What is the Dachau list?
It is a list of possessions taken from more than 2,800 inmates of Dachau Concentration Camp upon their entry to the camp. The possessions of each inmate were placed in envelopes and marked with their names, nationality (or in some cases the reason for imprisonment at the camp, such as political prisoner), date of birth and their Nazi assigned number. How this list came to me Gregg Rickman, when Legislative Director for Senator Alfonse D’Amato of New York, found the Dachau List in the National Archives in Washington, D.C. after it was declassified in April 1996. He gave a copy of this list to Arlene Rich who was then the president of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Cleveland, for the purpose of disseminating the information contained within for genealogical purposes. A native Clevelander, Dr. Rickman is a long-standing member of the JGS of Cleveland. The list was then passed on to me for entry into computer readable form and eventually to find a home on the internet. What it contains Th
