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Title: Auschwitz Camps and the Memorial Museum of Auschwitz, 1946-1981
Predominant Dates:1946-1952
ID: RG-15/RG-15
Primary Creator: Czech, Danuta
Other Creators: Posner family, Wrobel, Halina
Extent: 0.0
Arrangement:
The arrangement scheme for the record group was imposed during processing in the absence of an original order. Materials are arranged by subject/creator, then by identifier, as assigned by the processor.
Record group is comprised of four collections and one item, the collections of which are: 1. Posner family collection; 2. Collection of scholarly publications on the Auschwitz complex of camps; 3. Photographs and artifacts of the Auschwitz complex of camps; 4. Dinah Babbit collection.
Subjects: Auschwitz-Birkenau, concentration camp complex (Poland), Babbit, Dinah, Czech, Danuta, History of the Holocaust, documentary films, Holocaust, Jewish (1939 -- 1945), commemoration, Holocaust, Jewish (1939 -- 1945), postwar publications, liberation of Nazi concentration camps, Europe, Memorial Museum of Auschwitz (Poland), wartime photographs, Wrobel, Halina
Languages: German, Polish, English
Abstract
Auschwitz State Museum and postwar commemoration of the Holocaust
Scope and Contents of the Materials
This record group originates from post-war commemorative efforts to instill the history of the most notorious German death camp into people’s memory. The materials in this record group speak to two major themes: post-liberation evidence illuminating the camp organization and function; and materials collected and annotated by the Memorial Museum of Auschwitz. The Memorial Museum of Auschwitz conducts ongoing research, systematically adding new documents and artifacts to its collections. Within this record group is also the Posner family collection of post-war photo documents regarding the camp; a large number of photo-documents, depicting sub-Carpathian Jews arriving to Auschwitz-Birkenau, as well as the selection process; and scholarly works of Halina Wrobel, Danuta Czech, and reproductions of documents related to the year, 1943.
Materials in this record group include photo-documents of the camp's operation, postliberation, and the postwar period; publications; original documents; and the copies from the original documents. Also included is a documentary from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Film and Video Archive entitled, Auschwitz is Liberated. This record group is partially digitized.
Collection Historical Note
Largely, this record group contains postwar photo-documents and publications. Some photographs were taken at the time of the camp’s operation, while the others are post-liberation pictures. There is also a documentary from the USHMM Film and Video Archive under the title Auschwitz Is Liberated.
Subject/Index Terms
Auschwitz-Birkenau, concentration camp complex (Poland)
Babbit, Dinah
Czech, Danuta
History of the Holocaust, documentary films
Holocaust, Jewish (1939 -- 1945), commemoration
Holocaust, Jewish (1939 -- 1945), postwar publications
liberation of Nazi concentration camps, Europe
Memorial Museum of Auschwitz (Poland)
wartime photographs
Wrobel, Halina
Administrative Information
Repository:
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
Access Restrictions:
No restrictions
Use Restrictions:
copyrighted materials, credits to and references to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust and to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum are required
Digital copies might be available upon request
Preferred Citation:
RG-15, Auschwitz Camps and the Memorial Museum of Auschwitz. Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Archive.
Processing Information:
Materials are primarily described using the local descriptive standards of the LA Museum of the Holocaust.
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Collection of Folder-Level:
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Collection of Folder-Level 1: RG-15.01, Posner Collection of Polish period, 1946],
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Collection of Folder-Level 2: RG-15.02, Scholarly publications about the Auschwitz camps complex, 1950 -- 1960],
[Collection of Folder-Level 3: RG-15.03, Photographs and artifacts from the Auschwitz complex of camps, 1944 -- 1966],
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Collection of Folder-Level 4: RG-15.04, Dina Babbit Collection, 1944],
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Collection of Folder-Level 5: RG-15.05, Auschwitz, film collection of the USHMM, 1945],
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- Collection of Folder-Level 3: RG-15.03, Photographs and artifacts from the Auschwitz complex of camps, 1944 -- 1966
- This collection originates from post-war commemorative efforts to carve the history of the most notorious German death camp into people’s memory. There are two basic sub-collections: post-liberation evidence illuminating the camp organization and function; and materials collected and annotated by the Memorial Museum of Auschwitz. The Memorial Museum of Auschwitz conducts ongoing research, systematically adding new documents and artifacts to its collections. Additionally, we included a Posner Family Collection of post-war photo documents regarding the camp. Our records comprise original documents, photo documents, publications and the copies from the original documents.
- Subject/Index Terms:
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concentration camp photographs
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Photographs, Auschwitz concentration camp
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Photographs depicting Nazi crimes in Euroupe
- Creators:
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)
- Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-15.03.01, Photograph, Auschwitz, unloading the prisoners' luggage, May 1944
- A photograph with men standing over a pile of suitcases.
- Subject/Index Terms:
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concentration camp photographs
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Photographs, Auschwitz concentration camp
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sorting
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day-to-day life in Nazi concentration camps
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Poland (1939--1945)
- Creators:
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Nazi Party
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)
- Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-15.03.02, Auschwitz, sorting out the former possessions of prisoners, May 1944
- A photograph of women sorting out the former possesions of the prisoners of Auschwitz.
- Subject/Index Terms:
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concentration camp photographs
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Photographs, Auschwitz concentration camp
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sorting
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day-to-day life in Nazi concentration camps
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Poland (1939--1945)
- Creators:
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Nazi Party
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)
- Document/Artifact of Item-Level 3: RG-15.03.03, Auschwitz, children survivors of the camp and medical experiments, 1945
- A photograph of children survivors of Auschwitz brutalities and medical experiments, one day after liberation.
- Subject/Index Terms:
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Photographs
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Photographs, Auschwitz concentration camp
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concentration camp photographs
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Jewish Liberation
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Poland (1939--1945)
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English, language
- Creators:
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Nazi Party
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)
- Document/Artifact of Item-Level 4: RG-15.03.04, Auschwitz, survivor of Auschwitz, medical experiments, 1945
- A photograph of two women. One woman is very frail and down to skin and bones.
- Subject/Index Terms:
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Medical Experiments
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concentration camp photographs
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Photographs, Auschwitz concentration camp
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Photographs
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Poland (1939--1945)
- Creators:
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Nazi Party
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)
- Document/Artifact of Item-Level 5: RG-15.03.05, Auschwitz, 'Canada' prisoners tooth brushes, clothing brushers, and other personal items, 1945
- In this photo is a bin full of personal items that were confiscated from prisoner's at Auschwitz.
- Subject/Index Terms:
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Photographs
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concentration camp photographs
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Photographs, Auschwitz concentration camp
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Confiscation of Jewish property without German authorization
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Poland (1939--1945)
- Creators:
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Nazi Party
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)
- Document/Artifact of Item-Level 6: RG-15.03.06, Auschwitz, arrival of a transport, 1944
- A group of Jews get off at the Auschwitz location.
- Subject/Index Terms:
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Transports
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Complex of concentration and extermination camps
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Photographs, Auschwitz concentration camp
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concentration camp photographs
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Poland (1939--1945)
- Creators:
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Nazi Party
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Nazi Party, agencies (1933 -- 1945)
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)
- Document/Artifact of Item-Level 7: RG-15.03.07, Auschwitz, a pile of shoes, 1945
- A photograph of a pile of shoes.
- Subject/Index Terms:
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concentration camp photographs
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Photographs, Auschwitz concentration camp
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Complex of concentration and extermination camps
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Confiscation of Jewish property without German authorization
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Poland (1939--1945)
- Creators:
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Nazi Party
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)
- Document/Artifact of Item-Level 8: RG-15.03.08, Auschwitz, selection on the ramp after arrival, 1944
- A group of Jews are going through a round of selection at Auschwitz upon arrival.
- Subject/Index Terms:
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concentration camp photographs
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Photographs, Auschwitz concentration camp
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Prisoner selections
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Complex of concentration and extermination camps
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Photographs
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Roundups and Deportations of Jews
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Poland (1939--1945)
- Creators:
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Nazi Party
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)
- Document/Artifact of Item-Level 9: RG-15.03.09, Auschwitz, a column of women and children, allegedly in Auschwitz, 1944
- A photograph of women and children, allegedly in Auschwitz.
- Subject/Index Terms:
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Photographs, Auschwitz concentration camp
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concentration camp photographs
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Complex of concentration and extermination camps
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Photographs
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Poland (1939--1945)
- Creators:
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Nazi Party
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Nazi Party, agencies (1933 -- 1945)
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)
- Document/Artifact of Item-Level 10: RG-15.03.10, Auschwitz, deposit of spoons, 1944
- A photograph of a container filled with used spoons.
- Subject/Index Terms:
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Photographs, Auschwitz concentration camp
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Photographs
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Living conditions in concentration camps
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Confiscation of Jewish property without German authorization
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Poland (1939--1945)
- Creators:
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)
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Nazi Party
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Nazi Party, agencies (1933 -- 1945)
- Document/Artifact of Item-Level 11: RG-15.03.11, Auschwitz, forced labor site, 1944
- A photograph of prisoners at a forced labor site.
- Subject/Index Terms:
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Photographs
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Photographs, Auschwitz concentration camp
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Photographs depicting Nazi crimes in Euroupe
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Living conditions in concentration camps
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Forced labor
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Forced labor in concentration camps
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Poland (1939--1945)
- Creators:
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)
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Nazi Party
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Nazi Party, agencies (1933 -- 1945)
- Document/Artifact of Item-Level 12: RG-15.03.12, Auschwitz, view on a cattle car trains and German soldiers, 1944
- Subject/Index Terms:
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concentration camp photographs
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Photographs
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Photographs, Auschwitz concentration camp
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Living conditions in concentration camps
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Photographs depicting Nazi crimes in Euroupe
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Poland (1939--1945)
- Creators:
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)
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Nazi Party, agencies (1933 -- 1945)
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Nazi Party
- Document/Artifact of Item-Level 13: RG-15.03.13, Suicide on the electified barbed wire, Auschwitz, 1944
- A man appears to lay dead in between barbed wire.
- Subject/Index Terms:
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Photographs
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Photographs, Auschwitz concentration camp
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Photographs depicting Nazi crimes in Euroupe
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Living conditions in concentration camps
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Poland (1939--1945)
- Creators:
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)
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Nazi Party
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Nazi Party, agencies (1933 -- 1945)
- Document/Artifact of Item-Level 14: RG-15.03.14, Jews from Western Europe upon selection, 2, 1944
- A photograph of a group of Western European Jews that are going through selection.
- Subject/Index Terms:
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Photographs
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Photographs, Auschwitz concentration camp
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Photographs depicting Nazi crimes in Euroupe
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Living conditions in concentration camps
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Poland (1939--1945)
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Selections in the ghettos
- Creators:
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)
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Nazi Party, agencies (1933 -- 1945)
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Nazi Party
- Document/Artifact of Item-Level 15: RG-15.03.15, Selection at Auschwitz, May 1944
- In this photo are a crowd of newly arrived transports awaiting for selection at Auschwitz.
- Subject/Index Terms:
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Photographs
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Photographs, Auschwitz concentration camp
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Photographs depicting Nazi crimes in Euroupe
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Living conditions in concentration camps
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Prisoner selections
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Poland (1939--1945)
- Creators:
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Nazi Party
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Nazi Party, agencies (1933 -- 1945)
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)
- Document/Artifact of Item-Level 16: RG-15.03.16, Before the selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1944
- Jewish women and children wait in line to go through the process of selection.
- Subject/Index Terms:
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Photographs
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Photographs, Auschwitz concentration camp
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Photographs depicting Nazi crimes in Euroupe
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Living conditions in concentration camps
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Poland (1939--1945)
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Jewish yellow stars of David, Jewish badges and patches
- Creators:
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)
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Nazi Party
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Nazi Party, agencies (1933 -- 1945)
- Document/Artifact of Item-Level 17: RG-15.03.17, Auschwitz-Birkenau, arrival of prisoners, 1944
- A picture of a group of prisoners who arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
- Subject/Index Terms:
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Photographs
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Photographs, Auschwitz concentration camp
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Photographs depicting Nazi crimes in Euroupe
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Living conditions in concentration camps
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Arrival at a camp
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Poland (1939--1945)
- Creators:
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)
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Nazi Party
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Nazi Party, agencies (1933 -- 1945)
- Document/Artifact of Item-Level 18: RG-15.03.18, Auschwitz, the entrance gate to Birkenau, circa 1945
- A photo taken at the entrance gate to Birkenau. Barbed wire surrounds the camp.
- Subject/Index Terms:
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Living conditions in concentration camps
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Photographs, Auschwitz concentration camp
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Photographs
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Photographs depicting Nazi crimes in Euroupe
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Auschwitz-Birkenau, concentration camp complex (Poland)
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Poland (1939--1945)
- Creators:
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)
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Nazi Party, agencies (1933 -- 1945)
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Nazi Party
- Document/Artifact of Item-Level 19: RG-15.03.19, Arbeit macht frei, the gate at Auschwitz, circa 1945
- A photograph of the famous gate at Auschwitz that reads, "Arbeit macht frei," meaning "labor makes (you) free."
- Subject/Index Terms:
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Arbeit Macht Frei
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Living conditions in concentration camps
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Photographs
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Photographs, Auschwitz concentration camp
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Photographs depicting Nazi crimes in Euroupe
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Poland (1939--1945)
- Creators:
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)
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Nazi Party
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Nazi Party, agencies (1933 -- 1945)
- Document/Artifact of Item-Level 20: RG-15.03.20, Auschwitz monetary signs, 1944
- Auschwitz concentration camp script for paper money.
- Subject/Index Terms:
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Photographs
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Photographs, Auschwitz concentration camp
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Auschwitz camps, monetary coupons
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Living conditions in concentration camps
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Poland (1939--1945)
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German, language
- Creators:
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)
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Nazi Party
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Nazi Party, agencies (1933 -- 1945)
- Document/Artifact of Item-Level 21: RG-15.03.21, Female survivor of Auschwitz with a Red Cross nurse, 1945
- A very thin and frail woman survivor sits beside a Red Cross nurse after she has liberated.
- Subject/Index Terms:
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Photographs
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Photographs, Auschwitz concentration camp
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Living conditions in concentration camps
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concentration camp photographs
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Photographs depicting Nazi crimes in Euroupe
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Medical Experiments
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Red Cross personnel
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Poland (1939--1945)
- Creators:
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)
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Nazi Party, agencies (1933 -- 1945)
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Nazi Party
- Document/Artifact of Item-Level 22: RG-15.03.22, Auschwitz armband, camp number 21202, Jan, Johann Parzniewski, 1945
- An Auschwitz armband with a camp number 21202 and a Jewish star.
- Subject/Index Terms:
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Photographs
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Photographs, Auschwitz concentration camp
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Photographs depicting Nazi crimes in Euroupe
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Living conditions in concentration camps
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Jewish yellow stars of David, Jewish badges and patches
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Poland (1939--1945)
- Creators:
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Nazi Party, agencies (1933 -- 1945)
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Nazi Party
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)
Browse by Collection of Folder-Level:
[
Collection of Folder-Level 1: RG-15.01, Posner Collection of Polish period, 1946],
[
Collection of Folder-Level 2: RG-15.02, Scholarly publications about the Auschwitz camps complex, 1950 -- 1960],
[Collection of Folder-Level 3: RG-15.03, Photographs and artifacts from the Auschwitz complex of camps, 1944 -- 1966],
[
Collection of Folder-Level 4: RG-15.04, Dina Babbit Collection, 1944],
[
Collection of Folder-Level 5: RG-15.05, Auschwitz, film collection of the USHMM, 1945],
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All]