The website is community-based and was created thanks to the joint work of Museum employees, volunteers and students doing internships at the Memorial. It is not complete yet and the process will take several years. Due to the fact that the number of witnesses is decreasing, we decided to publish it in this form, while continuing the work and completing the information.

Application contains information about transports sent to KL Auschwitz, its victims and their fates.

The application is based on information about 1,370 deportations to KL Auschwitz; the data was obtained based on sources such as: list of transports incoming to KL Auschwitz Nummernverzeichnis, Auschwitz Chronicle by Danuta Czech, Auschwitz: How Many Perished by Franciszek Piper and, e.g., the deportations of Jews from the transit camps in Drancy: Le Memorial de la deportation des Juifs de France by Serge Klarsfeld and Mecheln - Auschwitz 1942 - 1944 by Ward Adriaens, Dr Maxime Steinberg, Ds Laurence Schram, Patricia Ramet, Eric Hautermann and Ilse Marquenie. Selecting a specific transport generates its record including basic information such as: the established number of deportees, the number of registered prisoners and the range of camp numbers issued to prisoners distinguished between men and women, as well as the number of Jews murdered immediately after their arrival to the camp, as determined in the source materials.

692 original studies from Memorial Books dedicated to Polish men and women deported to the camp (Księgi Pamięci Polaków i Polek deportowanych do KL Auschwitz) published in the years 2000-2013 have been implemented, in which the user will find important information about transport from five districts of occupied Poland. They were made by the authors involved in doing the queries.

To the website’s content contributed also other European memorials – Karen Taieb from the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris and José Martin from Herinneringscentrum Kamp Westerbork in the Netherlands. Drawing on their knowledge and experience, we're adding information about KL Auschwitz prisoners and their transports.

Transports were linked to prisoners’ names according to the range of camp numbers issued during registration. This allows for assigning prisoners data to the transport by which they were deported to the camp.

The interactive map shows the places from where deportations to the camp took place. The map illustrates the mass transports of prisoners sent to the camp and victims. Its main purpose is to make the user aware of the mass and scope of the deportations to KL Auschwitz. It also makes it easier to place events in the present, making the user aware of which towns witnessed the tragic history.

Information on the deportations of Jews from Hungary were based on personal accounts collected by Professor R. Braham, deportation lists secretly prepared by prisoner Leo Glaser, and transport lists recorded by Mikulas Gasko. The names of towns and ghettos located in the Hungarian occupation zones in Zakarpacie, Slovakia, and Romania were updated using the OpenSteetMap platform. The names of towns were found and updated to determine their geolocation. The obtained coordinates (latitude and longitude) were assigned to the dates of deportations. The website allows to search while using the timeline by selecting a specific date and time range.

Chronology of transports to KL Auschwitz was created by Maciej Majcherek and Ewa Bazan, employees of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. The substantive content is co-created by Krystyna Leśniak and Piotr Setkiewicz. Krzysztof Antończyk coordinates cooperation with memorial sites, while Anna Jawień coordinates the work of volunteers in translating texts into English.

The volunteers and interns who translates texts from Memorial Books into English, deserve special recognition. University students and teachers were involved in the translations, including the International British School in Kraków, under supervision of its history teacher Robbie Nicholson, and students of philology and linguistics. All translations made by volunteers and interns are signed with their names. Without their involvement, the work on making data available would take many more years.

The Archival Analysis and Information Section Team

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