2470 Volume of memoirs: 78 Reel 25: Microfilm numbers: 2471, 2472, 2473, 2474 Volume of memoirs: 79, 80, 81, 82 Reel 26: Microfilm numbers: 2475, 2476, 2477 Volume of memoirs: 83, 84, 85 Reel 27: Microfilm numbers: 2478, 2479 Volume of memoirs: 86, 87 Reel 28: Microfilm numbers: 2480, 2481, 2482 Volume of memoirs: 88, 89, 90 Reel 29: Microfilm numbers: 2483, 2484, 2485 Volume of memoirs: 91, 92, 93 Reel 30: Microfilm numbers: 2486 5 http://collections.ushmm.org http://collections.ushmm.org Contact [email protected] for further information about this collection Volume of memoirs: 94 Reel 31: Microfilm numbers: 2487, 2488 Volume of memoirs: 95, 96 Reel 32: Microfilm numbers: 2489, 2490 Volume of memoirs: 97, 98, 98a Reel 33: Microfilm numbers: 2491, 2492, 2493 Volume of memoirs: 99, 100, 101 Reel 34: Microfilm numbers: 2494, 2495, 2496, 2497 Volume of memoirs: 102, 103, 104, 105 Reel 35: Microfilm numbers: 2498, 2499, 2500 Volume of memoirs: 106, 107, 108 Reel 36: Microfilm numbers: 2501, 2502, 2503 Volume of memoirs: 109, 110, 111 Reel 37: Microfilm numbers: 2504, 2505, 2506 Volume of memoirs: 112, 112a, 112b, 113, 114 Reel 38: Microfilm numbers: 2507, 2508, 2509 Volume of memoirs: 115, 116, 117 Reel 39: Microfilm numbers: 2510, 2511 Volume of memoirs: 117a, 118 Reel 40: Microfilm numbers: 2512, 2513, 2514 Volume of memoirs: 119, 119a, 120 Reel 41: Microfilm numbers: 2515, 2516 Volume of memoirs: 121, 122 Reel 42: 6 http://collections.ushmm.org http://collections.ushmm.org Contact [email protected] for further information about this collection Microfilm numbers: 2518, 2519, 2520 Volume of memoirs: 123, 124, 125 Reel 43: Microfilm numbers: 2521, 2522 Volume of memoirs: 126, 126a, 127 Reel 44: Microfilm numbers: 2523, 2524, 2525 Volume of memoirs: 128, 129, 130 Reel 45: Microfilm numbers: 2526 Volume of memoirs: 131 Reel 46: Microfilm numbers: 2527, 2528 Volume of memoirs: 132, 133 Reel 47: Microfilm numbers: 2529, 2530, 2531 Volume of memoirs: 135a, 135, 136, 136a Reel 48: Microfilm numbers: 2532, 2533, 2534 Volume of memoirs: 137, 138, 139 Reel 49: Microfilm numbers: 2535, 2536 Volume of memoirs: 140, 140a Reel 50: Microfilm numbers: 2537, 2538, 2539 Volume of memoirs: 141, 142, 143 Reel 51: Microfilm numbers: 2540, 2541 Volume of memoirs: 144, 145 Reel 52: Microfilm numbers: 2542, 2543 Volume of memoirs: 146, 147 Reel 53: Microfilm numbers: 2544, 2545, 2546, 2547 Volume of memoirs: 148, 148a, 149, 149a Reel 54: 7 http://collections.ushmm.org http://collections.ushmm.org Contact [email protected] for further information about this collection Microfilm numbers: 2548, 2549, 1550 Volume of memoirs: 150, 151, 152 Reel 55: Microfilm numbers: 2551, 2552 Volume of memoirs: 153, 154, 154a Reel 56: Microfilm