"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.