Correspondence and lists of various State Police and Criminal Investigation Offices (including Hohensalza and Litzmannstadt) and, among others, the commandant and administration of CC Auschwitz concerning the transfer of so-called gypsies and other "protective custody prisoners" to a concentration camp; death, assets, effects

Scope and content

Contains:
I) Correspondence of the State Police Department Hohensalza and the Criminal Investigation Department Hohensalza concerning the confiscation of the property of arrested persons from Mühlental (district of Warthbrücken) who were persecuted as so-called gypsies. Also documented is the admission to the so-called gypsy camp in CC Auschwitz, April 1, 1943.

II) Correspondence from the commander of the Security Police and the SD in the Radom district, the commandant's office of Auschwitz concentration camp, the Litzmannstadt State Police Office, and the commandant's office of CC Neuengamme, among others, regarding the transfer of individual victims as so-called "protective custody prisoners" (persecuted as so-called antisocial prisoners, among others) to Auschwitz and Neuengamme concentration camps. A transfer of two prisoners from Radegast police prison to Warsaw in November 1940 is also mentioned, 1943-1944.

III) Correspondence of the Litzmannstadt State Police Office concerning deceased prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp and their effects, among other things. Among them is correspondence from the District Administrator of the Schieratz District regarding the application of the prisoner in "protective custody", Jan Hoppe, for admission to the "Deutsche Volksliste," 1941/08/20-1942/08/31.

IV) Interrogations or denunciations of persons (including the Führer des Sturmes 3/III 8, Obertruppführer Erich Werner) for spreading alleged rumors about the SS with subsequent arrest of the accused ("protective custody") 1933; 1941.

IV) Correspondence from the Litzmannstadt State Police Office and the prisoner-money administration of Auschwitz concentration camp (with lists of the names of deceased prisoners of CC Auschwitz), concerning remaining assets, securities, and personnel papers sent. There is also correspondence between the Reich Governor in the Warthegau (head of the Poznan Trust Office) and the Hohensalza State Police Office, 1941/05/12-1944/01/29.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Panstwowe Muzeum w Oswiecimiu (Staatliches Museum in Auschwitz)

Existence and location of originals

INSTYTUT PAMIĘCI NARODOWEJ (IPN), Warsaw