"On Auschwitz" (22): The Archives of the Auschwitz Memorial

The Archives of the Auschwitz Memorial collect, preserve, and
provide access to documents and materials connected mainly with
the history of the Auschwitz camp.


The collection includes original German camp records, copies of
documents obtained from other institutions in Poland and abroad,
source material of postwar provenance (memoirs, accounts by
survivors, material from the trials of Nazi war criminals, etc.),
photographs, microfilms, negatives, documentary films, scholarly
studies, reviews, lectures, exhibition scenarios, film scripts,
and research results.

Dr. Wojciech Płosa, the head of the Archives, talks about the
activity of this part of the Museum.

The document in the picture is one of the first plans of the main
Auschwitz camp from mid-1940.