Various small lists (totaling about 540 entries) with the names of and information about twins who were the victims of Dr. Mengele's medical experiments in Auschwitz concentration camp. (ID: 30042)
Title or Main Description:
Various small lists (totaling about 540 entries) with the names of and information about twins who were the victims of Dr. Josef Mengele's medical experiments in Auschwitz concentration camp.
Place Published or Holding Institution:
[S.l. : s.n.]
Description:
- 16 leaves ; tabs. ; 29 cm.
- Number of Names or Other Entries-- 538 Names.
Type of Work:
Photocopy
Alternate or Series Title:
- List of the Mengele twins living in the U.S.A., Canada, Europe & Australia.
- Czesciowy odpis z wykazu wizniarek i wiezniow KL Birkenau na ktorych SS-Lagerarzt Josef MENGELE przeprowadzal eksperymenty.
- A list of twins used in a variety of tests, Nov. 44.
- An order for tests signed by Dr. Mengele, dated Sept. 23, 1944.
Museum or Other Institution Holdings:
- Survivors Registry Collection [photocopy]: Document File MT0122.
- A scan of this document in PDF format is available to authorized staff only on the USHMM Computer Network at T:\DArchives\ReferenceCollection\MT0112\MT0112.pdf.
Provenance:
Although given in its compiled form to the Survivors Registry by an anonymous donor, it is likely that much of this documentation originally came from the collections of the Auschwitz State Museum Archives in Poland, with many documents hand-stamped accordingly.
The materials in Survivors Registry Document File MT0122 may be identical with those held in USHMM Archives 1997.A.0216, as described in the Museum Collection Catalog at http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn501741 (Last Accessed: 8 December 2016)
The materials in Survivors Registry Document File MT0122 may be identical with those held in USHMM Archives 1997.A.0216, as described in the Museum Collection Catalog at http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn501741 (Last Accessed: 8 December 2016)
Keywords:
- Twins --Registers.
- Holocaust survivors --Poland --Oswiecim --Registers.
- Human experimentation in medicine --Poland --Oswiecim --Registers.
- Human experimentation in medicine --Poland --Oswiecim --Sources.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust --Poland --Oswiecim --Registers.
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) --Registers.
- Mengele, Josef, 1911- .
Abstract:
- A collection of various wartime and contemporary, alphabetical, non-alphabetical name registers and other document facsimiles listing twins who were the subjects of medical experiments at Auschwitz. Includes the following items:
- -- "List of the Mengele twins living in the U.S.A., Canada, Europe & Australia" [1 p., 21 names].
- -- "Czesciowy odpis z wykazu wizniarek i wiezniow KL Birkenau na ktorych SS-Lagerarzt Josef MENGELE przeprowadzal eksperymenty" [="Partial list of those experimented upon in CC Birkenau by SS Camp Doctor Josef MENGELE", 8 leaves, 400 Names].
- -- "Anbei wird Blutmaterial zur Untersuchung ... " [="Accompanying this are blood samples for examination ..." (i.e. facsimiles of two laboratory orders dated 8. Aug. 1944), 19 names].
- -- "Anbei werden Rachenabstriche zur Untersuchung auf Scharlach ... " [="Accompanying this are throat swab samples for examination for scarlet fever..." (i.e. facsimile of laboratory order dated 17. June 1944), 2 p., 61 names].
- -- "A list of twins used in a variety of tests, Nov. 44." [1 p., 28 names (poorly legible in parts)].
- -- "An order for tests signed by Dr. Mengele, dated Sept. 23, 1944" [1 p. of 2 cards., 3 names].
- -- Untitled portion of a handwritten tabled name register (possibly a death register?) [1 p., 5 names].
Language and Other Notes:
- Text in Polish, German and English.
- Cataloger-assigned title.
Location of Electronic or Internet File:
T:\DArchives\ReferenceCollection\MT0112\MT0112.pdf [USHMM Network]
Resource Center Cataloging Notes:
Former Q&A Name Lists Database File Number-- MT0122