Lot 152:

Collection of [6] original death certificates from Jewish prisoner at the Buchenwald concentration camp, printed on typrwriter and signed by the camps doctor. 03-04.1942. Office of the camp Doctor, Buchenwald.

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Original documents from the Buchenwald concentration camp relating bloodcurdling accounts about "so called" natural and regular ‘reason of death’ in the camp. Including revelations and innovations on the meticulous recordings of the coroner, the killing and murdering in the camp, the concealment mechanism and the fraud they worked under the guise of routine medical recordings of changes and ‘corrections’ they made to match the usual reasons of death by creating false representations of ‘normality’ of life in the camp.

* Death certificate of Jewish prisoner no. 911, Roth Max, born in Hannover 3.11.1913, died on 28.3.1942 at 12:55. Reason of death [Ruhr] dysentery. Signed by physician of the camp SS officer rank of Obersturmführer [Major] Buchenwald, 28.3.1942.

* Death certificate of Jewish prisoner no. 2585, Zaodrer Heinrich, born in Kołomyja 13.8.1895, died on 30.3.1942 at 8:55, reason of death Cardiac asthma. Signed by the camp physician SS officer rank of Obersturmführer [major], Buchenwald 30.3.1942.

* Death certificate of Jewish prisoner no. 8620, Wolf Bernard Israel, born in Mishiltz [Yaruslov] 19.11.1885, died on 3.4.1942 at 11:15, reason of death heart failure from asthma. Signed by camp physician, SS officer rank of SS-Untersturmführer [captain], Buchenwald 3.4. 1942.

Death certificate of Jewish prisoner no.3950, Valkosak Yaakov, born in Sandomierz [Poland] 10.1888, died on 4.4.1942 at 12:55, reason of death heart and circulatory failure. Signature of camp physician, SS officer rank of SS-Untersturmführer [captain], Buchenwald 4.4.1942.

* Death certificate of Jewish prisoner no.8634, Vagrosky Chana, born in Sedlitz 19.11.1902, died on 7.4.1942 at 3:15, reason of death pulmonary edema. Signed by camp physician, SS officer rank of SS-Untersturmführer [captain], Buchenwald 7.4.1942.

* Death certificate of Jewish prisoner no. 8490 Rokach Shlomo, born in Brody 16.11.1872, died on 8.4.1942 at 13:10, reason of death aging weakness. Signed by camp physician, SS officer rank of SS-Untersturmführer [captain], Buchenwald 8.4.1942. The original date typed in the document both the date of death and date it was typed is 6.4.1942, but the hand written date is different 8.4.1942.

In the database of names at Yad V’Shem is written that the date is fake. The correct date of the death is 12.3.1942, the date of the arrival of Shlomo Rokach to the Buchenwald camp.

There are death certificates with false dates. To coordinate versions and adjust the false dates with the dates written in the camp records – the documents was modified by hand.

It can be assumed that the reasons of death described on the records may be a fake version, brought to confuse the real reason of death and to cover up the crimes that occurred in the camp.

Most names of the prisoners are featured on the database of the names at Yad VaShem.

Buchenwald concentration camp, was established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar and operated in the years 1937-1945. During the years of operation about a quarter of million people passed through. Starting from 1941 Buchenwald experimentation of clinical trials on the prisoners in the camp of infectious diseases often lead many to their deaths. With the development of the camp during the Second World War the prisoners were important source of forced labor in the weapon factories and construction projects. According to the assessment, about sixty thousand of them were killed in the camp, and many were sent to different concentrations camps.

Dimensions of death certificates 21x15cm.

Filing holes, some have folding marks. Good condition.

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