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Introduction

This is a list of 2800+ inmates of Dachau Concentration Camp, and the possessions that were taken from them presumably upon their entry to the camp.  These possessions of each inmate were placed in envelopes and marked with their names, nationality (or in some cases reason for imprisonment at the camp such as political prisoner), birth date, and their Nazi assigned number.

Gregg Rickman, Legislative Director for Senator Alfonse D'Amato of New York, found the Dachau List in the National Archives in Washington, DC, after it was declassified in April, 1996.  He gave a copy of this list to Arlene Rich, President of the Cleveland Jewish Genealogy Society, for the purpose of disseminating the information it contained, for genealogical purposes.  The list was then passed on to me for entry into computer readable form.

The fields included in this list are as follows:

• Envelope Number
• Nationality (see abbreviations)
• Assigned Number
• Last Name
• First Name
• Date of Birth
• Item Description(s)

There is no indication as to the period of time covered by this list.  The envelopes were contained in Shipment # 52E, and by September 1946 were housed in the Foreign Exchange Depository, where an inventory list was made.  This list was completed by July 21, 1947 and it was determined that with the shipment valued at approximately $8,000.... "it would not appear advisable to attempt a general restitution to the individuals named on the envelopes or their heirs."  The envelopes that comprised Shipment # 52E.... "appear to have been dumped into the containers in random order and it would be impractical to attempt to find the property of a particular individual ...".

There are some abbreviations that are included in the Nationality field which have a variety of meanings.  Those abbreviations are understood to have the following definitions:

Acknowledgements

We owe our most sincere gratitude to Gregg Rickman, Arlene Rich and David Cooper without whose combined efforts, this information would not be available to you today.