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The Internationale Auschwitz Komitee was founded in 1952 by former inmates of the death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, with the following aims: to bear witness to the crimes of the Nazis in the camp; to fight for compensation for former inmates and their families; to work with the Auschwitz Museum to preserve the site of the camp as a permanent memorial. It became involved in the gathering of statements and testimony against former camp guards and other Nazi personnel. Many of the witnesses who provided testimony later took part in the 'Frankfurt Trial' of perpetrators at Auschwitz.
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GB 1556 WL 1173 1959 Collection level (fonds) 1 file International Auschwitz Committee
The Internationale Auschwitz Komitee was founded in 1952 by former inmates of the death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, with the following aims: to bear witness to the crimes of the Nazis in the camp; to fight for compensation for former inmates and their families; to work with the Auschwitz Museum to preserve the site of the camp as a permanent memorial. It became involved in the gathering of statements and testimony against former camp guards and other Nazi personnel. Many of the witnesses who provided testimony later took part in the 'Frankfurt Trial' of perpetrators at Auschwitz.
Hermann Langbein
Papers of the Internationale Auschwitz Komitee, 1959, comprising copies of statements from former prisoners of Auschwitz about the activities of the following former SS men who worked there: Wilhelm Boger, Franz Hofmann, Rudolph Höss, Oswald Kaduk, Lachmann, Josef Mengele, Hans Stark, Eduard Wirth and Josef Klehr.
Statements arranged according to name of SS officer.
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Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
German
Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk
International Auschwitz Committee: Correspondence and papers (ref: 1281)
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.
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Hermann Langbein
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Papers of the Internationale Auschwitz Komitee, 1959, comprising copies of statements from former prisoners of Auschwitz about the activities of the following former SS men who worked there: Wilhelm Boger, Franz Hofmann, Rudolph Höss, Oswald Kaduk, Lachmann, Josef Mengele, Hans Stark, Eduard Wirth and Josef Klehr.
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Statements arranged according to name of SS officer.
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Open
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Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
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- English
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- Latin
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German
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International Auschwitz Committee: Correspondence and papers (ref: 1281)
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Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk
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- Humanitarian law » War crimes » Concentration camps
- Humanitarian law » War crimes » Genocide
- Humanitarian law
- International conflicts
- Religious groups » Jews
- Political doctrines » Totalitarianism » Nazism
- Political doctrines
- Religious groups
- Political doctrines » Totalitarianism
- Humanitarian law » War crimes
- International conflicts » War victims
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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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- English