Berlin collection (MK 310.33)
Extent and Medium
4 microfilm reels, 35 mm
Archival History
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
Acquisition
The documents included on the microfilms were selected from the Itzkhak Giterman collection, the archives of YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The microfilms were cataloged in The Guide to Captured German Documents by Gerhard Weinberg under the direction of the Committee for the Study of War Documents of the American Historical Association in 1952. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired copies of the film from YIVO in 1990.
Scope and Content
Contains instructions from the Generalkommissar in Belarus (White Russia); photos of Reich Finance Minister Lutz von Schwerin-Krosigk in Riga; correspondence about the Jewish Question and gassing equipment; a list of books; the funeral speech for the Generalkommissar of White Russia, Wilhelm Kube; reports on the mood of the population in White Russia; statistics on Germans in White Russia; documents of Einsatzstab Rosenberg dealing with Minsk, Orel, Brjansk, Gorki, and Białystok; material relating to resistance in White Russia and the Baltic states; and information about propaganda.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
People
- Schwerin von Krosigk, Lutz, Graf, 1887-1977.
Corporate Bodies
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
- Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce
Subjects
- Horki (Mahili︠o︡ŭskai︠a︡ voblastsʹ, Belarus)
- Białystok (Poland)
- Belarus--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Nazis
- Russia (Federation)--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Orel (Orlovskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia)
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Belarus.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Lithuania.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Russia.
- Bri︠a︡nsk (Russia)
- Minsk (Belarus)
Genre
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Yivo Institute for Jewish Research