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Information about former Auschwitz Concentration Camp prisoners online

The Museum plans to place the names of thousands of prisoners on its website in 2002. A data base covering people who were registered in the camp has been compiled on the basis of extant documentation. However, it will contain very scarce information on people who were murdered immediately after arrival, mainly in the gas chambers.

Hardly any evidence on them exists. These victims, who were Jewish, made up the majority of the people deported to Auschwitz. The project is based on camp documents that were sent to archives in Moscow after the Red Army liberated Auschwitz Concentration Camp in January, 1945. The documents were donated to the Museum in the 1990s. In its final form, the data base will include more than 100,000 names. There will also be access to other information, such as last known address and date of birth, where this is available. The Museum is cooperating with memorial sites in Poland and other countries in compiling this information.