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

1.1.8.0 - General Information on Flossenbürg Concentration Camp

3261

Investigations by the US Army regarding the conditions in the camp before and after the liberation

165

Administration pertaining to clothing / valuables / estates / insurances (social-/ pension-/ unemployment-) of prisoners; reward of SS men for executions; report by male survivors about the conditions in the former “Häftlingsspital”

Forced labor: 'Manpower reports' for subcamps; Correspondence, reports and accounts regarding transfers of prisoners, accidents, dischargements, material requisitions, estate (1939-1942)

157

Lists 'Arbeitseinteilung' (distribution of work); Correspondence regarding transfers of prisoners; Treatment of ‘adolescent Ostarbeiter’; Registration of conscripts (1942-1943)

298

Transfers of prisoners and regulations, inquiries about prisoners, lists (division of work/strength reports), invoices, forced labor assignment Grafenreuth (1943-1945)

113

Reports on number of prisoners, work deployment, financial reports and various orders, subdivision of prisoners by age groups (1943-1945)

173

Correspondence: Prisoner transfers; Reports of skilled workers; Soviet POWs; Discharges (1942-1945)

267

Planning for the construction of a POW camp in CC Flossenbürg; Reports of strength and skilled workers for various 'work detachments'; Building projects and armament (1939-1943)

294

Investigations by the US Army on the mistreatment and shooting of female (Jewish) prisoners, in particular on the death march via the Helmbrechts subcamp to Volary (Wallern): Testimonies and lists (1945)

204

Testimonies of 17 Jewish and non-Jewish female survivors who were liberated in Volary

105

Testimonies of members of the US Army, residents of Volary, female SS guards and the wife of an SS guard in the Helmbrechts subcamp

Lists: Actions of SS members; State of health of surviving female prisoners in Volary local hospital in May 1945; Identities of exhumed corpses of Jewish women

Explanatory report on the construction of a crematorium: Calculation of material quantity and costs (05/25/1940)

Proofs of claim; Reports of strength; Rations for prisoners and guards; transfer of prisoners; construction project Pottenstein; Post-war investigations UNRRA / ITS (1943-1945)

148

Proofs of claim for the use of forced laborers in the camp and its subcamps (1943 - 1944)

569

Reports, newspaper articles and correspondence on the camp and individual subcamps; Excerpts from files of the trial against Alfred Sorge, etc. (1940-1977)

317

Reports and testimonies on CC Flossenbürg (1946-1975); Reports, construction plans and strength reports on subcamps in Bohemia and Moravia; Building inspection of the subamps Pottenstein and Würzburg (1944-1945)

109

Secret decree of Heydrich concerning the 'classification of concentration camps' (01/02/1941); Report of a survivor of CC Dachau und CC Flossenbürg in the context of the investigations by the US Army (1947)

Administrative documents of CC Flossenbürg (Effektenkammer) and the subcamps Helmbrechts, Venusberg and Hersbruck (with statistics); List of about 40 subcamps: 'Gemeinschaftslager der ERLA-Maschinenwerke GmbH, Leipzig' (1941-1945)

Investigations by the US Army regarding murders and maltreatment of 'Allied Nationals' and Prisoners of War in CC Flossenbürg and Wetterfeld (1943-1947)

316

Communications concerning a prisoner, who died in KL Flossenbürg. Death date: 9.6.1944

1.1.8.1 - List Material Flossenbürg

16688

1.1.8.3 - Individual Documents male Flossenbürg

177033

1.1.8.4 - Individual Documents female Flossenbürg

26855

1.1.8.5 - Number Index Flossenbürg

68696

1.1.8.6 - Hollerith preparatory worksheet cards - Flossenbürg

16596

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

1.1.36 - 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 / 1.1.8 Flossenbürg Concentration Camp /

Testimonies of members of the US Army, residents of Volary, female SS guards and the wife of an SS guard in the Helmbrechts subcamp

Reference Code

1965002

Number of documents

Scope and content

The subunit contains interviews with the following persons:

I) Members of the 5th Infantry Division of the US Army (mainly doctors and paramedics),
II) German physician Theodor Durst (in Volary since September 1943), who issued the death certificates for the deceased prisoners,
III) Wanda Kobler, who from January 1945 lived with her husband, SS supervisor Paul Kobler, in the Flossenbürg subcamp Helmbrechts,
IV) Two SS guards Charlotte Stummer and Herta Haase-Breitmann (head female overseer). Both accompanied the death march from Helmbrechts to Volary.
V) A factory owner from Volary (Oscar Knäbel), in whose workplace the Polish forced laborers were accommodated,
VI) The doctor Johann Pimmer from Volary, who was to examine the prisoners on the orders of the SS.

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