Collection GB 1556 WL 570a - Auschwitz-Birkenau: eyewitness account

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Reference code

GB 1556 WL 570a

Title

Auschwitz-Birkenau: eyewitness account

Date(s)

  • 1944 (Creation)

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Collection

Extent and medium

53 frames

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Name of creator

Biographical history

This microfilm report detailing deportation to and conditions in Auschwitz- Birkenau, was written by two Slovakian prisoners who managed to escape. According to a preamble the authors withheld their names for reasons of security.

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GB 1556 WL 570a 1944 collection 53 frames Unknown
This microfilm report detailing deportation to and conditions in Auschwitz- Birkenau, was written by two Slovakian prisoners who managed to escape. According to a preamble the authors withheld their names for reasons of security.

Jewish Central Information Office

Report on conditions in Auschwitz- Birkenau including plans and statistics on inmates, 1944.

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Open

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
German

Microfilm

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

Wiener Collection, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. October 2007 Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp Concentration camps Genocide Holocaust Humanitarian law Human rights violations War crimes

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Jewish Central Information Office

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Scope and content

Report on conditions in Auschwitz- Birkenau including plans and statistics on inmates, 1944.

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Accruals

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Open

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

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German

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Finding aids

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

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Wiener Library

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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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Language(s)

  • English

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