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This document is a variation of the number card for female prisoners. Some women in the sub-camps of Buchenwald had their details recorded on red number cards that were filled out on a typewriter. These cards are missing the date on which the woman was transferred to the sub-camp. The red cards existed for various sub-camps and for different groups of prisoners. For example, Dusja Udjanskaja was a Russian forced laborer who had been transferred via Ravensbrück to the Wolfen sub-camp of Buchenwald; Frida Ujhelyi was a Jewish Hungarian woman who had to perform forced labor in Hessisch Lichtenau.
This document is a variation of the number card for female prisoners. Some women in the sub-camps of Buchenwald had their details recorded on red number cards that were filled out on a typewriter. These cards are missing the date on which the woman was transferred to the sub-camp. The red cards existed for various sub-camps and for different groups of prisoners. For example, Dusja Udjanskaja was a Russian forced laborer who had been transferred via Ravensbrück to the Wolfen sub-camp of Buchenwald; Frida Ujhelyi was a Jewish Hungarian woman who had to perform forced labor in Hessisch Lichtenau.
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- 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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