Description: Electronic data containing records for prisoners of Mauthausen found in camp prisoner cards. Today's post comes from exhibits conservator Terry Boone and senior registrar James Zeender. These cards were sent to let family know the prisoner … Arkhiyon ha-merkazi la-Sho'ah vela-gevurah. Mauthausen, one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps, located near the village of Mauthausen, on the Danube River, 12 miles (20 km) east of Linz, Austria. Nazi Germany incorporated Austria in the Anschluss of March 11-13, 1938. Photo credit: Florida Center for Instructional Technology . Share your family tree and photos with the people you know and love. Very RARE item. Registry office cards were probably used in Mauthausen from 1941 at the latest. (ID: 30813) Authorship or Source: Merlin, Valerie. The original Mauthausen prisoner admission cards are in the Yad Vashem archives. The index includes name, date of birth, place of birth, residence, date they were arrested, camp from which they came, date they arrived in Mauthausen, nationality/prisoner type, and notes. Build your family tree online ; Share photos and videos Polish Children Survivors Data on Polish children from Dobroszycki's Survivors of the Holocaust in Poland. Mauthausen Prisoner Cards : electronic data gathered from the original cards held in Yad Vashem Archives (Record Group 0.41). May marks the surrender of the Nazi forces to the Allies—and the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp in 1945.

These individuals arrived in Mauthausen from other camps. Halivni also writes: I do not say Kaddish (prayer for the dead) for my sister Channa Yitte or my father, because I … Starting as a satellite of Dachau, in Germany, it Last year in April, we traveled to the Mauthausen National Memorial, about 100 miles west of Vienna, with one of the original death… Nationals of virtually every German-occupied country in World War II came through Mauthausen. The available data come exclusively from historical sources. The amount of data about each inmate may , therefore, substantially differ. A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust Produced by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology, Genealogy profile for Zisman Ickowicz. Yad va-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Sho'ah vela-gevurah. Massive wooden door at the entrance to Mauthausen main camp. For example, a registry office card was created for Roszi Einhorn, a Jewish woman from Hungary, when she arrived from the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp on April 5, 1945, just four weeks before the liberation of Mauthausen. Share your family tree and photos with the people you know and love. During the war, the SS incarcerated more than 10,000 Soviet prisoners of war at Mauthausen, including 3,000 held at the Mauthausen subcamp Gusen. Upon checking the list and finding R. Halivni’s name, I photocopied his prisoner card for him.