Correspondence from German concentration camps and prisons, 1936-1945
Series: Archives unbound; Archives unbound
Publisher: Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farmington Hills, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 5747
Subjects: Nazi concentration camp inmates; Correspondence; Prisoners of war; Nazi concentration camps; Sources; History; Prisoner-of-war camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); World War, 1939-1945
Description: "This collection consists of items originating from prisoners held in German concentration camps, internment and transit camps, Gestapo prisons, and POW camps during and just prior to World War II. Most of the collection consists of letters written or received by prisoners, but it also includes receipts for parcels, money orders and personal effects; paper currency; and realia, including Star of David badges that Jews were forced to wear"--Provider description (Gale).
Notes: Date range of documents: 1936-1945.

This resource is available only to current faculty, staff and students of Columbia University.

Reproduction of the originals from the McMaster University collections.

Documents are chiefly in German, interface is in English.
Table of contents: title: Concentration camps correspondence, 1936-1945; title: The internment and transit camps correspondence, 1940-1944; title: The Gestapo prisons correspondence, 1942-1943; title: Prisoner of war (POW) correspondence, 1940-1945; title: Receipts for parcels, money orders and personal effects, 1940-[ca. 1945]; title: Paper currency, 1940-1945; title: Realia, [ca. 1939-1945].