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Data on Poles Deported to Auschwitz To Be Available Online
Jan. 9, Bielsko-Biała (PAP) – Archival data on some 50,000 Poles deported to Auschwitz from Warsaw, southern Poland, and the Kielce region will be made available at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum website.
The information about Polish deportees supplements the basic information available for the last three years on 69,000 Auschwitz victims from the so-called Death Books (Totenbuecher) and some 20,000 Roma victims who were exterminated in the camp.
The information on nearly 50,000 Polish deportees is the fruit of many years’ research by Museum staff for the publication of the Memorial Books series.
Publications containing lists of deportees’ names:
Memorial Books
- Księga Pamięci. Transporty Polaków z Warszawy do KL Auschwitz. 1940-1944 [Memorial Book: Transports of Poles from Warsaw to Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1940-1944], containing lists of 26,000 Polish deportees, was published in 2000.
- Księga Pamięci. Transporty Polaków do KL Auschwitz z Krakowa i innych miejscowości Polski południowej [Memorial Book: Transports of Poles from Cracow and Other Localities in Southern Poland to Auschwitz Concentration Camp], published two years later, contains the names of some 17,000 Poles and thousands of persons of other nationalities who were deported to the camp.
- A third Memorial Book was published at the end of 2005 and contains information about 16,000 people deported to the camp from the Kielce region.
Death Books
The Death Books are 46 volumes in which the Politische Abteilung (camp Gestapo – PAP) noted the deaths of registered Auschwitz prisoners from July 29, 1941 to December 31, 1943.
The Gypsy Books
Information on Roma comes from the record books of the “Gypsy Family Camp” (Zigeunerfamilienlager) in Auschwitz II-Birkenau. The books contain the names of Roma Auschwitz victims who were sent to the camp from almost all the countries that the Germans occupied.
