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Camp hospital data in digital form

The computer section has finished work on the printout and statistical analyses generated from the data base created in 2000-2001 on the basis of the archival record books of the Block no. 20 camp hospital.

The data base was created on the basis of original documentation from the so-called camp hospital (HKB - Häftlingskrankenbau) in Block no. 20 of the Auschwitz I-Main Camp. The information was entered into the data base as part of the "Personal Archive" computer system, and is now part of the Museum's Digital Archive.

The documentation includes information on the Block no. 20 camp hospital from February 1942 to January 1945. The list contains a total of more than 13,061 names. There are multiple entries for some persons, but the total number of people about whom there is information in the records is still over 8,000. These are male prisoners of various national and ethnic origins and ages. The recently completed work includes statistics generated through analyses of the data base.

The printout also includes photographs of Block no. 20, a selection of art work associated with the Block, and scanned copies of typical pages from the original documentation. For reasons of space, the publication includes only basic data that make it possible to identify individuals, as well as source information that makes it possible to locate the original documents in the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Archives.

The data are presented in the form of tables that also provide such information about each prisoner as his first and last names, place of birth, ethnic origins (as in the original entries: "J" for Jewish, "P" for Polish, and "Z" for Gypsy, also known as Roma, and so on), prisoner number, and date of death. Copies of the printout are available to interested parties in the Archives and the Library.