The biographical information of 17,525 persons currently recorded in the database of Austrians deported to Auschwitz (hereinafter: database of prisoners at Auschwitz) is based on the data of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW) contained in the database “list of names of the Austrian victims of National Socialism”.

The data used for this database was collected as part of a study carried out by Christiane Rothländer on Austrians working as guards and in the camp SS at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. So far, 163 persons could be identified by name.