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This is most likely a variation of the central index cards of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Occupied Zone. This card, however, asks for more specific information about the person’s path of persecution, such as the “last concentration camp” and the prisoner number. When this card is compared with others that bear the name of the Central Committee, it is clear that the handwriting and stamps are the same. It can therefore be assumed that this card was also used for the central index of the Central Committee.
This is most likely a variation of the central index cards of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Occupied Zone. This card, however, asks for more specific information about the person’s path of persecution, such as the “last concentration camp” and the prisoner number. When this card is compared with others that bear the name of the Central Committee, it is clear that the handwriting and stamps are the same. It can therefore be assumed that this card was also used for the central index of the Central Committee.
Questions and answers
- What are considered variations in the e-Guide?
The e-Guide distinguishes between main cards and variations. The reason for this is that there are sometimes different versions of a single type of document that can vary significantly.
The documents referred to as main cards in the e-Guide are standard documents that were used especially frequently in concentration camps, DP camps, and for the registration of forced laborers, and about which a good deal of information is available. The Arolsen Archives also hold variations of these documents, however, which served the exact same purpose as the corresponding main cards, but which look different. There are various reasons for this: Some camps used their own individually produced cards instead of the standard versions. In many other cases, individual cards and forms were used before the introduction of standardized pre-printed forms.
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