Registration forms dated 1941 prepared by the Sachsenhausen concentration camp personal effects warehouse concerning the prisoners' (ID: 31067)
Title or Main Description:
Registration forms dated 1941 prepared by the Sachsenhausen concentration camp personal effects warehouse concerning the prisoners' belongings. The handwritten entries include prisoner number, name, date of birth, address of the prisoner's wife, names of children and their addresses, address of the prisoner's parents, address of brothers and sisters (if not available the address of grandparents) and the name of the next of kin
Museum or Other Institution Holdings:
- USHMM Archives Collection:
- [Microfilm]
- RG-11.001M.22 Reel 91 Folder 227
- Source Institution: Osobyi Archives/Moscow
Provenance:
In 1945 the Red Army discovered a large collection of documents in Wilkanow, a village in Silesia (now Poland). These documents originally came from the archive of the Reich Security Services Headquarters (RSHA). Members of the NKVD brought the material to Moscow and, in March 1946, they were incorporated into the newly created Central State Special Archive, 'Osobyi Archive'. This archive was established as a secret, non-public institution holding records of the Nazi Regime, World War II material seized from European countries like France, Netherlands, Belgium, Poland and other sensitive material of Soviet interest. In February 1990 the captured German records edition of the Osobyi Archive was first mentioned to the public. In 1994 these captured German records were microfilmed by the USHMM and are currently available to the public.
Keywords:
- Germany --Sachsenhausen.prisoners --concentration camps.
- registration
Language and Other Notes:
Text in German
Resource Center Cataloging Notes:
Former Q&A Name Lists Database File Number-- AD0060