Archival tree of the Arolsen Archives

0 - Global Finding Aids

1 - Incarceration Documents

1.1 - Camps and Ghettos

1.1.0 - General Information

1.1.1 - Amersfoort Police Transit Camp

1.1.2 - Auschwitz Concentration and Extermination Camp

1.1.3 - Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp

1.1.4 - Breendonk Transit Camp

1.1.5 - Buchenwald Concentration Camp

1.1.6 - Dachau Concentration Camp

1.1.7 - Esterwegen Concentration Camp

1.1.8 - Flossenbürg Concentration Camp

1.1.9 - Camps in France

1.1.10 - Labor Reformatory Camp Großbeeren

1.1.11 - Groß-Rosen Concentration Camp

1.1.12 - Herzogenbusch-Vught Concentration Camp

1.1.13 - Hinzert Special SS Camp

1.1.14 - Camps in Italy and Albania

1.1.15 - Camps in Yugoslavia

1.1.16 - Kislau Concentration Camp

1.1.17 - Klooga / Vaivara Concentration Camp

1.1.18 - Ghetto Kauen (Kaunas / Kowno)

1.1.19 - Krakau-Plaszow Concentration Camp

1.1.20 - Lichtenburg Concentration Camp

1.1.21 - Labor reformatory camp Liebenau (Internment Camp Liebenau)

1.1.22 - Litzmannstadt (Lodz) Ghetto and "Polen-Jugendverwahrlager" /Detention Camp for Polish Juveniles

1.1.23 - Lublin (Majdanek) Concentration Camp

1.1.24 - Mecheln (Malines) SS Deportation Camp

1.1.25 - Mauritius Detainment Camp

1.1.26 - Mauthausen Concentration Camp

1.1.27 - Concentration Camp Mittelbau (Dora)

1.1.28 - Moringen Concentration Camp and "Jugendschutzlager"/ Protective Custody Camp for Juveniles

1.1.29 - Natzweiler (Struthof) Concentration Camp

1.1.30 - Neuengamme Concentration Camp

1.1.31 - Niederhagen (Wewelsburg) Concentration Camp

1.1.32 - Camps in Norway

1.1.33 - Oranienburg Concentration Camp

1.1.34 - Papenburg Penitentiary Camp/ Emslandlager

1.1.35 - Ravensbrück Concentration Camp

1.1.35.0 - General Information on Ravensbrück Concentration Camp

663

Correspondence, lists (various subcamps) concerning the supply of prisoners, bureaucracy regarding transfers, Hungarian Jewish women; Reports from survivors (women and men) of CC Ravensbrück

Youth Camps Moringen and Uckermark / CC Ravensbrück: Guidelines concerning the work of the Kriminalbiologisches Institut der Sicherheitspolizei and Camp Commandant's Offices; Female guards; Transport notes (1942-1944); NS crimes against children and adolescents (Polish publication 1969)

Protocol of the interrogation of Fritz Suhren before the French military court in Rastatt, with cover letter (1949, 1964)

139

Living conditions of women in CC Ravensbrück: 2 Reports

Administration and history of the Women's Concentration Camp Ravensbrück (1965); Rules regarding laundry package for female prisoners

Site map of subcamp Peenemünde; Statements by two female survivors on CC Ravensbrück and its subcamp Neustadt-Glewe (07/25/1945)

Camp regulations; Letter on sexual violence (so-called "racial defilement"); Interrogations of male prisoners concerning fire in the camp; Report about the camp; Transfers of prisoners (1941-1945)

I) Korrespondenz: Überstellungen von Frauen, Schwangeren und jüdischen Frauen; Verlegung des KL Lichtenburg; Gesellschaft für Textil- und Lederwaren Berlin (u.a. Geschäftsbericht) (1939-1945); II) Prozessmaterial gegen Fritz Suhren; Untersuchungen zu alliiertem Luftangriff auf Peenemünde; Aktenüberlieferung Schutzhaft (1945-1947)

228

1.1.35.1 - List Material Ravensbrück

12442

1.1.35.2 - Individual Documents Ravensbrück

20400

1.1.35.5 - Number Index Ravensbrück

262155

1.1.35.6 - Hollerith preparatory worksheet cards Ravensbrück

6765

1.1.36 - Riga (Kaiserwald) Concentration Camp and Riga Ghetto

1.1.37 - Sachsenburg Concentration Camp

1.1.38 - Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp

1.1.39 - Sandbostel Absorption Camp

1.1.40 - Schirmeck-Vorbruck Concentration Camp

1.1.41 - Stutthof Concentration Camp

1.1.42 - Theresienstadt Ghetto

1.1.43 - Treblinka Labour Camp

1.1.44 - Warsaw Ghetto and Concentration Camp

1.1.45 - Welzheim Concentration Camp (Protective Custody Camp)

1.1.46 - Westerbork Assembly and Transit Camp

1.1.47 - Various Camps

1.1.48 - Concentration Camp Bad Sulza

1.1.49 - Concentration Camp Colditz

1.1.50 - Schutzhaftlager Hohnstein

1.1.51 - Concentration Camp Sonnenburg

1.1.52 - Concentration Camp Columbia-Haus Concentration Camp

1.1.53 - Concentration Camp Eutin

1.1.54 - Concentration Camp Heinersdorf

1.1.55 - Concentration Camp Heuberg

1.1.56 - Concentration Camp Kemna

1.1.57 - Concentration Camp Kuhlen

1.1.58 - Concentration Camp Osthofen

1.1.59 - Concentration Camp Roßlau

1.1.60 - Concentration Camps Wittmoor, Fuhlsbüttel and Neuengamme

1.1.61 - Juvenile Detention and Reform Camp Lebrechtsdorf

1.2 - Miscellaneous

2 - Registration of Foreigners and German Persecutees by Public Institutions, Social Securities and Companies (1939 - 1947)

3 - Registrations and Files of Displaced Persons, Children and Missing Persons

4 - Special NSDAP organizations and actions

5 - Death Marches, identification of unkown dead and Nazi trials

6 - Records of the ITS and its predecessors

7 - Archival records of microforms (new material / document acquisition)

8 - Collections of private persons and small archives

1 Incarceration Documents / 1.1 Camps and Ghettos / 1.1.35 Ravensbrück Concentration Camp /

Protocol of the interrogation of Fritz Suhren before the French military court in Rastatt, with cover letter (1949, 1964)

Reference Code

9004300

Creation Date

1949-12-05 - 1964-11-06

Number of documents

139

Scope and content

Contains:
I) Letter of the Regional Court Frankfurt/Main to the ITS, concerning the enclosed interrogation protocol of the former camp commander of CC Ravensbrück, Fritz Suhren, (dated 12/05/1949), 11/06/1964.
II) Record of the interrogation of Fritz Suhren on 12/05/1949, accused before the French military court in Rastatt (German and French version), 12/05/1949.

The record of the interrogation contains, among other things, statements on the following contents:
- General information on CC Ravensbrück
- Duration of Fritz Suhren's function as camp commander
- Deliberate killings and bodily injuries
- Mortality of prisoners
- Forced labor
- Hygiene and medical care in the camp
- Sterilization of prisoners carried out by SS physician Dr. Clauberg
- Medical experiments on prisoners
- Executions
- Shootings of English and French parachutists at CC Ravensbrück, with reference to testimonies of female witnesses
- The shooting of Polish women
- The youth Concentration Camp Uckermark
- Gas chambers and crematorium

In some places the protocol mentions names and testimonies of female witnesses who survived the Ravensbrück camp.