Konzentrations- und Kriegsgefangenenlager in Deutschland und in den besetzen Gebieten (Fond 1367) Concentration and prisoner of war camps in Germany and the Occupied Territories RG-11.001M.20 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington, DC 20024-2126 Tel. (202) 479-9717 e-mail: [email protected] Descriptive summary Title: Konzentrations- und Kriegsgefangenenlager in Deutschland und in den besetzen Gebieten (Fond 1367) Concentration and prisoner of war camps in Germany and the Occupied Territories Dates: 1937-1944 Accession number: 1993.A.0085.1.20 Extent: 10 microfilm reels (partial) digital images Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Languages: German Scope and content of collection The collection contains various documents of concentration camps and Prisoner of War (POW) camps: regulations, instructions, daily reports, lists, summaries, journals, personnel files, card files, questionnaires, registers, and correspondence. Includes fragmentary compilations of records of Sachsenhausen (ca. 6,000 prisoner file cards for KL Sachsenhausen/Oranienburg), Buchenwald, Wewelsburg, Gross Rosen, Dachau, Lublin (Majdanek), Natzweiler, Neuengamme (Hamburg), Treblinka, and Esterwegen concentration camps; of POW camps III-A in Luckenwalde, I-A in Stalag, IX-C in Bad Sulza, No.352 in Minsk, No.122 in Compiègne, France, POW camp in Murnau of the Polish officers, the Hammelburg officers camp, Stalag XII (for interned civilians) in Wulzburg (Bavaria), the Berlin-Falkensee camp for Italian and other foreign workers. Among the documents are lists of Jews transferred from the Auschwitz concentration camp to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, and other records of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp: lists of prisoners including Jewish names, reports on changes in the prisoner population, and list of personal items left in the camp’s storage facility. Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records. Administrative Information Restrictions on access: No restrictions on access. Restrictions on reproduction and use: Reproduction and publication only with written permission of the Russian State Military Archives. Preferred citation: Preferred citation for USHMM archival collections; consult the USHMM website for guidance. Acquisition information: Source of acquisition is the Russian State Military Archive (Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv), Osobyi Archive, Fond 1367. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 1993, and accretion in 2004 (Reel 418-419). Existence and location of originals: Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv Related materials: • Fishman, D. E., Kupovetsky, M., Kuzelenkov, V. (ed.), Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow. A guide to Jewish Historical and Cultural Collections in the Russian State Military Archive. Scranton, 2010 • http://www.sonderarchiv.de/fondverzeichnis.htm [accessed 12 September 2018] • Browder, G. C. Captured German and other Nation's Documents in the Osobyi (Special) Archive, Moscow. Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association. Internet access: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4546224 [accessed 12 September 2018] Processing history: Processed by Aleksandra Borecka, 2018. Finding aid revised by Ron Coleman, 2019. System of arrangement Fond 1367 (1933-1945). Opis 1-2, delo 1-289. Selected records arranged in four series. Arrangement, for the most of part, is in alphabetical order by the camp name: 1. Records of the KL Sachsenhausen (Oranienburg) including lists of prisoners and their transfers to other camps, 1941-1944; 2. Records of various concentration camps in Germany, Poland, France and other countries: 3. Death and burial lists of Soviet POWs, and lists of POWs executed and cremated in Gross Rosen, 1941-1942; 4.Testimonies and reports of former prisoners regarding Nazi crimes in concentration camps. Note: Microfilm reels: # 84 (near the end)-91, 418-419 (16 mm) Page 2 Indexing terms Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Compiègne (Concentration camp) Dachau (Concentration camp) Esterwegen (Concentration camp) Falkensee (Concentration camp) Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp) Majdanek (Concentration camp) Murnau (Concentration camp) Natzweiler (Concentration camp) Neuengamme (Concentration camp) Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) Stalag 1 A. Stalag 12 D. Stalag III A. Treblinka (Concentration camp) Wewelsburg (Concentration camp) World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Europe. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons--Europe. World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Europe. Prisoner-of-war camps--Europe--History--20th century. World War 1939-1945--Atrocitie Europe--History--20th century. Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945. Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. Correspondence. Questionnaires. Registers. Reports. Testimonies. CONTAINER LIST Reel 84 Fond 1367, opis 1 KL Sachsenhausen (Oranienburg) 2 Duties of guards in KL. Lists of guards and of Jews taken from Auschwitz. 1941 - 1944. 25 pp. Folder begins at image 1473 Tasks and Duties of Guards in a Concentration Camp, with questions and answers. Question: whom does this camp contain; answer: criminals, asocials, sexual deviates, enemies of the state, do-nothings, thieves, those politically unreliable, enemies of the people, etc. Includes questions and answers about use of arms in camp. Personnel Page 3 forms of French citizens in unidentified camp (Sachsenhausen?). List of names of 356 Jews transferred from Auschwitz: includes Poles, French, Belgians, Italians, Czechs, Dutch, Hungarians, Greeks, Slovaks (sent to Sachsenhausen). List of prisoners arriving at Mauthausen. 1941-1944. 4 Orders regarding taking prisoners' property and storing it in warehouse. 1940 - 1941. 142 pp. Folder begins at image 1526 Index cards of arrestees, and list of personal belongings turned in after arrest. Statistics with categories of prisoners, showing weekly changes in the prisoner complement of Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg (September 1941), total of 10,696, including 524 Jews (there were a total of 12,193 in February 1940). Procedural matters concerning the person and property of "protective custody" prisoners. 1940-1941. 5-I Prisoner-informers. 1944. 91 pp. Folder begins at image 1691 Various reports of use of informants in Sachsenhausen, particularly to root out suspected communists in the camp or employed at the Heinkel works as prison labor. Details on punishments meted out to a suspect. 1944. 5-II Prisoner-informers. no date. 158 pp. Folder begins at image 1803 Russian translations of Sachsenhausen material. 5-III Prisoner-informers. no date. 80 pp. Folder begins at image 1977 Russian translations of Sachsenhausen material. 6 Prisoner-informers Leonard Gofman and Rudolf Schneller. 1944. 12 pp. Folder begins at image 2062 Russian translations of Sachsenhausen material. 7 Names lists of special command "Dirlewanger." 1944 - 1945. 15 pp. Folder begins at image 2081 List of names in SS Sonderkommando "Dirlewanger" (1944). 10 Correspondence with special command regarding moving prisoners to other cells (chambers), torture of prisoners during interrogation, etc. 1944. 71 pp. Folder begins at image 2100 Reports and lists pertaining to Sachsenhausen; some dealing with French prisoners, also, list of prisoners to be put in isolation block prior to release. Names of prisoners accused of various violations of rules, etc. 1944. Reel 85 Page 4 15 Namelists of prisoners in KL (Germans, Jews, Poles, Ukrainians, and Russians). no date. 533 pp. Folder begins at image 6 List of prisoners transferred to Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg (November 1938), includes Jews and those with prior convictions, and of those in protective custody. List of prisoners to be discharged in November 1938, including Jews. Laboratory reports with names of those tested, but no reason given (February 1944, Oranienburg). Item about the forms to be filled out by prisoners for personal belongings deposited in the camp. 17 Daily statistics regarding number of prisoners in various categories. 1937. 362 pp. Folder begins at image 559 List of categories and numbers of prisoners in Sachsenhausen "protective custody" camp, January through December 1937 (daily). 1937. 20 Idem. 1938. 564 pp. Folder begins at image 930 List of categories and numbers of prisoners in Sachsenhausen, January-December 1938 (on a daily basis); this time among the various categories there are Jewish prisoners broken down into political, asocial, homosexual. List of names of prisoners released from camp. 1938. 23 Idem. 1939. 367 pp. Folder begins at image 1541 Prisoner list (Sachsenhausen) for January-December 1937; this time there is a category for Polish Jews, and on for those "refusing to work." 1939. 25 Name lists of prisoners. 1943 - 1944. 124 pp. Folder begins at image 1916 List of names of prisoners sent to Sachsenhausen, including many Polish and Russian names, as well as French, Dutch, etc. 1943-1944. 26 Idem (female camp). 1945. 99 pp. Folder begins at image 2164 List of women prisoners in Sachsenhausen, January through April 1945. 28 Registration lists of prisoners. Lists of their belongings stored in the KL warehouse. 1941 - 1942. 336 pp. Folder begins at image 2358 Series of file cards with personal data, to be turned in to the Sachsenhausen personal property