Auschwitz Camps and the Memorial Museum of Auschwitz, 1946-1981 | Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

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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

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[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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Collection of Folder-Level 1: RG-15.01, Posner Collection of Polish period, 1946

Posner Collection of Polish period

Photographs taken in April 1945 at the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The former prisoners and Soviet military and medical personnel are depicted on the photographs. Also known as Posner Collection. 11 photographs.

Subject/Index Terms:: Częstochowa (Poland); family photographs; Photographs, postwar, 1945 -- 1988; Posner family; Posner, Ralph; Posner, Sarah

Creators:: Ralph and Sarah Posner (1946 --1980s)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-15.01.01, Posner Collection in Poland and USA, circa 1960-1979

Ralph and Sarah Posner apparently resided before the war in Czestochowa, Poland. No documents in the Collection refer to the war-period or its aftermath. The photographs dated by 1946 with the captions in Yiddish allow to assume Cooperative Association, as well as of the family and friends circle. All pictures of this group are dated by 1946.