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Birkenau (Concentration camp)

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Birkenau (Concentration camp)

URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96068007
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Name Authority File
Collection Membership(s)
- Names Collection - Authorized Headings
- LC Names Collection - General Collection
Variants
- Auschwitz II (Concentration camp)
- Brzezinka (Concentration camp)
- Rajsko (Concentration camp)
- בירקנאו
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC%7Cno+96068007#skos:Concept
Sources
- found: Nahon, M. Birkenau, c1989
- found: Das nationalsozialistische Lagersystem, 1990: p. 785 (Birkenau (=Brzezinka, Auschwitz II))
- found: Encyc. Judaica (under Auschwitz: Birkenau (in Polish: Brzezinka, the name of the neighboring hamlet) or "Auschwitz II")
- found: The German extermination camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau, 1944: p. 9 (The district now called Birkenau was, and is still, called "Rajska" [i.e., Rajsko] by the local population) p. 30 (Rajsko (Birkenau) [n.b.: the "R" is misprinted and may be read as "B" which may explain the old catalog heading "Bajsko (Concentration camp)" as used on the record for this work])
Editorial Notes
- [Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project.]
- [Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.]
Change Notes
- 1996-12-23: new
- 2008-10-03: revised

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