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Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memoriał Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was madę possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Materiał Claims against Germany.

Accruals: Accruals may have been received sińce this collection was first processed, see the Archives catalog at collections.ushmm.org for further information.

Custodial History

Existence and location of originals: The original records are held at the Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku, ul. Droga Męczenników Majdanka 67, Lublin, Poland 20-325. Tel. [phone]. Morę information about this repository is available at www.maidanek.pl.

Processing History: Aleksandra B. Borecka

Realteed Materials

Kiełboń, Janina. Akta Archiwum Państwowego Muzeum na Majdanku, "Archeion," R. XXXVII, 1962, s. 207-228.; Janina Kiełboń, Warsztat naukowy Państwowego Muzeum na Majdanku, "Zeszyty Majdanka" 1995, t. XVI, s. 71-89.; Tadeusz Mencel, Dokumenty zbrodni i męczeństwa w obozie na Majdanku, [In:] Majdanek 1941-1944, Lublin 1991, s. 5-17.

Scope and Content of Collection

Contains personal documents of prisoners of KL Lublin-Majdanek taken from them upon arrival: ca. 1,800 items such as identity cards, certificates, diplomas, birth certificates, work books, books, financial documents, memoirs, correspondence, photo albums, and so on. One treasure is the memoir by a woman arriving from the Warsaw ghetto. Papers of prisoners whose identity can be determined are arranged by family name; when name cannot be madę out on damaged documents, the latter are arranged by nationality determined by the language of the documents.

System of Arrangement

The system of arrangement of the source repository has been preserved in the microfilmed reels. Arranged in two series: 1. Files of prisoners whose identity can be determined, and arranged in alphabetical order by family name; 2. Files of prisoners whose names cannot be determined, and arranged by nationality (determined by the language of the documents). The files are organized in four parts: 1, V.l vol. 1-13; 2, V.l vol. 14-24; 3, V.l vol. 25-29 - V.2 vol.l-8; 4, 4 V.2 vol. 9-21.

lndexingTerms

Majdanek (Concentration camp).

Concentration camp inmates—Poland--Lublin.

World War, 1939-1945-Concentration camps-Europe.

Lublin (Poland)--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Identification cards.

Certificates.

Birth certificates.

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