FREQUENTLY APPEARING TOPICS AND THEMES
Preparation of this inventory for online use provided an opportunity to identify major topics and themes that appear repeatedly in the collection descriptions. Because of the limited nature of the collection descriptions, the lists of topics and themes that resulted are not exhaustive, but only illustrative of the breadth of information contained in the ITS archive, and may be helpful to some users as they shape their search inquiries.
Concentration Camp Related Topics
- concentration/work/prison/detention/internment/death camps
- "Jew-camps" and "Gypsy camps"
- camp plans (layout, staffing)
- "Change reports" of various camps: recording changes in condition or status of a camp
- orders to various camp administrations
- lists of prisoners/inmates of camps, often with dates (by name and/or prisoner number)
- lists of prisoners of all types (privileged, men, women, children, sick, unable to work, able to work, those who tried to escape, professional criminals, deceased, etc.)
- arrival and departure lists to/from camps (often with dates)
- dismissals from camp (due to death, transfer, or release at liberation)
- transport lists of Jews (from towns to camps; between camps)
- costs of prisoner transfers; cost of feeding prisoners; receipt catalogs
- food rations, including extra rations for special workers
- lists of personal effects of prisoners
- punishments and execution of sentences on prisoners
- laboratory examinations, medical experiments, fatalities from experiments (often gas chambers)
- deliveries of Zyklon B
- medical experiments of all kinds (vaccinations, injections, cold, altitude)
- sterilizations
- death marches
- witness statements, testimonies on camps, mistreatment, etc.
Forced Labor Topics
- names of factories, firms, plants, and their owners
- forced-labor records of specific firms (e.g., IG Farben, VW, BMW, Krupp, Siemens)
- lists of forced laborers insured with certain AOK and BKK, by town/name of insurance company/employer
- work deployments, detachments, special detachments, fatalities
- forced/slave labor lists
Displaced Persons/Emigration/Immigration Related Topics
- DP lists, camps, and hospitals
- repatriation lists
- ship and flight lists to various countries
- emigration lists to Palestine
Administrative Records/Court Records
- administrative offices and administrative titles (such as, Board of Reparations, Emigration, etc.)
- SS-appointments
- Einsatzgruppen actions, deployments
- correspondence between different institutions, heads of administrative offices
- lists of orders from different administrative offices, departments, department heads
- names of districts (e.g. Wartheland)
- names of cities, towns from which/to which persons were deported, often with dates
- lists of foreign residents (including forced laborers) of towns, by date
- registration records/books on foreigners in various towns
- arrival and departure records of persons in/from various towns
- death/birth/marriage certificates, registration, books
- court proceedings, hearings, interrogations, trials, also postwar trials
- death penalties, executions ordered by court martial, execution of death sentences
- cemetery records relating to forced and slave laborers buried in towns
Miscellaneous
- "Final Solution"
- "Jewish question"
- partisan activity
- names of newspapers (Jewish), radio reports, persons searching for relatives on radio
- prisons, detention centers, all kinds
- names of ghettos
- specific reports (e.g. Gerstein report)
- Organisation Todt
- Operation Zeppelin
- Lebensborn program, in Germany and in occupied countries (problems, complications, criticisms)
- Night and Fog prisoners
- hospital, infirmary registers (admission, discharge, sickness, death)
- Diseases; epidemics
- lists of names of prisoners who died/were executed in certain locations (infirmaries, hospitals, schools, prisons)
- mass executions/mass graves
- death books
- burial procedures (transfer of bodies from one graveyard to another)
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